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…

Gov. Patrick’s Regulatory Regime for Payment Reform

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This was the testimony I submitted today to the Joint Committee…

Mary Z. Connaughton Joins Pioneer Institute as Director of Administration and Finance

Mary Z. Connaughton Joins Pioneer Institute as Director of Administration and Finance

An education in history

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On Monday, a Globe editorial noted that THE STATE’S new…

Voc-tech schools lowering the dropout rate

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This is the fifth and final leg of my series on the tremendous…

Voc-tech success with special needs students

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Whenever I talk to education experts and people interested…

Flawed Foundation of the Pacheco Law

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Those seeking more competition in government have opposed the…

Cracks in the national standards consensus

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Back in the fall, I mentioned that I thought that after the…

Vocational-technical schools working with business

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The local business community has always been heavily involved…

Choosing to succeed in regional vocational-technical schools

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What sets Massachusetts's education reform efforts apart from…

Maine Moving on Health Care

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An interesting experiment is about to be unleashed in one of…

Another Department of Public Safety Issue

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This space has raised questions in the past about the staffing…

Dear Abigail on History

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In what is a textbook example of bad policy on the teaching…

Fight of the Century

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Education does not only take place in our schools, though we…

Whither METCO?

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If METCO closes the achievement gap, and if closing the achievement gap is a top priority, why are we cutting METCO funding?

Transparency, To a Point

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Just 99 days after filing the first in a series of requests,…

No Free Lunch

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What do the recent kerfuffle involving Boloco and Boston’s…

Labor leader admits it – unions have bought the Legislature

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Robert Haynes supposedly represents organized labor, as head…

Do You Believe in Medicaid Miracles?

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The 1980 Miracle on Ice actually happened. For all our sake,…

A Solid Step to Muni Healthcare Reform

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Pioneer has long been part of a broader chorus calling for reform…

Stealing from our ed reform blueprint

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It used to be that Massachusetts was the state that everybody…

National standards dissent and pep rallies

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About a week ago, the state of Texas responded to national…

Education news from other states

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Last July, while most of the Massachusetts educators were…

Permitted to Succeed? Part Three

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My last two blog posts (here and here) have provided some ideas…

Permitted to Succeed? Part Two

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In response to Mayor Menino’s pledge to create a "one-stop…

Pioneer Goes Local! “MuniShare” Municipal Report Contest

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As part of Pioneer Institute's annual Better Government Competition,…

Lessons from Massachusetts Health Care Reform (Romneycare)

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Last month marked the first anniversary of the federal healthcare…

Permitted to Succeed? Part One

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Mayor Menino’s new budget proposal included the intriguing…

Municipal Healthcare Endgame?

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I would never underestimate the negotiating guile of the major…

It’s not what you say, it’s how you cloak it

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It has been said before, but it bears repeating: Control the…

Governor Deval Patrick’s Missing Chapter on Transparency

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Governor Deval Patrick's new autobiography, "A Reason to Believe:…