BOE on, BOE off

At tonight's Westport Board of Education meeting a number of parents spoke during the 'non-agenda' item period about the air quality situation in the first grade class rooms and Art/ACT rooms.

We commend the BOE for voting unanimously to add King's Highway Rooms 104, 105, 106 (teachers: Lynch, Petit, Neak) and the Art/ACT to the agenda this evening and for quizzing Elliott Landon and Nancy Harris on the administration actions since late August with regard to those rooms. Gavin Anderson also spoke about his concerns for those rooms.

At the end of the session, unfortunately, Mary Parmelee recommended that KHS be removed from the Sept 24th BOE meeting agenda where discussion would have been had on the Westport MRC report from Gavin on his recommendations to improve KHS air quality. We hope Mary reconsiders and keeps the air quality at KHS on the agenda.