Category: News
Announcements and updates
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Dracut Wants $2,950 Before Anyone Sees Its 45 Agreements
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…
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Peabody Wants $300 Before It Looks
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…
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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 The project’s first production is now withdrawn.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…
