People local to me, take note! The Worcester Art Museum is free on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day.
Sue Coghlin Mailman - Worcester School Committee
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Mom, grandmother, businesswoman and long-time civic leader ✏️ Committed to public education, voc-tech ed, community partnerships, and civic life. She/her
"The surest thing we can say about the impact of the internet and the smartphone on the written word so far...is that they have made reading, and writing, more central to regular communication for more people than ever before in human history." newrepublic.com/article/2163...
Reading Is Not Dying
Reports of a literacy crisis misunderstand the way we read today.
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Reading this and thinking about @aislinn.bsky.social’s writing and advocacy about parental consent in Worcester Public schools.
soleil ho@soleilho.com · last wk.today on @coyotemedia.org: @emmaruthless.bsky.social discovers her 6-y.o. may have been opted into AI testing — and dives into the $200+ billion edtech world, SFUSD's marriage to "benevolent" tech grants, & parents' attempts to get any kind of regulation in place. www.coyotemedia.org/sfusd-ai-ami...
I will note, as @jackschneider.bsky.social and others have, that schools are more than their math and reading scores (to be fair, the article says that is what it is focusing on), and thus there may be reasons beyond the matrix of the article to do some things.
I agree w Cara! 🙏🏼. Let’s care for all peoples.
Dr. Cara Berg Powers@clbergpowers.bsky.social · 3w agoIt's so frustrating when a lot of my fellow leftists, including some fellow Jews, feel the need to deny the rising antisemitism happening right now. Acknowledging this doesn't undermine any other coexisting truths.
Agree. This is education & transportation money.
Tracy O’Connell Novick@tracynovick.bsky.social · 3w agoI already knew that Gov. Healey's proposal to roll back the gas tax was bad policy, but then I learned she wants to make up the difference with FAIR SHARE money (aka: the millionaires' tax), and NO. That's money for schools and for transportation, not to make up for terrible national foreign policy!
Tracy has really made some excellent obersvations. We have an obligation to bring these questions of equity and get some answers and push our district to be our best for the kids!
Tracy O’Connell Novick@tracynovick.bsky.social · 3w ago
The Education Department cut about $600 million in grants for teacher training in 2025. The department characterized the grants as supporting "divisive ideologies" such as diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. But a judge's order Thursday says that the department’s directive violated federal law.
Mass. judge strikes down Trump policy that cut millions in teacher-training money
The Education Department cut about $600 million in grants for teacher training in 2025. The department characterized the grants as supporting "divisive ideologies" such as diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. But a judge's order Thursday says that the department’s directive violated federal law.
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Boston has a cool pilot project involving green roof bus shelters.
SCOOP: The AG's office is looking into Anna Maria College.
Worcester Business Journal@wbjournal.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW: Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is asking a judge to keep nearly $893,000 in Anna Maria College endowment accounts separate from the college’s Chapter 11 estate, while her office reviews a potentially inappropriate use of donor-restricted funds. buff.ly/tljxvvG
It’s here: bsky.app/profile/did:... I use it a lot.
amazing resource!
Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · last mo.It's National Suicide Prevention Month, so you've likely heard a lot about 988 and the Crisis Text Line. This is different. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a guide to the numbers you can call before things get to the point of total despair: warmlines and other forms of peer support.
Happy Labor Day. Solidarity with @unitehere.org Local 26 & @teamsters.bsky.social Local 25 on strike today at Encore #MAPoli #MALeg
"Of the 140,000 Jews in the Netherlands, 107,000 were deported to concentration and extermination camps, mostly via Westerbork, approx. 102.000 were murdered there." Verzetsmuseum Amsterdam
#worcpoli if you're around this evening at 6, school committee is considering a resident petition to ban all flags from schools except for the US flag and military related flags. This comes as similar petitions around the country target teachers decorating with pride and/or BLM flags.
Important MassDOT transportation info. MIllbrook Street detours. Coming 9/14
Jim and I voted! Rep Jim O’Day! ✅ Helping Jim and Rep Mary Keefe 🗳️today! They deliver. Fair Share JIm. Student Opportunity. Mary
Worcester friends down here are the Dem primaries in our city ⬇️ Worcester 14th Jim O’Day (I) Barur "Raj" Rajeshkumar Worcester 15th Mary Keefe (I) Ron Waddell U.S. Senate Ed Markey (I) Seth Moulton
Thank you to @kvgoins.bsky.social @brendanjkearney.bsky.social and everyone else who came this evening! It was a great event! Every talking point I’ve seen against the project is either misinformed or totally disingenuous. More to come!
WalkMassachusetts@walkmass.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreat turnout this evening (50+ people, 3 dogs🦮) to support the May/Chandler Redesign in Worcester. Get the facts: walkbikeworcester.org/support-chan...
It’s truly disappointing particularly bcs this is a layer of accountability that community has asked for many years. And keeps demanding.
Etel Haxhiaj (ha-jee-eye)@etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social · 2mo agoWait. The candidate for 15th Worcester district, Mr. Waddell, doesn’t want to be on record whether Worcester needs a civilian review board? Oh okay. You do have a voice & you can’t back up 15 + community organizations demanding this?
I am genuinely worried that Worcester leaders don't understand or care what this means for colleges like WPI. #WorcPoli
Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 2mo agoNow with alt text! 23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
"we should always remember that Dolly Parton chose to not be a billionaire but instead to invest in people." Amen May she rest in Power and may her memory always be for a revolution of love.
On the day she died, Dolly Parton sent us a reminder that she wasn’t a billionaire.
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15 years ago Worcester Little Leagues updated boundaries because the old boundaries were based off the 1950 census. The highest pushback came from Schwartz LL at Kendrick Field. The more things change, the more things stay the same, Worcester edition: www.worcestersucks.email/p/wps-in-bri...
WPS in Brief: August 2026
Redistricting, conflicts, and how we talk about our schools
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