Last week our family fished in the mazes of mangroves in Southwest Florida with perhaps the best guide in the area. The operation is nothing fancy — just a small boat and a lot (30 years) of experience. He's never had a website, doesn't use social media and is only reachable by cell phone. If you get voice mail, there's no personalized greeting.
Yet this guide is typically booked out for two years. We only lucked into hearing about an opening several months ago.
BOSTON – Criticism that charter schools divert money away from Boston's district schools obscures what has actually occurred, according to a study from an independent research organization, deflating a rallying cry used by opponents of expanding the number of the privately run, publicly funded institutions in the city.
But instead of charters, the biggest drain on Boston's school budget is overcapacity and the district's "failure to reduce seats in a timely manner," a problem that cost the city at least $21.5 million in fiscal 2015 alone, the study from the Boston Municipal Research Bureau asserts.
