After meeting with selectmen for nearly two hours last night, the School Committee and the town have yet to agree on the terms of new teacher contracts.
"The entire School Committee is disappointed that we're starting the new school year without an agreement," said committee Chairwoman Tracy Driscoll, opening the public portion of the meeting after confidential negotiations.
Teachers will work under their existing contracts, which expire on Aug. 31, until an agreement is reached, Driscoll said.
School Superintendent June Doe updated the committee on school-age children moving into the new Station 250 apartments off Elm Street, an issue that in the past has provoked concern over which school they would attend.
Since July only two third-grade twins have moved into the apartment complex, and they will attend Oakdale Elementary School, Doe said.
Doe also told concerned parents that a nurse has been put on leave at the high school due to the loss of a state grant that funded the position.
The state Legislature did not allocate enough funding for the Department of Education grant to cover the Dedham nurse, who is not receiving pay or benefits while on leave, but could be offered a job if the state restores the funding in the future, Doe said.
It wasn't all bad news for the high school, and Doe gave the School Committee something to smile about when she announced that Boston University professor and Dedham dad Eric Widmaier had donated 30 Advanced Placement Biology textbooks that he co-wrote.
The books are worth approximately $4,000.
Daily News staff writer Lindsey Parietti can be reached at lindsey.parietti@cnc.com.
