One of six vying for Sal DiMasi's old seat is candidate Susan Passoni. She was today's special guest on this week's Left Ahead. In the 30 minute show, Mike, Lynne and I asked plenty of questions on everything from the gas tax to casinos to … [Read more...]
Education Can Spur Long Term Economic Growth
But education excellence is not just more schooling, more money spent. The level of cognitive skills of a nation's students has a large effect on its subsequent economic growth rate. Increasing the average number of years of schooling … [Read more...]
Double Deval Disappointment
Derek Clary, 20, drove from Maine to identify the body of his mother, Bridget Clary, 42, who died Sunday night (October 1, 2006) after a fire in her home in Gloucester. Because of cuts that eliminated a fire station, the response time was … [Read more...]
March 5th Education Platform Meeting
I will have printouts of Deval Patrick's "Readiness Report" as well as the platform section on education available. We hope to have facilities to collect and input in written or even oral form to forward to the state Democratic Party … [Read more...]
Democratic Party Platform Online Forum: Education
Schedule & Topics for Future Forum: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties - 2/26 Economic Growth, Jobs, and Worker's Rights - 3/3 Economic Justice/Poverty/the Social Safety Net - 3/6 Housing 3/10 Environment 3/13 Public Safety & … [Read more...]
BMG/Other Platform Meeting on Education?
The state platform on education can be found here, and a brief summary breaks down very roughly as: * Keep improving schools on model of the Education Reform Act of 1993. * Funding education is more important than cutting … [Read more...]
Changing light bulbs does save teaching jobs
In her preliminary budget she says "The proposed budget also includes a number of innovative cost saving measures. For example, the district plans to replace all of the lightbulbs in every Boston school and central office with longer … [Read more...]
What’s wrong with a Massachusetts Stimulus Package?
For one example, we have a concentrated higher ed capacity, virtually the primary export industry of the state, yet all Deval can do is raise public tuition. Pfui! Why not establish a loan forgiveness program with teeth, repopulating our … [Read more...]
OBLIVIOUS TO THE ROSE
c/p:Itinerant Activist roborig (Brandeis '77) , is an artist and political activist blogging under the name Itinerant Activist, currently working on Progressive Media Reform Issues. This issue is about how art, politics and the economic … [Read more...]
Cost of College: Notes from America’s Most Indebted Generation
UMass Boston was recently featured in a superlative ten-minute piece from PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on the opressive rise in college costs and student debt. College costs have been climbing for years. Since the early '80s, … [Read more...]
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