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/0 Comments/in COVID News Roundups, Featured, Healthcare, rCOVID /by Editorial StaffPioneer staff share their top picks for COVID-19 stories highlighting useful resources, best practices, and questions we should be asking our public and private sector leaders.
New Policy Brief on Federal Relief Act’s Impact on Massachusetts
/0 Comments/in COVID Economy, Economic Opportunity, Featured, rCOVID /by Editorial StaffGreg Sullivan and Charlie Chieppo review the impact of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act on Massachusetts’ budget.
The Washington Post’s Jay Mathews on schooling during COVID-19 & lessons from teaching great Jaime Escalante
/0 Comments/in Featured, News, Podcast, School Choice /by Editorial StaffThis week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard continue coverage of COVID-19’s impact on K-12 education, joined by Jay Mathews, Washington Post education columnist.
Congress should fix aid, provide block grants
/0 Comments/in COVID Economy, Oped: Better Government, Oped: Economy, Opeds, rCOVID /by Greg Sullivan and Charles ChieppoThis op-ed by Greg Sullivan and Charlie Chieppo appeared in the Boston Business Journal on March 27, 2020. While passage of the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Actis surely good news, it will come nowhere near fully addressing the pandemic’s impact on the commonwealth’s finances. Large block grants would be the best way to provide states with much needed relief. Thanks to the virus, state revenue sources from sales taxes to pension fund receipts are plummeting. At the same time, expenses connected to the outbreak are rising sharply. Just look at unemployment insurance. Weekly state unemployment claims rose from 4,712to 147,995in just two weeks. And while the new stimulus bill will add $600 to each unemployment check for up to four months and […]
New Brief Calls on the USED for School Closure Guidelines During COVID-19
/in Academic Standards, COVID Education, Featured, Press Releases: COVID, Press Releases: Education, rCOVID /by Editorial StaffPioneer calls on the federal government to quickly release a single report identifying which federal laws – and which aspects of those laws – are relevant to the topic of school closure during the COVID pandemic, and providing concrete guidance on how schools can comply in the coming weeks.