Whos of Who-cester

As we head into March and the schools  hear a bit more about how the district budget will affect them, I suspect we'll begin also to hea...

Sorry, late posting on this one. The state has sent us an updated NSS report . An item on special education tuition was not in the previou...

There will be a joint meeting of the Education subcommittee of the City Council and the Finance & Operations meeting of the School Commi...

Here's the final page of the calculations from DESE on Worcester's Net School Spending.

Just in from the state: Worcester's Chapter 70 Net School Spending Compliance for FY12 (I have a photo, but my phone balks at posting w...

The Worcester School Committee meets tomorrow night at 7 pm. You can find the agenda here . We are honoring both Harvard Pilgrim Health Ca...

We're closing the previous fiscal year with a balance of $2,723 (out of a $273 million budget). Comments here from Foley had how close...

audited for FY11 $4.5m in accounts, but had not entered encumberances for the summer and had not entered OPEB was (after that) $1.4m sur...

...with the National Anthem performed by Canterbury Street School students. Approving prior fiscal year payments for some stipends that had...

Going off to subcommittee: the annual "changes to the budget" resolutions for MASC's annual delegates meeting a Title 1 Par...

If you're wondering where that $1 per pupil for recess supplies went this year, here's the list . And we've recommended that p...

Foley: "no big surprises" Allen: "a successful fiscal close" in June administration salaries: projected deficit due to...

The Standing Committee on Finance and Operations meets tonight at 5 pm at the Durkin Administration Building, 4th floor. Please note that w...

Well, now here's a slogan to print in all in the re-election materials: Leominster mayor: Low school spending not my fault Rowlan...

Sorry, I only have these on paper, so I scanned these. Posted as PDFs.  Here's the Commissioner's actual letter from November 201...

If you were watching Council tonight, you may have seen me testify in response to this item from the city administration on Worcester Publi...

I'm sure we'll be getting more analysis as the week goes on, but right now we know that Governor Patrick is proposing $210,364,137 i...

O'Connell asks what the effect will be on classrooms of the IAs "does this make a reduction in what we need?" attrition, say...

The Worcester School Committee has their (postponed) meeting on Monday at 5 pm at Worcester Technical High School. You can find the agenda h...

You've got most of this already...so minimal notes from me... I will note that the votes we are taking tonight on the Statements of Int...