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Data Tracking
/0 Comments/in Videos, Videos - Better Govt, Videos - Economy /by Editorial StaffMayor’s Scott Lang (New Bedford), Lisa Wong (Fitchburg) and City Manager Bernard Lynch (Lowell) discuss tracking data to reduce spending while maintaining services.
Funding Cuts
/0 Comments/in Videos, Videos - Better Govt, Videos - Economy /by Editorial StaffMayor Lisa Wong (Fitchburg), and City Manager Bernard Lynch (Lowell) discuss areas most affected by funding cuts.
Declined Funding
/0 Comments/in Videos, Videos - Better Govt, Videos - Economy /by Editorial StaffMayors Scott Lang (New Bedford), Lisa Wong (Fitchburg) and City Manager Bernard Lynch (Lowell) discuss sources of funding with greatest decline.
Ho-hum to the Guv on education
/1 Comment/in Blog, Blog: Education, Blog: School Choice, Jim Stergios, Related Education Blogs /byThis morning on the Todd and Tom show on WRKO, Joe Battenfield (who was sitting in for Todd Feinburg) noted that the Governor’s office is claiming that Pioneer’s view of the national standards issue is a result of politics. What they are suggesting is that because Charlie Baker was Pioneer’s first executive director 20+ years ago, we are running defense for him. You can listen to the whole interview here (it’s not too long, clocking in at 10 minutes). My response was Ho-Hum. What I noted was that it’s hard to say that when on the day of the Board of Education’s vote to scrap the state standards, we did a press release with Tim Cahill — not Charlie Baker. […]
Massachusetts gets Race to the Top grant
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Common Core, Blog: Education, Jim Stergios, Related Education Blogs /byThe Race to the Top grants have been made and Massachusetts will receive a total of $250 million, to be distributed over a four-year period. That’s good for MA. Very good. Though we should remember at what cost the money came and also take the opportunity to ask a few meaty questions. Let’s start with the questions: Why the late August release? It’s not a great news cycle. And the decisions were supposed to be announced in mid-September — that would be perfect with the kids back at school and lots of parents thinking about education. How did Massachusetts get the highest score of all the states? After all, they had strong unions support (unlike Massachusetts, where the local chapter […]