Innovation Schools provide teachers with an unprecedented opportunity to seize control of their schools and to take charge of both academic programming and operations. What does that mean? It means teachers can operate schools under … [Read more...]
Bringing Focus, Urgency, and a Spirit of Partnership to the Unfinished Business of Education Reform
Fashioned from the Governor's Readiness Project of June, 2008, this complex new law aims at closing achievement gaps and completing the unfinished business of education reform by fulfilling the promise that every child is entitled to attend … [Read more...]
IG: Void Gloucester School Charter
In February, the board approved the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School, for grades 4-7, on Commissioner Mitchell Chester's recommendation. Gloucester officials opposed the school, saying it would drain resources to benefit an elite … [Read more...]
Deval adds to his Gloucester woes
Talk about your huge mistake. You are surrounded on both sides by folks seeking Paul Reville's resignation (or worse), Charlotte Golar Richie put out a statement with this interesting little paragraph. On Saturday, the Gloucester … [Read more...]
Reville Drowning in his Perfect Storm
Next, comes an editorial in the Boston Herald:Paul Reville must resign By Boston Herald Editorial Staff Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - Is there nothing the Patrick administration won't politicize? Now there's a growing body of evidence that … [Read more...]
Chester response to Gloucester scandal – Open Meeting violation?
"I want to address the article in today's Gloucester Daily Times (http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_262025842.html). The article was spurred by an e-mail that Secretary Reville sent to me on February 5 - during the … [Read more...]
Reville email exposes charter politics in Gloucester
The Gloucester Times reports that:Chester's endorsement of the school came against the advice of charter school experts in his own office, which had recommended that the Gloucester application "not be approved," along with the two other … [Read more...]
Paul Reville, Patrick adminstration angers school committees
Statement by Massachusetts Association of School Committee President Deb Bibeau, distributed to school committee members throughout the state. At the September 4 Local Government Advisory Commission Meeting Dorothy Presser, B.Ellen Holmes … [Read more...]
Shake-up at state Board of Education
Deval Patrick has ousted Christopher R. Anderson as chair of the state Board of Education. In a three player trade, he sent Anderson to the Dodgers for a shortstop... no, wait. In a three player trade, board member Henry Thomas … [Read more...]