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New Leadership For Boston: Tito Jackson For Mayor

November 4, 2017 By jamaicaplainiac

(While I’m promoting this post as being of general interest, this shouldn’t be seen as a BMG endorsement in this race - Charley) Boston is at a crossroads. Tuesday's election is fundamentally about what kind of city we want this to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: bospoli, boston, BPS, education, election, housing, marty-walsh, mbta, Tito Jackson

Who is Marty Walsh?

March 8, 2016 By jamaicaplainiac

Just throwing this question out for the comments.  When I voted for him, I thought Marty Walsh was a progressive. But his policies are mostly pro-wealth, anti-regular-people. I heard him speak once. He seemed like a sincere advocate for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, marty-walsh

State of the City: Take to the Street

January 18, 2016 By jamaicaplainiac

In case you haven't seen it elsewhere, I'm putting it here: a bunch of us will be standing in the cold starting tomorrow at 4:30 PM to protest the $50 million proposed budget cuts from the Boston Public Schools' budget.  We don't have the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, Boston Public Schools, education, inequality, injustice, marty-walsh

How the Ed Reform Sausage Gets Made: The Barr Foundation

January 3, 2016 By jamaicaplainiac

I had hoped to write a big ol' primer on the Walsh Administration's plan to charterize the Boston Public Schools. But it's hard for me to write coherently about something that makes me so angry, and, anyway, anything I wrote would basically … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Barr Foundation, boston, Boston Plan For Excellence, charter-schools, education, education-reform, The Boston Compact

Boston Compact: Charters Reject Choice

November 16, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac

There are many reasons to be suspicious of The Boston Compact's Unified Enrollment plan, not least of which is that a body that "Chief Collaboration Officer" Rachel Weinstein asserts is "not a public organization" (direct quote from last … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, Boston Compact, charter-schools, education, ELL, special-education

Backfilling: The Solution to Charter School Waiting Lists

August 26, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac

So now the charter school advocates are trying a ballot initiative to raise the charter school cap. Think of the children! Those poor children languishing on the charter school waiting lists! I know from personal experience that there's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: backfill, ballot-initiative, boston, charter school cap, charter-schools, education, massachusetts

Blanchard’s, racial profiling,and the problem with internet activism

August 11, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac

I have no financial interest in Blanchard's, other than the fact that I spend money there. Just saw this today, amid a Twitter storm of righteous indignation about how terrible this business is and how we should all boycott them. I … [Read more...]

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The Strange Death of Burrell Ramsey-White

April 22, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac

Given everything we've seen in recent months about police killing black men and then lying about it, I thought I would revisit an event in Boston that caught my eye a few years ago: the killing of Burrell Ramsey-White. At the time, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, boston-police, Burrell Ramsey-White, deval-patrick, massachusetts, police

Lifting the Charter School Cap: A Look at the Numbers

March 9, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac

I read this story about a civil rights lawsuit being used as an end-run around the legislature and their increasingly-skeptical constituents to raise the charter school cap. I decided to put my feelings aside and take a hard look at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charter-schools, civil-rights, education, marty-walsh, public-education

My Education Platform

July 7, 2014 By jamaicaplainiac

I scoured the websites of all the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates and could not find one that matched my agenda. So I wrote one.  Enjoy! Quality Education for Massachusetts. Massacusetts deserves educational equality.  For too long … [Read more...]

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