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17 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Oh THAT explains the backup onto Cambridge as I came out of Price Chopper!
It made me think twice, and I came back to Tatnuck Square on higher ground! #Worcester
Yikes.
I really recommend learning where #Worcester has not only low underpasses, but steam channels.
*stream channels

Once you’ve seen what the 1955 hurricanes did to Webster Square, you won’t forget it.
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18 Jul
You know, it’s a crying shame how much of a deficit of information these columns start from bostonglobe.com/2021/07/17/met…
I mean, there’s literally stacks of information, from the Foundation Budget Review Commission report, to the district reports post-FBRC that got SOA passed, that show exactly what districts are missing.
Now, to be fair, that’s pretty much been blown off by the state, too: thus DESE’s “proven strategies” list, which is really just “a list of things Commissioner Riley thinks are cool.”
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17 Jul
So @MassGovernor vetoed $2.9M in charter reimbursement in signing the #FY22 budget. Once I’ve got my laptop open, I’ll check #’s but I am assuming that was an increase over his January recommendation. #MAEdu
ahhh, okay. It's a Boston cut.
Conference committee: not less than $2,900,000 shall be expended to ensure that any municipality with a school district which has its total tuition capped by the net school spending provisions of said section 89 of said chapter 71,
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13 Apr
OKAY, #MAEdu, we've got the House FY22 Ways and Means budget coming out tomorrow, so it is a time for a thread (with some help from the Muppets):
AS ALWAYS, the first order of business here is to look at Chapter 70 funding:
We should OF COURSE first recall that we are a year into implementation of the first year of the Student Opportunity Act...except we aren't:
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13 Apr
“...the normal treatment for blood clots is to administer anticoagulants like heparin—but heparin can be harmful to people with CVST, so the FDA and CDC want providers to be aware of this rare condition and to know they must treat it differently.” vitals.lifehacker.com/what-you-need-…
I already tweeted this link, but I am sharing it again with that highlight, as, from all I am reading, it seems to be the big thing to know.
It isn’t ONLY the rare blood clots, but the KIND, which need DIFFERENT treatment from most, should they occur.
See also this thread:
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13 Apr
going to tune into @US_FDA's 10 am press conference: youtube.com/channel/UC_giJ…
@US_FDA "abundance of caution"
"extremely rare"
stress again "extremely rare"
@US_FDA plan to revise the fact sheet to make "appropriate benefit/risk evaluations"
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12 Apr
I am not a “hate read” sharer, but I believe, as Dr. Angelou held, that when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them.
Thus I think it important to note that this piece is written by a member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

time.com/5954077/reopen…
It neatly encapsulates a chosen ignorance of both the pandemic’s actual impacts and the true responses of district leadership, while demonstrating a marked callousness to the pandemic’s deadly effects. #MAEdu
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