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4 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
reading the national school-related headlines this morning will give you whiplash: a thread:
and here's the more #MAEdu angle bostonglobe.com/2022/01/03/met…
and this: wgbh.org/news/local-new…
also this one nepm.org/regional-news/…
yeah, and masslive.com/coronavirus/20…
and: commonwealthmagazine.org/education/scho…

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5 Jan
"We received an update from MEMA today that some of the masks in the distribution, masks marked 'non-medical,' had not been tested at MIT as previously thought."
--@MASchoolsK12 via email at 2:26 am this morning #MAEdu
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This does not read like "We provided safety supplies during a pandemic that are not as safe as we argued they were" to me.
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4 Jan
I LOVE this question, and I got so excited about it that I added slides to my presentation for Friday to be sure that School Committee members can answer it, and then I never came back here and answered it! Sorry! So:
First up, let’s realize where we are with this money; this doesn’t stretch back to the beginning, but it does give an idea of where we are compared to when it needs to be gone; you are at the blue arrow, just about. Image
(The above slide borrowed from @Brian_E_Allen’s section of the ESSER presentation done with @awrsdsupt & @lexingtonsuper at the Joint Conference in November. I added the arrow.)
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14 Nov 21
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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13 Nov 21
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.
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12 Nov 21
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.
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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 21
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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