…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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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…
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…
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…
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…
US Department of Ed Selects HEC Academy as Green Ribbon award winner
HEC Academy has been selected one of 55 national 2024 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon award winners. The U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) is a public…
Sanford Roth Ed.D
Sanford Roth is a veteran classroom, reading, and special education teacher. Trained as both a Literacy trainer and a Reading Recovery teacher, Sandy has led school improvement initiatives in Massachusetts…
Technology in Education
Home E Search query for: blog edeval]}** 2013 03 funding on the way for ed eval training in non rttt districts ( Page 4 ) Positive Approaches to Technology Integration…