Thread by @TracyNovick

ok, who else is on @MassBudget's Equitable Education through the Crisis presentation? #MAedu

@MassBudget is there a hashtag?

@MassBudget .@MarieFrances_MA just referred to the state budget as a "policy tool"
Yes, indeed! #MAedu

The exact size of the budget gap for FY21 "is unknown" Colin Jones notes.

...sigh...

And now on to not funding the @StudentOpportunityAct

And delaying the SOA does the most harm to the districts that had the most to *gain* from the SOA. #MAEdu

and @MeghanIrons running through much of the Globe's #GreatDivide reporting since March #EnvisionEquity

.@skoczela starts by saying "time has ceased to have any meaning" when referencing the parent survey (that was *three months ago?!?!*)

Yes! The pandemic has "piled up consequences over and over again on the same people"

Technology and language "very clearly influenced" the student connection with the classroom, as were income and race #EnvisionEquity #MAEdu

.@MassINCPolling plans to look at what changes are happening now: internet connection, email access, devices; language connections; impact of all different educational formats #EnvisionEquity

Thomas Anderson, Superintendent, New Bedford Public Schools

"We can put the devices out there...supporting them in using those devices"

#EnvisionEquity

"It'd be great" to have more funding to modernize buildings.

How to partner with school committee to ensure buy in on allocation of resources #EnvisionEquity #MAedu

Over to @tk_nagayoshi to speak from the teacher perspective. "We get our energy and our motivation from our kids." #EnvisionEquity

...highlights the uncertainty in every decision, not just in policy and budget, but in everything
"I don't even know what the AP exam is going to look like in the spring...I don't know if my kids are even going to come back in October...
#EnvisionEquity

"I don't know if the kids in front of me can or even should be prioritizing their academic work"
#EnvisionEquity

Students who are watching younger kids, are essential workers, are having to do work through cell phone data, have family members who have contracted COVID, and so forth #EnvisionEquity #MAEdu

Equip educators with navigating the social-emotional challenges
#EnvisionEquity

Treat students "as people first, scholars second" #MAEdu

(this is all @tk_nagayoshi...I'm not tagging him in all of them) #EnvisionEquity

How to solve the broadband gap?
(hint hint: #municipalbroadband) #EnvisionEquity

"You can't start it yesterday and think it's going to be ready today." (Thomas Anderson, New Bedford superintendent) #EnvisionEquity

"Our families need support...find more opportunities...really need that extended support" for families who don't have the means themselves "to get through this year"
@MeghanIrons
#EnvisionEquity

Ensure policymakers understand "how many compound impacts the same people are facing over and over again" @skoczela #EnvisionEquity

"We're in the vision of people...everything ties back to the classroom" Thomas Anderson

"we have to be critical and angry, but hopeful and optimistic" @tk_nagayoshi #EnvisionEquity

That was @CAJLightning ducking my "okay, how do we fix it?" question there #EnvisionEquity

@CAJLightning But @MarieFrances_MA is noting that there are policy solutions: if we don't have the revenue to support these things, we can't do them.

There are revenue sources that we aren't tapping @RaiseUpMA #EnvisionEquity #MAEdu

That was super @MassBudget!
And every time I hear @tk_nagayoshi speak, I envy his students. #EnvisionEquity