OPENBoston: Opposing Privatization of EducatioN

05/19/2023

This! 🙌

10/28/2019

Probably already seen all this but here it is again. Massachusetts law / Pledge of Allegiance

Section 69. The school committee shall provide for each schoolhouse under its control, which is not otherwise supplied, flags of the United States of silk or bunting not less than two feet long, such flags or bunting to be manufactured in the United States, and suitable apparatus for their display a...

10/24/2019

The student Opportunity Act (or whatever the name of the bill was in the house) passed unanimously about half an hour ago. Goes to conference committee and then the house and the Senate vote on the final version but it looks like a slam dunk veto-proof thing. Congratulations to everyone they worked on this. It's been a long haul.

10/22/2019

This is what we want added back btw

A Sen. Patricia Jehlen amendment ( #17) removed the education commissioner’s authority to critique districts’ plans to close the achievement gap and require that districts revise plans found to be inadequate. Instead, the Senate endorsed language that says the commissioner “may recommend plan amendments.”

10/22/2019

Who is wrecking our chances of getting our kids the funding our schools require to educate all children?

The Wednesday vote in the House on the Education Funding bill is a crucial test for interest groups opposing the Senate version, and all of them are influenced or controlled by the Walton Family of…

04/29/2019

"It looks like the 2020 presidential primary is going to be the next battleground to divide and confuse Americans."

04/25/2019

StartSmart BPS is interested in learning a little more about the number of choices each family receives on their school choice forms. Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability to allow us to better understand the choice process.

02/05/2019

Technically, any charter school can call itself a public school. Heck, any private or parochial school can call itself a public school if it's so inclined. But while modern charter schools are financed by public tax dollars, they are not truly public schools.

12/30/2018

Hi gang. Wednesday is the swearing in of new legislators and the beginning of a new session on Beacon Hill. (also no school that day) I was thinking it might be a good time to remind the legislators that they NEED to pass a bill for adequate school funding. Have the entrances to the statehouse covered. I think BEJA will be there. Maybe MEJA too. Of course having the most people possible would make a bigger impression. I'm trying to find out what time would be a good time to be there. If anyone knows, that would be really helpful. If you're interested I'll be back with more information. Thanks. John

09/29/2017

Betsy DeVos comes to Haaaaaaaaaavaaad

US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to Harvard as part of a conference on school choice, less than a year after Massachusetts voters roundly defeated a ballot measure to expand charter schools.

01/05/2017

Missing in DeVos’s ideological embrace of choice for choice’s sake is any suggestion of the public school as a public good.