Whos of Who-cester

 The House Committee on Ways & Means released their FY27 budget last Wednesday, and they're currently taking amendments before th...

As I noted on Wednesday , Governor Healey has filed her proposed FY27 budget; as this is the second year of the legislative term, this is ...

In the Senate Ways and Means budget released Tuesday , most of the education lines are parallel to the House budget, with these exceptions: ...

I'm working through updating my running spreadsheet on the FY25 budget, but the conference committee budget released last Thursday, pas...

  Greenfield Community College atrium I was just asked why I sit where I do, and the answer is "next to the outlet when there is one!...

Earlier today, Governor Healey signed the FY24 state budget , which means, at long last, we have a state budget (more than a month into the...

 Good news: the Senate supplemental budget filed yesterday includes $75M in extraordinary relief for special education expenses, but it str...

 Bell: "our meeting schedule is always not quite where the Legislature is in their version" conference committee is working to pro...

  in two rounds... Have I mentioned that it is budget season for Worcester? Happy budget season! Our June sessions start at 4 with budget, r...

  Lately, I feel as if all of my posts begin with an apology for being late: no different here, as the House Ways and Means budget was relea...

Governor Charlie Baker released his recommended House 2 FY23 budget on Wednesday. The full budget totals $48.5 billion. Remember, it's ...

 Of all of the various things to come out as part of the conference committee budget , I am most puzzled--and pretty irritated--by this: SEC...

  writing these up later for both my and your use The budget is online here. The schedule of accounts we're using is here . My memo to ...

Circuit breaker: Jay Sullivan circuit breaker relief email has gone out to districts: this fiscal year costs must be 25% over cost last year...

I am sorry it has taken this long for me to get this into a blog post. I did tweet this out when the budget went up online on Wednesday. T...

Okay, it's House 2 budget week, but still...the Governor releases his budget on Wednesday. If you haven't already reviewed Colin Jo...

...but before we talk about that, let's note this nice piece from Sentate President (and former Ashland School Committee member and yes,...

Coming to you live from the House gallery which has not been renovated and thus has not as much access to electricity, alas. I like their ca...

The Senate opens its session at 11 am. The bill is here . The amendments are here . The session can be viewed online here. I was here ...

...which was reported out of Senate Ways and Means as S.2350, An Act Relative to Educational Opportunity for Students (AREOS?); the amendmen...