New Education Commissioner Can Return Massachusetts To the Right Path If It’s the Right Pick

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 Common Core standards.  While this ballot question was stymied by the Gates Foundation and the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, its corporate shill, we vowed to continue our fight for academic choice and excellence in Massachusetts.

We are now calling Governor Baker to ask the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to appoint Jim Stergios, executive director of Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based nonpartisan research organization, as the next Massachusetts Commissioner of Education.