Hey Worcester folks, I’m looking for a WPS kindergarten report card from 2015ish or earlier. Anyone out there with older kids still have them they’d be willing to share?!

Of the 19 elected positions between school committee and city council, just three in the next term are public school parents.

Election Guide to the Worcester School Committee www.worcestersucks.email/p/election-g...

Some good prizes! givebutter.com/rafflecalendar

The ice cream truck just went by our house. On October 6. In Massachusetts.

THE most pressing issue in Worcester is sidewalks?! The #1 issue? Tell me you’re out of touch without telling me you’re out of touch.

School committee meeting on Thursday.

Something we don't talk about much in Worcester when it comes to our bus system, WPS students using it. www.edweek.org/leadership/w...

You know what they say about a red sky in the morning but it is pretty out there!

Cc: Alex Guardiola “She took all her sick days from 26 years in the district and worked with administrators to get the time she needed to care for Mary, spending nearly all her time on North Lake Avenue.” www.telegram.com/story/news/2...

Budget squeeze, 2025 election, and teachers taking too many sick days? www.worcestersucks.email/p/wps-in-bri...

WPS Budget Cut Due to Charter School Reimbursement Underfunding. An explainer and what you can do. www.wpsinbrief.com/p/wps-budget...

Whoever did this 1. Doesn’t know Dr. Monárrez very well to think she’d actually like this. And 2. Has no political intelligence. Like there's no scenario that this is a good idea.

School committee meeting on Wednesday this week. Budget and a packed agenda, could be a long one! www.worcestersucks.email/p/agenda-pre...

I did not anticipate how much of parenthood is just picking up socks found around the house.

New from Rolling Stone on the Eureka Street ICE raid here in Worcester www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Just yesterday, Governor Healey was on the radio defending the #Worcester cops who assaulted a teen girl while ICE goons abducted her mother. #Massachusetts deserves better than this two-faced fraud. #mapoli www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

I usually don't stay in bed. but my kids brought me breakfast and the days are feeling heavy. so I stayed and read "In a Time of Violence" by Eavan Boland. her voice reaches across generations, anchoring me in this unsteady moment. her strength reminds me that to love fiercely is to resist fear.

WPS FY26 budget is up. Just some highlights: -50 classroom teachers added -8 new climate and culture specialists in secondary (to allow for teacher common planning time) -$240,000 for common planning time at 6 high needs elementary schools (continued)

"MA should invest in preparing more bilingual educators to support our students. I was an elementary school teacher in my home country, the DR. When I moved to the US, I began working as a para while completing the requirements for my teaching license in MA." newbedfordlight.org/the-power-of...

It’s not lost on me that the lawsuit creating the SC districts was to give minority voters in Worcester a voice on who to elect. But for two elections now there hasn’t been a choice on whose represents the “majority-minority” districts.

I love that I am seeing FIVE WPS parents on the ballot for school committee. Currently, out of 9 members, only one currently has children in WPS (Jermaine Johnson) www.telegram.com/story/news/l...

Meet Brian Allen, the Next Superintendent of WPS www.worcestersucks.email/p/meet-brian...

Can you imagine being the deputy superintendent of the second largest district in New England–a renowned expert in the field–and a school committee member turns to you and whispers "you better not screw this up" right before she votes to make you superintendent? So unserious.

Who is Brian Allen anyway? I’m so glad you asked…

Mayor Petty makes a motion to hire Biran Allen as the next Superintendent for Worcester Public Schools, and suggests a three year contract. youtu.be/PDwGJblEw4A

In today’s episode of my children don’t know how to shut the door behind them I just came down to a squirrel in my kitchen…

April vacation is over! www.worcestersucks.email/p/wps-in-bri...

I somehow have accumulated 8 extra GA tickets to the Woo Sox today if anyone wants them!

Preemptively posting this before people come at me– I played flag football in college and am a big fan of the sport. (and props my college roommate who had a digital camera back in 2004/05 and still had these photos!)

It appears an administrative personnel change has happened or will be happening...

In his own defense he would like to make clear that that he did not put away the jackets, hats, gloves, boots, snow shovels or ice scrapers. It was just the snow pants. (Still his fault.)

Sorry Worcester, my husband put away the kids snow pants on Sunday so the snow this week is 100% his fault. No matter how long he lives in New England he never learns.

When we worry about the declining rates of literacy and a lack of reading skills, it's often about children. But how often are adults reading these days? And what are we reading? A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds out.

Is it a coincidence that the folks who voted against a rushed and retaliatory city council rule are public school parents? I don’t think so.

After drop off a bunch of Worcester Public School buses pull over on May street to check to make sure there's no kids still on the bus. Today I saw a bus driver walking all the way back down May Street with a violin case someone had left on the bus to bring it to the school. It takes a village.

WPS in Brief for March is up! www.worcestersucks.email/p/wps-in-bri...

As a parent to young kids I was curious what measles vaccinations looked like in Worcester schools, and found charts from MA Dept of Health & Human Services. www.mass.gov/info-details...

Rereading what I wrote on literacy back in January because I'm going into a class at Holy Cross tomorrow to talk about it, and there's some good nuggets of Worcester-specific information in there I kind of already forgot about. Despite 6 months of research/interviews it didn't all stick in my brain.

One of the best parts of being a parent is all the detritus that appears in the yard after the snow has melted.

Not @billshaner.bsky.social continuing the bullshit that school committee is JV to city council’s varsity! (Mailman has more actual power on school committee!)

Muy orgullosa de nuestra comunidad www.worcesterschools.org/o/wps/articl...

The Worcester School Committee election is in 8 months, and right now, as far as I know, there is only one district where an incumbent has any challengers. As it stands right now, the majority of Worcester voters have no options. There are two at-large seats, and 6 districts (A-F).

These two pieces pair nicely together:

AND the state has continually failed to fully fund the charter reimbursement.

if seven 4th-graders leave a traditional public elementary school to enroll in a charter school, the school district loses the funding for those 7 students but must continue to pay the salary and benefits for the 4-grade teacher, with fewer resources to do so. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/24/o...

Worcester Human Rights Commission pretty much picking up where it left off last month. Commission just voted to send all of it's policy proposals and request to City Council and not just to the City Manager because nothing happens with what they send to the CM.

I want to do a podcast where we walk the streets of worcester and ask random people who their city councilor or school committee members are and what issues they care about in the city.