The Winthrop School Committee plans to offer Superintendent Steve Jenkins a two-year contract extension, according to Committee Chairman Patricia Milano. The offer does not include any increase in salary or benefits and would keep Jenkins in Winthrop for two additional years at his current salary of $174,430, which is the highest town salary in Winthrop. Milano said that the Committee would discuss the  proposal and allow public commentary on it at their meeting on October 28. She left open the possibility that the Committee could take a vote on whether or not to formally offer the extension to Jenkins at that meeting. "We believe that Dr. Jenkins has taken the School District in the right direction," she said. "Some of the initiatives that have been put in place are ones that we agree on, such as introducing algebra in eighth grade and pre-algebra in seventh grade, as well as vertical teaming of curriculum across the district. Those are all things that we were interested in being implemented in
the school district."