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Ed funding and policy, 280 at a time•MASC Field Director; Worcester School Committee member•If it is here, it is me•She/her/hers

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    Budgets are moral documents. What we fund is what we value.

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  2. It does not, however, appear they'll be filming at Kelley Square, sadly.

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  4. And then they do cost per additional rider based on THAT

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  5. So the East-West Rail Study being released today “do[es] not assume any population or employment changes as a result of new rail service” per

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  7. They're still figuring out how they're going to do the count going forward, but at this point, it sounds direct cert based with a form added, which...is possibly not going to get us this far.

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  8. Also, I don't know if you all are going to hear this anywhere else so: Don't be surprised--in fact, expect?--that low income counts could go down next year, per what DESE said at MASBO yesterday.

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  10. Okay, , we seem to have a reporting out thread here: Level service budget (remember, that means you do EXACTLY the same thing again next year): what percent more would it cost your district?

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  11. I will say, though, , that one of the great benefits of fighting for had been that we shared each others' difficulties. Don't let that slip.

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  12. I'd also argue it's not really the intent of the bill's reporting requirements.

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  13. But golly, Gateways, you'd best figure out how to do that, as well as probably 3% or more cost increases, within that 2.4% because we're expecting GREAT THINGS from the new aid. This is silly.

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  14. Second, there are things you are just going to have to do with some of the funding changes BECAUSE THE STUDENTS CHANGED rather than the funding itself.

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  15. Also--and I hate being this person, but I've already had to be--this leads to having to frame public expectations around these input sessions. First, you'd best be planning more than one year.

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  16. New Bedford picked up 200 kids this year over last. I would guess they're hiring teachers? Seriously, this is just encouraging "make it fit" reporting.

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  17. Two examples: Chelsea has 41 more kids in PreK this year than last year. Well, gosh, I sure hope Chelsea's going to hire more teachers for PreK! And yeah, in this case, they can 'count' that as their revolutionary change under SOA. But it's just doing their job.

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  18. ..and then have to report the rest as, in essence, new aid. Some of that aid is driven, again, by enrollment shifts.

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  19. And, no, DESE isn't acknowledging that in the reporting. The "long form" districts--and h/t to whomever at MASBO yesterday volunteered to do the long form if he could have more than $1.5M in aid--are being told they can "count" 2.4% of their increase as "inflationary"

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  20. BUT--and here's where some of you who I know know better have been a little fast on the posting!--SOME OF THE INCREASES, yes, even over $1.5M, HAVE BEEN ENROLLMENT DRIVEN.

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  21. And this is where the reporting for this year in particular gets ridiculous: If you're a hold harmless, minimum aid district? There's no way you're adding programs with this state funding.

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