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Bob Haynes will leave labor worse than he found it
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Blog, News /byNobody should shed any tears for Bobby Haynes, the longtime president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, when he rides off this fall into the kind of gilded retirement he generally decries for private-sector CEOs – unless, of course, it is an $11-million package for the former CEO of a nonprofit health corporation on whose board Haynes is paid a cool $72,000 to sit. Nor should they give him any thanks. Haynes, who announced his retirement this week, is leaving labor worse than he found it. And not because public employee unions look to be “losing” a battle on Beacon Hill over health care benefits. It is because Haynes, described by the Boston Globe as a “tough-talking former iron worker,” is more […]
Pioneer Institute Announces Winner of 20th Annual Better Government Competition
/in Better Government, Press Releases, Press Releases: Government /byPioneer Institute Announces Winner of 20th Annual Better Government Competition
Mend over matter
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Blog, Economic Opportunity, News /byFor those of you who are inclined to think that Massachusetts is on the mend and on the move, perhaps some graphics will shake you from your dream-space. G. Scott Thomas of the Business Journals provides the goods: Texas has enjoyed an unequaled economic boom the past 10 years. The inventory of private-sector jobs in Texas increased by 732,800 between April 2001 and the same month this year, according to an On Numbers analysis of new federal employment data. Meanwhile, Massachusetts is 42nd in the nation for job creation oops, 8th in the nation for job loss since 2001. In the past year (April 2010 to April 2011), the state of TX has added 250,000 jobs. In the past year, […]
Phoenix Charter Academy’s Mission Impossible?
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Education, Blog: School Choice, Jim Stergios, Related Education Blogs /byThe month of May opened with the official granting of 16 charters. That’s a great start by the Patrick administration on implementing the charter provision of the January 2010 education law. Full implementation of the law will double the number of students (reaching perhaps 55-60,000 students) and will likely double the number of charter schools operating in the Bay State. With the announcement of the Boston Compact, charters are working hard to identify and secure locations for the new schools. And with charters moving from a focus on poor, minority students to attracting higher percentages of special needs students and English language learners, many operators are looking for models that successfully drive high academic achievement for these populations. In the […]
School dollars and health reform
/0 Comments/in Blog, Related Education Blogs /byCalls for more funding for education are common. Policy organizations may have played a significant role in the ideas included in the framework for Massachusetts’ nation-leading education reform, but teachers unions played the big role in pushing for more dollars into schools and insisting on more equity in school funding. The push for more school dollars by no means excuses the quality of education we are getting in some urban areas. And by no means absolves teachers unions for seeking monopoly status in opposing the expansion of private school options, like parochial schools, for urban students. (The parochial schools largely do a better job at a much lower cost.) But money is important. And that’s what budget season is all […]