February Brief is up!

Gread OpEd in today's T&G by @aislinn.bsky.social! Well stated! local.newsbreak.com/worcester-ma...

Worcester can support high-quality classroom tools while also setting firm expectations that students are learners, not data sources. Our children must always come first.

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...

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

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…

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

*NEW ITEM* Mayor Petty put on a new item right before the 48 hour cut-off for adding something to a public meeting agenda. It reads: "To request Administration make School Committee aware of administrative personnel changes." www.worcestersucks.email/p/agenda-pre...

There is a Teaching, Learning and Student Success subcommittee meeting Thursday, April 10 at 5pm. There are two items on the agenda: one on adding flag football as a high school varsity sport and the other on the new science curriculum for elementary schools.

The school committee had a meeting on Friday to go into executive session to discuss this. Worcester joined not as a plaintiff, but as a "declarant." www.telegram.com/story/news/l...

Wondering what’s federally funded in WPS? A 🧵

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

I started this substack because I was hearing from parents and educators that they wanted to know what was going on, but the hurdle for engagement feels so high, and it’s hard to know where to start. I get it, who wants to watch a subcommittee meeting where they talk about boilers for 30 minutes?