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 I have noted it several times on here already, but there is an opinion piece in The 74   discussing the loss of access to free meals due to...

 With ongoing thanks to Mark Lieberman for keeping his eyes on this:  Congress in February approved more than $12.5 billion for K-12 schools...

 Hey, remember how we've noted that as we lose SNAP enrollment, we're going to lose free lunch enrollment? That has now started to ...

 ...still doesn't smell sweet, with all apologies to Shakespeare. You may have noticed a recent flood of reporting around the--let's...

  trans colored heart on a sidewalk at Smith College photo by Kate Hobbs If you follow me on any social media platform other than this one, ...

 ...which has not only refused to sign an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education regarding their "investigation" into th...

 Because OB3, Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" has a provision for vouchers by state in the language, you knew that others wou...

 Move forward the bar on religious exemptions for vaccinations . Just this week, the West Virginia bar withstood a federal appeals challenge...

 You might be concerned or confused by headlines that came through over the weekend like this:  Did we just DO a federal budget? We did, but...

 Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy halted the rollback of federal vaccine schedules and other policy changes. Per NPR :  The...

  Slide from Friday presentation from MASC slides here ; recording here This week, DESE updated superintendents  (slides 10-18) and then th...

 The United for Our Future coalition, which includes (among others) MASC, MASS, and the MTA, sent a letter calling for increased education s...

 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 ...

 Tabs I have open tonight: I urge you to read "A Letter from a Minneapolis Mom" by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl: This is the story of...

I know we're all tuned into different things at different amounts, so I thought I'd share a few things that perhaps you may have mis...

 If you're a history buff, you might be interested in the events going on across the state in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of ...

 Note that the Minneapolis Public Schools have cancelled for the rest of the week; the following went out last night: The plural on "in...

 Hey, we're off to a not-great beginning of the year here--among other terrible things, Massachusetts just had its first reported pedia...

In their past two meetings, the Board of Ed has established priorities; in November, for the FY27 budget request, and in December, for the C...

PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW OPEN on prohibiting gender affirming care for young people. Comments are open until February 17, 2026. The grossly ex...