Whos of Who-cester

 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 t...

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

The Worcester School Committee begins budget deliberations on Thursday at 4 pm.  As they start these deliberations, I did want to lay out a ...

  Ahead of Monday's public hearing on the proposed FY25 budget for the Worcester Public Schools , here's a brief look at what is i...

I'd say these three articles frame next year pretty well: Research suggests months of academic loss being the result of schools bein...

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...

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--...

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

This afternoon, Governor Baker announced mid-year (9C) budget cuts. The full spreadsheet is online here.  MassLive has a good introduction ....

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...

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...

You may have missed it in your holiday planning, but, bad news : Despite growing revenues, Gov. Charlie Baker is still considering mid-ye...

...is out and can be found here . It's intentionally being released as the same time as the Education Law Center/Education Leadership Fu...

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 $49...

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

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...

...and the news isn't good .

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...

I've spent some time this evening looking at the spreadsheet of budget cuts announced today by the Baker administration. They were ann...

... passes as proposed.