Whos of Who-cester

 Hey, remember how we've noted that as we lose SNAP enrollment, we're going to lose free lunch enrollment? That has now started to ...

  One can only use the title "So, this is bad" so many times, but this qualifies As K-12 Dive reports , proposed cuts to Medicaid...

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

I am doing one of my periodic comfort re-reads of Terry Pratchett; this is a good summary of the House budget. Alas, no answers here. Wednes...

 I have barely cracked this open, but it's online here . No cherry sheet update as yet. A few brief things I already know (as always on...

  If you'd prefer to review this with funny Muppets gifs, you can do that on my Twitter thread here .  As I mentioned in my Q&A on ...

The state has now posted state and district enrollment numbers (the October 1 count) for the current school year, and if you pay the close ...

coming you today from the Malden Senior Center, just down the street from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in downtown M...

The agenda--which is pretty short?--is online here . There are some recognitions coming in, which will mean the National Anthem is being su...

MassBudget nails it in their analysis of the Governor's budget in a report entitled "Opportunity Delayed " (The common phrase ...

Why is there discussion/controversy/activism about the low income implementation in school funding in the House 2 budget? As I mentioned w...

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

Riley: funding is progressive, "so some of our most needy school districts" are getting greater resources how to we now ensure th...

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...

Among the items coming back on this week's Worcester School Committee agenda ( on which more to come ) is a response to a multi-part (...

I'd honestly missed that this was happening entirely, and there isn't a whole lot on the agenda  beyond allocating the funds over th...

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pa...

Professor Bruce Baker, on Twitter as SchlFinance101 , speaking today at Trinity College in Hartford with a focus on Connecticut school fina...

The above is a (possibly imperfectly remembered) quote from Rep. Aaron Vega regarding the Promise Act and House 70 proposed by Governor Bake...

Reference: Just in time for the rally at the State House tomorrow, we've now reached the "SQUIRREL" part of the foundation ...