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Current list of the WPS boundary realignment working group. Next meeting is April 7.
I make $100 from Worcester Sucks each month to write WPS in Brief, so it doesn’t impact my livelihood like so many other artists and writers. But it’s still disappointing to see something I’ve honed over years stolen. Don’t use AI, please. It sucks.
Aislinn@aislinn.bsky.social · 5mo agoThose of you who read WPS in Brief might read this and think I wrote it. Similar format, tone, even rephrased my tag line “my goal is to help you feel informed without feeling overwhelmed.” It’s not me. My guess is the writer used AI, which scraped my work.
Gread OpEd in today's T&G by @aislinn.bsky.social! Well stated! local.newsbreak.com/worcester-ma...
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Worcester can support high-quality classroom tools while also setting firm expectations that students are learners, not data sources. Our children must always come first.
Opinion/Guest column: City students need digital tools with safeguards
To be clear, this is not an argument against technology in education. It is a petition for transparency, accountability and modern safeguards.
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Cc: Alex Guardiola “She took all her sick days from 26 years in the district and worked with administrators to get the time she needed to care for Mary, spending nearly all her time on North Lake Avenue.” www.telegram.com/story/news/2...
Community rallies to help Leicester girl, hospitalized for year with cancer, celebrate birthday
Maryangelie Rivas missed many milestones during her freshman year in high school, and she still faces at least a year and a half of chemotherapy.
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Budget squeeze, 2025 election, and teachers taking too many sick days? www.worcestersucks.email/p/wps-in-bri...
WPS in Brief: July 2025
2025 election, grading policy fail, teacher sick days
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WPS Budget Cut Due to Charter School Reimbursement Underfunding. An explainer and what you can do. www.wpsinbrief.com/p/wps-budget...
School committee meeting on Wednesday this week. Budget and a packed agenda, could be a long one! www.worcestersucks.email/p/agenda-pre...
Agenda Preview: June 18 School Committee Meeting
Budget, Dual Language Plan, Pride Month, Before and After School Programs, AI Opt Out.
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Can you imagine being the deputy superintendent of the second largest district in New England–a renowned expert in the field–and a school committee member turns to you and whispers "you better not screw this up" right before she votes to make you superintendent? So unserious.
*NEW ITEM* Mayor Petty put on a new item right before the 48 hour cut-off for adding something to a public meeting agenda. It reads: "To request Administration make School Committee aware of administrative personnel changes." www.worcestersucks.email/p/agenda-pre...
Agenda Preview: April 17 School Committee Meeting
Vision of a Learner Part 2, Autism Awareness, Special Education
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There is a Teaching, Learning and Student Success subcommittee meeting Thursday, April 10 at 5pm. There are two items on the agenda: one on adding flag football as a high school varsity sport and the other on the new science curriculum for elementary schools.
The school committee had a meeting on Friday to go into executive session to discuss this. Worcester joined not as a plaintiff, but as a "declarant." www.telegram.com/story/news/l...
Worcester joins federal lawsuit over Trump's education cuts, becomes declarant in case
The lawsuit was filed by the advocacy group Democracy Forward on behalf of the Easthampton and Somerville schools.
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I started this substack because I was hearing from parents and educators that they wanted to know what was going on, but the hurdle for engagement feels so high, and it’s hard to know where to start. I get it, who wants to watch a subcommittee meeting where they talk about boilers for 30 minutes?