👏🏼 Congratulations to Suzanne B. Galusi, Ed.D., on being named Permanent Superintendent of the Medford Public Schools!
Suzanne has served as Interim Superintendent since January 2025. She began her career in the district in 1997.
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👏🏼 Congratulations to Dr. Joanne Menard, who has been hired as the next Superintendent of East Longmeadow Public Schools. She will begin her tenure on July 1.
Joanne currently serves as Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction in the Holliston Public Schools.
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Thank you, Governor Healey, for your work to protect our students and families from abuses by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
We were proud to join a press conference yesterday, where the Governor announced she has filed legislation to keep ICE out of schools, child care programs, courthouses, hospitals, and churches.
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🔊 Today M.A.S.S. released a position paper about the proposed statewide graduation requirements.
⚖️ The position paper affirms our association’s commitment to a consistent set of standards applied evenly across all Massachusetts school districts in order to ensure equity and excellence.
🚩 It also outlines some of our concerns and objections, including:
- The accelerated pace and timeline for design, revision, adoption, and implementation;
- The number and breadth of proposed requirements;
- The need for flexibility in the requirements;
- The lack of details or implementation plan; and
- The costs associated with any new requirements.
📋 The position paper provides feedback about each of the seven graduation components proposed by the Governor’s Council, stating our endorsement of some and the need for adjustment and flexibility on others.
💡 See in particular our recommendation for the state to explore assessment of “power standards” rather than end-of-course assessments.
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❄️ M.A.S.S. members from across the Commonwealth gathered in Marlborough today for our annual Mid-Winter Meeting.
🎤 M.A.S.S. President Karen Crebase welcomed more than 200 attendees, who heard presentations from two keynote speakers:
🇵🇷 Dr. Miguel A. Cardona, former U.S. Secretary of Education, described his own journey as a student, educator, and local, state, and federal education official, and reminded Superintendents about the importance of their “steady, strong, and strategic” leadership during turbulent times.
📊 Dr. Rachel S. White, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin and Founder and Principal Investigator of The Superintendent Lab, shared data about Superintendent turnover and other data about the profession in Massachusetts and across the nation.
Other speakers at the meeting included DESE Commissioner Pedro Martinez and Dr. Barbara Malkas, retired Superintendent of North Adams Public Schools and 2025 recipient of the M.A.S.S. Christos Daoulas Award.