New America on the proposed federal budget(s)

 You'll remember that last week, I told you not to panic on the budget just yet. New America this week released an analysis of both the Trump proposed budget and the House Appropriation proposed budget; you might remember that the Senate doesn't cut. Specifically, it looks at it by Congressional district. 

As it happens, the House proposal is actually worse than Trump's proposal: the President's proposal would cut an estimated $35.34 million per district, where the House proposal would cut $41.2 million from schools in each congressional district, on average. 

Now, what gets cut changes, too. For the Trump proposal: 

This figure is fairly similar between Republican- and Democrat-represented congressional districts. But there is a difference in the specific funding streams most impacted: Democrat-represented districts stand to lose the most in Title I funding for students in poverty and Title III funding for English learners, while Republican-represented districts would lose far more in Title V funding for rural schools. Both would see a major cut in funding for teacher professional development and after-school programs.

And for the House: 

 Without even hiding behind the smokescreen of “consolidating” funds into block grants, the House proposal would eliminate funding for a number of programs, including Title II funding for educator development and Title III funding for English Learners. It would reduce Title I funding for students in poverty by an astonishing and unprecedented $4.7 billion, slashing a program that is vital for students in every state.

Because the House's cut is worse, I'm including below that estimation for the Massachusetts Congressional districts; if you follow the link above, you can page through all of them to find yours if it isn't here, as well as see the projected Trump budget impacts.

 

Perhaps the line is drawn at education

Two stories from the end of last week about school funding have something in common: Republicans rejected school funding cuts.

Some hard truths on the FY25 Worcester Public Schools budget

The Worcester School Committee begins budget deliberations on Thursday at 4 pm. 

As they start these deliberations, I did want to lay out a few hard truths ahead of that.

Twenty-two million dollars is a lot of money. 
As I have said every time I have said this, I don't mean to point out the obvious, but $22M is a lot of money. This is not solved through grant funding. This is not closed through administrative cuts. This is not going to be closed without position cuts in schools. 
I am absolutely certain that we are going to hear the School Committee spend a lot of time on slivers of the budget (and in some cases, probably self-righteously defend it as budgetary oversight), but unless you are actually grappling with the actual scale of the issue, you're not solving the problem. 
Don't bikeshed the budget gap.

This wouldn't have been an issue if the inflation rate was higher. 
I've heard some rather odd framing of the Worcester School Committee decision to front SOA increases with ESSER funds during the duration of ESSER, as if somehow the district was shocked that ESSER was gone and that was what was causing the gap. 
That isn't the case at all.
We in Worcester have known how much the SOA increases were due to be since SOA was passed; the only pieces of the puzzle missing have been enrollment changes--the enrollment for WPS this year was essentially flat--and the inflation rate.
And yes, everyone has known since ESSER III was passed that FY25 was the year it would be gone.
It is the inflation rate (as some of us started noting at the end of last year) that was the issue for this budget. 
With a 4.5% inflation rate, paralleling the past two years of inflation?
Worcester would be receiving $25M more in chapter 70 aid.

There's no more money coming ahead of the School Committee making allocations. 
I've recently seen some social media action decrying the proposed budget cuts, and while I entirely sympathize, the fact of the matter is that position cuts are coming, because the state chambers both passed budgets without meaningful increases for Worcester, and the Worcester City Council passed the WPS budget that is below net school spending. It is too late now to influence additional funding for the Worcester Public Schools for FY25 to stave off position cuts. 
There's a $22M budget gap. The School Committee has to deal with that, and we're going to live with the consequences.

The Worcester School Committee has to pass a balanced budget. 
Were I a betting person, I'd bet that there will be at least one, if not more, stirring "I refuse to vote for a budget that cuts [fill in the blank here]" before a split committee vote on this budget. This is not brave if you have not done a single thing to change the bottom line. The Worcester School Committee, like every school committee and municipality in Massachusetts, must pass a balanced budget. 
That means that this budget is going to involve cuts. And, as I've already noted elsewhere, the only place there is $22M in this or any like sized school district is in positions. 

Make no mistake: this is a lousy budget year.

What's in the proposed FY25 Worcester Public Schools budget: just the facts

 Ahead of Monday's public hearing on the proposed FY25 budget for the Worcester Public Schools, here's a brief look at what is in the document. I'm going to attempt to leave aside opining here on the administration's recommendations (not that I don't have plenty) but stick to an overview. As always, all of this is offered in my capacity as someone who lives here and cares, not in any official capacity at all. 

First up, revenue: 

This budget is projected not meet the city's legal obligation to fund schools for the fourth year in a row:

chart from page 113 of the FY25 WPS budget document

Three to read today

I'd say these three articles frame next year pretty well:

• Research suggests months of academic loss being the result of schools being closed, from today's New York Times: 

New research suggests that by September, most students will have fallen behind where they would have been if they had stayed in classrooms, with some losing the equivalent of a full school year’s worth of academic gains. Racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps will most likely widen, because of disparities in access to computers, home internet connections and direct instruction from teachers.

And the crisis is far from over. The harm to students could grow if schools continue to teach fully or partly online in the fall, or if they reopen with significant budget cuts because of the economic downturn. High school dropout rates could increase, researchers say, while younger children could miss out on foundational concepts in phonics and fractions that prepare them for a lifetime of learning and working.

• U.S. schools are laying off hundreds of thousands of teachers as a result of the economic impacts of the pandemic:

  In April alone, 469,000 public school district personnel nationally lost their jobs, including kindergarten through twelfth-grade teachers and other school employees, a Labor Department economist told Reuters.
  That is more than the nearly 300,000 total during the entire 2008 Great Recession, according to a 2014 paper by three university economists financed by the Russell Sage Foundation. The number of public school teachers hasn’t recovered from that shakeout, reaching near-2008 levels only in 2019.
  Multiple school district administrators, public officials and teaching experts have warned that the current school personnel job loss will last for years, hurting the education of a generation of American students. It also could be a drag on economic recovery, for one thing because school districts are big employers.

• The Government Accountability Office has issued a new report on school facilities, finding that:

  ...more than 40% of school districts that need to update or replace heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in at least half of their schools – an estimated 36,000 schools nationwide – that if left unaddressed could lead to indoor air quality problems and mold. In some cases these problems have already caused schools to adjust their calendar year or shutter entirely.

    

I would say, then, that this thread from last night is warranted:

Top posts of 2016

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 from conference committee, Diane Ravitch linked to my posts twice, and Worcester got a new superintendent. I don't tend to pay a lot of attention to my analytics, as I have some fairly discrete groups of readers (not everyone follows Worcester schools, but those who do don't necessarily follow state budget news, and not everyone reads state board posts), so the numbers go up and down a lot based on content, but a check-in here is interesting, in what overall gets read.

As per always, the top hit, far and away, is the front page. There are plenty of you to pop through regularly just to see what's here. Thanks to you! You're the reason I feel I need to keep making sure new things come up here.

Specific posts, in order, are:

1. "Here Come the 9C cuts" from December 6. Halfway through the fiscal year, Governor Baker took $98 million out of the FY17 budget, and did so in a way that recreated his vetos, rather than reevaluated budgetary lines. 
2. "The Senate Passed Amendment 196" from May 27. Amendment 196 to the Senate budget barred the use of student performance data in teacher evaluation. This has now led to this being before the Board of Education, so, while the Senate amendment didn't make it out of conference committee, it may happen, anyway.
3. "Foundation what?" from February 29. A foundation budget explainer, motivated in part by my MASC work, which I probably should have done a long time ago. This one may need its own page.
4. "Interview for Special Education Director: Ronald Sinico" from October 28, 2012. Huh??  This is a great example of my not paying attention to analytics: last October, Mr. Sinico (now retired) ran for town supervisor in North Greenbush, NY; he lost the election, but in August, he raised questions about the property tax bill of the man who won. If you google Mr. Sinico's name, one of the first things that comes up...is my notes from this interview. Clicking through is not entirely surprising; what surprises me is that most of them appear (by time spent) to have actually read it!
5. "RISE and Shine!" from March 31. This took apart what actually was in the Senate's RISE Act.
6. "The Debate of the RISE Act in the Senate" from April 7. A long day on a decent bill that deserved much more consideration than it got.
7. "Here's the Answer of What's in the Question" from September 21. A response to those who throughout the Question 2 campaign kept saying it would only hit nine districts and etc, which totally wasn't true.
8. "Voting for Savage Inequalities" from October 7. A response to the suburban guilt arguments on Question 2.
9. "No, This Isn't What One Would Expect for Worcester Finalists" from March 7. Responding directly to the many who asked for some perspective on the Worcester superintendent finalists. 
10. And, bringing us full circle, "Governor Baker's FY17 Budget" from January 28. I'll do FY18 in a few weeks.

With much discussion of the foundation budget for this coming year--heck, it even made the State House News Service's list of things to watch for this session!--plus another budget from the Governor, who is less than popular with many in the Legislature now, the state moving ahead with an ESSA submission, and who knows what coming on the federal level, there'll be no lack of things to blog about! 

Happy 2017! Thanks for reading! 

Dickens on the Baker budget cuts

I'd urge you to read Adrian Walker today in the Globe for a glimpse of the sort of programs the Governor is cutting with his midyear--let's call them what they are--round two vetoes.

The course he’s taken is designed for people who have had trouble finding their footing in the work force. Its founders zeroed in on culinary training as an avenue to prepare workers who could quickly move into jobs, and they’ve been successful. A large percentage of NECAT’s students are ex-offenders. People recovering from substance abuse problems are also prominently represented among its students. Roughly a quarter of them have no permanent address. 

It’s part culinary school, part reentry program, part treatment center. “They come with a lot of challenges,” said Josephine Cuzzi, the executive director. “Our mantra here is that your past does not need to define your future.”

The alternative that Governor Baker has forced the state towards is this passage from Stave 3 of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, which I've had going through my mind since the cuts were issued earlier this week:

From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment. 

'Oh, Man. look here. Look, look, down here.' exclaimed the Ghost. They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread. 

Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude. 

'Spirit. are they yours.' Scrooge could say no more. 

'They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it.' cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. 'Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end.' 

'Have they no refuge or resource.' cried Scrooge. 

'Are there no prisons.' said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. 'Are there no workhouses.'"

The Legislature has an opinion on the Governor's budget cuts

I look forward to working with @SpeakerDeLeo on restoring funds to programs which support our neediest. #mapoli https://t.co/l6LkOi7L6g

— Stan Rosenberg (@SenStan) December 7, 2016

Here come the 9C cuts

This afternoon, Governor Baker announced mid-year (9C) budget cuts. The full spreadsheet is online here. MassLive has a good introduction. Speaker DeLeo is entirely correct when he comments:

"It seems that the Administration is seeking to achieve policy objectives that have previously been rejected by the Legislature through its unilateral use of 9C cuts."

The cuts largely come in accounts the Governor had originally funded differently, or vetoed, or both.

I tweeted out the education line cuts earlier; they begin with 7009 lines. I'll recreate that here with whatever else I can turn up by checking them against the budget as passed; UPDATE: I've also updated with the specifics if I've been able to find them.

• $1 million has been cut for English Language Learners in Gateway Cities. That line item is what it says it is. It was passed at $2M, so that's a 50% cut. That is bigger cut than his veto, which had been for $250,000 for this line. 
• $250,000 was cut from inclusive, concurrent enrollment from a $1.6M line item. That was specifically targeted at expanding concurrent enrollment (being enrolled in college while in high school) at students with disabilities between the ages of 18 and 22. This parallels a veto.
• $1.8M cut from DESE. Given that this brings them back down to $12.4M, which is still more than the Governor's original budget had it, my guess is that this is a cut parallel to that made by Baker in his veto, which cut the earmarks out of DESE's budget. It doesn't get specified in anything released by the Governor. 
• $266,000 cut from the Bay State Reading Institute, even though the full $400,000 that the Institute is funded at has already been expended. This parallels a veto.
• $580,000 is cut from literacy programs, from a $2.2M line item. His veto had cut $600K from this line. He is specifying Reading Recovery and literacy in the Hopkinton schools. 
• $400,000 cut from school to career connecting activities from a $3.3M line item. In his veto, he had cut the same amount. The Governor is specifying Bottom Line and the South Hadley culinary arts program.
• $644,444 cut from adult basic education, cut from $29.4M. He had vetoed $375,000 in the spring. 
• School breakfast was cut by $250,000, which I'm assuming cuts this: "$250,000 shall be expended for a grant for the Chefs in Schools program, operated by Project Bread: The Walk for Hunger, Inc"
• $100,000 cut from military mitigation, bringing it down to $1.3M, paralleling his overridden veto; he is specifying Lincoln's mitigation.
• $350,000 from innovation schools, zeroing out the line item, which is the same as his overridden veto, and brought this reaction from Senator Chang-Diaz: 

. @MassGovernor, why so eager 2 cut Innov. Schools after gunning hard for charters, which use similar autonomies? #mapoli #9Cs @katielannan

— Sonia Chang-Díaz (@SoniaChangDiaz) December 6, 2016

• the innovative assessment consortium likewise is zeroed out from its $350,000 budget, which also is an overridden veto.
• $466,666 cut from college and career readiness programs from a $700,000 line. He vetoed $200,000 back in the spring.
• $300,000 cut from targeted intervention, a $8.1M line. This is the same as his veto in the spring. He is specifying the Pilot Parent Engagement Project and the Randolph science program.
• After and out of school grants cut by $714,999 from a $3.4M line. He vetoed $935,000 in the spring.

That's it on the education accounts, but in terms of things that will hit kids, everything from drug treatment to suicide prevention to basic health services are hit in these cuts. 

They're coming

State House News got Governor Baker on 9C's yesterday:

“I think it’s likely we’ll do some 9Cs as part of this process,” Baker said on Monday. “We’re doing everything we can to make sure we don’t hit services people depend on and we’re certainly not going to…we’re going to stay away from cities and towns.”

Well, Governor, a cut to education hits cities and towns.

Most read in 2015

Unless I suddenly start getting a lot of traffic on a blog post I wasn't I expecting, I don't pay a lot of attention to my analytics, but here's my once-a-year look at what was most read.

As usual, the top hit is just the front page, meaning that there are a lot of you who just come by to see what's new. That's increasingly unusual these days; most blog traffic is driven by links. I appreciate--and will try to stay attentive to--the faith that I have something new and worth reading up!

1. The single post with the most hits (not surprising, given last year's weather) was this post on how snow days and the Worcester Public Schools calendar works. That was an evolving post, as I fielded questions about how the calendar works and how WPS was going to deal with the days off. With luck, we won't need that information so urgently this year!
2. Governor Baker's FY16 budget proposal and its impact on urban districts had the second highest number of hits this year. YES, YOU SHOULD BOOKMARK THIS ONE FOR THIS YEAR!
3. This one seems to be caught in a bigger search: "special education" brings you the interviews for a new special education director back in 2012. 
4. Given that the national Massachusetts education story was on testing, it makes sense that the liveblog of the Board of Ed's deliberation on that decision would make this list.
5. For a bit the only place with any public information on this was here: the proposal to make Chandler Magnet's field a parking lot for Worcester State. 
6. My notes from the March 5 update on North High at Worcester School Committee saw a lot of traffic.
7. I posted my testimony before the Board of Ed on MCAS or PARCC. 
8. Governor Baker appointed two new members to the Board of Ed in September, and Google is our friend on these.
9. Baker's inaugural a year ago had some language on education, but not much for the education of most kids. 
10. ...which was borne out a month later by his choices in midyear budget cuts. 

It's always interesting to me to see the mix of Worcester and state on these. As I said earlier, my blogging on Worcester will continue, but will be more focused on the superintendent search and the budget; the state blogging will continue...and more to come on that. 

9C cuts...

You may have missed it in your holiday planning, but, bad news:

Despite growing revenues, Gov. Charlie Baker is still considering mid-year budget cuts.

...and I've heard from multiple places that it's pretty serious consideration.
As a reminder, 9Cs can only be made by the Governor in Executive office spending:

The Governor can only use 9C powers to cut funding in parts of the government that are under his control—in other words, his 9C authority extends only to the executive branch agencies. The Governor cannot use 9C authority to cut local aid, the courts, the Legislature, or other constitutional offices. The Governor can file legislation recommending cuts to those other areas of the budget. The legislature can then pass a law with those cuts, or with other cuts, new revenue, or the use of reserves.

You might remember that we went through this earlier this year at the end of February. Worcester Public Schools lost half a million dollars in one fell swoop, and with a midyear cut, the impact is double.
Should Governor Baker hit Quality K this year again, if your district is on this list, they'll get hit. 

Fourth Annual School Funding Fairness report

...is out and can be found here. It's intentionally being released as the same time as the Education Law Center/Education Leadership Fund's report on disparities in education funding. As Rebecca Klein reports, the second report is qualitative, rounding up examples from across the country on what inequities in funding look like, while the first is qualitative, giving clear statistical information about inequities in funding across the country.
Among the more worrying trend is that of falling effort: that is, the gap between a state's ability to funding education and its actual funding of education. Per the Washington Post report:

Most of the nation could afford to spend more on education, the report argues, pointing to the falling level of “effort” on education spending in most states. Effort is defined in the report as the ratio of state and local education spending to economic productivity – or the state’s gross domestic product.
In all but four states – West Virginia, Illinois, Wyoming and Connecticut – the level of effort fell between 2008 and 2012.

Yes, Massachusetts: we who otherwise do well by these measures are doing "C" level work at effort in education funding. We are a relatively wealthy state, but we don't act like it when it comes to how we fund education.
We're also mid-pack in "coverage," which is how many of our children attend public schools; this measure also reflects equity, as it has a direct tie to how much buy-in communities have in their public education system.

I hope the Foundation Budget Review Commission is paying attention!

About those budget cuts

I quickly posted the chart with a link to the memo on Friday (as I was writing my testimony for yesterday). In total, the cuts are $495,602 for the Worcester Public Schools. A few notes:

• You may remember that back when these budget cuts were first announced, the Baker administration denied to T&G reporter Brad Petrishen that there would be any impact on Head Start. That surprised us. It also wasn't true: Our Head Start supplemental grant is getting a $51,030 cut. Also, see MassLive on this.
• While we're talking about early childhood, the $47,500 cut in the Community Family and Community Engagement grant cuts an early literacy coordinator. The push on third grade reading? The push on early childhood education? Nope. Cut.
• The biggest hit--and still in early childhood--is to the Quality Kindergarten Grant. That cut of $206,620 is the equivalent of 15 kindergarten instructional assistants for the rest of the year. This one you'll see turn up in our March 16 F&O meeting for the second quarter report. There's no magic answer on this one, 'though I don't think you'll see a recommendation that we cut IA's in March, either.
• The work we're doing on improving the graduation rate? Cuts of the entire Summer College-Community Connection program ($99,587), the MCAS Summer camp ($55,365), the Collaboratieve Partnership for Student Success ($21,859), and nearly the whole College and Career Readiness program (we're left with $2628) are not going to help that at all.
• Finally, we hear talk of innovative education, but even the innovation schools grant took a hit ($3128).

I get that the budget needs to be balanced, but every single one of these cuts is pennywise and pound foolish. You're creating expenses later with every single one of these cuts. 

Mid year budget cuts. Half a million dollars

In one chart

More to come on this. The full memo is posted here.

Upcoming Finance and Operations subcommittee

Now posted: Finance and Operations subcommittee meeting on Monday, March 16 at 6 pm in the 4th floor conference room at DAB.
The agenda isn't out yet, but it will definitely be the 2nd quarter report (which will be hits from both the Governor's budget cuts and the SNOW) and (possibly?) the school calendar for 2016 and beyond. Mark your calendar if those are of interest!

Reville "best way to get attendance at a school committee meeting is to threaten to change the school day and year" #MaEdu
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 26, 2015

Looks like New Bedford got their budget cut numbers

...and the news isn't good.

Governor Baker's FY15 budget cuts: Worcester Public Schools impact (round one)

Well, we knew it was coming.
We had the statewide numbers on Tuesday (see here and here). We've now got a first look at what it's going to mean for the Worcester Public Schools with a memo last night from administration.
And it's not good. In brief:

• While the circuit breaker has been cut, it's being cut from the DESE side, rather than the district side, so we won't be hit on that.
• Charter school reimbursement, which is already only at 60% of the reimbursement amount, down to 55% of the reimbursement amount.It's not clear how this will work district by district, but it's going to hit Worcester education spending ('though not the WPS).
• Assuming the cut to kindergarten grants hits ours, $212,000 lost of the funds for IAs in kindergarten. That's equivalent to 17 (of 63). Note: do I see us cutting those positions now? No. But I don't know where it's going to come from, either.
• Head Start supplemental funding is cut by 11%, which could total $128,000 for Worcester. That's extended time for our Head Start students.
• There's also a 20% cut in MCAS student support, 22% in innovation schools, and 6.5% in extended learning time.

More coming late next week.
UPDATE: and some commentary here. 

Baker administration budget cuts (you'd better believe they're hitting local levels!)

I've spent some time this evening looking at the spreadsheet of budget cuts announced today by the Baker administration. They were announced with great fanfare as not hitting local aid.
Well, take a look.
I'm just cutting my tweets of this in here, as I'm in a rush. Sorry if it's a bit messy. 

Regional library local aid getting another $42K hit out of a $97M line item #MAbudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

.@Worcester_PL Talking Books program losing almost $2000 from a $440K line item (ctr in Watertown loses $,too) #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

$2M from child & mental health, $6.6M from mental health incl homeless & emer, $1.4M from emer svc & mental health care #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

Oh, and $920K from inpatient & community based mental health #Mabudgetcuts (Someone out there in the 4th estate is going to cover this...?)
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

(Interesting: no cut in correctional facilities) #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

DESE losing $380K from their $13M budget #MAEdu #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

METCO (holy cow!) losing $943,000 (from $18.8M budget) #mabudgetcuts #MAEdu
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

$106,984 from literary programs (DESE program) #MAEdu #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

Nothing cut from the $2.7M of "school to career connecting activities" #MaEdu #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

Well, regional districts, you dodged yet another cut on transportation this round #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

At a time when we already are criticially underfunding special education: $250,000 cut from the circuit breaker #MAEdu #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

Not surprising: $1.9M cut in charter school reimbursement. Already underfunded at $78M #MAedu #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

$250,000 cut from innovation schools #MAEdu #Mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

(BTW, those last three will hit WPS, @worcesterpublic) #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

We don't have enough tech for PARCC but $23,800 cut from ed tech programs #MAEdu #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

$1.7M from MCAS low scoring support, $500K from underperforming schools, $139K from college/career readiness #MAEdu #mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

$197K from safe & supportive schls #MAedu #Mabudgetcuts
— Tracy Novick (@TracyNovick) February 4, 2015

There's more, by the way. That's just the ones that are somewhat education connected. A lot of that is going to have be done, anyway, and guess where that's going to come? Local budgets.
UPDATE: There are even more just in education.

Budget cut

...passes as proposed.