Whos of Who-cester

 I took some time this past week to update some slides from work, and there are two that I thought might be of general interest. As you may ...

 When I posted about the Worcester School Committee taking up the FY27 budget projections for the first time , we didn't yet have the F...

The interaction between state and federal budgets is a bit tricky: we're hearing, now, about a federal budget which, when it comes to th...

In the Senate Ways and Means budget released Tuesday , most of the education lines are parallel to the House budget, with these exceptions: ...

 The FY24 net school spending report was released yesterday . if you click this, it will get bigger Here’s a zoom in of the current year:...

  with apologies, of course, to Clement C. Moore. (not that kind of spin) 'Twas the Friday before Christmas And all through the city Not...

Speaking of information Worcester is sharing neatly, if you look at the FY25 first quarter report , the federal grants have come through, an...

The handful of us that peek ahead have been checking with some dread the implicit price deflator for state and local services, the U.S. Depa...

ahem... I hope by now you've seen that the Fair Share amendment, which taxes at 4% on every dollar over a person's first $1M in inco...

 So much to post, so little time. Some WPS notes in the meantime: At tonight's Worcester School Committee meeting , the School Committee...

 And with the official end of formal session of the Legislature, it appears that the well-intended (I think?) but way out of the Legislature...

Per Kelly Garrity reporting from the State House this morning, while the House did override them, the Senate isn't going to take them up...

On Monday, Governor Maura Healey signed the FY25 conference committee budget. You can find the Governor's signing statement here along ...

I haven't posted on this because monetary decisions have to be done in public session, and so I expected, naturally, that we would see s...

I'm working through updating my running spreadsheet on the FY25 budget, but the conference committee budget released last Thursday, pas...

If you watched the first Worcester School Committee, you saw opening statements in which Member Binienda extemporized on publicly approved (...

The above is variously ascribed to "lawyers," specified to "trial lawyers," is narrowed to "during cross-examinatio...

 Bill Bell on the FY25 budget Senate has concluded their floor activity: they added a little over $20M in our accounts from a process standp...

And if you thought their special Monday meeting to receive a report might be on the Racial Imbalance Advisory Council's report , which c...

  This is a lousy budget season, and watching deliberation may be brutal, so I made us a coping mechanism.  (There are three versions.) Reme...