Whos of Who-cester

 "real challenge" per Martinez at federal level on funding, related to enrollment decline and other things pay attention when thin...

This is of course and as always coming from me who posts on here as me   First off, cheers to the Boston Globe  (yes, you did read that righ...

First required xkcd: I'd like one of the major issues in education, too, but all I can do is in my little corner of the universe. With t...

ahem... I hope by now you've seen that the Fair Share amendment, which taxes at 4% on every dollar over a person's first $1M in inco...

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

 For those who find this useful: I've updated my FY25 spreadsheet with the Senate Ways and Means budget. Note that I have NOT waded th...

My week went a bit sideways at the end here, so I haven't gotten around to a few things I'd intended to write on. In the meantime, h...

While I was doing my periodic check of what DESE is sharing on school finance , I discovered that DESE has added to their shared resources a...

The City of Worcester posted their FY22 budget yesterday. The three pages that cover the Worcester Public Schools start on page 150 of the ...

  As you may remember, one of the several studies required by the Student Opportunity Act is one on local contributions. Comments for that s...

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

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...

Tomorrow, the Governor releases the House 2 (it's the second year of the legislative term) budget at 11 am (or so). The big education fu...

Don't miss the results of the Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll showing that maybe Massachusetts voters are more progressive than th...

I'm always hesitant to do this, because I want to encourage local reporters to cover education issues including funding , and I'm al...

Here we go! Let's first give an acknowledgement of the Legislature making it easy to find and follow the budget deliberation; just scro...

If you haven't already, please do go use one of your Globe  articles to read today's article on state education aid in the non-fou...

As I think I've said before, I do this as much for me as for anybody, as I don't pay that much attention to analytics (beyond straig...

I write this well aware that isn't going to be popular. Nonetheless, more information and clarity is always, in my view, better. Last ...