Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies No sooner did the Supreme Judicial Court shoot down the “millionaires’ tax” referendum question last week than the Mass legislature rammed a so-called grand bargain bill (H 4640) through both chambers. A move aimed at shoring up tax revenue threatened by […]
CAPITALIST VETO
Popular “millionaires’ tax” referendum question blocked by a pro-business SJC The Fair Share Amendment—better known as the “millionaires’ tax”—that would have gone before voters this November as a statewide referendum question was shot down this week by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). So the effort to increase taxes on people making $1 […]
MASS WIRE: TOUGHER TESTS DON’T IMPROVE TEACHING QUALITY
A new study, that includes two unidentified Massachusetts school districts, found when tougher tests were used in districts that already had higher quality teaching, the test-prep instruction was of a lower quality than regular classroom lessons.
‘LEGISLATORS UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE UNDER-FUNDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY ALMOST $2 BILLION A YEAR’
“ReThinking” MA High-Stakes Testing
THE FIREBRAND: AN INTERVIEW WITH MTA PRESIDENT BARBARA MADELONI
“It’s painful to be a teacher right now.”
SPECIAL QUESTION 2 PRIMER: THE CHARTER THEY COME
I’ve been exposing school privatization in Mass since 2008. These are my stories…
