DESE Transportation and Facilities Guidance

Transportation and Facilities Guidance Dear Superintendents, Charter School Leaders, Assistant Superintendents, Collaborative Leaders, and Leaders of Approved Special Education Schools, The attached transportation and facilities and operations guidance documents supplement DESE’s Initial Fall School Reopening Memo. The initial memo put forth the goal of the safe return of as many students as possible to in-person […]

2020 Medication Delegation Application Process & Forms

This email is to communicate the process for applying for medication delegation for your school or district, including training of unlicensed staff for administration of epinephrine by auto-injector.  Circumstances have required us to rethink and redesign our process, keeping in mind every step of the way the balance of collecting the information that we need […]

National School Nurse Day – May 6th, 2020

To our amazing school nurse friends and colleagues: On this School Nurses Day, we celebrate your skill, dedication, and service. Even in the midst of a pandemic that has shuttered businesses, closed schools, and forced us to isolate in our homes, you continue to step up to do what it takes to keep your students […]