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Independent special-education and public-accountability reporting. We pull the public record out of Massachusetts districts and put it where parents can use it.

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Districts requested
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Substantive responses
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Answered in any way
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No response at all

Settlement records project

Dispatch
North Attleborough Waived Its $100 Fee: A Settlement Records Project Update
Oct 1
The first district in the project to price a request and then voluntarily waive the bill in full. Superintendent John Antonucci cut the estimate to six hours, then wiped the $100 in writing — calling it a one-time exception.
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Project
Massachusetts Student Settlement Records Project
Sep 21
Tracking how public school districts resolve student-related educational disputes — district by district. Live district tracker, the full public-records request template, and a records library.
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Westfield Bills $200 and Holbrook Produces Four Agreements: A Settlement Records Project Update
Sep 30
Westfield priced the same request at $200 for about 120 pages and then asked the Supervisor of Public Records for thirty extra business days — the seventh docketed fee fight, SPR26/4117 — while Holbrook Public Schools quietly became the fourth district to produce records, sending four settlement and mediation agreements that now sit in student-information review.
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Watertown Sends 59 Agreements, No Fee: A Settlement Records Project Update
Sep 30
Watertown produced 59 settlement agreements for nothing — the project’s largest haul, now in student-PII review — while Somerset’s $75-an-hour fee-and-time petition was docketed SPR26/4099 and opposed the same day.
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Ways to help

Fund it, document it, or say it out loud.

Fund

Donate

One-time or monthly, it pays the copying fees and filing costs that decide whether a district hands over its records or bills you for them.

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Records

Submit documents and data

A settlement agreement, an IEP, a placement decision, a fee letter, minutes from a meeting. Send the document and we will use it in an appeal or publish it in the tracker.

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Speak

Speak at public comment

Two minutes on the record at your school committee meeting is public documentation. We will help you write it.

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