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Summer is an opportunity to reflect, reset, and look ahead to how leaders can make improvements as early as this fall.

Teacher credentials, protection for political advocacy, paid leave for union work & education tax credits are among the issues unions are focused on.

School’s out, or almost out, making it an appropriate time to pay attention to the locations where teachers unions are even more active than they are in the classroom: state legislatures. There have been GOP efforts in some states to curtail union influence. The most prominent of these is to prohibit school districts from deducting […]

If 20 years haven’t brought us to where we want to be, then we need to think about changing things.

Changing student demographics, including a growing number of English learners, is causing Massachusetts educators to question the value of the traditional testing regime.

Hearst Connecticut Media. June 1, 2023.

All the world’s a stage, an English fella once said. And the Senate was quite the stage last week.

The new coalition is focused on improving the exam, not ending it as a graduation requirement.

The proposal would also change how Massachusetts handles the state's most troubled schools.

Educators, parents, and students gathered to advocate for legislation that would eliminate the use of MCAS test scores for graduation requirements and the state’s ability to take over local schools.