Mass. Association of School Committees
Year Legislator Name 2023 Ron Walker, Executive Director, Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color 2022 Senator Harriette Chandler 2021
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).
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.
MASC Experience Field Director, February 2016 – present Specialist on school finance, training on state education funding Manager for social
MASC Research Report Finds Charter Schools Significantly Underserve Special Needs, ELL, High Risk Student Populations MASC brought this and related testimony to the Joint Education Committee hearing on proposed charter school legislation in Massachusetts. For more information, see the complete MASC “Who is Being Served†report on Massachusetts charter schools and the MASC Press Release.
The complete and updated list of state and federal unfunded and under-funded mandates is now available from MASC! Please feel
MASC Partners MASC Partners are a select group of education service providers showing their commitment to Massachusetts school leadership through
Paul Schlichtman, MASC Past President, reviews questions and misconceptions around how the cap on charter school payments is calculated, and explains how the bottom ten percent of underperforming districts are identified.
Education advocacy is one of a school committee member’s most powerful, and critical, roles. You are the link between the
The District Governance Program is designed to focus on continuous improvement and to help school committees and superintendents develop new