Listening to Acton, Taking Action
Alissa is a civically engaged member of the Acton community. She is extremely active in public service and committed to thoughtful decision making, improved communication and strengthening community.
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Electing Alissa to the Select Board will ensure the board maintains its commitment to the Town’s planning documents and financial well-being, short and long term goals, support for the work of expert volunteer advisory committees and community organizations, and improving its ability to both inform and listen to residents.
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Just announced:
The Town of Acton has dedicated $30,000 of funding to offer a childcare subsidy program for the remainder of the 2025-2026 school year. This new Childcare Subsidy Program is made possible through Article 5, approved at the 2025 Annual Town Meeting.
The program is designed to reduce financial barriers by helping eligible families afford childcare while pursuing employment, education, training, or job search activities.
Eligible families may receive up to $2,000 per household to cover childcare or after-school care costs for children ages 13 and under.
Funds may be used at DEEC-licensed childcare providers, the Acton Recreation “No School Days” program, or the Extended Day program through Community Education.
Subsidies are available on a first-come, first-served basis to families with household incomes at or below 80% of Area Median Income (AMI). Approved funds will be paid directly to the childcare provider.
Applications are now open. To apply: www.acton-ma.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/1872
The communities of our local school district, Acton and Boxborough, are feeling all sorts of ways about the recently approved reorganization and enrollment models adopted by the AB School Committee. This marks a fundamental change in how the district is organized, and the majority of folks are understandably concerned about the immediate outcome and future impact of this decision.
There is plenty of chatter on the subject on social media and elsewhere, and it includes concerns about future funding shortages, questions about whether past fiscal management was sound, and maybe all things related to budgeting.
Costs for health insurance, pensions, out of district tuition, transportation, utilities and more have risen dramatically, and state funding has not kept pace.
AB is not alone in this. Many school districts in the Commonwealth are facing budget deficits, staff cuts, and school closures, plenty of them much more dramatic than our own. The fiscal crisis is spread across the state, and the state legislature and administration must respond. I invite you to learn how you can demand that they do in this letter to the editor I submitted last week.
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