Category: District Data

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…

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.

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 The project’s first production is now withdrawn.

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…

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…