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Making Every Student Count

Accurately counting low-income and English Language Learner students, who are more likely to require a diverse array of academic and social resources to succeed in ...
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Video Explainer: Building an Education System that Works for Everyone

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Towards Equity: School Funding Reform in Massachusetts

Massachusetts benefits when all our children receive quality educational experiences in school that allow them to lead successful, fulfilling, and productive lives. Creating an education ...
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Testimony Before Joint Committee on Higher Education on S.744/H.1221, “An Act to Guarantee Debt-Free Public Higher Education”

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Testimony to the Joint Committee on Revenue on the Need to Invest in Education and Transportation

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A Promise of Equity: Designing a Debt-Free Higher Education Program That Works for Everyone

As Massachusetts considers several proposals to make college tuition-and-fee-free or debt-free, this paper looks at how different design elements of such a guarantee could affect ...
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Investment in After-School & Summer Learning in Massachusetts: Current Funding & Unmet Need

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Building an Education System that Works for Everyone: Funding Reforms to Help All Our Children Thrive

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Educated and Encumbered: Student Debt Rising with Higher Education Funding Falling in Massachusetts

Organized as a series of charts, this paper details major trends since Fiscal Year 2001 in state support for our public colleges and universities in ...
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Funding Improvements for Schools, Roads, and Public Transit with Tax Reforms that Improve Fairness

A ballot question has been proposed that would support investments in education and transportation with revenue from an additional 4% tax on income over a ...
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