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13 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
because I am an official a Middle-Aged Person, it has taken me this long to get on linktree, but I did just update the link on here and on IG. Poke me about not updating it if you see that I don't, please.
Ok, sorry, for fellow not-as-young folks: linktree gives one link that you can stick in your Instagram bio or wherever, that leads to a page that you set up with a list of links.
So, for example, here’s mine right now: linktr.ee/TracyNovick
From my perspective, this overcomes the “Instagram doesn’t link outside your bio” issue; I am sure there are other ways it is also useful.
(Instagram, BTW, is the main place I connect with students)

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14 Nov
Rather telling point in the decision to keep the Curley remote: lack of access to testing #MAEdu bostonglobe.com/2021/11/13/met…
“They said BPS contacted multiple COVID-19 testing vendors with the hope to begin testing students early this coming week but could not find a provider who could meet the capacity the school requires.”
For all that DESE has praised its own test and stay program, who gets tested in that is very limited, and BPS wants to test beyond that.
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12 Nov
A thing I reflect on each Veterans’ Day is the Massachusetts Peace Statue, which is the town of Orange’s WWI monument.
It shows a returned U.S. solider talking to a schoolboy.
Wikipedia photo: Image
It’s entitled “It Shall Not Be Again,” and it was dedicated in 1934. It honors the 13 natives of Orange who died in the war.
The image, of course, is the soldier tells the schoolboy about the war, and it doesn’t happen again.
But the boys of that age would be drafted in the Second World War.
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17 Oct
Whaaaaat is this @BostonSchools Globe article?
The premise seems to be “BPS didn’t jump straight to panic mode after the state report…because there was an international pandemic”?!?
I mean, what is this: “In one sign of persisting inertia this fall, the school system missed key turnaround benchmarks under the March 2020 agreement with the state.”

The March 2020 agreement was written, as its date notes, pre-pandemic.
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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
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.
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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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