Mass. Association of School Committees
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.
Tracy Novick is the field director for Central Massachusetts. As part of her work for the association, Tracy focuses on
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
Day on the Hill is MASC’s annual legislative advocacy day. Typically, this event brings hundreds of school committee members, superintendents and student leaders to the State House in Boston to meet with the executive and legislative leadership as well as local senators and representatives. This event is an increasingly critical moment for MASC members to advance the message of the value of public education and ensure that legislators and other key decision/policy makers understand the issues and challenges that you confront and that they can support.
MASC offers many helpful resources to members, including: Frequently Asked Questions – answers to the questions we hear most often
A Guide for Present and Future School Committee Chairs We are very pleased to provide this important publication on the