Board of Ed: vocational tuition

 per pupil increase in coming fiscal year to $13,114 with $75 per pupil 
delegate authority to Commissioner to raise in FY26 in line with inflation

approved unanimously without discussion

Board of Ed: CTE admission subcommittee

 chaired by West who starts by thanking everyone
"are changes needed to promote more access" to vocational schools in the Commonwealth
this is West, Fisher, Rocha, Hills

Board of Ed for December: vision and mission

 Johnston: in 2023, planned for 2023-24 year
finalized educational vision "to better align our projects"
catalog of aligned supports 
"this is ongoing work...turning a shift together"

Board of Ed for December: Luisa Sparrow, Mass Teacher of the Year

 Luisa Sparrow, who teaches fifth and sixth grade students with disabilities at the Oliver Hazard Petty School in South Boston

Johnston in introducing her praises her for her presumption of competence in her students

Board of Ed for December: update on search

Ariana Williams, Issacson Miller
position profile has been finalized and is posted
applications and nominations are coming in
screening committee will meet several times before March to review materials
spending day at DESE for those

Craven: "it's a very transparent process"
"the website is the best way to get information to Issacson Miller"
Craven: "basically this process is an open book"
Moriarty asks if seeing applications coming in
yes
application does not necessarily close
Craven: goal is to have finalists "following the season"
(I have no idea what this means)

Johnston: not applying
"sincerely an effort to get the very best person TO apply"

Hills: "in my experience, this is very unusual"
"think of how you're going to answer how some number of candidates are going to ask" about Johnston not applying
YES INDEED
"you figure out how you're going to handle this"
"not hearing a bunch of people ask the question doesn't mean there aren't a lot of people asking this"

Board of Ed for December: opening comments

 The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meets today in Everett at 9 AM. You can find the agenda here. 

It is a positive FESTIVAL of faces here at the meeting today...MA Teacher of the year, past student rep Ela Gardiner (home from college! Yay, Ela!), loads of voke superintendents, an MTA group (and that's just who I recognize)...

It is a big day in Worcester news

 ...as Worcester-born and -raised Frances Perkins is scheduled to have a national monument, a still-unusual honor for a woman!

 President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation Monday establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind the New Deal, according to the White House.

Biden is expected to visit the Labor Department on Monday to formally make the announcement and sign the proclamation that will establish the monument in Newcastle, Maine, the White House said.

Perkins is of course also a Worcester Public Schools graduate, as she graduated from Classicial High School before attending Mount Holyoke College.