Whos of Who-cester

 The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meets today at 9 AM. The agenda is here . The livestream will appear over here . The meetin...

  sign from Amherst Regional Coming to you live today from the Joint Committee on Ways and Means hearing at UMass Amherst. A number of the s...

I am posting here the whole of the oral testimony of MASC President Mildred Lefebvre of Holyoke.

Among those recognized with MASC Life Membership last week at the MASC Joint Conference was former Worcester School Committee member Jack Fo...

There are THREE Worcester School Committee meetings this week! Monday night is the third of the four of budget sessions to inform the pla...

You can find the resolutions being considered here .  Resolution 1: Arming of Educators Resolution 2: Small and Rural Districts Resolutio...

blogging from the Wednesday night Keynote address at the MASC/MASS Joint Conference in Hyannis, where Commissioner Riley is keynoting ...

Not a dull agenda for July! First, note that there is a Teaching, Learning, and Student Supports meeting on Thursday immediately precedin...

It's posted over here . EDITED TO ADD: Can I just say a thing about this? Earlier this week, Massachusetts: got new standards in ...

Steve Finnegan, MASC General Counsel, is at MASBO's Law Institute today to talk about the McDuffy case. Note, by the way, Worcester Mag...

You can find the February  Novick Reports summary over here.

Readers of the blog will find most of this familiar (yes, it's my work), but MASC put together a one pager on the changes in state accou...

Quote in full from yesterday's weekly Commissioner's Update : It was great seeing many of you at the MASS/MASC conference on the C...

I was going to pull from this to write something up myself, but, really, you should read the whole thing. Remarks delivered by Superintenden...

left for me by housekeeping this week at the conference  Two years ago tonight, I lost an election. Like a lot of "clubs no one w...

I was (regrettably) on my phone during this, so I'm reconstructing this from my tweets ; it is a reconstruction. Acting Commissioner ...

Posting today from the MASC Delegate Assembly down that the Joint MASS/MASC Conference. The resolutions they are considering today can be fo...

You can find the agenda here . There is also an agenda for an executive session for litigation on discipline of a teacher; the regular agen...

crossposted from MASC  The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education held their regular monthly meeting in Malden. The  meeting agenda ...

The Worcester School Committee meets Thursday. You can find the agenda here . It appears it is time once again to honor Mr. Allen for recei...