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Four Ways To Improve the State’s Anti-Bullying Bill

March 1, 2011 By massequality

The law should be amended to include a non-inclusive list of categories of students who are at a disproportionate risk of being bullied. The inclusion of this language would reflect a greater focus on bullying prevention by acknowledging … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bullying, lgbt, massequality, schools

Property tax increase

December 27, 2010 By warrior02131

Hi All: Just found this on the internet: http://westroxbury.patch.com/a... The City of Boston is raising property tax rates by the maximum of two and half percent for the coming year. The current school budget is actually a decrease from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: accountability., boston, budget, education, random, schools

Step 3

December 24, 2010 By warrior02131

I decided that I will not give up the fight as the final decision lies with the elected Boston City Council to approve or reject the Mayor's budget proposal. As for where Tommy would go as of next year, the Boston School Department still … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, budget, funding, schools, special-education

Henriquez Ready for the 5th Tough Trio

August 31, 2010 By massmarrier

As the youngest of the four Dems seeking the vacant seat at 33, Henriquez says he is "old enough to connect and at the age I can challenge my peers to be civilly active." Listen in as he describes the interplay between his three major … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 5th-suffolk, crime, democrats, dorchester, election, henriquez, jobs, legislature, primary, roxbury, safety, schools

Tell Your Legislator What You Think!

March 4, 2010 By standforchildren

Today Secretary Arne Duncan announced the 16 applicants who are finalists of the first phase of the Race to the Top competition and Massachusetts is one of them. Let's keep up the momentum, Massachusetts!   Stand for Children, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: public-education, race-to-the-top, schools

How Patrick can win back teachers

February 12, 2010 By opus123

Here are what I consider to be three "no-brainer" thing he can do to begin repairing relations with public school teachers: (1) provide incentives for charter school teachers to unionize or at least publicly encourage them to do so, (2) end … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charter-schools, deval-patrick, education, patrick, public-schools, schools, teachers

Sharon Guzik: A Much Needed Progressive Runs for Medford School Committee

October 30, 2009 By jimkiely1960

This year Medford finally has an opportunity to elect a progressive candidate to its school committee.  Since July, Sharon Guzik and her supporters have been walking the breadth of Medford to listen to residents' thoughts on the state … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: committee, election, guzik, medford, progressive, school, schools, volunteer, vote

Paul Reville, Patrick adminstration angers school committees

September 11, 2009 By Pablo

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deval-patrick, education, paul-reville, schools

McCrea Pitches Himself for Mayor

June 9, 2009 By massmarrier

Conventional wisdom has Menino walking away with the primary and election. He certainly has the bank account and foot soldiers. Contenders McCrea, Sam Yoon and Michael Flaherty each thinks he has a shot. Kevin intends to give it his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, corruption, crime, mayor, mccrea, open-meetings, schools

3rd Suffolk Podcast: Susan Passoni

March 10, 2009 By Ryan

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 09, 2009, 3rd-suffolk, beacon-hill, boston, education, gas, house, massachusetts, sal-dimasi, schools, state-legislature, susan-passoni, taxes

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