SHOULD AN EIGHTH-GRADE student with a low grade-point average and/or low attendance, due to feeling disengaged from the school and curriculum, be excluded from enrolling in a Massachusetts vocational high school even though they may excel in a hands-on carpentry, plumbing, or electrician shop? That is the situation that currently exists in almost all of […]
Lew Finfer
Posted inEconomy
Unprecedented federal funding is chance to push for priorities
WE ALL WORRY, too many get sick, and all of us are limited by the COVID crisis. We all shudder at what might happen in the 2022 and 2024 elections. But meanwhile, an unprecedented amount of federal money has come to each state, each city and town, and each school system in the US. And […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Tales from the legislative trenches
RESPONDING TO THE fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the Legislature recently passed and the governor signed an eviction and foreclosure moratorium law. It enables people who are unemployed or lost income to postpone paying their rent or mortgage for housing, or rent for a small business. They cannot be evicted or foreclosed on for 120 days or […]