Whos of Who-cester

 The Office of the Attorney General, Division of Open Government--aka, They Who Oversee The Open Meeting Law--filed their annual report wit...

 In a finding issued yesterday , the Attorney General's office found that the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education violated the ...

 The things that had me ranting on the way home, in chronological order: Member Mary Ann Stewart AGAIN this month asking questions of a publ...

 The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meets Tuesday, February 27 at 9 am; you can find the agenda here.  

 Among the odd little items on this week's Worcester City Council agenda is this, coming back from the Law Department:  Transmitting inf...

The Worcester School Committee meets on Thursday this week: NOTE THAT THE BUDGET SECTION STARTS AT 4 PM! And yes, there's a budget pos...

As we now have a posted meeting for Wednesday night-- UPDATE: this has now been moved to Thursday at 7 pm --(posted on Friday, as we can no...

Well, this is disappointing. Essentially, their determination is because the strategic planning committee wasn't appointed by the superi...

Scott O'Connell writes about the Open Meeting Law complaint around the strategic planning committee.  The only comment I'll make is ...

My appeal to the Attorney General's office was mailed yesterday. OH! And on Tuesday, the Worcester Public Schools twitter feed sent o...

I'm beginning to think I should have labelled these as episodes. When I last posted , I was waiting to see if I would get a response to...

You might remember that I pointed out in August that the Worcester Strategic Planning Committee had an Open Meeting Law problem, a concern ...

No, it's not with the City Council's weekly items "under suspension" that aren't time sensitive and should be put on a...

There's no backup on this one. Sagan: "maybe the most important work the Board does" Chief state officer turnover "at c...

Maryland Association of Boards of Education is here  on Twitter, BTW. Coming up as part of the presentation brief what it is "not a...

There's a meeting posted for the superintendent search for 5:30 today, but there's no agenda posted  that I can find... UPDATE: ...

I've been watching these across the state, and, as Worcester takes this up tonight*, thought it timely. Fall River : Of how the pro...

Hey, Massachusetts! We have an election tomorrow! Tomorrow is the Massachusetts state primary. If you are a REPUBLICAN, you can go vote for...

Note that Vice Chair Monfredo is chairing We've got the quarterly report as well as a renewal of contract with the Collaborative. N...

O'Connell: substantial discussions concern in areas around the open meeting law in various areas "at least get a legal opinion...