Boston Herald: Schoolhouse doors blocked
By Jim Stergios Originally published in The Boston Herald on July 18, 2014 The Massachusetts Senate prides itself on being the more progressive of our two legislative branches. By voting not to increase access to high-quality schools in Boston and other Massachusetts cities, they have shown themselves to be anything but. The defeated Senate bill, sponsored by Education Committee Chairwoman Sonia Chang-Diaz, was nothing to brag about from the start. Its eye-dropper approach would have increased the number of charter seats in low-performing urban districts a miserly maximum of 1 percent per year. Moreover, Chang-Diaz loaded her bill with enough poison pills to constitute malpractice on these innovative schools and the families of 15,000 schoolchildren on Boston charter schools’ waiting […]