DiDomenico and Rep. Ken Gordon of Bedford will chair the negotiations, and DiDomenico said they have not determined when they’ll begin meeting. Sens. Jason Lewis of Winchester and Patrick O’Connor of Weymouth, and Reps. Simon Cataldo of Concord and John Marsi of Spencer have also been tapped as negotiators.

“Town meetings are essential to the fabric of our nation; the American Revolution was spurred in part by the king limiting the number of town meetings people in the colonies could hold,” sponsors of the legislation wrote in testimony to the Joint Committee on Education. 

The commission issued preliminary recommendations for K-12 education ahead of the start of the school year, and Cataldo said the state is "seeing a ton of change already."

“What I say to my friends who ask, ‘What can I do?’ is that you can go to a menorah lighting,” Cataldo said. “And put a menorah in the window to show that we are still here.”