Whos of Who-cester

Stories are how we make meaning for what has happened to us; they give form to the past. Sometimes, though, our stories about how things hap...

The Worcester School Committee voted in 2021 to break from the current vendor provider, Durham, and take busing in-house, with issues being ...

 ...let me strongly recommend that you read t he latest in Bill Shaner's substack , from WPS parent Aislinn Doyle, entitled  "I...

  I did promise you an actual WPS Transportation post; here it is! Note that a transportation update is part of this week's Finance an...

What happened at our December 2 meeting: We once again had a thoughtful and insightful report from our student rep ex officio Stacio Zoghbi...

I feel as if I am back in the days when I started this blog, when there'd be the single article about the School Committee meeting, and ...

First, Mr. Chair, I need to deal with a procedural matter. I want to be very public about my declaration of not having a conflict of interes...

 The agenda for Thursday just posted. As a member of the Committee, I will, as per our ethics, save my remarks for the floor, but I did wan...

I realized that in the flurry of, well, everything, I never did a post on Superintendent Binienda's goals for this year. After a lengthy...

 Since the list of what I'd proposed as alternatives to the goals proposed by Superintendent Binienda made today's paper , I thought...

 For those who haven't had a chance to check the Worcester School Committee agenda for tomorrow evening, the following are being propos...

Let me just say up front: this is not going to be exhaustive, it is still going to abide by the ban on direct dealing, and things may well c...

The Worcester School Committee evaluates Superintendent Binienda this week, so it seemed a good chance to talk about how this works.

The agenda is posted here . Allen: To the best that we know at this time ASBO /AASA costs that would be needed for cleaning, supplies, nur...

The Boston Globe  on remote learning and the Worcester Public Schools : Now, as summer vacation starts, Worcester officials have yet to...

A budget is a moral document. What we fund is what we value. pic.twitter.com/4xRtRdOoSR — Tracy O'Connell Novick (@TracyNovick) March 18...

It feels only right as we complete eight weeks of not going to school and instead...whatever it is we are doing, that we open with some ackn...

I'm still working out how to do this both A) this go-round and B) when I'm doing it from home without a desk. I'm still taking l...

This was sent out last night to all WPS staff; note that this is a joint statement, which is the forerunner of the actual joint agreement, w...

Please note that this is a Worcester-specific post; however, the state guidance at the end does apply to all of Massachusetts. I'm sti...