Embattled NRSD Administration Announces It Will Seek to Outsource Food Service Staff, Childcare

 

This afternoon Superintendent Kirk Downing sent an email to Nashoba District food services employees and extended-day personnel: the district will pursue an initiative to outsource their jobs.   Many district parents – who have given the administration a C+ rating for years now – might like to replace someone else.

Russ Williston
11/3/2025 

Nashoba has been a premier public school district for decades – for its programs and teachers.   The district administration has been saddled with a “C+” on Niche for years, and if you ask for stories you’ll get an earful.   (The Niche rating is 50% from parent feedback, 20% from district expense ratios.)  From complaints about administration of its special education programs, to parent complaints about interactions with the administrative staff: lets just say it’s been bad.  In 2019, things boiled over with the Dorothy Veracka Scandal.   Following that incident the High School principal resigned; the district superintendent resigned 18 months later.

This afternoon the Superintendent emailed food service employees and parents with students in before/after school programs to announce that the district will pursue a plan to outsource those programs, including the staff.   They'll share the plan with the NRSD school committee on Wednesday.

 

Over the past several years the district has outsourced menu-planning at the district cafeteria, but the staff remained employed by the district.

 

Union vows to fight

 

Moments later, the union representing those workers reached out to them.   NREA President Kevin Keaveney wrote that the “NREA vehemently opposes even the proposal to research this option.”