WESTFIELD — The Westfield Board of Education (BOE) held its first regular meeting of the new school year on Tuesday to lay out some groundwork and finalize plans for the upcoming semester before students return to class next month.

“We have been spending the majority of this summer preparing not only our classrooms and our buildings but also our personnel and the new curricular additions that we have prepared for our students,” Superintendent Raymond González, Ed.D., said, adding that the ...