#MAEdu, important:
Governor Healey and Attorney General Campbell Issue Joint Guidance Affirming Commitment to Equal Access to Education in Massachusetts
www.mass.gov/news/governo...
www.mass.gov/news/governo...
www.mass.gov
February 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
#MAEdu, important:
I did not, due to being under the weather today, get a chance to post about the maddening AI curricular (there’s a paradox) guidance/resources in this week’s Massachusetts K-12 Commissioner’s newsletter; scroll down here: mailchi.mp/doe.mass.edu...
Commissioner's Weekly Update 9-21-26
mailchi.mp
September 23, 2026 at 10:08 AM
for the BAZILLIONTH time, we have why we have public education LITERALLY WRITTEN IN THE MASSACHUSETTS CONSTITUTION.
IT HAS SAID THE SAME THING SINCE 1780.
IT IS NOT ABOUT CAREERS.
#MAEdu
IT HAS SAID THE SAME THING SINCE 1780.
IT IS NOT ABOUT CAREERS.
#MAEdu
September 25, 2026 at 1:02 AM
for the BAZILLIONTH time, we have why we have public education LITERALLY WRITTEN IN THE MASSACHUSETTS CONSTITUTION.
IT HAS SAID THE SAME THING SINCE 1780.
IT IS NOT ABOUT CAREERS.
#MAEdu
IT HAS SAID THE SAME THING SINCE 1780.
IT IS NOT ABOUT CAREERS.
#MAEdu
$107M from Massachusetts #MAEdu
The Trump administration is currently holding hostage nearly $7B in federal funding for K-12 schools--funding that was supposed to be distributed yesterday.
They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
See How Much School Funding Trump Is Holding Back From Your State
The administration is holding back nearly $7 billion for English learners, after-school programs, professional development, and more.
www.edweek.org
July 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
$107M from Massachusetts #MAEdu
One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n
“The installation, unveiled in February 2024, allows guests to ask Douglass questions through an iPad. Using a closed database of Douglass’s autobiographies and speeches, the artificial intelligence generates responses based solely on Douglass’s recorded words.”
June 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM
chat, is it going to be disruptive for 40% of school districts to change their early elementary literacy curricula in a single year? #MAEdu
September 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
chat, is it going to be disruptive for 40% of school districts to change their early elementary literacy curricula in a single year? #MAEdu
Massachusetts should be next. #mapoli #maedu #schools #libraries #librarians #readbooks #bannedbooks #books 📚
I thought you should know that in 2024 New Jersey, Minnesota, Illinois, California, and Maryland have all enacted legislation that bans book bans & censorship in both, school and public libraries, and protects librarians.
December 27, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Massachusetts should be next. #mapoli #maedu #schools #libraries #librarians #readbooks #bannedbooks #books 📚
Fifteen years ago this week, I loaded our then-preschooler into the car before dawn and drove into Malden to testify against a dumb charter school expansion, and it angers me more than I can say that we're still falling for this. #MAedu
February 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Fifteen years ago this week, I loaded our then-preschooler into the car before dawn and drove into Malden to testify against a dumb charter school expansion, and it angers me more than I can say that we're still falling for this. #MAedu
The people charged with bringing "AI literacy" to Boston's public schools, the people at the core of a public-private partnership, that is just selling out students and compromising their education, cannot even write a sentence to mean what they want it to mean. bostonpublic.ai/faq
June 30, 2026 at 4:12 PM
I don't believe state governments should exert this level of control over pedagogical and curricular decisions.
July 19, 2026 at 11:33 AM
HEY #MAEdu: Don't despair! ORGANIZE!
As we watch the dismantling of the U.S. Dept of Ed, which will be felt somewhat in funding reductions to states and local districts, it will be felt even more so in a) oversight and enforcement of rights for vulnerable populations and b) access to high quality data & research.
July 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
HEY #MAEdu: Don't despair! ORGANIZE!
Instead of “AI proficiency” we should be instilling the fully justified caution & mistrust of AI as a source & tool which has fundamentally demonstrated an APPALLING level of misinformation & degradation of critical thinking skills. Teaching students that it isn’t an infallible magic bullet.
April 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
News flash! There are still public schools that have excellent music departments. While presenting a workshop at the Susan B. Anthony school in Revere, MA, I was delighted to find they have a Rock Band class (with instruments to loan), a thriving chorus and drama department!
February 18, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The FY27 Massachusetts Budget has officially been signed into law!
A major win for public education is the creation of a new Foundation Budget Review Commission (FBRC) - a priority MASC has advocated for over many years.
A major win for public education is the creation of a new Foundation Budget Review Commission (FBRC) - a priority MASC has advocated for over many years.
FY27 Budget: What it means for K-12 Education - masc.org
Dear MASC Members & Friends, The FY27 Budget Conference Committee recently released its final report, and just days later both the House and Senate approved the compromise budget without amendment....
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July 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
February 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
March 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM
The Board has a significant problem with this, with it impacting who then is allowed to dominate the conversation #MAedu
if you had members speaking wildly out of order, mark that off
September 22, 2026 at 4:33 PM
The Board has a significant problem with this, with it impacting who then is allowed to dominate the conversation #MAedu
#MAEdu, add @marcelanotes.bsky.social to your lists, feeds, and follows!
Today is my first day @bostonglobe.com 🗞️
I’m so excited to join The Great Divide, an investigative team focused on inequalities in the school system.
If you have any tips or Boston recommendations, please reach out at marcela.rodrigues@globe.com.
I’m so excited to join The Great Divide, an investigative team focused on inequalities in the school system.
If you have any tips or Boston recommendations, please reach out at marcela.rodrigues@globe.com.
May 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
#MAEdu, add @marcelanotes.bsky.social to your lists, feeds, and follows!
The Globe with an unusual "maybe charter schools shouldn't get away with everything" editorial #MAEdu
Editorial: Charter schools are public. Their records should be, too.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/o...
Charter schools are public. Their records should be, too. - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Judicial Court should reject Mystic Valley charter school’s attempt to evade public records law.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The Globe with an unusual "maybe charter schools shouldn't get away with everything" editorial #MAEdu
And if you look at who is now endorsing this in Massachusetts, this tracks. Neoliberalism again! #MAEdu #mapoli
This federal program is part of a new wave of neoliberal ed policy which sectors of big business that supported Trump now endorse, along with a significant sector of the Democrats. Cowen and many liberals fell for the first iteration of school privatization and are missing this new wave too.
June 12, 2026 at 9:19 AM