Board outlines expanded summer school schedule and updates to personnel and equity policies

The New Brunswick Board of Education heard a curriculum and policy committee report on March 26 recommending an expanded 2026 summer-school schedule and several policy revisions that the committee forwarded to the consent agenda.

Miss Ortiz told the board the 2026 summer school will run June 29–July 30, Monday through Thursday. Elementary and middle school hours are scheduled 8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.; high school hours are scheduled 7:45 a.m.–2:15 p.m. Meals (breakfast, warm lunch and a snack) are provided, and programs will operate at six sites: A.C. Redshaw, Blanquita V. Valente, Paul Robeson Community School, Robert J. Bolger, New Brunswick Middle School and New Brunswick High School. The committee said the program design responds to student-survey feedback and aims to increase instructional time while keeping sessions engaging.

The committee also reviewed policy revisions and administrative-code alignments. Noted changes include updates to Policy Guide 142.01 (nepotism) to align with administrative-code requirements tied to state aid, revisions to promotion-notification procedures (Policy Guide 163.601), clarifications to the employment-of-chief-school-administrator guide (Policy Guide 1220) to reflect local recruitment and contract-review procedures, and updates to equity policy (Policy Guide 2260) and its complaint procedures. Miss Ortiz said the revisions bring district policies into alignment with recent administrative-code updates and are recommended for approval.

Committee chairs said all resolutions reviewed by the committee were placed on the consent agenda for board action later in the meeting.