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Tracy O'Connell Novick Profile picture
@TracyNovick
Sep 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
#WORCESTER FOLKS: a word with you, if you would.

You may have seen @WRRBureau's recent "Broadening Broadband" report, found online here: wrrb.org/reports/2020/0…
The #WorcSchools Cmte sent this report to School and Student Performance (the subcommittee I chair) for further discussion, deliberation, and testimony, as internet access is such a key piece to education right now.

Here's where I could use your help!
We have invited @bytomquinn and @PaulFMatthews in to present the @WRRBureau report regarding municipal broadband, and then we are opening for public testimony regarding education and internet access.

Thursday, September 10
5:30 pm
worcesterschools.zoom.us/j/98515491223?… Image
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! Public hearings only work if the public comes and speaks!
Testimony from students, families, teachers, staff, and others regarding internet access and access to K-12 public education in #Worcester is what we are seeking.
City Councilor @Wally4Worcester will be holding a parallel hearing regarding access more broadly a week later, on Thursday, September 17 also at 5:30 pm, should that be more relevant.
See worcesterma.gov/city-clerk/pub…

Please plan to attend and to testify, and please spread the word!
Oh, and there’s a FB event for those of you into such things:

facebook.com/events/s/prese…

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Mar 13
hold up, let me stop you right there:
Voters in Belmont, Harvard, and Westford
I’m sure that sometimes some of you think I am overreacting to the Boston Globe’s education coverage, but you probably couldn’t frame “how is this school funding reform working this year” WORSE than looking at Belmont, Harvard, and Westford.
I could try to invent one, but it’s an incredible manifestation of whom the Globe perceives its audience as AND how poorly it understands the state school funding system.
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Feb 26
Hey, #MAEdu advocates, can we have a word?

Please pull up a chair.
You all are my people, and I think the world of you.

I'm concerned about what seems to be how FY25 budget season is being approached.
It's not so much that I think it's missing the forest for the trees, and more that there is no forest; it's actually a prairie.

It's not even the same ballgame.
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Dec 13, 2023
So I logged off last night to have dinner with my family and write about how the Globe was wrong about school finance (chapter MMXXIII), and it appears I missed some Discourse on Worcester Public Schools funding.
Y’all were busy!
And so, a thread:
Let me first note that when I teach MA school finance (which is part of what I do for work, for those who might be new), I start in 1647, so there’s some history here.
From a Worcester perspective, let’s sum up by saying that the early colonial law that required towns to have schools once they hit a particular size was violated more than once, resulting in the town being fined.

More than once.
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Mar 23, 2023
.@jgoodeHN I think you're just repeating the framing that the city is giving you here, but I think we should clear up a misconception.

School transportation doesn't count towards net school spending in Massachusetts for ANY district. #MAEdu

heraldnews.com/story/news/edu…
The reason for that is pretty straightforward: Chelsea is three square miles; Franklin County Regional Tech is 500 square miles. Both are Massachusetts school districts. As you might imagine, they spend WILDLY differing amounts on transportation.
What is different between Fall River--and, indeed, any municipal district in Massachusetts--and their neighboring regionals, is, that while BOTH have mandated state reimbursed transportation, only one of those reimbursements gets funded.
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Mar 21, 2023
finally watching last week's Joint Ways & Means hearing, and appreciate @Jo_Comerford's question on the balance of one time versus sustained funding #MAEdu
she also did a lovely, polite refocus of her question; good chairing!
Cheers also to Sen @AnneGobi for opening her Q to @MassEducation a pointed: "on behalf of the entire Worcester delegation for your thoughtful and spot-on comments regarding the charter school in Worcester. It was extremely appreciated."
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Sep 15, 2022
ok, good morning, I have a question (just getting to #MAEdu news from yesterday):

This MEEP claim that gaps have widened over the pandemic is based on...what exactly?

We don't yet have the last year's MCAS data. We don't yet have MA NAEP data.
The report cites 2019 to 2021 third grade reading scores, and then percentage of low income 9th graders passing their classes compared to wealthier peers.
Then enrollment in college, which we know dropped...everywhere?
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