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Tracy O'Connell Novick

14 Oct, 7 tweets, 2 min read

As an FYI:
The difference between Ch. 70 last year (FY20) and this year (FY21) is current projected to be $107.3M.

If the Governor's budget isn't more than that, we're at the same place as July.

aka: No SOA, nothing other than the lousy) inflation rate. #MAEdu

Ok, so from reading the articles that are coming out--which is all we have since the livestream isn't available--it appears that this is the ballgame.

Our kids are never going to get this year back.
#CavalryIsntComing

@MassGovernor

you didn't meet those obligations, @MassGovernor. The pandemic funding was not SOA implementation. #MAEdu

Pandemic aid went to districts ACROSS the country.

That aid had NOTHING to do with the Student Opportunity Act, did not in any way implement such funding, and the Governor fundamentally misrepresents the state funding system in putting the two together. #MAEdu

Remember: the multiplier effect is a real thing when it comes to state education aid.

Once this year is gone, that funding is never coming back

So far the press conference hasn't mentioned SOA implementation. The question is if the SOA is delayed on implementation or if it will simply be implemented in six years rather than seven.

(I have a guess)

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Oh it does not.

Look, the #StudentOpportunityAct has FOUR funding implications for FY21:

1. 1/7th move towards goal in health care.
Does that happen in Governor Baker's proposed budget?

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https://twitter.com/MASchoolsK12/status/1316142232215396358

New #MAEdu guidance on wind and brass instruments from DESE today.
As the mother of a brass player, this seems incredibly foolhardy to me.

https://twitter.com/MASchoolsK12/status/1316142232215396358

...still no discussion around air exchange...

So like stick a bunch of kids in a room, have them blow air at each other from ten feet apart...and that’s fine?

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10 Oct

ok, couple of things: first, I do want to share these, as it’s among the first attempts to comprehensively look at what has happened so far: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@AASAHQ

This is the project @AASAHQ is in on (that I suggested @MASchoolsK12 could share data with), as, nationally, there isn’t centralized data collection.

Let’s note that it would be great to find that schools aren’t super-spreaders (and, as has been noted elsewhere, there are places that have been safely running schools in other countries)

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10 Oct

At this point, I have the beginnings of several blog posts and several unsent tweets responding to a lot of the nonsense around schools right now.
I keep reopening them, re-reading, getting overwhelmed with exhaustion, and closing them again.

There’s been a recent renewal of the “why won’t anyone think of the CHILDREN” line #onhere, as if somehow it has escaped the attention of local leadership of districts that we don’t have children in buildings and that has consequences. #ThanksWeKnewThat

I think folks need to be super super careful (and I would use stronger adverbial descriptors here if I spoke that way) when speaking about the children of others whose life and experience aren’t theirs (and I speak here from inside my own glass house, as it were).

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8 Oct

@TweetWorcester

The joint meeting of the #Worcester City Council Education subcommittee and #WorcSchools Cmte Finance and Operations isn't livestreaming on Facebook, but you can find the livestream on the @TweetWorcester site worcesterma.gov/video-on-deman…

The agenda (with substantial backup) is online here: worcesterschools.org/wp-content/upl… #WorcSchools

Oh, nice reminder of City Council purview there by the assistant clerk (aka the councilors can't make requests of the school department unless they do so through the Committee)

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