Schools Invite Parents To Committee Meeting To Voice Concerns

BRANFORD, CT — As promised to parents at a recent school board meeting after many complained that they were not being heard, or responded to, when they asked for a plan that would get students back in classes full-time, the Branford Board of Education is utilizing its Communication Committee meetings as the venue for families to share their voices.

Read more about how a parent movement urged the district to move swiftly to a full in-person back-to-classes plan here.

In a statement emailed to Patch from schools Superintendent Hamlet Hernandez, it's noted that at its March 17 meeting, the school board "committed to providing a mechanism for parents to continue to address communication-related issues that can improve our District."

And the board's Communication Committee will be the vehicle for that he said.

Hernandez said that the next meeting of the Communication Committee is April 7 at 6 p.m. in the Walsh Intermediate School cafeteria.

An agenda that will be posted on the district website in advance of the meeting.