Whos of Who-cester

My hearty congratulations to those across the country who brought in national, state, and local leadership that will better support public e...

 The agenda is here. The livestream is here . The meeting is fully remote. tree in my backyard why they are fully remote Today will be (I b...

 Over the weekend, Governor Healey, speaking of the proposed ballot question which would roll the income tax back to 4% from 5%, said that...

  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...

  I'm at the annual joint MASC/MASS Conference this week, so I have very little time, but I did want to link to two "what about edu...

I've been ongoingly disappointed at how poorly informed most of the discussion of the MCAS ballot question is (insert my ongoing observa...

  DISCLAIMER: I WRITE THE FOLLOWING AS ME, SPEAKING ONLY FOR ME. I DO NOT HERE (EVER) SPEAK FOR MY EMPLOYER, FOR ANY ORGANIZATION FOR WHICH ...

 Without commenting further at this time--though I have many thoughts!--I did want to share two things that I think are below the radar to r...

This was a fairly crazy year in blogging for me:I changed positions, we had a ballot question to fight, the state budget had a sudden dive f...

No, seriously: what is this?  I assume the T&G  felt some need to push the "we can't rest on our laurels/ we don't hate ch...

Friday at MASS/MASC: Professor Moe Cunningham who has been doing work on dark money in ballot question 2. Handed a "bag of dark money,...

The front page cover story in the Boston Globe this morning has a worrisome forecast for Boston, Lawrence, Fall River, and Springfield if ...

from Worcester

And we talked a bit about a certain ballot question. You can read it over here. 

I had to read this twice to be sure that this wasn't a joke: The biggest reason there are so few CMOs operating in Massachusetts is ...

Here's video of today's No on 2 event in Worcester. At the event were school committee members from Arlington, Cambridge, Hatfield, ...

As organized by the school committee members themselves...the below from State House News Service: SUNDAY: ANTI-QUESTION 2 RALLY IN WORCEST...

I highly recommend this piece from the Education Opportunity Network on what recent challenges to the charter industry reveal. Now that t...