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 State Student Advisory Council  for some reason, they never link to the presentation from the SSAC on these...I wish they would used extens...

 This is from Isabella Chamberlain, Hudson High School, who is the SSAC chair focusing this year on student wellness, especially emotional w...

  I am of course posting this after the Worcester School Committee meeting at which this was discussed. This is partly because this isn'...

  There is a printed memo here which is NOT ONLINE which is annoying.  Commissioner describe the budget process "highly structured time...

 With the school year now fully underway, I’ve been dismayed to see how the default position on generative AI throughout the educational lan...

 Of course there is Monday bad news on AI! The Atlantic , not an organization known for having its eye actually on the ball when it comes to...

 ...and we shouldn't be pretending generative AI is anything but. Let me preface this by saying that this is a tough read, so please kee...

From tabs I have open today: I thought this look at the "anti-conviviality" of generative AI was very interesting and important f...

 Craven plans to skip the budget update Student member Ioannis Asikis reporting out on work of SSAC in person meetings held in Leicester, Wo...

  Coming to you live from Mass Bay Community College in Wellesley My rundown of the finalists can be found here . My initial perspective on ...

 The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meets today in Everett at 9 AM. You can find the agenda here .  It is a positive FESTIVAL o...

 Some things to read or consider this week: Some Aquinnah Wampanoag elders gathered last week to talk about the closing in 1968 of Gay Hea...

On Monday, Governor Maura Healey signed the FY25 conference committee budget. You can find the Governor's signing statement here along ...

On what is absolutely a test case in Oklahoma on public funding of religious schools ; this is the St. Isadora online charter school  On th...

 On this, the holiday that I loathe most, it is appropriate, I suppose, that the education reform opiners at Reason   have their opinion pie...

 Mohammed: budget is just under $8B but vast majority is distributed via formula  memo is here three priorities proposed: early literacy men...

 Here's a few longer pieces that I'd recommend this week:  Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider on the Democrats needing to come ba...

  This has been buzzing around in my head since the Board's vote. I'm still wrestling with how to put this; there is much more to be...

 Riley: "while the Department historically has been one of compliance, enforcing mandates, both federal and state" has argued sinc...

 Let me start by saying that this is not even close to a complete post! I'm trying to pull together a few different strings of things he...