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Bringing Focus, Urgency, and a Spirit of Partnership to the Unfinished Business of Education Reform

February 9, 2010 By paul-reville 85 Comments

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...]

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Gov. Patrick’s Poison Pill: Readiness Schools

June 26, 2008 By yellow-dog 29 Comments

The contract idea is ideological, not empirical. There is no evidence to suggest contracts will improve education, just a deep-seated belief that a business model is the best way to go. What is particularly frightening is the awarding of … [Read more...]

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Immigrant Students Forgotten in Massachusetts?

June 26, 2008 By kyledeb 35 Comments

Here's what the report says under the short-term administrative action agenda (2008-11):Support legislation to allow children of undocumented immigrants to attend a public college or university in the Commonwealth at the in-state tuition … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-herald, daily-news-transcript, deval-patrick, in-state-tuition, lindsey-parietti, massachusetts, readiness-project, student-immigrant-movement

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For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about how we’re facing a doom loop of minority rule by white conservatives and the next two years may be our last chance to avoid slipping into it forever. Our leaders must treat this as the crisis that it is and act with urgency. https://trib.al/X0NAofi

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1/ Today, we revealed a new banner at the compressor site that reads, "Out of Order". The compressor station is currently not operational, after Enbridge experienced it's third accident is just 8 months. #NoCompressor

You can read our press release below 🧵

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GlobeIdeasBoston Globe Ideas@GlobeIdeas·
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Transforming our commuter rail system into a ā€œregional railā€ system would make it more equitable, modern, and faster, write @transitmatters’ @jarjoh and @BosIndicators’ @lucschuster. https://trib.al/0EMk2mV

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Public summary execution for dangling air fresheners.

Police racism is stochastic terror.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-minnesota-shooting-idUSKBN2BZ05U

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
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Massachusetts now has a commitment to 5600MW of wind power, equal to nearly 187 Block Island projects.

Better write those contracts pretty pretty tight.

David Abel@davabel

The money National Grid earns from a transmission line for the nation's first offshore wind farm is ā€œappalling,ā€ ā€œunconscionable,ā€ and amounts to ā€œripping off ratepayers,ā€ RI regulators say.

A cautionary tale as we ramp up offshore wind power. #mapoli

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2021/04/08/national-grid-reaps-46-m-excess-profits-ri-wind-surcharge/7123029002/

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