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28 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
ICYMI, press on yesterday's comments by the #MAEdu Commissioner and Secretary bostonherald.com/2020/10/27/edu…
wbur.org/edify/2020/10/…
commonwealthmagazine.org/education/mcas…
masslive.com/coronavirus/20…
And I'm still stuck back on how we don't know where half the cases in Massachusetts come from bostonglobe.com/2020/10/25/met…

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29 Oct
@DanaGoldstein Dana, here's what my district in Worcester, Massachusetts needs to get all students back into classrooms:

Somewhere between twice as much and three times as much space as we have now, given how crowded our spaces are. We have nearly fifty schools, so plan accordingly.
@DanaGoldstein We then will need staffing for those spaces. Now, we're already an underresourced district: by the state's own measures, we are already short about 700 teachers.
To that add probably at least another 2000 teachers to have actual staff in those additional classroom spaces.
@DanaGoldstein Now, that's assuming that the $15M that our city is putting into our HVAC systems for ionization equipment is sufficient to let us use all the spaces we have.
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29 Oct
I have far more than can fit into 280 characters to say about the @worcesterpublic budget document, so I will limit myself to two things:
It is far and away the most useful document I use as a #Worcester School Committee member (I’d argue it should be), and I feel very, very lucky to work with it.

I personally know that I do a better job because of the budget document we receive from which to deliberate.
If you, anywhere else in Massachusetts, find my school finance work on here and elsewhere of use, ten plus years of close use of the #WorcSchools budget book is part of why.
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27 Oct
Education commissioner reverses course, says Massachusetts schools in red should stay open via @bostonherald
I'm told he repeated this on his call with superintendents today.

And relatedly, here's the latest from Ireland: irishtimes.com/news/education…
Here's the restrictions the Irish government has in place:

irishtimes.com/news/health/li…

If this sounds like Massachusetts to you, then perhaps we can compare what their schools are doing to ours. #MAedu
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27 Oct
leaving off for a second...Billerica is up now
Lewis asks what state can be doing to support teachers and others
Superintendent Piwowar: appreciate saying it's like a first year teacher or administrator
"there's been the conversation about MCAS and accountability and all the pieces that go with that"
"very anxiety provoking for teachers"
"if it's given, we should say loudly and clearly that we're using it for diagnostic" not for comparing
"context varies widely"
"ramp down the accountability place and say that loudly and clearly and widely"
#MAEdu
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27 Oct
Livestream of today's Joint Committee on Education Informational Oversight Hearing is here: malegislature.gov/Events/Hearing…
#MAEdu #mapoli
Livetweeting as warranted
...which oddly doesn't appear to have a visual?
#MAedu
ok we have it now
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27 Oct
#MaEdu, we are approaching an anniversary!
Remember this?

November 26, 2019 Image
Boston English High School
signing of the Student Opportunity Act

The once-a-generation update on our commitment to our children, as is the constitutional duty of "legislatures and magistrates" #MAEdu
You might also remember my noting:
There was no money in the Student Opportunity Act.
It was a statement of intent, but the proof very much was to be in subsequent budgets.
#MAEdu Image
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