Malden Public Schools legal expenses between 2019 and 2023 have grown on average 250% or two and a half times what they were spending on average in 2016-2018.
Unfortunately, we were unable to get publicly published data from DESE for the years prior to 2019, however we have an outstanding request for 2016-2018.
It should also be noted that one of the City’s largest law firms in terms of annual billing for the school district has not billed, been paid or both since December of 2023 and the paltry billing for the 2024 school year ($5,089 year to date) appears to be a complete understatement of the work done. Why would they not bill/invoice for work they have clearly done?
All of the data for this work is contained here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ytr96dgrbjveg4y41q175/h?rlkey=556p16vcojbek9f61tqe8vmo3&dl=0