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Day 1: Strengthen the richest liberal arts standards in the nation
/2 Comments/in Blog, News /byThe future belongs to the nation that best educates its citizens. That’s President Obama singling out Massachusetts as a model for the rest for the United States on March 9, 2009. He went on to say: The solution to low test scores is not lower standards – it’s tougher, clearer standards. Standards like those in Massachusetts, where 8th graders are now tying for first – first – in the world in science. The president was right in 2009, before his agenda on standards morphed into the usual “the feds know best” attitude. Academic standards and objective assessments for teachers and students are the major drivers of the overall improvement we’ve witnessed in Massachusetts’ district schools. They are also a major […]
Countdown to World Class Schools
/0 Comments/in Blog, News /byThe next two years are going to see the roughest state and local budgets in memory. While we have to balance the books, I am hoping that whoever is governor from 2011 will understand that there is a lot we can do even in a tight fiscal environment to pick up the pace in our schools. For 12 days, I’ll lay out actions that are possible even in a time of constrained budgets. One set of actions each day. Consider it something of a countdown, a Countdown to World-Class Schools, that will summarize what could–no, what should–be the agenda for the incoming governor. A Little Background Enactment and partial implementation of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act (MERA) have improved […]
The GOV and Senate President Are Right
/0 Comments/in Blog, News /by…on racino licensing. Both are pushing back on racino proposals that would not apply market pricing to these particular gaming licenses. As I wrote in 2006 for the Boston Globe: Massachusetts’ great gambling giveaway IF THE MASSACHUSETTS Legislature wrote a billion-dollar check to the casino industry, people would be outraged. But the [2006] gambling bill, awaiting action in the House after receiving Senate approval, threatens to give away more than $1 billion in value by charging an inordinately low fee for the four proposed licenses…. …The point is not that the state should fix the exact license price. Rather, there is credible evidence that the proposed license price is too low and difficult to ascertain…. …the state should not provide […]
Patrick-Murray Campaign Upgrades to Latest Technology
/1 Comment/in Blog, News /byA new piece of social networking hachi-machi to organize field workers? A rapid response e-blast system? No, the GOV and LG have added a bus to their arsenal. To date, only Guy Glodis has brought the bus to the 2010 statewide contests. Behold the campaign’s latest purchase:
Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Be Running for Tobin's Council Seat
/0 Comments/in Blog, News /by10 – don’t actually live in district 9 – weekend attire of Celtics/Red Sox gear, mesh shorts and flip-flops considered unstatesmanlike 8 – equally unpopular with public safety employees and progressives 7 – not prepared to explain “It’s Polish, but my mom’s Irish” a million times 6 – far right-wing rants in college op-eds might come back to haunt me (actually, never mind…..) 5 – most district residents know me from screaming at (my own) unruly children at Roche Brothers 4 – have never sponsored little league or soccer team 3 – absolutely no relation whatsoever to anyone named Coppinger 2 – still not on Menino Machine’s Christmas Card list 1 – little-known rule reserves post for a graduate of […]