The legislation released last week by Beacon Hill’s education committee approved yesterday by the state Senate was labeled the “Education Reform Act of 2009.”  That’s pretty grand language to live up to, but the bill largely does so, providing for the most sweeping set of changes since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993.  As Robert O’Leary, the Senate chairman of the joint education committee, said during

The bill would effectively double the number of seats in charter schools in the state’s most troubled school districts, give local school districts and, ultimately, the state education commissioner, broad powers to revamp schools in underperforming districts, and provide a means for all districts to embrace new innovations