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 And with the Governor's signature, we have a budget. As a result, DESE has released final Chapter 70 and Net School Spending numbers (...

 I broke with my usual tradition of turning first to the net school spending page* when cracking open** the FY27 Worcester Public Schools re...

 I took some time this past week to update some slides from work, and there are two that I thought might be of general interest. As you may ...

 When I posted about the Worcester School Committee taking up the FY27 budget projections for the first time , we didn't yet have the F...

I'm not able to attend this evening--training another committee!--but I did want to note that the Worcester School Committee is receivin...

 MORE ON THIS COMING BUT, some links for you: The Governor's proposed FY27 budget is here . If you're here, you're probably look...

  Yes, I made this myself in Canva I had missed the initial publication of the latest coverage from Worcester Business Journal (thank goodn...

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...

 

It can be found here. Please enjoy the snail* on the cover, the work of Worcester Arts Magnet student Miguel Andrade. and despite the cover:...

  Lowell Sun today , in coverage that the city surprised the schools with the information that they're getting $4M less than they'd ...

 It was noted to me yesterday that one of the first thing one should do when a city says it simply can't make net school spending is loo...

In City Manager Batista's letter opening the FY26 city budget document , there's sentence I haven't seen in a city budget docume...

 The FY24 net school spending report was released yesterday . if you click this, it will get bigger Here’s a zoom in of the current year:...

  with apologies, of course, to Clement C. Moore. (not that kind of spin) 'Twas the Friday before Christmas And all through the city Not...

  ...to the first of the city of Worcester needing to cover Polar Park payments coming at the same meeting as the first round of borrowing ...

I haven't posted on this because monetary decisions have to be done in public session, and so I expected, naturally, that we would see s...

If you watched the first Worcester School Committee, you saw opening statements in which Member Binienda extemporized on publicly approved (...

non-testifying attendee at City Council tonight Good evening, Mr. Chair, My name is Tracy Novick and I live at 135 Olean Street here in Worc...

In addition to noting for the Council that they aren't traffic engineers and should listen to those who are on Mill Street (a bit outsi...