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26 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I’ll pick the blog back up this afternoon. #MAEdu
...or not? This video isn't something that can be viewed? livestream.com/madesestreamin…

#MAEdu
ok, with ongoing gratitude to those who answer my emails, a couple of quick notes on #MAEdu budget stuff:

Baker files House 1 tomorrow; you already know the admin line is "fully funds year 1 of SOA"
New ESSER II grants (that's $800M in total to state; $733M to districts directly, based on Title I allocations) will be live to apply for in the next week or so.

Link to district by district allocations: doe.mass.edu/federalgrants/…
on the $53M (I thought it was $54M, but whatever) from the state: payments coming in Feb ($25M) and April ($25M) based on state’s allotment schedule.

Update on School Finance page soon.
#MAEdu

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28 Jan
@BenjaminDowning wbur.org/commonhealth/2…
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28 Jan
Sure (I got this question a couple of times today).
SO:
The federal government just before the end of the year passed another big COVID-19 aid package, including a bunch of aid for schools.
Massachusetts is getting $800M, of which $733M is going right to districts.
It’s a federal grant through DESE, so that money goes straight to districts.
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27 Jan
PS

Chapter 70 spreadsheets are posted: doe.mass.edu/finance/chapte…

#MAedu
READ THE TEXT (a few notes)
Enrollment not held harmless: "Overall foundation enrollment decreased from 938,085 in FY2021 to 907,506 in FY2022, a decrease of 30,579. Foundation budgets declined for 153 operating districts, including 29 districts with declines of more than 5 percent."
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27 Jan
...really running with that “new CDC study” line, eh? Image
Nor is it new information.

It’s just gobsmacking to read everything one can find, and then see a few of those put together get blaring headlines.
And I should say, btw, that in my experience, reporters are careful readers and work hard to make research clearer. That's part of why I'm finding this so disheartening.
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27 Jan
I'll leave it to the #MAEdu universe to sort out all that's in @sweetadelinevt's coverage of the teachers and vaccines news--commonwealthmagazine.org/health/teacher… --
But I do want to very clearly say that this, regarding "going back to school" is not a factual statement on its own:

"overwhelming evidence that it is safe to do so"

There are many, many conditions that need to be included in "safe" to do so.
They are not in the statement.
That is quite explicitly the Executive Office making that statement--that is, Secretary Peyser's office--so we'll leave DESE out of this one. We can tie this one to the larger lack of following evidence of the Baker administration. #MAEdu
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26 Jan
The #MAEdu Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meets at 9; the agenda is here: doe.mass.edu/bese/docs/fy20…

Livetweeting thread starts here.
If you'd like to join me in hitting "refresh" on the video, you can do that here: livestream.com/accounts/22459…

#MAedu
finally broke down and bought myself yogurt raisins, though still sad that CVS appears to no longer have yogurt cranberries. I'm blaming the pandemic for that.
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