BOSTON — A veritable "who's-who" roster of Beacon Hill's most powerful Democrats — along with a handwritten note of encouragement from Gov. Charlie Baker — made themselves heard at an anti-hate rally held Monday morning at the foot of the State House.
"We've said this more than once in Boston's history — love wins, love wins equality, love wins civil rights, and love certainly defeats hate," Boston Mayor Marty Walsh proclaimed at the outset of the rally, organized by the Anti-Defamation League of New England.
Little birds are flying around everywhere these days, tweeting "school choice" as the last hope for education reform. We find it praised on the editorial pages of Education Next, in a book by DC-based self-styled education policy expert Chester Finn, and by Donald J. Trump, the next president of the United States.
"Choice" was the slogan for a question on the November ballot in Massachusetts asking voters to loosen the cap on charter schools in the state. (It went down in flames). But "school choice" fails to address the type of choice most parents today might desire: classroom choice—a choice of classroom type, not choice of school management.
