Category: District Data
District-level data and records
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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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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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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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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.
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Six Districts Answered on Oct. 7, and One Cut Its Own Fee to Zero
Westfield, Saugus, Dartmouth, Milton, Wilmington and Wakefield all answered the same settlement-records request on Oct. 7. Two had never replied at all.
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Four More Districts Priced the Same Request: $2,168.70 Combined, and One Arithmetic Error
On Oct. 6 four more Massachusetts districts priced the identical student-settlement-records request. None asked for more time. Three demanded payment before producing anything.
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Watertown Sent 59 Settlement Agreements, No Fee: What the Records Show
Watertown sent 59 numbered settlement agreements and no invoice. 33 of the 58 we published are now withdrawn, and the reason is our review, not the district’s.
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$27,550 for 18,900 Pages: Bridgewater-Raynham’s Estimate Is the Largest in the Settlement Records Project
Three districts billed for the same request in the same week, at the same $75 an hour. One district answered the same request with records, and no bill…