SCITUATE - June 15, 2026 - The Scituate School Committee confronted a scathing Title IX athletics equity audit, heard during the prior meeting, during its Monday night session, with residents demanding strict accountability and an immediate corrective action plan to fix systemic disparities affecting female student-athletes. Superintendent Dr. Tom Raab presented a draft 11-point corrective plan following intense public testimony from parents who detailed years of unequal treatment, substandard facilities, and administrative dismissal of their concerns.
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The newly reorganized Scituate School Committee—which re-elected Nicole Brandolini as Chair, Maria Fenwick as Vice Chair, and tapped Janice Lindblom as Secretary—was quickly thrust into the community spotlight during public comment. Parents voiced deep frustration over findings within a recently completed Title IX athletics audit. Residents criticized the report’s missing budget breakdowns for fiscal years 2025 and 2026, noting that the systemic spending gaps between boys’ and girls’ sports could be far worse than the 10-to-15 percent disparity trend already identified in previous years.
Community members highlighted stark discrepancies in scheduling, match counts, and basic human resources. While the Scituate boys’ golf team regularly secures an 18-match season, the girls’ golf team has historically been restricted to just 10 matches, falling significantly behind neighboring towns like Hingham and Duxbury. Medical safety was also raised as a critical vulnerability; a single athletic trainer is currently forced to divide time between simultaneous events, leaving female athletes unprotected when male varsity sports take scheduling priority.
Superintendent Dr. Tom Raab acknowledged that he deliberately refrained from editing the raw data of the independent report, stating it accurately mirrors the compromised “lived experience” of girls in the district’s athletic program. In response, Raab introduced a preliminary 11-point corrective action plan aimed at reshaping internal communication, standardizing booster club distributions, and transitioning to a transparent “bottom-up” budgeting model.
“This report goes a long way to talk about process and policy, but I still don’t see the people in this... I was a collegiate female athlete, and this report ticked me off because this is the crap I was going through. And I’m way, way older. And this is still going on.” — Committee Member Carey Borkoski
The School Committee pushed Raab to immediately reorganize his draft plan using a strict visual schedule, sorting immediate “low-hanging fruit” from long-term cultural and organizational overhauls. Members also called for direct oversight from a newly proposed Equity and Belongion subcommittee to ensure the plan does not simply sit on a shelf.
