Author: Parent Data Force
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Four New Determinations in Three Days, and One Appeal That Never Was
The Supervisor of Records priced Wakefield’s attorney-review rate, priced Cambridge’s records-officer rate, upheld East Bridgewater’s $350 estimate, and closed Swansea’s fee appeal — all between October 14 and…
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Swansea Cut Its Fee $175 and Got Appealed Anyway; Westwood Was Ordered to Rebuild Its $300
A district priced its own search-and-dedup hours at $175 with no page count in sight, cut the bill after we narrowed the period, and received an appeal the…
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Swansea Cut Its Fee Estimate by $175. We Appealed It Anyway, the Same Evening.
After Parent Data Force narrowed the period, Swansea Public Schools rebuilt its good-faith estimate from $500 to $325 — thirteen itemized hours, no reproduction charge. Hours later, both…
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Westwood’s $300 Estimate Ordered Revised or Explained: SPR26/4078
The Supervisor of Records held that Westwood may charge $25 an hour and may bill its first two hours — but ordered the School to revise its twelve-hour…
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One Day, Four Districts: Five Days, Six Pages, a Closed Loop, and a Spam Folder
The Supervisor granted a district more time and warned it about the deadline it does not extend. Grafton reissued six corrected pages and became the first Grafton document…
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Weymouth’s $350 Estimate Ordered Revised, and the Redaction Hours Struck Out: SPR26/4062
The Supervisor of Records found Weymouth’s estimate unsupported, gave the District ten business days to revise or explain it, and held that the twelve hours of redaction work…
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Twenty-Six Agreements in Two Days, and Neither Set Is Published: Why
Gloucester released twelve and Ashland fourteen. Both came through storage the districts control, so nothing has been published — and that is the honest state of it.
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Twelve Agreements, Fourteen More, and Four Dockets in Three Days: A Settlement Records Project Update
Two districts produced records this week without charging for them, four Supervisor’s determinations issued, and seven Massachusetts districts readers asked for in September finally reached the queue.
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Districts Have Demanded $44,641 to Answer One Records Request
32 districts have priced the same settlement-records request at $44,641.20 total, for 1,057 hours. Thirteen others answered for nothing.
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183 Free Pages, Two Districts, and Why Neither Set Is Published
Wachusett Regional produced 91 pages and Dover-Sherborn 92 pages on Oct. 6, both free. Neither is published here, and it is our review that stopped them.