Tag: Transparency
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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 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…
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Massachusetts DESE Issues Updated Seclusion and Time-Out Regulations Effective August 17, 2026
An analytical overview of the amendments to 603 CMR 46.00 and 603 CMR 18.00 adopted on June 24, 2025, the statewide reporting architecture created by Special Education Policy…