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Wicked Local With the state s budget for fiscal year 2022 now passed through the Senate, Sen. Cindy F. Friedman, D-Arlington, celebrated the funding she was able to help secure for the Billerica Public Schools, Billerica Community Food Pantry, Council on Aging, and more. The Massachusetts State Senate s legislators unanimously passing a $48.07 billion budget for fiscal year 2022. Taking into consideration strong tax revenue performance in fiscal year 2021, the final fiscal year 2022 budget increases revenue assumptions by $4.2 billion over the December consensus revenue projection; the new tax revenue projection is now $34.35 billion. As a result, the FY22 budget does not make a withdrawal but instead transfers funds into the Stabilization Fund, projecting an estimated balance of approximately $5.8 billion for this crucial rainy day fund at the end of the fiscal year. ....
Sean Furbush and Carolin Zorrilla Submitted to the Billerica Minuteman For far too long, our history has been taught through lenses too few and too narrow. In our classrooms, diversity should not be a token, but a vessel upon which we may tell the colorful tales of our nation and of our world. Yet, for reasons only determined behind the closed doors of educational bureaucracies, it is something that continues to be neglected in the face of calls for curricular reforms here in Massachusetts. In recent years, our frameworks have served as one of the main examples of what not to do when implementing diversity into the classroom. ....