Category: Investigations
Case investigations and findings
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Four Districts, One Day, Four Different Answers: What They Sent, What They Charged, and What We Refused to Publish
On Oct. 6, 2026, four Massachusetts districts answered our identical settlement-records requests on the same day. Two produced records and charged nothing. One produced records and charged for…
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From a Phishing Email to 118 Pages of Records: Reconstructing Worcester’s July 30 Cybersecurity Incident
A phishing message reached a Worcester family on the morning of July 30, 2026. The records request filed about it was then caught by Worcester’s own phishing filter.…
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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…
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Massachusetts Judge Vacates OMB’s Executive Order Footnotes on Education Research Funds as Special Education Oversight Moves to HHS
An analytical overview of the September 17, 2026 Memorandum and Order in National Center for Learning Disabilities v. Office of Management and Budget, and of the June 2026…
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Supreme Court Will Hear St. Mary v. Roy: A Colorado Preschool Case With Everything to Do With Your Child’s IEP
An analytical preview of St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton, Colorado v. Roy, No. 25-581 — the free-exercise challenge to Colorado’s Universal Preschool program that the Supreme Court…