Committee approves Puerto Rico, Rome, Groton trips

School Committee · Meeting of January 13, 2026

Peabody School Committee approved three student trips and took up online fundraising. Members voted 5-0 for a February 2027 Puerto Rico trip at $2,500 per student and a Rome and Pompeii trip for Higgins Middle School in April 2027. A pilot overnight outdoor-classroom trip to Groton for the Higgins seventh-grade Lions Cluster passed 4-1, with Pamela Millman opposed over equity concerns.

Vice Chair Beverly Ann Griffin Dunn presided in the mayor's absence. Students asked the committee to allow Snap Raise donations, and CFO Mr. Rippon relayed the treasurer's "concerns with respect to the banking." The committee also approved warrants including $4,353,326.27, and agreed to put Snap Raise on the next agenda.

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Source: the School Committee meeting of January 13, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.