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...

 And when it comes to education funding, well, I'll let Mark Lieberman of EdWeek take this:  You can read Mark's coverage (which I ...

I've been in a couple of sessions recently on federal grants (most recently DESE did one this morning), so providing a few highlights: A...

  I'm at the ASBO conference this week in Fort Worth--ASBO is the Association of School Business Officials--and one of the "must at...

This is of course and as always coming from me who posts on here as me   First off, cheers to the Boston Globe  (yes, you did read that righ...

 For reasons that are unclear to me, this doesn't seem to be getting any attention, but Massachusetts isn't fully funding charter sc...

Happy fiscal new year! FY26 officially begins today for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for Mass school districts, and for our towns and ...

 A lot of the education money had been agreed upon already, but two education policy matters of note: the House-proposed "freeze and se...

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...

So this is in interesting one!  The Senate budget passed at the end of last week includes amendment 665 proposed by Senator Lewis which fu...

 Bill Bell: quick update on federal and state financial resources Senate today is debating its version of the FY26 budget proposal $8.6B K-1...

 

It can be found here. Please enjoy the snail* on the cover, the work of Worcester Arts Magnet student Miguel Andrade. and despite the cover:...

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

 It was noted to me yesterday that one of the first thing one should do when a city says it simply can't make net school spending is loo...

In City Manager Batista's letter opening the FY26 city budget document , there's sentence I haven't seen in a city budget docume...

The Trump administration released a proposed FY26 budget on Friday , giving us headlines about a multibillion dollar cut from K-12 education...

 MassBudget has shared their analysis of the FY26 House budget.  I want to say more about this, but we all really really have to be paying ...

update here ; plus a spreadsheet Bell; actively engaged in state budget process for FY26 House currently debating House budget no significan...