…member Kathy Reinig, the Chapter 70 formula uses an “assumed percentage” to calculate how much state aid districts should get for special education. The state calculates the number of in-district…
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The Massachusetts Migrant Education Program Partners with School Districts
…childhood instructor and purchased the activity kits used. MMEP then coordinated individual home-based visits and provided the instructors to the families at times that they were available. Historically, migratory students…
State Pre-K Funding 2016-17 Fiscal Year: Trends and opportunities
…increased funding levels for pre-K programs. Overall, state funding has increased by nearly $480 million or 6.8 percent since 2015-16. Additionally, since Education Commission of the States began producing this…
Mass. Schools Get More Money In The Latest Budget. A Lot More Is Likely On The Way
…in what officials then called the largest one-year hike in the last two decades. A commission that reviewed the school funding formula in 2015 concluded it underfunds public education by…
Setting the Stage for Future Educators
…supervisor/director). Through partnerships with urban districts around the state (and later suburban and rural districts closer to the agency’s home base in western Massachusetts), CES provided a subsidized pathway to…
Mass. employers identified skills gaps in workforce readiness
…in 2013, particularly in the central and western parts of the state. The survey commissioned by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education of public education and workforce readiness found the…
State education formula out of whack, Commission: Health insurance, special ed underfunded
…accurately reflect what districts are paying. Peisch, who chairs the Legislature’s Education Committee with Chang-Diaz, said that school districts have no leeway to modify their fixed costs for special education…
Children of migrant farm workers lose vital education services amid funding freeze
…support they need to succeed at school,” said Alexandra Smith, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which contracts with the nonprofit Collaborative for Educational Services…
Western MA coalition releases recommendations for minimizing the impact of trauma on young children involved in DCF
…at the Early Childhood Mental Health Roundtable, hosted by the DCF Greenfield Area Office. The full SCSC report and related materials (e.g. training and trauma-informed toolkits for early childhood educators…
Governor Baker boosts funding for early education
…to rate increases for day care centers that serve low-income children. The funding, if approved by the Legislature, will translate directly into raises for teachers whose pay has languished even…