MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA

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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…

The Clock is Ticking…….

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The clock is ticking towards December 30, 2017.  As part of…

Go back to the Governor's bill

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The Senate is going to be debating a bill that on the face of…

Innovation or re-inventing the flat tire

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The state legislature's rewrite of the governor's two education…

Transparency — Bring it on

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On Friday, my old agency released a report entitled “Measuring…

Charter opponents have no more legs to stand on

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So the unions and superintendents tried the argument that charters…

Defining Political Capital

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Thursday's Globe relates that Mayor Tom Menino is considering…

More on the US DOE Inspector General's report

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I have been at a meeting in North Carolina with budget watchdog…

Will He Make History?

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Tom Menino already has by ensuring that he will be mayor of Boston…

Federal health care mandate and the Commerce Clause

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Robert Levy, chairman of the CATO Institute, is a brilliant guy.…

Rethinking EMTALA

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On the drive in this morning I heard an interesting idea being…

Just. Not. Smart.

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The Governor is now talking about layoffs. I suppose Pioneer…

Let the Patients Choose

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(Editor's Note: Pioneer welcomes our Senior Fellow on Healthcare,…

Running the Numbers, Stimulus Style

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You'll forgive me for being a skeptic about job creation numbers.…

Time to Activate the PAFNDAS

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UPDATE BELOW What's that? Why, its the Patrick Administration…

Good news on charter performance

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From Marc Kenen of the Mass Charter School Association comes…

How is this for pushing hard, part 2

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Whitney Tilson passes on additional news from RI. Given that…

How is this for pushing hard to obtain Race to the Top Funds?

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In a recent post, I pointed to the new Commissioner of Education…

Will the Gloucester mess impact the charter cap lift?

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Whether House Education Committee Chair Marty Walz was deflecting…

Running the Numbers

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The Herald reports on Governor Patrick's fundraiser today: the…

Breaking News – RI Ed Commissioner on seniority

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From the Providence Journal: RI education commissioner Deborah…

Committed to Maximum Transparency

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The above words are Governor Deval Patrick's description of his…

Not Just Minutiae and Methodology

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UPDATE BELOW The Boston Globe has the power to set the agenda…

Contrition about Attrition

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The Mass Teachers Association's report Charter School Success…

One more time on education funding

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Given my previous post about the report from the US DOE’s Inspector…

US DOE's Inspector General questions MA funding of education

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The Alliance for Excellent Education has released a report, Straight…

Make It So

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Just today, Candidate for State Treasurer Steve Grossman said…

Interesting numbers on MA K-12 teachers

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A very interesting story comes out of the Census data compiled…

K-12 enrollments down, number of teachers up

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Our Education Intelligence Agency operative once again comes…

Walking the Walk

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A number of state legislators did not accept an automatic pay…

Well, that's going well….

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A bit of weirdness in today's Globe article on the final meeting…

Cleaning up my emails

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No, not those emails, silly. No reference to new computers or…