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Showing posts with label Student Opportunity Act (SOA). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Student Opportunity Act (SOA). Show all posts
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

School Committee with a light agenda list has heavy discussions (video)

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The Franklin, MA School Committee met on Tuesday, June 18 as scheduled. While the agenda line item list was relatively light, the main topic...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

NEPM: "Massachusetts schools need more funds, some point to flaw in education finance law"

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Why are so many school districts faced with funding issues this year?  There is a common thread and it points to a flaw within the Student O...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

School Committee gets the details on the multiple budget scenarios facing them for a vote in April (video)

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The School Committee met as scheduled for their regular session on Tuesday, March 19 which extended to just after 10 PM as they dwelt on  th...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Franklin is not alone in struggling to fund their schools & town budget

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Via Boston Globe :  "Nearly five years after Massachusetts lawmakers overhauled the state’s school funding formula, districts are strug...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Worthy reads on School Funding Topics via Tracy Novick

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Two pieces from Tracy Novick on school funding that are worth reading.  In the first, she takes the Boston Globe to task for misrepresentin...
Friday, May 26, 2023

MA Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Fiscal Year 2024 Budget

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The Massachusetts Senate approved on Thursday a $ 55.9 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) . Following a robust, spirited, and enga...
Monday, October 31, 2022

CommonWealth Magazine: "ed reform money reaching poorer districts"

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"THE LOW-INCOME, HEAVILY IMMIGRANT city of Chelsea is getting over $2,600 per pupil more in state education aid than it did two years a...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Senate President Spilka's Boston Chamber Remarks as Prepared for Delivery - June 21, 2022

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It is a great honor to speak with you today. As the Senate heads into the final month of formal sessions, we are poised to try to tackle som...
Monday, December 13, 2021

"School funding is both enormously important and extremely complicated"

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It is timely that the Franklin School Committee has a workshop scheduled to help the new members understand the Franklin school budget. Whil...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

MA State News: vehicle inspection outage continues; vaccine certificates; school funding by Legislature

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"After a more than weeklong outage in the state’s vehicle inspection system, service stations on Wednesday finally started receiving a ...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

“We’re a year behind in fulfilling the promise of the Student Opportunity Act"

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"The Baker-Polito Administration today filed its Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) budget recommendation, a $45.6 billion proposal that continues...