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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
ok time to start throwing things
so he really is making the argument that synchronous learning is the solution to mental health struggles for students
May I suggest that the appropriate forum for the head of the pediatrics association to talk about massive gaps in needs for mental health services is NOT the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education? #MAEdu
Genuinely, that we accept that the best or only place for this to be dealt with is the educational system is a MASSIVE implicit concession that we have no interest in solving the MEDICAL issue.

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15 Dec
The #MAEdu Board of Elementary and Secondary Education starts at 9-ish today. The agenda is here: doe.mass.edu/bese/docs/fy20…

(let's start that livetweeting thread here)
You can pull up the livestream from over here: livestream.com/accounts/22459…
You can also follow @Jung_Carrie on this: #MAEdu
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14 Dec
Two state meetings of #MAEdu interest this week (and they're at the SAME TIME):

The Board of Ed meets Tuesday at 9 am: doe.mass.edu/bese/docs/fy20…
That's the emergency regs on remote and hybrid learning; first round discussion on vocational education regs; draft of the world languages frameworks; and an update on the budget.

It appears the only actual vote will be the first item.
The consensus revenue hearing is at 11:30: malegislature.gov/Events/Special…

That's the "start your hashtags" #FY22 beginning for #mapoli
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12 Dec
I want to push some of this from @derspiegel out in a thread, because it's based in part on the sort of universal testing (within the study referenced) that we don't have.
"Since the end of September, the Austrian researchers have paid visits to more than 240 schools. There goal is to perform as many tests as they can at regular intervals throughout the entire schoolyear."
"They hope to test up to 15,000 children between the ages of six and 15 in addition to 1,200 teachers to establish a representative sample size."

So this isn't waiting for someone to have symptoms or known exposure; this is just show up, test everyone, where are we at.
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12 Dec
I didn’t catch this yesterday: the Governor changed the revenue projections for FY21 (current year), raising them by half a billion dollars wwlp.com/news/state-pol… #mapoli
Does anyone know what this means: “allow the administration to distribute about $53 million in K-12 education funding without being constrained by a formula”?

That “without being constrained by a formula” seems concerning. #MAEdu #mapoli
The $53M is supposed to be $25/pupil + $75/low income pupil...I hope this doesn’t mean not constrained by *that* formula...
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10 Dec
City of Worcester's weekly press conference being led by Dr. Mattie Castiel #worcpoli
...who just choked up giving the number of deaths to date
...seven more this week.
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10 Dec
Technical note on this: This would be amending 603 CMR 27.00, which is the time on learning regulations.

The authority of the Board and the Commissioner to establish that section is based on two sections of the Mass General Laws: MGL Ch. 69, sec. 1G and MGL Ch. 69, sec. 1B.
MGL Ch. 69, sec. 1G reads very simply:

"The board shall establish the minimum length for a school day and the minimum number of days in the school year."

That it did, and amended, earlier this year. There is no language here on authority on how those are to be done.
MGL Ch. 69, sec. 1B is significantly longer--it is the "duties of the Board" section--but I cannot find a section that gives authority to establish how education is delivered to students.

I'm quite certain they'll have a nice little legal argument Tuesday. And I am not a lawyer.
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