Students, parent activists and teachers took the stage to celebrate the defeat of Ballot Question 2, which called for a lift to the statewide
cap on charter school expansion — a victory that Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni said quashed efforts to privatize public education.
That prospect was clear this month in Massachusetts, when voters refused to agree to raise
a cap on charter school expansion, and Moody's, the rating agency, applauded the move, saying it would allow urban districts to maintain their current financial operations without added pressure from charters that could create virtually insurmountable money problems.
Meanwhile in the Empire State, the New York State United Teachers — an affiliate of both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — is already bearing its teeth in opposition to a set of proposals from state Assemblyman Sam Hoyt to end the state's ban on using test scores in evaluating the performance of probationary (pre-tenure) teachers and lift
the cap on charter school expansion.
Massachusetts voters are increasingly in favor legalizing recreational marijuana and keeping the state
cap on charter school expansion this November, according to the latest poll by WBUR and MassINC Polling Group released Wednesday.
Support for Question 2, which would lift the state's current
cap on charter school expansion, has remained static at 41 percent, while opposition has grown from 48 percent to 52 percent since last month's poll.
Not exact matches
And there's plenty of substance for the president to brag about: Forty - six states and the District of Columbia signed
on to rigorous common standards; dozens of states got serious about teacher evaluations; key jurisdictions removed
caps on charter -
school expansion.
On November 8, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to lift the cap on charter schools, eliminating a major constraint on charter school formation and expansion in the Commonwealt
On November 8, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to lift the
cap on charter schools, eliminating a major constraint on charter school formation and expansion in the Commonwealt
on charter schools, eliminating a major constraint
on charter school formation and expansion in the Commonwealt
on charter school formation and
expansion in the Commonwealth.
On tap for 2014: With the cap gone on the number of charter schools that can exist in the state, expect more charter operators to look toward North Carolina as fertile ground for expansion effort
On tap for 2014: With the
cap gone
on the number of charter schools that can exist in the state, expect more charter operators to look toward North Carolina as fertile ground for expansion effort
on the number of
charter schools that can exist in the state, expect more
charter operators to look toward North Carolina as fertile ground for
expansion efforts.