In this Chalkboard Chat we condense the School Committee meeting talking math curriculum & budget (audio)

FM #1369 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1369 in the series. 

This session shares my conversation with School Committee Chairperson Dave Callaghan. This is a new episode of our continuing “Chalkboard Chat” series. We had our discussion in person at the Franklin TV & Radio Studio on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. We recapped the School Committee meeting of January 28, 2025. 

 

We cover 

• Middle School Math Curriculum update

• FY 2026 Superintendent’s Recommended budget & discussion

• Redistricting is intertwined with both of the above topics

• Encourage to participate in the Listening Sessions

The recording runs about 42 minutes, so let’s listen in. Audio link -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1369-chalkboard-chat-01-29-25/

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Contact info for Dave Callaghan -> callaghand@franklinps.net   

School Committee Meeting Info

Franklin TV video available for replay ->  (full meeting)

https://www.youtube.com/live/HYxJEgzxVww?&t=31   

Jump to the Start of Middle School Math Curriculum presentation & discussion

https://www.youtube.com/live/HYxJEgzxVww?&t=599 

Jump to the Start of FY 2026 Superintendent’s Recommended budget presentation & discussion https://www.youtube.com/live/HYxJEgzxVww?&t=6047 

The agenda doc -> 

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282025-1531  

Meeting packet (other docs as they are released after the meeting will get posted here) -> https://www.franklinps.net/documents/departments/school-committee/meeting-packets/2024---25-meeting-packets/january-28%2C-2025-sc-meeting-packet/750840  

My full set of notes taken during the meeting can be found in one PDF ->

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PHnEHNKly-gag8T04ftDUSmm2JWyBc-G/view?usp=drive_link 

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In this Chalkboard Chat we condense the School Committee meeting talking math curriculum & budget (audio)

Voices of Franklin: Call to protect your financial data

Citizens of Franklin:  We are facing a crisis, and we need all Members of Congress to fight back. Join your friends and neighbors in telling Senators Warren & Markey as well as our Representative in Congress, Jake Auchincloss, that we demand they use every tool at their disposal to fight back against the takeover of our government and the federal funding freeze. They must act now to halt the process on the nomination of Russell Vought for OMB Director and use all levers at their disposal to fight the assault on our communities.  

Elon Musk and his associates now have access to all U.S. citizens private and financial information, Social Security info, Tax Info, Addresses, Banking Info, etc.  He is dangerous and was not elected by any voter in this country.  

Please protect yourself and your families.  

Karen Landers

Franklin MA 

Guidelines for your submission

https://www.franklinmatters.org/2011/03/introducing-voices-of-franklin.html

Voices of Franklin:  Call to protect your financial data

FHS Gymnastics meet results Sunday, Feb 2

FHS Gymnastics meet results Sunday, Feb 2

FHS Gymnastics (@fhs_gymnastics) posted at 4:40 PM on Mon, Feb 03, 2025:

So proud of this team!  Had nearly a PERFECT meet last night. FHS has improved an average of 2.40 points each of the last 4 meets!  Very excited to head into our Hock Tournament this weekend!!

 @FHSSports @fhsgymboosters @HockomockSports @FHSGirlsSports @FranklinMatters

Shared from -> https://t.co/BgAt8vmG5C

Free Hands-only CPR Class scheduled for Feb 19 at 3 PM

The Town of Franklin is having another free hands-only CPR class.

Free Hands-only CPR Class 

This class teaches participants how to recognize cardiac arrest and effectively perform hands-only CPR in order to save a life. This class is for educational purposes only and participants will not receive a CPR certification. 

Approximately 1 hour long FREE instructional class (includes hands-on practice).

WHEN: February 19, 2025 3 PM - 4:30 PM

WHERE:EOC Classroom Franklin Fire Department

40 West Central St, Franklin, MA 02038

SIGN UP LINK:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0945ACAF2EAAF9C25-54802899-handsonly

Download the flyer (PDF) as a reminder or to share with someone

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OiWn0qUQiZDER-MDpHxghLc1BLNwG3tt/view?usp=drive_link

Congressman Auchincloss extends invitation for an Update and Q&A on Feb 8 in Franklin

Hi neighbor, On Saturday, February 8, I'll be hosting a congressional update and Q&A in Franklin. This is an opportunity for you to raise questions, hear updates on what I'm doing to represent the district's values & advance its priorities, and receive assistance with casework. Details about the visit are below. I hope you'll be able to join me. Congressional Update and Q&A with Congressman Jake Auchincloss Saturday, February 8, 2025 12:15pm – 1:15pm Franklin, MA Doors will open 15 minutes before the event. Location provided upon RSVP HERE Sincerely, Jake Auchincloss WASHINGTON 15 Independence Avenue SE 1524 Longworth HOB Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-5931 NEWTON 29 Crafts Street Suite 375 Newton, MA 02458 Phone: (617) 332-3333 ATTLEBORO 8 North Main Street Suite 200 Attleboro, MA 02703 Phone: (508) 431-1110

Boston Globe: "Five things to know about Trump’s school choice executive order"

"5 things to know about Trump’s school choice executive order"

"President Trump last week signed an executive order to expand school choice.

The move has drawn praise from conservatives who have long-advocated for families to be able to use taxpayer dollars to support their children’s private or faith-based education.

Critics, meanwhile, see Trump’s order as an attempt to dismantle public education, trampling student rights in the process."

Shared from -> (subscription maybe required)  https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/03/metro/trump-school-choice-executive-order/?

MOMS ONLY (kid free) STROLL FRANKLIN scheduled for Feb 9

MOMS ONLY (kid free) STROLL FRANKLIN

When: SUNDAY FEB 9,  3:30-4:30pm

(All details and sign up in link below)

Ideal for busy, overwhelmed moms in need of some kid free time to regroup and recharge! 

Come join us for a leisurely walk to recharge,  have some uninterrupted adult conversations with other local moms and refill your cups! 

Tag in your partner, loved one or sitter and carve out this time for YOU! 

RSVP to this free event and see details at the link below! The weather and life can be unpredictable, so please fill out the form or message me so I can reach you if plans change!

GET ON THE EMAIL LIST!!! If you’d like to be on the notifications list for more fall dates, locations and events, please also fill out the form!!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqt0oMWBS_Z_yJPhnglruobEItbec7M-TW_Kal_Ii7OT39Kg/viewform

Shared from -> https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BqZZSvmp6/

MOMS ONLY (kid free) STROLL FRANKLIN scheduled for Feb 9

Memory Cafe in Holliston on Tuesday, February 11

Memory Cafe in Holliston on Tuesday, February 11

Memory Cafe in Holliston on Tuesday, February 11 at 10:30 AM

National Grid Helicopter to Patrol Entire Electric Transmission System in Franklin

via Franklin Dept of Public Works 

"FYI: National Grid Helicopter to Patrol Entire Electric Transmission System

Beginning 2/3/25, National Grid will conduct helicopter visual patrol of its entire Transmission system along statewide rights-of-way. This visual survey is expected to last 3 weeks dependent on good weather.

The licensed vendor, JBI will be flying a Blue/Yellow helicopter at patrol speeds with a brief hover over transmission structures that may require maintenance work.

If you have any questions, please contact the Northborough Dispatch Center (800) 462-9852."

Shared from -> https://www.facebook.com/share/1AFJ1Rskie/

National Grid Helicopter to Patrol Entire Electric Transmission System in Franklin

Update to Beaver St. Interceptor Project for Week of February 3

Keep Franklin Flowing - Beaver Street Interceptor ProjectMonday (2/3) through Friday (2/7): 

Beaver St. Interceptor Project for Week of Feb 3

The construction crew will be conducting the jack and bore trenchless installation of the new sewer under Rte. 140. The work will be occurring off the road at 38 Pond St. and within the Franklin Village Mall area. No traffic impacts are expected.

At the Franklin Recreation Center, the construction of the new Beaver Street Interceptor Pump Station will continue with formwork and concrete placement.

Please reference the interactive map and posted signs for details and updates.

 For more about the Project visit the project page -> https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/557/Beaver-Street-Interceptor-BSI-Project

Franklin TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) schedule for Tuesday, Feb 4, 2025

• wfpr.fm or 102.9 on the FM dial = Tuesday

9:00 AM 12:00 Noon and 6:00 PM  Jazz Journey – with Pamela Hines

2 hours. An insightful tour of Jazz Greats in a golden era

11:00 AM 2 PM and 8:00 PM SAFE Radio– Jim Derick and Dr. Anne Bergen Addressing issues of Drug Abuse Disorder 

• Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 6, Verizon 26) = TUESDAY

7:30 am Joe Landry: Hurricane of 1938

9:00 am Mental Health: Joanne Spillane

10:00 am Frank Presents: Daniela Masters Pt 1

12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Brownies

12:30 pm Cooking with Linda: Chicken

1:30 pm Pizzapalooza: Margherita Pizza

2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Summer 2019 Show 1

3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 10

3:30 pm Riffin' on Main Street: Jacob Juncker

4:30 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Student Athletes Fall 2024 Pt 1

5:30 pm ArtWeek: Theater in the Open

6:30 pm Second Sunday Speaker Series: Freedom Trail

8:00 pm Martin Luther King, Jr Convocation

• Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel        (Comcast 8, Verizon 28) = TUESDAY

• Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 9, Verizon 29) = TUESDAY

8:00 am School Committee 01-28-25

12:30 pm Master Plan Committee 01-27-25

2:00 pm School Committee 01-28-25

7:00 pm  School Committee  CHAMBERS  821 0356 2059  Passcode 805851

Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online  http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf   

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What's happening in Franklin, MA: Monday, February 3, 2025 ???

Monday, February 3

• Last days to order charCUTEerie box - Food Pantry fund raiser
• Fudge Fund Raiser for Friends of Franklin Library 

1:15pm Movie Matinee: "Glory" (Franklin Senior Center)

4:00pm Petite Picassos (event full) (Franklin Public Library)

**  NO  Town Meetings today   **

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Why are there multiple calendars?

What's happening today in Franklin? 

Respectfully, the Library and Senior Center calendars are too full of events to include all their events so we tend to focus on the major events. Town and School meetings are also kept separate. Links for all the calendars are shared here:

Find the full Community event calendar  https://bit.ly/FranklinCommunityCalendar

If you have an event to add to the calendar, you can use the form to submit it for publication:  https://bit.ly/Submit2Calendar

The Library calendar of events ->    calendar link

The Senior Center calendar of events ->   https://www.franklinma.gov/calendar.aspx?CID=37&showPastEvents=false

The Town meeting calendar is found  https://www.franklinma.gov/Calendar.aspx
The School district calendar is found  https://franklinpublicschooldistrictma.sites.thrillshare.com/o/fpsd/page/school-calendars

Franklin MA: Town Council agenda for Feb 5, 2025 meeting

Franklin Town Council

Agenda & Meeting Packet

February 5, 2025 - 7 PM

1. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE CHAIR

a. This meeting is being recorded by Franklin TV and shown on Comcast channel 9 and Verizon Channel 29. This meeting may be recorded by others

b. Chair to identify members participating remotely

c. Upcoming Town Sponsored Community Events

2. CITIZEN COMMENTS

a. Citizens are welcome to express their views for up to three minutes on a matter that is not on the agenda. In compliance with G.L. Chapter 30A, Section 20 et seq, the Open Meeting Law, the Council cannot engage in a dialogue or comment on a matter raised during Citizen Comments. The Town Council may ask the Town Administrator to review the matter. Nothing herein shall prevent the Town Administrator from correcting a misstatement of fact

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

a. January 22, 2025   https://www.franklinma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4308/_-January-22-2025-TC-Meeting-Minutes--Draft-for-Reviewdocx---Google-Docs

4. PROCLAMATIONS / RECOGNITIONS

a. Fire Department - Promotions

i. Captain Matthew Kelly

ii. Lieutenant Jeffrey Ward

5. APPOINTMENTS - None Scheduled

 

6. PUBLIC HEARINGS - 7:00 PM

a. Order of Layout, Acceptance, and Taking of September Drive and Countryside Lane and Drainage Lots Parcels A and B and Easements

i. Legislation for Action Item 9a   

b. New Common Victualler Section 12 Restaurant All Alcoholic Beverages License and Approval of Karan Goswami as the Manager - Kaushik Restaurants Inc. d/b/a Mirchi Indian Cuisine,

Located at 14 East Central Street, Franklin, MA 02038 - Continued from January 22, 2025

i. License Transaction Item 7a

7. LICENSE TRANSACTIONS

a. New Common Victualler Section 12 Restaurant All Alcoholic Beverages License and Approval of Karan Goswami as the Manager - Kaushik Restaurants Inc. d/b/a Mirchi Indian Cuisine, Located at 14 East Central Street, Franklin, MA 02038 - Continued from January 22, 2025

8. PRESENTATIONS / DISCUSSION 

a. ALS/BLS Trends - EMS Battalion Chief Billy “Numbers” Blanchard, EMS Captain Laurie Kaye

i. Legislation for Action Item 9b.

9. LEGISLATION FOR ACTION

a. Resolution 25-07: Order of Layout, Acceptance, and Taking of September Drive and Countryside Lane and Drainage Lots Parcels A and B and Easements

(Motion to Approve Resolution 25-07 - ⅔ Majority Vote)  https://www.franklinma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4306/9a-RESOLUTION-25-07---Street-Acceptance---September-Dr-and-Countryside-Ln

b. Bylaw Amendment 25-924: A Bylaw to Amend the Code of the Town of Franklin at Chapter 82, Fees, Municipal Service - First Reading

(Motion to Move Zoning Bylaw Amendment 25-924 to a Second Reading - Majority Vote)  https://www.franklinma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4303/9b-25-924_-Ch-82-Municipal-Service-Fees---Comstar-New-Rates

c. Resolution 25-10: Adoption of the 2025 Master Plan for the Town of Franklin

(Motion to Approve Resolution 25-10 - Majority Vote)  https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/4302/9c--25-10---Master-Plan-Approval

d. Resolution 25-04: Capital Improvement Plan (Motion to Approve Resolution 25-04 - Majority Vote)  https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/4309/9d-FY25-Capital-Improvement-Plan

e. Resolution 25-02: Statewide Opioid Settlement Fund Appropriation

(Motion to Approve Resolution 25-02 - Majority Vote)  https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/4310/9e-Opioid

f. Zoning Bylaw Amendment 24-919: A Zoning Bylaw to Amend Chapter 185 Section 20 of the Code of the Town of Franklin - Signs (at C. 3.) - Second Reading

(Motion to Approve Zoning Bylaw Amendment 24-919 - ⅔ Majority Roll Call Vote)  https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/4314/9f-24-919-Signs

g. Zoning Bylaw Amendment 24-920: A Zoning Bylaw to Amend Chapter 185 Section 20 of the Code of the Town of Franklin- Signs (at E.2.) - Second Reading

(Motion to Approve Zoning Bylaw Amendment 24-920 - ⅔ Majority Roll Call Vote)  https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/4315/24-920-signs

h. Bylaw Amendment 25-922: Amendment to Sewer System Map - Second Reading (Motion to Approve Bylaw Amendment 25-922 - Majority Vote)  https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/4316/9h-Sewer-and-Water-Maps---Veterans-Memorial-Dr-1

i. Bylaw Amendment 25-923: Amendment to Water System Map - Second Reading (Motion to Approve Bylaw Amendment 25-923 - Majority Vote)  https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/4317/9i-1---BYLAW-AMENDMENT-25-923---Water-System-Map---Veterans-Memorial-Dr

j. Resolution 25-08: Cable Funds in Support of PEG Service and Programming per MGL Ch. 44, §53F3/4 (Motion to Approve Resolution 25-08 - Majority Vote)  https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/4318/9j---25-08-PEG

k. Resolution 25-09: Acceptance of Gifts - Senior Center ($50), Veterans’ ($2,550), & Recreation ($8,405) (Motion to Approve Resolution 25-09 - Majority Vote)  https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/4319/9k-GIFTS

10. TOWN ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT

11. SUBCOMMITTEE & AD HOC COMMITTEE REPORTS

a. Capital Budget Subcommittee

b. Economic Development Subcommittee

c. Budget Subcommittee

d. Master Plan Committee

e. Davis-Thayer Reuse Advisory Committee

f. Police Station Building Committee

g. GATRA Advisory Board

12. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS

13. COUNCIL COMMENTS

14. EXECUTIVE SESSION

15. ADJOURN

Note: Two-Thirds Vote: requires 6 votes

Majority Vote: requires majority of members present and voting

The agenda doc also contains remote participation info ->   https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-1546

New Common Victualler Section 12 Restaurant All Alcoholic Beverages License - Mirchi

Franklin Art Association features Guest Demo-Artist, Erin Spencer - Feb 5

The Franklin Art Association invites the public to our Wednesday, February 5 meeting. We will warmly greet Guest Demo-Artist, Erin Spencer, our landscape, oil painter for this month’s public demonstration. She will be giving a step by step demonstration for a fine art painting. 

Erin will discuss how to ‘simplify’ your approach. Like making a poem, in her approach she looks at painting as distilling visual information made into a unique interpretation; offering a new insight. The finished work tends toward realism mixed with tonalism.

Franklin Art Association

The free-to-the-public-meetings are held at the Franklin Senior Center at 6:30 PM. FAA welcomes the public and it’s members to attend. Refreshments are served at the break. We have an on-going FAA Scholarship Fund that attendees are invited to contribute to. 

The FAA is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Franklin Cultural Council, Franklin Cultural District and www.franklinart.org. And we can be viewed on Facebook and Instagram.