Whos of Who-cester

 This came out from DESE's grants office this morning. While it is not new information, I thought it was a useful summary:  On November ...

First, while we should be attentive to the "House GOP eyes 27% cut to Title I" headline, what do we know about how the federal bu...

Yesterday, at a press event for which he was 45 minutes late, in front of children and some of the worst Governors in the country on educati...

One of the questions that has been swirling quite a bit lately has been: if all the federal money vanishes, can (or can't) the state mak...

 Reductions in force are established processes for cutting positions in a workforce. The federal government has a series of regulations that...

Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant   mutated slugs if you really must, but let ther...

image of a card at Target It simply reads "ugh" This post is based on the following principles: Despair, psychologically, makes us...

 The agenda for today is here ; livestream will turn up over here . They've started late due to traffic. Hearing the Orange Line is slow...

It's the first quarter report! and more! The agenda is here . The first item on the agenda is the report closing FY19 . First, note t...

Well worth a read today is this from the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools on what they're calculating as $580 billion owed schools of pr...

The agenda for today is here . The meeting starts at 8:30; posting as they go once we start. The livestream is here .  No comments from the...

Note juggle of positions here, due to retirement of Roger Hatch (who was the Ch. 70 guy): Jay Sullivan, Associate Commissioner Melissa Kin...

Per both Politico and EdWeek , while there is an increase in the dollar amount proposed for Title I, it's essentially just the School Im...

I did something unusual (for School Committee) last night and submitted several items under suspension ("under suspension" means t...

Rep. Kline "Thanks for the applause, I don't get it all the time, so I'll take it when I can get it."

Deborah Rigsby: NSBA federal advocacy ESEA issue brief has comparison of current law with Kline bill (passed by House in 2013) with Alexand...

Zola, Gettsman, Rigsby all doing federal legislation and advocacy Zola: "a little bit of a different time and place" "Washi...

The federal grant numbers came out late last week, and, while they are down from last year, they are not down as much as was feared or was...

Since the press is running headlines like "House Votes to Dump 'No Child' Education Law" and the like, I've been aske...

The Worcester School Committee will have its second February meeting on Thursday at 7 pm at City Hall. You can find the agenda here.  ( An...