A day after the Boston Globe reported that Gov. Charlie Baker would be speaking at a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition along with several conservative leaders, the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, which had proudly billed Baker as one of its keynote speakers at its inaugural April 26 "Best-of-the-Best" gala, elected to kick the popular Bay State governor to the curb.
It seems that the Massachusetts Secretary and Commissioner of Education do not think Bay State students should learn about their civic or literary heritage any more. The Secretary once did as chair of the state board of education in 2001 when he voted for the 2001 Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum Framework and in 2003 when he (and Governor Charlie Baker, then on the state board of education) voted for the 2003 Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework. But in 2016, they seem to have decided that the "roots of Western Civilization" have to go.
