Author: Parent Data Force

Westwood’s own September 23 acknowledgment capped the rate at $25 for the student settlement agreements it had not yet searched. Six days later its fee notice billed 13…

About 30 student settlement agreements “may be responsive” at Weymouth while the search is still going, and a $350 advance is demanded through the town’s portal — the…

About 300 pages, two hours of search, three hours of attorney review at $75 an hour — and a petition for thirty extra business days. The appeal and…

East Bridgewater priced about six responsive student settlement agreements at $350 across two rates, and petitioned the Supervisor of Records for thirty extra business days. The fee and…

The largest fee on the board — 120 hours for 45 agreements the district had already found — was appealed the same day it arrived, and the Supervisor…

Amesbury billed thirty hours at $25 an hour to produce student settlement agreements, objected to the scope, and was appealed to the Supervisor of Public Records the same…

Berlin-Boylston’s three itemized hours at $25 for the student settlement agreements it had not yet searched — the project’s cheapest and first fee estimate — came with a…

Pentucket’s two hours to search and four to review, all at the statutory $25 rate for the same student settlement agreements — the project’s third fee estimate, and…

Peabody’s records officer says 14 hours of searching, segregating and redacting must be paid for before the district’s student settlement agreements move — the invoice came with the…

A letter from Superintendent Steven Stone says Dracut found 45 responsive settlement agreements — the same request Tantasqua filled for free — and will produce them only after…