Publish enrollment data every year. Publicly share SY 2025 - 2026 enrollment data by December 2025 to show controlled choice enrollment trends and policy changes.

Publish the district-wide long-term capital planning report. Include as many caveats as you like, but just tell people the options in front of them.

Make the 158 Spring Street presentation fully, publicly available.

Adapt standardized reading curriculums for multilingual learners.

Expand the HSEP program into an alternative middle school to serve kids that need more time to dive into subjects, with fewer transitions. The goal population would be 2E kids, advanced learners, slow processors; more time for math, more time for art, more time for self-directed (while supervised) study. 

Incorporate a strength-based IEP model as part of thinking about advanced learning. Because advanced learners are also in need of services.

IEPs need to be driven by the recommendations of the educators closest to the student — not by the priorities of the central administration.

Deliberately plan for therapeutic programs with thoughtfulness and care. Base them on best practices, not expediency.

Ensure that special educator allocation per school is driven by workload, not caseload.

Strengthen SEPAC.

Build on Multi-tiered Systems of Support investments to flag advanced learners.

Clearly define caregiver, school, district, & School Committee rights & responsibilities.

Hire bi-literate as well as bi-lingual paraprofessionals and family liaisons at each school.

Better support school social workers to assist students and caregivers in need.

Create a clearer and more user-friendly translator booking process.

Prioritize the creation of preschool aftercare programs.

Share the curriculum with all caregivers.

Create school council training retreats.

Improve family engagement by increasing volunteer opportunities.

Absences due to ICE should be excused.

Consider a thoughtful AI roll-out to improve multilingual language accessibility for all.

Publish meeting recordings as podcasts and timecode stamped transcripts and podcasts.

School Committee to hold published, public office hours.

Publish a yearly policy score card.

Hold public, topic-driven Q&A forums. Suggested first topics: Controlled choice, long-range capital planning, rights & responsibilities of caregivers, school committee, district, school.

Clearly define caregiver, school, district, & School Committee rights & responsibilities.

Create non-voting seats for both the CEA and SEPAC.

People making a public comment should not be held to the published agenda.

Provide a way to flag translator need when registering for public comment.

Create better evaluation and professional learning opportunities for teachers, principals, district administrators, and School Committee members.

Reward and/or hold Principals accountable based on clear, reasonable, and publicly available metrics.

The next Superintendent search should provide for an executive search firm that is paid commensurate to the expectations and work necessary. Don’t be pennywise and pound-foolish.

Any executive search firm that the Cambridge School Committee hires in the future should include a project manager.

Always confirm who is doing the background check, what that background check can and cannot include, and at what point in the search process that check must be performed.

Recognize that transportation length equals opportunity cost. Is what we’re getting worth the loss to sleep, time, and family engagement in schools?

Will the Massachusetts millionaires tax affect the CPSD capital and operating budgets?

How will Medicaid cuts affect CPSD students?

How will the restrictions on international students and gutting the U.S. Department of Education affect the Cambridge commercial tax base?