Public Hearings:

The MSBA is holding public hearings as follows:

 

Friday, February 26, 2010 10:00 AM-12:00 PM -             Pittsfield, MA

70 Allen Street, City Council Chambers, City Hall,              Pittsfield, MA

 

Thursday March 4, 2010, 4:00-6:00 PM - Boston, MA

40 Broad Street, India Street Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA

 

Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 1:00-3:00 PM - Fall River, MA

Kuss Middle School, 52 Globe Mills Ave., Fall River, MA

 

Friday, March 12, 2010, 3:15-5:15 PM - Southbridge, MA

Charlton Street Elementary School Library, 220 Charlton St., Southbridge, MA

 

Proposed Changes to 963 CMR 2.04.pdf

 

Proposed Changes to 963 CMR 2.06.pdf

 

Space Standards and Guidelines Proposed Revisions.pdf

 

ESE’s Center for School Finance, Research, Planning and Evaluation has recently published three new reports relating to school district regionalization and consolidation efforts:

  School District Consolidation in Massachusetts  This overview report provides a brief history of regionalization; explains the complex web of relationships that already exist among districts; looks at some demographic, fiscal, and programmatic factors that might motivate districts to regionalize; and uncovers some lessons from a recent series of regionalization studies.

 

Regional Planning Study Results  This report details the individual results of several recent planning studies in the context of the districts’ existing affiliations and compares the current findings with concerns and benefits that have been identified in the past. Most of these planning studies were funded in part by ESE regional planning grants or foundation reserve awards.
 

A Study of Central Office Capacity in Regional Districts  This study examines central office staff and their roles or functions in terms of district size. The study was undertaken by the Massachusetts Association of Regional Schools (MARS) at the request of ESE in order to provide factual information for the ongoing discussion about regionalization, consolidation, and collaboration among small districts in which the question of central office capacity has been raised repeatedly.