Whos of Who-cester

Why is there discussion/controversy/activism about the low income implementation in school funding in the House 2 budget? As I mentioned w...

I'm just breaking into the FY16 end of year report to run district by district comparisons of general fund spending against foundation b...

agenda is here  MSBA spending : total of $43M in spending Allen: balance of $3M annual allocation this past year to fix HVAC for Jacob Hia...

The news that the FY17 City of Worcester budget would make up all remaining ground on net school spending to the Worcester Public Schools...

just caught this : audits and third quarter , mostly. FY16 looks as though it is heading towards the F&O department's usual small m...

88.2% of total budget goes to chapter 70 aid (FY16: $4,511,882,199) 5.3% to circuit breaker 5.3% to grant programs 0.7% to state supporte...

The Finance and Operations subcommittee meets tomorrow evening at 5:00 with three items on the agenda. You can find the agenda here. The se...

Chester: hearing on state budget on Monday very little of funding "is for this agency" says Chester: majority is chapter 70 chan...

For the THIRD YEAR IN A ROW!! For the third consecutive year, Worcester Public Schools is the recipient of the Meritorious Budget Award ,...

Unless I suddenly start getting a lot of traffic on a blog post I wasn't I expecting, I don't pay a lot of attention to my analytics...

You may have missed it in your holiday planning, but, bad news : Despite growing revenues, Gov. Charlie Baker is still considering mid-ye...

No doubt you've heard that the federal omnibus (budget) passed and was signed. I've continued to hear that school aid is up, and eve...

The regular meeting--and final one of this year and this term--of the Worcester School Committee is Thursday, December 17. You can find the ...

But since it appears we're going to have another round of proposals to cut central admin, let's look at the actual numbers. First,...

Today's T&G article captures the concern that has been raised several times since the opening of school report : namely, what a fo...

post as we go Allen: state reduction of nearly $600K less than WPS budgeted school committee recommended budget based on House 1 budget o...

You can find the agenda here . It's time for the first quarter budget update . First, note that once the city does the tax recap, the ...

Post to come on the news of Secretary Duncan's resignation and former NY Commissioner John King taking his place (suffice for now to say...

Unanimous House vote! Unanimous vote in the Senate to override Governor Baker's veto as well! Thanks to all of those of y...

While we're still glad we've got our 21 IAs for this coming year, it's not all good news for FY16 coming out of the conferenc...