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Breaking: Marblehead teachers, School Committee reach a deal, ending weeks-long strike: bostonglobe.com/2024/11/26/m…

Marblehead, Beverly teachers reach deals, ending weeks-long strikes - The Boston Globe

The educator strikes on the North Shore were among the longest in the state in recent history. Students are back in school Wednesday in Marblehead and Beverly.

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For MA school districts struggling to respond to intensifying pressure from teachers for higher salaries, one number stands out: the $1B+ they spend to send students with disabilities to specialized campuses, including private schools: bostonglobe.com/2024/11/17/m… w/@mandy_mclaren

Special education is becoming more expensive for schools. That’s one reason why they can’t pay...

With teachers on strike in Beverly, Gloucester and Marblehead, officials say the rapidly rising cost of special education is among the reasons why they cannot afford the pay raises educators are...

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Incredible reporting by @mandy_mclaren. Don't miss this.
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Hundreds of Massachusetts parents of students with special needs have been forced to sign nondisclosure agreements in order to secure the free and appropriate education their children are legally entitled to, a monthslong Globe investigation has found. trib.al/HrVX9Ri

‘I want to scream, but I can’t.’ The hidden world of special education settlements in Mass. - The...

Hundreds of Massachusetts parents of students with special needs have been forced to sign nondisclosure agreements to secure the free and appropriate education their children are legally entitled to.

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@BostonGlobe12 Nov 2024
Hundreds of Massachusetts parents of students with special needs have been forced to sign nondisclosure agreements in order to secure the free and appropriate education their children are legally entitled to, a monthslong Globe investigation has found. trib.al/HrVX9Ri

‘I want to scream, but I can’t.’ The hidden world of special education settlements in Mass. - The...

Hundreds of Massachusetts parents of students with special needs have been forced to sign nondisclosure agreements to secure the free and appropriate education their children are legally entitled to.

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@Dale_Chu6 Nov 2024
The project of standards-based reform has been on the ropes for some time now, but Massachusetts’ about-face on state testing is a real gut punch. Story by @DDpan via @GlobeEducation @BostonGlobe bostonglobe.com/2024/11/05/m… #maedu #mapoli #AssessmentHQ

Mass. voters will approve Question 2, the AP projects, ending use of MCAS scores as high school...

The change goes into immediate effect, freeing the class of 2025 from passing exams in English, math, and science in order to graduate.

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Mandy McLaren@mandy_mclaren7 Nov 2024
“This feels like an end of an era,” @MichaelPetrilli said. “Massachusetts had a good run there for a couple of decades..." With the passage of Question 2, what happens to Mass. education now? w/ @DDpan bostonglobe.com/2024/11/07/m…

With the passage of Question 2, what happens to Mass. education now? - The Boston Globe

For now, the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has released limited guidance on the ballot measure, which officially goes into effect next month.

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Mandy McLaren@mandy_mclaren6 Nov 2024
MCAS results 2024: How Massachusetts towns voted on Question 2 bostonglobe.com/2024/11/06/m… via @BostonGlobe

Town-by-town analysis: Income split seen in MCAS ballot question - The Boston Globe

The MCAS graduation requirement had been a provision of the state’s landmark 1993 education law that made earning a diploma contingent on students passing MCAS exams in English, math, and science.

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Mandy McLaren@mandy_mclaren24 Sep 2024
NEW: Not great news out of Massachusetts... 2024 MCAS scores show students falling further behind post-pandemic bostonglobe.com/2024/09/24/m… via @huffakingit and @DDpan

2024 MCAS scores show Massachusetts falling further behind post-pandemic - The Boston Globe

Even the youngest students, third graders who were only in kindergarten when schools shut down, remain significantly behind their pre-pandemic peers.

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Garden-variety incompetence — not fraud or theft — fueled Brockton Public Schools’ multimillion-dollar shortfall in fiscal year 2023, according to a comprehensive, independent investigation: bostonglobe.com/2024/09/10/m…

Scathing report blames ‘incompetence,’ leadership failures for Brockton Schools’ $18 million...

Investigators found no criminal wrongdoing, but their scathing 214-page report implicates the highest levels of Brockton city and district leadership.

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Brockton schools finance officer files whistle-blower complaint over budget fiasco: bostonglobe.com/2024/08/28/m…

Brockton schools finance officer files whistle-blower complaint over budget fiasco - The Boston...

The complaint alleges that city and district officials ignored warnings about the budget crisis from the official and subjected him up to public ridicule by “insinuating he had done something wrong.”

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‘I feel really lucky’: Pushed out of Everett, Priya Tahiliani takes helm of troubled Brockton schools: bostonglobe.com/2024/08/22/m…

‘I feel really lucky’: Pushed out of Everett, Priya Tahiliani takes helm of troubled Brockton...

Superintendents don’t last long in Massachusetts. Turnover is worse for district leaders of color.

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Lawyers for Civil Rights (@LCRBOSTON) & Massachusetts Advocates for Children (@MassAdvocates) allege #Saugus illegally blocks #migrants from enrolling in #school district. Via @BostonGlobe & @DDpan #education #schools #immigration bostonglobe.com/2024/08/15/m…

Saugus Public Schools residency rules are illegally barring migrant children, lawyers allege - The...

A Saugus Public Schools policy adopted in 2023 requires families to produce documents that attorneys note many immigrants lack, such as a US passport or Massachusetts driver’s license.

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Mandy McLaren@mandy_mclaren25 Jun 2024
Wowwwww @DDpan! Check out this graphic novel, written by Deanna and illustrated by The Gutter Studios @BU_Tweets: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2…

Busing in Boston: An illustrated history of the crisis

Massachusetts was the first state to abolish segregating public schools on the basis of skin color or race. But de facto segregation remained the norm 100 years later, when Black families sued for...

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Antonio Cabán@Antonio_Caban25 Jun 2024
The first is from @DDpan of @BostonGlobe, with a historical lens on the impact of busing and on Latinos and the importance of bilingual instruction on student outcomes. A must read: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2…

Systematic discrimination in Boston schools: Latinos seek equality

Latino students, now the largest ethnic group in BPS, also faced systemic discrimination in BPS and were taught in overcrowded schools with limited resources and subpar instruction that did not meet...

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“The vast majority [of English learners] are not getting the kind of services that they should,” said Alan Rom, a civil rights and labor attorney, who has represented Latino parents in BPS over the years in their fight for equal education.
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But just 7% of English learners in BPS are enrolled in dual-language programs and schools, which research shows is the gold standard of bilingual education, improving not only students’ academic outcomes, but their English and native language literacy.
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But just 7% of English learners in BPS are enrolled in dual-language programs and schools, which research shows is the gold standard of bilingual education, improving not only students’ academic outcomes, but their English and native language literacy.
Deanna 小美 Pan@DDpan20 Jun 2024
Students learning English in Boston, who represent ~1/3 of the district’s population, lag even further behind. Last year, less than 1/2 of the district’s elementary-age multilingual students and 13% of multilingual high schoolers made progress learning English, per state data.
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Students learning English in Boston, who represent ~1/3 of the district’s population, lag even further behind. Last year, less than 1/2 of the district’s elementary-age multilingual students and 13% of multilingual high schoolers made progress learning English, per state data.
Deanna 小美 Pan@DDpan20 Jun 2024
Today, Latinos make up close to half of the district’s students and ~40% of them are classified as English learners. Their graduation rate in 2023 — 77% — was 10 percentage points lower than that of their white peers. They also had the highest dropout rate last year at 11%.
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And these days, they are concentrated in the state's least well funded districts.
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Today, Latinos make up close to half of the district’s students and ~40% of them are classified as English learners. Their graduation rate in 2023 — 77% — was 10 percentage points lower than that of their white peers. They also had the highest dropout rate last year at 11%.
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For the 50th anniversary of desegregation in Boston Public Schools, I wrote about Latino students, who were an afterthought in Judge Garrity’s order and are still fighting for an equal education today: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2…

Systematic discrimination in Boston schools: Latinos seek equality

Latino students, now the largest ethnic group in BPS, also faced systemic discrimination in BPS and were taught in overcrowded schools with limited resources and subpar instruction that did not meet...

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For the 50th anniversary of desegregation in Boston Public Schools, I wrote about Latino students, who were an afterthought in Judge Garrity’s order and are still fighting for an equal education today: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2…

Systematic discrimination in Boston schools: Latinos seek equality

Latino students, now the largest ethnic group in BPS, also faced systemic discrimination in BPS and were taught in overcrowded schools with limited resources and subpar instruction that did not meet...

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Leer en español: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2…

Los latinos casi fueron olvidados en el mandato judicial para integrar las escuelas de Boston.

Los estudiantes latinos, ahora el grupo étnico más grande en BPS, se enfrentaron a la discriminación sistémica en BPS. Se les enseñaba en escuelas sobrepobladas con recursos limitados y una instruc...

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We also republished my piece from 2022 on the forgotten story of the Chinatown mothers who organized during busing: bostonglobe.com/2024/06/20/m…

How Chinese moms united during Boston busing crisis

The story of Boston’s busing crisis, the one memorialized in books, films, and podcasts, is typically characterized as a Black and white struggle. What is less known is the story of the Chinese...

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