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Ok, this is awkward

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Massport raised its parking fees by $1 last month after its Board of Directors gave their Executive Director, by unanimous vote and without discussion, the power to adjust rates. New Transportation Secretary Aloisi is criticizing the increase, in part because their was no public input to the process. I suspect that it also makes the $2 fee that the state wanted to place on Logan parkers more difficult to sell politically. And now the awkward part — the same Transportation Secretary Aloisi (who is criticizing the increase) was a member of the Massport board that voted unanimously and without discussion to give the Executive Director the power to increase that fee.

Accountability Overboard

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Author(s): Charles D. Chieppo and James T. Gass — Publication date: 2009-04-01 Category: Education Abstract: Special interest groups opposed to charter schools and high-stakes testing have hijacked the state’s once-independent board of education and stand poised to water down the MCAS tests and the accountability system they support. [wpdm_package id=64]

Zoned Out

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Ouch. The BPS has already pulled its first proposal for altering the school zone system off the table. Not because of a backlash or political pressure, but because the proposed Zone 4 lacks a needed 616 seats for grades 6 – 8. That’s a pretty material number in a system with less than 60,000 kids and equivalent to an entire school. Its an embarrassing screw-up for the school system. The attempt to increase the number of zones (of which I am generally supportive) has flushed out a number of interesting items: 1) Integration, the initial impetus behind busing all those years ago, is largely irrelevant. Click on the various zone configurations (current and proposed) that the Globe has helpfully put […]

Without comment

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…School Superintendent Carol Johnson presented a preliminary budget that would eliminate 900 jobs, including 400 teaching positions. Faced with a $107 million shortfall for the fiscal year beginning in July, Johnson raised the specter of closing or consolidating schools in addition to the six she targeted last fall. After 18 months of planning, a nonprofit group called Boston World Partnerships will deploy 125 business leaders and academics to take the city’s promotion beyond traditional trade missions and conventions. One tool going live today is an interactive website, www.bostonworldpartnerships.com, that provides an array of two-way channels for those interested in doing business in Greater Boston…. The Boston Redevelopment Authority contributed $1 million…to set up the organization…

Gulp

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Jim Cramer is obviously a smart guy with a schtick. It’s kind of fun for 2 minutes. Then you have to lower the volume. I am troubled to say that he is sounding much wiser than our leaders in Washington. I don’t know about you, but I think that means we are now officially in deep do-do. In this clip, Cramer rails against the stimulus because it does not invest in infrastructure at anything even close to the level originally discussed. Yup. Then he calls for interest rate and principal adjustments for all mortgage payers, not select ones. Yup. Finally, he gets hot under the collar on Geithner’s lack of a plan. That’s a feeling many of us are getting. […]