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Boston Focus, 10.30.26
When I was working through my Stoneham v. Wakefield piece a few weeks back, one of the biggest differences between the two districts was staff attendance.
This is a new thing. Student attendance has benefitted from years of data collection...
Boston Focus, 10.23.26
Mayor Wu’s second State of the Schools speech had all the markings of an excellent “state of” speech: joyous tone, person-in-the-crowd stories, positive statistics, and a lot of new initiatives that sound good. Full transcript here.
Positi...
Boston Focus, 10.16.26
This Boston Globe piece does a good job of revealing a central tension in Massachusetts education policy: why do school districts - even with similar populations - have different outcomes for its students?
Wakefield and Stoneham share a bo...
Boston Focus, 10.9.26
Massachusetts voters feel pretty good about their schools.
That is one of the takeaways from the most recent MassINC Polling group survey. Focused on the November elections, respondents gave Governor Healey some of her highest marks for ed...
Boston Focus, 10.2.26
Late in 2019, a once-in-a-decade education event happened: Massachusetts signed the Student Opportunity Act (SOA) into law. I was there, in the English High gym, right before the Thanksgiving break. There was a pep squad. There were a lot o...
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