BOSTON – In an emotionally charged gymnasium filled with parents and bureaucrats, the state's education board voted narrowly on Tuesday to revoke the charter of Dorchester Collegiate Academy Charter School.
It appeared Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Mitchell Chester's recommendation might deadlock before the board until member Michael Moriarty raised his hand to tip the balance in a 6 to 4 decision. He told the News Service he made up his mind how to vote when the vote was called.
BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker, who plans "a lot of level funding" in his second annual budget, said that by fiscal 2018 he will have weaned state government off the use of one-time revenue sources to balance spending.
"We need to do all we can to make sure we do live within our means because at some point, I don't know when that will be, we'll all have to tighten our belts a little bit to deal with a turndown in the economy and we better be prepared for that and not be sitting there with five, six, seven, eight hundred million dollars in one-time revenue sources that aren't going to be there," Baker told reporters on Tuesday after speaking at a luncheon for the Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers.
