2019 Report of the Nominating Committee
The MASC Nominating Committee met on Wednesday, June 18, 2019.
Mass. Association of School Committees
The MASC Nominating Committee met on Wednesday, June 18, 2019.
Take a minute to hear how MASC’s Minority Caucus is taking a lead in advocating for under-served, under-represented and/or marginalized
As presented at the Local Government Advisory Commission meeting on April 9, 2019 by MASC Past President Beverly Hugo (Framingham School Committee) and MASC Vice President Ellen Holmes (Ashburnham-Westminster School Committee)…
Many of our members have been approached about the possible renewal of an equity lawsuit to continue to fulfill the ambitions of the 1993 McDuffy case and the Education Reform Law.
Attorney General’s Revisions To Open Meeting Law Regulations MASC General Counsel Stephen Finnegan, Esq. has released a Legal Alert
Late last week, MA Attorney General Maura Healey issued guidance to health care providers and local public school districts on immigration enforcement and requests for information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
MassBudget has released a great brief explaining how funding works for Charter Schools in Massachusetts and how it interacts with
MASC General Counsel Stephen Finnegan has released a Legal Alert regarding the updated Massachusetts Public Records Law, which becomes effective January 1, 2017, highlighting the requirement for municipalities to designate one or more Records Access Officers, as well as the Chadwick v. Duxbury and Goodwin v. Lee Public Schools SJC cases.
At a recent Citizens for Public Schools Forum, MASC Past President and current Arlington School Committee member Paul Schlichtman gave a detailed presentation on the crippling financial impact of charter schools on public school districts and followed with a discussion on the status of the proposed charter school legislation currently under debate in the legislature and the pending ballot question.
MASC has released a statement on Senate Bill 2203, “The RISE Act”: Read the news release Here is the a