All Posts
A Well-Educated Workforce is Key to State Prosperity
Overwhelmingly, high-wage states are states with a well-educated workforce. Providing expanded access to high quality education will not only expand economic opportunity for residents, but ...
Read More →
Ed Reform at Twenty: What’s Worked, What’s Changed, and What’s Next
Twenty years ago this week, Massachusetts remade its education system to help ensure that all children across the Commonwealth would have the opportunity to thrive. ...
Read More →
Cuts to Early Education & Care in the House Budget for FY 2014
Quality Early Education & Care helps prepare kids for success in school and in life. The House budget would cut funding for Early Ed. & ...
Read More →
Public Higher Education in Massachusetts and the Governor’s FY 2014 Budget
Funding for higher education has been cut 31% since 2001. As part of a multi-year effort to restore a significant portion of those cuts, the ...
Read More →
Nurturing Kids, Supporting Families: Early Education & Care in the Massachusetts State Budget
Quality Early Education & Care can help prepare children for success in school and in life--while also giving parents the flexibility they need to find ...
Read More →
Early Education & Care in the Governor’s FY 2014 Budget
The Governor's proposal invests in early education in two broad ways: by expanding access to early education options and by seeking to improve the quality ...
Read More →
A First Look at the Governor’s Proposals on Education, Transportation, and Revenue
In recent days, the Governor has proposed: 1) increased funding for education; 2) fixes and improvements to our transportation system; 3) a revenue plan to ...
Read More →
Declines in Spending on Early Education & Care in Massachusetts
Under pressure from the recession and the large revenue losses that followed the tax cuts of the late 1990s and early 2000s, spending on early ...
Read More →
Public School Funding in Massachusetts: Where We Are, What Has Changed, and How We Compare to Other States
Per-pupil spending in Massachusetts is relatively high, but that the share of our total resources being devoted to education is actually lower than in most ...
Read More →
