Author: Parent Data Force
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Tantasqua Handed Over the Records: 45 Pages, No Fee
The first district to produce settlement records asked for nothing: 45 pages, free. We published them and withdrew them on Oct. 7, when our own review failed.
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First Records Arrive Free: A Settlement Records Project Update
Tantasqua produced 45 pages of settlement records for nothing; Dracut demanded $2,950 for the same request. The project’s first production is now withdrawn.
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Same Records Request, Ten Times the Price
On September 23, 2026, two Massachusetts school districts sent the first substantive answers to the project’s standardized request for student settlement agreements, and their fee estimates for the…
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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…