BOSTON — A week after a Supreme Judicial Court ruling delivered a fatal blow to their efforts to put the future of Common Core educational standards into the hands of voters, the woman who spearheaded the doomed ballot initiative said she's only just begun to consider what the next step will be.
"Even though the wound is still fresh, and you would think people would not want to go through this again, I've received hundreds of emails and messages from parents who don't want to quit," said Donna Colorio, a member of the Worcester School Committee, who along with an army of volunteers gathered more than 100,000 signatures – more than enough to secure the question on the 2016 ballot.
BOSTON — City Councilor Tito Jackson and former Democratic state Rep. Marty Walz engaged in what was at times a heated debate Tuesday over Question 2, which will ask voters state-wide this November whether to lift the cap on public charter schools.
Although the impact of the November vote will be felt across the state, the debate held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Boston was noticeably Boston-centric. When Jackson argued that the ballot question represents an unfunded mandate that the city will be struggle to afford, Walz countered that Boston Public Schools currently "spend more per pupil than any of the 100 largest school districts in America."
