Showing posts with label school/city sides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school/city sides. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

and it isn't even 'everybody wants to be a school committee member' season

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 Some of us have often referred to Worcester's election year as "everybody wants to be a school committee member" season, as v...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Feedback on the city's strategic plan

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You can review the draft here.   The feedback form is here. Here's what I just wrote:  Overall, it does not look to me as if the "...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Yes, we should be talking about Worcester Public Schools administrative spending, but not how it's been done so far

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If you watched the first Worcester School Committee, you saw opening statements in which Member Binienda extemporized on publicly approved (...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Yes, the proposed Worcester Public Schools FY25 budget is posted

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 And you can find it online here . and there is our rueful fish in his budget habitat I am not going to give you any analysis in this post--...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Two quick notes on the framing of the city budget

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The Worcester City Council sees the proposed city FY25 budget for the first time Tuesday. I don't have time now to go through everythin...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Two on Worcester Public Schools budget (this one on FY24)

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It's been a bit since I've written anything on Worcester's budget at all, let alone this current year, and there are a few thing...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

On city finances and planning

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 At the April 9 meeting of the City Council:  Toomey makes request under suspension for a five point plan on school building finances needs ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

A couple of notes on the WPS budget

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It's been awhile since I posted anything on the WPS budget--we've been sailing along through quarter two here--but there are a few t...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Oh, ok

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I haven't posted here about Worcester and May and Hammond last Monday, as I've said plenty elsewhere it's more relevant, but on ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Proposed FY21 Worcester Public Schools budget

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A budget is a moral document. What we fund is what we value. pic.twitter.com/4xRtRdOoSR — Tracy O'Connell Novick (@TracyNovick) March 18...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Worcester School Committee FY21 before the Worcester City Council

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The Worcester Public School's bottom line is before the Worcester City Council tonight, which means it is time for two  three reminders!...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

The line for policing in the Worcester Public Schools budget

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I usually include this in my larger review of the budget, but I was asked about it this weekend, so I thought I'd give it a post on its ...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

We're doing this again?!?

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Cue this (which even has dancing) I did t his on Twitter this morning Front page, top of the fold, five takeways from the Worcester Cit...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

On combining facilities management in Worcester

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Did you know we had a report on this? Me, either! It's here , in the backup to the Worcester School Committee agenda this past week. ...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Worcester Public Schools before City Council for FY20: laterblog

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When the Worcester Public Schools goes before the Worcester City Council on the budget--or when any school district goes before their approp...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

I have literally been writing this post for eleven years

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I'm not kidding: the first blog post on here, for March 1, 2008 , compared the required district spending to the actual district spendin...
Monday, March 4, 2019

More officers in Worcester schools?

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I haven't said anything about Superintendent Binienda's endorsement of a police officer at Claremont Academy in part because Counci...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Worcester Public Schools FY19 budget hearing

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Posting as we go once it starts... Foley: hearing at a time that the budget has been issued information that's really important about ...