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Pictured from left to right are School Committee members Laura Clancy, Jermoh Kamara, Molly McCollough, Superintendent Rachel Monárrez, Belmont Street School Assistant Principal Michael Dunphy, Mayor Joseph Petty, and School Committee members Jermaine Johnson, Sue Mailman, and Tracy O’Connell Novick.

The Belmont Street Community School was recognized by the Worcester School Committee on Thursday, September 7, for implementing lessons to teach students about safety while walking or biking to school and in their neighborhoods.

The lessons were part of Safe Route to School, a free, federally-funded program that works to increase safe biking and walking initiatives for students.

Belmont Street School was one of 217 schools from Massachusetts to receive an award for its Safe Routes to School programming at the State House last spring.