Nearly a year after the Winter Hill Community Innovation School shut its doors indefinitely, Somerville Public Schools is moving toward a new building to house its prekindergarten-to-eighth-grade community and maybe another school. 

Leaving children and educators in inadequate swing space for more time than necessary, with no apparent solution for the next building failure, should not be an option.

Fights break out at Somerville High School roughly once every two weeks, School Committee members heard, but a look at the Capuano Early Childhood Education Center showed a more delightful side of education.

Public meetings this week see the City Council voting on its leaders for the coming term, an inauguration of newly elected officials and developers seeking approval for a plan at 181 Pearl St., Winter Hill.

Public meetings this week look at school buildings, public housing, a proposed higher-end wine shop and street repair priorities for next year.

The Winter Hill Community and Innovation School at Sycamore Street will not be reoccupied,  Somerville’s superintendent said. The district’s violence in Gaza was another major component of the recent School Committee meeting.

All year-two educators in Somerville’s school district will get training around anti-bias and antiracist teaching, said Caeli Gallitano, director of equity and excellence.

Inspectors were “literally hammering the walls” of Somerville’s Winter Hill Community Innovation School when they discovered asbestos in some concrete .

Students won’t be returning to the Winter Hill Community Innovation School in Somerville anytime soon, and district officials are working on crisis communication after as many as five fights broke out at the high school, School Committee members heard.

Fixing the Winter Hill school is high-priority for Somerville despite its lack of a plan if the state doesn’t offer funding, officials said. State funding, though, also comes with a multiyear process of up to seven years.