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Make It So
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Better Government, News /byJust today, Candidate for State Treasurer Steve Grossman said that if elected he would….”create an opportunity for universal financial literacy… And the [treasury] should be the place where you set up an office of financial education and provide those tools.” (from State House News, sub. req.) Abracadabra, an office of financial education in the State Treasurer’s office that provides financial literacy training. Next request, Mr. Grossman?
Interesting numbers on MA K-12 teachers
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Blog, News, Related Education Blogs /byA very interesting story comes out of the Census data compiled by the Education Intelligence Agency on trends for K-12 teachers. The district-by-district comparisons further demonstrate the loss in student enrollment in our larger urban districts since 2001-2: – Boston shed 9.3% of its students (down to 56,388) – Worcester 8.6% – Lynn 10.7% – New Bedford 11.4% – Fall River 13.6% – Haverhill 11.6% – Cambridge 20.5% – Somerville 14.1% Ken Ardon noted this last year in a policy piece for us: The primary cause of the decline is demographics – the population of Massachusetts is aging and the children of Baby-Boomers are rapidly moving through school. The Census data suggests that Boston also shed a whopping 22% of […]
K-12 enrollments down, number of teachers up
/0 Comments/in Blog, News, Related Education Blogs /byOur Education Intelligence Agency operative once again comes in with some very interesting material to consider. With the Census Bureau’s release of data, EIA has produced a set of tables on enrollment, staffing and spending in public school districts across the country, and growth/decline since 2001-2. The state-by-state comparisons show that teacher hiring has outpaced enrollment growth in 38 of the 50 states. In Virginia, student enrollment grew by 5 percent, and the number of K-12 teachers increased 20. In Massachusetts, enrollment statewide declined 1.5 percent, and the number of teachers has increased over 6 percent. (The overall US average is 2.7 percent growth in enrollment and 5 percent growth in K-12 teachers.) Nothing necessarily good or bad in that, […]
Walking the Walk
/1 Comment/in Blog, Blog: Better Government, News /byA number of state legislators did not accept an automatic pay raise last year, citing economic conditions. But did you know that Senator Steven Panagiotakos of Lowell has forgone most of the payraises since 1994. It’s cost him close to a quarter of a million dollars. Impressive.
Well, that's going well….
/1 Comment/in Blog, Blog: Better Government, News /byA bit of weirdness in today’s Globe article on the final meeting of the MBTA board of directors: Board members had also been expecting to hear a report from the MBTA’s chief of operations, Richard Leary, in response to safety concerns raised by the federal government about a fatal crash on the Green Line in May 2008. Board members voted last month to require Leary to deliver the report before the board dissolved. But Leary, who is eligible for retirement, did not show up at the meeting, and the T’s interim general manager, William A. Mitchell Jr., said he did not know where Leary was. “He has been nonresponsive on coming forward,’’ said Janice Loux, a board member who has […]