Everyone's talking about reform. Especially right now. Jim Gomes offers a provocative way to look at the healthcare and education systems in this country in yesterday's Boston Globe. Gomes offers the question: What if public education … [Read more...]
Time to ReConsider 0.5% for the Kids and Sovle our Local Budget Crisis
Jump Out the Window? (+) by: SmallTownGuy Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 18:41:07 PM EST A few months ago I posted "0.5% for the Kids -Lets Make Overrides History" http://bluemassgroup.com/s... . (I just posed this to a reply to … [Read more...]
Celebrating the beginning of the revival of the Randolph Public Schools
Randolph decided what kind of government they wanted and decided to pay for it. Cross posted at ONE MassachusettsRANDOLPH — The groundwork was laid during the summer, with the hiring of new staff members and the revision of … [Read more...]
Digging Into Cahill’s School Cost Plan
If a town wants to add a pool, or a field house, or a hockey rink, or have a gigantic, beautiful theater that goes above and beyond the standard state plan - they shouldn't be prevented from doing so. All of those things, in the end, … [Read more...]
Readiness proposals: Good luck with the regionalism thaing
More on the NYC reforms: Klein's management approach has been a bit herky-jerky. While his first years were marked by a tightly controlled, top-down management style, more recently he did an about-face toward decentralization that he … [Read more...]
Meet Measured Progress, Incorporated
A "highlighted member" of American Test Publishers, Measured Progress is the New Hampshire company that is best known round here for "writing the MCAS". The MCAS, the formal assessment used to measure students' progress here in … [Read more...]
“You guys rock,” says Library Board of Trustees Chairman
[Library Director Betty] Gregg says the money raised by the children will be used to purchase [over 1000 books and other] materials which will, in turn, free up money in the regular library budget with which she hopes to hire a part-time … [Read more...]
Shutting down the school to prison pipeline – what can we do?
Here is the bibliography:http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/05/28/problem_students_in_pipeline_to_prison/ School to prison pipeline: http://www.naacpldf.org/conten... NAACP Legal Defense … [Read more...]
Memorial Day and the New GI BIll
The New York Times editorial, however, notes that George Bush and John McCain opposed the bill: President Bush opposes a new G.I. Bill of Rights. He worries that if the traditional path to college for service members since World War … [Read more...]
Who Needs Libraries, Anyways?
...Brockton Public Library faces a... loss of eight jobs, six from layoffs in the fiscal 2009 budget currently before the City Council. ...Bridgewater Public Library awaits a June tax override vote to [fund] the restoration of the 63 … [Read more...]
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