According to today's Globe, Governor Patrick has asked for the resignations of his entire cabinet so as to put everyone on notice that complacency won't be the order of the day as he starts his new administration. … [Read more...]

Okay... I'm still really pissed off at Patrick and his spineless response to the charter school issue as well as his non-efforts to address the Chapter 70 issue, but his campaign has finally put together an ad that hits to the core as to … [Read more...]

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It appears that the way to sanction an illegally granted, failed charter school that violated state procurement and open meeting laws, opened a month late and with half the projected enrollment and which the Commissioner of education deemed … [Read more...]

The news on Friday was that Commissioner Chester no longer believes the GCACS is viable and recommends that parents get their children enrolled in district schools … [Read more...]

From Today's Gloucester Daily Times IG: Bidding laws broken On Thursday state Inspector General Gregory Sullivan, whose investigation of the state's approval of the Gloucester charter provided a legal basis for much of the lawsuit, told the … [Read more...]

"The plaintiffs present considerable evidence to the effect that the Board and the Commissioner blatantly ignored and violated state law when granting the GCA charter for political reasons." (p. 3) "There is a strong factual showing that … [Read more...]