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Comprehensive High School
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CHICOPEE — Unhappy teachers are expected to kick off Wednesday's School Committee meeting by calling for progress to be made in contract negotiations.
The Chicopee Education Association has called for teachers to "pack the house" to lobby the School Committee. The negotiations are not on the regular agenda, so teachers are expected to be speaking during public input, which is held at the beginning of the meeting.
Included on the agenda is the first state-of-the-schools address with staff from Chicopee High, Comprehensive High and the career technical education program giving updates to the committee. Every year the committee asks each school to speak about changes, innovations and problems in the schools.
Also on the School Committee agenda is a possible discussion about the hotels which are housing homeless families. Educators in the city started the school year with 250 homeless children, the largest number the district has ever seen. Not all the children were living in the hotels.
MassLive will report the meeting live in the comments section below starting at 7 p.m. The meeting is held in the Helen O'Connell Administration building on Broadway.