Author: Parent Data Force
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First Fee Estimate, First Appeal: A Settlement Records Project Update
The tracker now covers 65 Massachusetts school districts — 14 acknowledgments, five reroutes, and the project’s first substantive response: a $750 fee estimate from Amesbury, appealed to the…
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Forty Districts Now In: A Settlement Records Project Update
The tracker now covers 40 Massachusetts school districts with 9 acknowledgments. Cambridge’s portal confirmation carries reference P262427-092126, and four fresh requests — Newburyport, Sudbury, Grafton, and Wachusett Regional…
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Lexington Confirms Receipt: A Settlement Records Project Update
The tracker now covers 36 Massachusetts school districts with 9 acknowledgments — the newest from Lexington, where the Records Access Officer confirmed receipt and signaled a fee estimate…
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Thirty-Six Districts, Eight Acknowledgments: A Settlement Records Project Update
The tracker now covers 36 Massachusetts school districts. Eight have confirmed receipt — from a superintendent’s own reply to four public-records portal confirmations — and three early delivery…
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Massachusetts FY2027 Budget Completes the Student Opportunity Act: Record Chapter 70 Aid and the Fine Print for Special Education
An analytical overview of the $63.42 billion general appropriations act signed July 9, 2026 — $7,658,399,506 in Chapter 70 aid, a record $806.6 million special education circuit breaker,…
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Massachusetts’ Bell-to-Bell Cellphone Bill Stalls in Conference as Districts Open the 2026–2027 School Year Under Local Policies Alone
An analytical overview of S.2581 and H.5349 — the competing bell-to-bell school device bills that engrossed both chambers but never became law, the September 1, 2026 district-policy deadline…
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Massachusetts Faces a Landmark School-Segregation Lawsuit: Inside M.G.J. v. DESE and the Fight Over District Lines
An analytical overview of the complaint filed in Suffolk Superior Court on May 20, 2026 — nine students, four organizations, and a state constitutional challenge to the district…
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Supreme Court Will Hear St. Mary v. Roy: A Colorado Preschool Case With Everything to Do With Your Child’s IEP
An analytical preview of St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton, Colorado v. Roy, No. 25-581 — the free-exercise challenge to Colorado’s Universal Preschool program that the Supreme Court…
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Massachusetts Judge Vacates OMB’s Executive Order Footnotes on Education Research Funds as Special Education Oversight Moves to HHS
An analytical overview of the September 17, 2026 Memorandum and Order in National Center for Learning Disabilities v. Office of Management and Budget, and of the June 2026…
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Massachusetts DESE Issues Updated Seclusion and Time-Out Regulations Effective August 17, 2026
An analytical overview of the amendments to 603 CMR 46.00 and 603 CMR 18.00 adopted on June 24, 2025, the statewide reporting architecture created by Special Education Policy…