All Posts
Declines in Spending on Early Education & Care in Massachusetts
Under pressure from the recession and the large revenue losses that followed the tax cuts of the late 1990s and early 2000s, spending on early ...
Read More →
Public School Funding in Massachusetts: Where We Are, What Has Changed, and How We Compare to Other States
Per-pupil spending in Massachusetts is relatively high, but that the share of our total resources being devoted to education is actually lower than in most ...
Read More →
Breakfast and Lunch Participation in Massachusetts Schools
Are free and reduced-price school meals getting to all the kids who need them? That's the question that motivated Breakfast and Lunch Participation in Massachusetts ...
Read More →
Better By Degrees
All that good news comes from a report released earlier this month by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. The State of Working Massachusetts 2010 ...
Read More →
MassBudget Brief: Fiscal Year 2012 Chapter 70 Education Aid Preview
While projecting Chapter 70 state education aid ahead of the formal budget process is always an inexact science, the precarious economic recovery and the termination ...
Read More →
Higher Education Attainment Helps Weather Downturn
MASSACHUSETTS (WAMC) - Massachusetts is weathering the economic downturn better than most states, that's according to a new report released by the Massachusetts Budget and ...
Read More →
Demystifying the Chapter 70 Formula: How the Massachusetts Education Funding System Works
This Facts At A Glance explains the basic structure of the state's Chapter 70 formula for distributing education aid to local school districts.
Read More →
Public School Funding in Massachusetts: Where We Are, What Has Changed, and How We Compare to Other States
Recently released Fiscal Year 2008 education spending data from the US Census Bureau provide important information on long-term spending trends in Massachusetts and help paint ...
Read More →
The Education Jobs Fund and its Impact on Massachusetts Schools
The Education Jobs Fund, a $10 billion federal grant fund to be spent during the FY 2011 school year for the retention and creation of ...
Read More →
