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Mar 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
finally watching last week's Joint Ways & Means hearing, and appreciate @Jo_Comerford's question on the balance of one time versus sustained funding #MAEdu
she also did a lovely, polite refocus of her question; good chairing!
Cheers also to Sen @AnneGobi for opening her Q to @MassEducation a pointed: "on behalf of the entire Worcester delegation for your thoughtful and spot-on comments regarding the charter school in Worcester. It was extremely appreciated."
I think everyone missed the point of @RepAMF's important Q of how high school guidance serves students.

I wish they hadn't. It isn't about "MOR PATHWAYSSS" but about having space to know kids and the knowledge and training to give good GUIDANCE.
ok, I only had to say "but that isn't how that works!" about 3 times, so not too bad.

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Mar 23
.@jgoodeHN I think you're just repeating the framing that the city is giving you here, but I think we should clear up a misconception.

School transportation doesn't count towards net school spending in Massachusetts for ANY district. #MAEdu

heraldnews.com/story/news/edu…
The reason for that is pretty straightforward: Chelsea is three square miles; Franklin County Regional Tech is 500 square miles. Both are Massachusetts school districts. As you might imagine, they spend WILDLY differing amounts on transportation.
What is different between Fall River--and, indeed, any municipal district in Massachusetts--and their neighboring regionals, is, that while BOTH have mandated state reimbursed transportation, only one of those reimbursements gets funded.
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Sep 15, 2022
ok, good morning, I have a question (just getting to #MAEdu news from yesterday):

This MEEP claim that gaps have widened over the pandemic is based on...what exactly?

We don't yet have the last year's MCAS data. We don't yet have MA NAEP data.
The report cites 2019 to 2021 third grade reading scores, and then percentage of low income 9th graders passing their classes compared to wealthier peers.
Then enrollment in college, which we know dropped...everywhere?
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Sep 15, 2022
Right, this September Vineyard.
The high school is 43% low income.
Also, it’s demographically 23% Hispanic, FWIW.
That’s the island’s regional high school: profiles.doe.mass.edu/general/genera…
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Sep 13, 2022
It's mesmerizing to me that the coverage of this always appears to exist in a space apart from those "Boston: worst traffic in the country" and "Boston grapples with melting public transit" articles
(Insert your choice of "those are the same" meme here)
(Let me note that I sent this tweet from the @MBTA_CR on my way to @MBTA to get to @BostonLogan BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC IN BOSTON IS AN ISSUE)
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Aug 16, 2022
A series of what will probably be unpopular statements about yesterday's #MAEdu Board vote on the MCAS, but gosh, I hate seeing bad info circulating:
1. This was supposed to happen years ago. The change in competency determination is tied to the new MCAS. What has been used for literally YEARS now was an interim step as we switched from one to the other. It was delayed by the pandemic.
2. The creation and maintenance of a "competency determination" based on the tenth grade evaluation is a power of the Board per MGL Ch. 69, sec. 1 (d).

malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLa…
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Aug 15, 2022
The agenda for today's #MAEdu Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting is online here: doe.mass.edu/bese/docs/fy20…
The livestream will show up over here: livestream.com/accounts/22459…
and we're jumping in mid-public testimony, which looks like legislators
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