Lawrence

This week on JobMakers, host Denzil Mohammed talks with Karina Calderon, deputy director of The Lawrence Partnership, about her work to help immigrant entrepreneurs drive economic growth in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The Lawrence Partnership is a collaboration of business and civic leaders started in 2015 that helps by incubating, training, assisting, loaning, basically doing everything they and their partners can to grow the city’s businesses.

Local governments generate capital from a variety of sources: service charges, federal revenue, state revenue, licensing and permit fees, local taxes, and interfund operating transfers.  Pioneer Institute’s Website, MassAnalysis, “allows the comparison of municipalities based on a wide variety of metrics.” The...

Read news coverage of this report in The Springfield Republican, The Brockton Enterprise, The Taunton Daily Gazette, The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, the Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise. Taunton and Leominster buck the trend, see population and incomes rise, educational outcomes improve and crime decline BOSTON...

Pioneer Institute believes that all kids deserve access to a great education. That’s why we have always supported choices for parents and students, whether through interdistrict programs, vocational-technical schools, private and parochial schools, or high-quality charter schools. Earlier this year, we visited...

We must act swiftly and boldly to enact far-reaching reforms that impact all of the Lawrence school district’s 13,000 students, not just a fortunate few.

On July 31, 2012, Pioneer held a public forum, “The Lawrence Reforms and School Choice,” featuring Lawrence Superintendent Jeffrey Riley and a panel of distinguished education experts, including SABIS Education System’s Jose Afonso, Phoenix Academy’s Beth Anderson, Boston University Professor Charles Glenn,...

On July 31, 2012, Pioneer held a public forum, “The Lawrence Reforms and School Choice,” featuring Lawrence Superintendent Jeffrey Riley and a panel of distinguished education experts, including SABIS Education System’s Jose Afonso, Phoenix Academy’s Beth Anderson, Boston University Professor Charles Glenn,...