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Northshore October 2025
  In 2011, Billerica’s Valley Collaborative was at a crossroads. The special education collaborative, at that time known as the Merrimac Special Education Collaborative (MSEC), had been working closely with the nonprofit organization Merrimac Education Center (MEC) since the school opened its doors in 1976. In 2011, however, a state audit of MSEC revealed that officials at both MSEC and MEC had severely misused taxpayer funds; moving forward, the state installed accountability structures that allowed a wide-spread reform led by current director Chris Scott, formerly the superintendent of the Lowell School System. First and fo
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