Whos of Who-cester

At the School Committee meeting at the beginning of August, the Brockton School Committee was told that they should anticipate cuts for nex...

 The House Committee on Ways & Means released their FY27 budget last Wednesday, and they're currently taking amendments before th...

 The United for Our Future coalition, which includes (among others) MASC, MASS, and the MTA, sent a letter calling for increased education s...

 As I noted back in October , there were changes made to how the federal government is managing SNAP and Medicaid that will have impacts on...

  I'm at the ASBO conference this week in Fort Worth--ASBO is the Association of School Business Officials--and one of the "must at...

  A big thank you to Sam Drysdale of State House News Service for giving us a good look at the danger the potential federal funding cuts co...

 on federal education funding, Elleka Yost from ASBO International wrote this piece , which beats my "nobody knows" answer this st...

 From State House News Service from last week (which no one appears to have picked up, so this is behind a paywall; I assure you this is the...

  It is time once again for another of my “skunk at the garden party” posts; partly in response to last week's Ways and Means hearing on...

In light of the Joint Ways and Means hearing on Monday (on education and local aid) spring flowers on the Boston Greenway this week One of t...

 It's WAY down in this piece on teachers' salaries , but hey, they noted the fundamental inequity of funding schools locally! Curren...

From my notebook From last April  Okay, so clearly my New Year's Day post on the state senate potentially taking up school funding came...

 Senate President Spilka, per State House News Service* :  As for education funding, Spilka said she's heard from a lot of senators that...

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...

 The state's official start of discussing next fiscal year is the Consensus Revenue Hearing, which this year, per State House News, will...

swiped from a footnote of "Dividing the Public" is this quote from Fletcher Swift skewering Massachusetts  Summer is generally whe...

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

First, let's please give a MAJOR thank you to the teeny Harvard Press , which covers the town of Harvard, and has spent over a year work...

And if you thought their special Monday meeting to receive a report might be on the Racial Imbalance Advisory Council's report , which c...

By now, if you are the family of a Worcester Public Schools student or a staff member, you will have read the letter sent from Dr. Monárrez ...