Dave Watkins

WINCHESTER — April 16, 2026 — Winchester School Committee votes to eliminate athletic fee family cap and sets literacy funding at $598,540. Meeting Chair Tim Matthews opened the April 16 session after a joint tri-board meeting, immediately approving the $598,540 literacy curriculum appropriation — the remaining funding need after existing

WINCHESTER — March 31, 2026 — Winchester Public Schools formally recommended Arts and Letters as the district's K-5 elementary literacy curriculum following a year-long pilot. The recommendation, presented to the School Committee on March 31, came after educators at Lincoln, Ambrose, and Morocco schools piloted both Arts and

WINCHESTER — March 26, 2026 — Winchester School Committee unanimously adopts Arts & Letters as its K-5 literacy curriculum and commits to a 5 percent FY27 budget increase in the wake of a failed operating override. The committee, newly reorganized with Dr. Tim Matthews as chair, Stephanie Mignarji as vice chair,

WINCHESTER — March 20, 2026 — Winchester School Committee advances free-cash article for K-5 literacy curriculum and adopts superintendent's biannual evaluation. The committee voted unanimously March 19 to co-sponsor a Spring Town Meeting article appropriating an as-yet-undisclosed sum from free cash for full implementation of

Winchester School Committee approves three student trips and a $2,000 donation in a three-minute meeting.