LIVE! Lorain City Schools Board of Education Meeting 11/9/2026

Lorain City Schools Board of Education meeting, November 9, 2026: The board heard a presentation about Hawthorne first graders’ field trips to Playhouse Square and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Playhouse Square provided discounted tickets and a bus subsidy; the museum provided free admission and bus reimbursement, and the Hawthorne PTO covered the remaining ticket cost not met by grant funding. The school also reported receiving notice of a new endowment grant. Public comments raised questions about how levy funds are being used, staffing and facilities work requests, and attendance procedures; no specific funding decisions were made in response during the meeting.

The board approved, by roll call, the superintendent’s items 9.01–9.11 and operations items 10.01–10.10. The discussion identified a Minutemen HR Management Services contract related to unemployment services, but no contract amount was stated. A speaker asked whether items 10.02 and 10.03 concerned individual students and whether the associated amount capped the number of students served; the response indicated one item was for an individual student and the other was an open purchase order, with no maximum clarified. No dollar amounts, bid approvals, or capital-project awards were identified.