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Hold the Victory Lap
/0 Comments/in Blog, News /byThe Conference Budget contains substantive reform to municipal health care. But let’s be clear – it looks a lot more like the weaker Senate version than the stronger House version. Happily, the Conference Budget’s municipal healthcare reform is free of the ‘poison pill’ provision that actually raised costs. This provision was slipped into a redrafted amendment which presented to members as a “technical amendment” by the sponsor, Senator Clark. That’s a phrase typically reserved for correcting obvious errors that don’t change the intent of the underlying legislation. To his credit, Senator Marc Pacheco was the only voice in the chamber to ask if he could review the amendment to make sure nothing substantive had changed. (State House News Service transcript, […]
HCFA & GBIO’s Misdiagnosis
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Healthcare, Healthcare /byHealth Care for All and the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization held a rally today at the State House to call for a zero percent increases in premiums for health insurance. The intent may be worthy, but the mechanism is misplaced. Focusing on a cap of premium increases is like trying to prevent all car accidents by adding an extra bumper at the end of a production line. (The analogy only goes so far, I know) Until consumers understand the cost impact of their health care decisions, and small businesses are relieved from the burden of state mandates and over regulation in Massachusetts, this cap will be an unrealistic goal that will result in one more year of finger pointing without […]
Have Much Drinking Should You Do At Ed Meetings?
/1 Comment/in Blog, News /byOK, I tried in my previous post to give a higher level policy analysis of why you should care about the unfolding scandal regarding what appears to be an egregious corruption at the Merrimack Special Education Collaborative and Merrimack Education Center. Next, we’ll move on the prurient details: When was the last time you had nine drinks? Each guest at the non-profit Merrimack Education Center’s 2008 annual meeting Friday dinner averaged 8.8 drinks at the event. The dinner the next night was a model of decorum with the average plummeting to just under seven drinks per person. All told, the weekend event had a bar tab of $154 per attendee.
Facilities Guide for New and Expanding Charter Schools
/in Charter Schools, Press Releases: Charter Schools, Press Releases: Education, Press Releases: School Choice, Related Education Blogs /byNew report offers best practices from successful Massachusetts charter schools to help other charter leaders navigate the facilities development process
Virtually Worlds Apart
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Education, Blog: Virtual Schools, Jim Stergios, News, Related Education Blogs /byMirror-mirror on the wall, which states are pushing innovation most of all? Not Massachusetts. A number of other states are at this point moving faster than Massachusetts on key educational innovations. The good news for Massachusetts is that last January the state passed a law to double the number of charter schools. Further good news is that students in our charters consistently do better than their district peers; in other states that level of consistency is not always the rule. The bad news for Massachusetts is that states like Florida, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and so many others are pushing forward with digital learning much faster than the Bay State is. In fact, the education bureaucracy is putting some of the […]