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In light of the recent death of Massachusetts education commissioner Mitchell Chester, many Bay State non-partisan parent-based volunteer organizations are issuing a call to Governor Charlie Baker. Many of us participated actively in collecting more than 130,000 certified signatures for a ballot question asking voters to to repeal the
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Who wants regionalization of education authority, i.e., powerless local school committees or boards? So far as we can tell, USED is colluding with HUD to eliminate local school committees/boards in favor of regionalization of education authority.
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Sadly, the petition to continue Common Core in the Bay State or to replace it by the state's better pre-CC standards is not on the ballot for November 2016. But the 125,000 signatories of the Common Core petition have not disappeared from the ongoing education conversation. Parents
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— Written by Michael Gendre and Nicolas Sanchez In the recent book that we jointly wrote, "Aligning Values and Politics: Empowerment versus Entitlement" (University Press of America, 2016), we mention Barbara Anderson as the very first person deserving of our gratitude and acknowledgment. We did so for two reasons.
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In a lead article "Common Core ballot fight may head to court" by Statehouse reporter Christian M. Wade, the chief litigant against the ballot question, Linda Noonan, is quoted as saying that "Massachusetts deserves to have the best educational standards. We don't need Common Core-light.
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Before we win the fight against the inferior Common Core standards in Massachusetts, we need to prepare the Commonwealth, and potentially the country, for the aftermath of the disastrous experiment known as Common Core. The fight for an academically sound K-12 education will not end with the elimination of Common