On Monday, October 6, the Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) School Committee voiced a desire to see more information about a potential article for a 2025 Special Town Meeting that would, according to their meeting packet, increase the amount of Chapter 70 funding in their budget for the current fiscal year. Chapter 70 funding is the…

During the Monday, October 6 meeting of the Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) School Committee, the committee voted to establish an LGBTQ+ Parent Advisory Council (PAC). The LGBTQ+ PAC has precedent in Massachusetts, as Worcester Public Schools established one in 2024. Sudbury's representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Carmine Gentile, has also sponsored a…

Sudbury's Annual Town Meeting in 2025 featured an early motion to amend Article 3, the operating budget. The amendment proposed to move $200,000 from the Reserve Fund to the Vocational Education budget. The vocational education budget is set based on the number of Sudbury students enrolled in a vocational district, but the amendment was presented…

During the Monday, September 29 meeting of the Sudbury Finance Committee, members were informed that the Town's Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Free Cash amount had been certified. The Massachusetts Department of Revenue’s Division of Local Services, which is responsible for certification, certified Sudbury’s free cash for FY26 at $9,395,877, according to documents released…

The Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) school district received good news from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) when the agency released the results of the latest Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) on Monday, September 29, 2025. SPS was one of 41 districts where 2025 MCAS scores in grades 3-8 overall…

During the September 24 meeting of the Sudbury Planning Board, the Town's Director of Planning and Community Development, Adam Burney, walked the board through a proposed approach for implementing the recommendations made in a recent Route 20 Corridor Study. Burney told the board that focusing on the action items associated with the current…