Whos of Who-cester

 Not specific to education, but this lengthy piece on "AI mania" in the workplace is a very "the Emperor has no clothes...

 On Tuesday, State House News Service reported that nearly 200,000 people have come off MassHealth in the past two months. And per SHNS, ...

Rob O'Donnell Powerpoint is here walk through House 2 $303.5M increase in Ch. 70 changes in Health insurance, guidance, special educ...

Student Opportunity Act : Rob O'Donnell higher health care rates based on the GIC: 3 year average separate inflation index for health ...

pushed out over Twitter  Thursday LINKS: The bill is on the state site here   I have the PDF posted in my Dropbox here .  The summary ...

I'm not testifying today--just typing!--but I've found that my original testimony before the Foundation Budget Review Commission fr...

Today MASBO has their annual Solutions Fair, and Governor Baker is giving the keynote. One assumes that the Governor addressing school finan...

note that for the most part, the Legislature doesn't as yet have bill numbers for what is filed; thus everything is "SD" and ...

The Four Cities presentation comes to MASBO this morning, with a beginning on the MassBudget July report on Foundation Budget Review Commis...

As I've been following the discussion around the House bill, I had this haunting sense that this discussion--do we move forward with jus...

Sure enough, per State House News ( paywalled ): The bill, which is being polled by the Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday afternoon, wou...

Per State House News , Speaker DeLeo today said that the House would take up a school funding bill this week; the bill is not yet released. ...

What the School Committee is reviewing is the line item budget, which is online here . Personally, I'm keeping the Table of Contents , w...

I spent about a half hour with Hank Stoltz Friday morning, talking about the Worcester school budget, the state budget, and related school i...

Apologies for the late posting on this...we're back to the normal place and time: Tuesday at 8:30 am in Malden. The agenda is here . It...

Yesterday, the House and Senate both passed a budget agreed to by conference committee. It was filed that morning, meaning, as noted by Sta...

FY18 is being discussed at CPPAC tonight. Posting as we go.  Looks like the presentation is this one. Brian Allen: first look at budget ...

Chester updates on FY18  (plus a spreadsheet ) and on chapter 70

As I was on last night's MASC panel in Holyoke, I wasn't able to liveblog or tweet. Here are a few notes on the discussion, however....

Melissa King: going to be brief about 2% increase over last year: about $37M inflation and enrollment growth enrollment essentially flat s...