Whos of Who-cester

 The Board of Ed is here today:  The Anne T. Dunphy School in Williamsburg (which is northwest of Northampton; it's next on Route 9, hea...

 Martinez: start from an asset-based perspective there's a memo here but it doesn't have a lot

  I'm under the weather, so this one is coming to you remotely... The agenda is here ; the livestream is here .  DESE has extended the ...

 And it is MCAS and Accountability release week. The agenda for the Board of Ed can be found here.  The MCAS data will go up on the school a...

 The Board today is meeting at Hudson High School, the school of student member Isabella Chamberlain. The agenda is here ; the livestream wi...

 memo on this is here  no public comment received, so no presentation again, this is just aligning with the change to competency determinati...

 up for vote for change in regulations this is coming back from public comment, the summary of which is here DESE is proposing two additiona...

 The backup is here Have met 2700 stakeholders and attended over 50 events this marks six months on the job

Both of these are taking "competency determination" out of the language: in the Seal of Biliteracy and in student records. The req...

The Board of Ed meets today at 9 AM. Their agenda can be found online here . 

 Yes, I post this, as always, in my personal and exasperated capacity.

Martinez: results are mixed no student group across the Commonwealth that is above pre-pandemic levels "we always meet children where t...

 The Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meets today for its regular September meeting. This is the first meeting with...

And you can find the agenda for tomorrow's regular meeting of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education here .  The big thing on ...

 ...special mention this week to "roughly 1,400 essays" not receiving the correct scores from AI on MCAS this summer and apparent...

 here is the backup Curtin: today is "purely for discussion"

 The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education holds their regular monthly meeting today in Everett. The agenda can be found here.  There ...

  The blog post title swiped, as some may remember, from Worcester Magazine , which used it as a tag line for a number of years. You may not...

 anticipate bringing recommendations to Board in February

  During my first term on the Worcester School Committee, a colleague referred to me in deliberation as "Cassandra.*" For those no...