Over ten years, the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) Librarian/Media Services directors (as reported to DESE by districts) has fallen from 833 in 2007/08 to

Over ten years, the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) Librarian/Media Services directors (as reported to DESE by districts) has fallen from 833 in 2007/08 to
Back in September, we here at The Policy Minute shared with you the 2016 median household incomes of schools in the highest and lowest
In Fall 2018, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) announced the first accountability designations based on the new system required under
Since 2010, 65 schools have been designated as “underperforming.” After at least three years of implementing a “turnaround plan”, a school is eligible to
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has been identifying “underperforming” (formerly Level Four) and “chronically underperforming” (formerly Level Five) schools since 2010. Sixty-five
The schools may need help, but what happens to the teachers? The teacher turnover rate represents the percentage of teachers who were working at the