November 19, 2019
MBAE Statement on the Conference Committee’s Education Funding Legislation November 19, 2019 – The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education is pleased that the conference committee […]
November 7, 2019
MBAE sent the following letter to state lawmakers this week as a conference committee debates a final school funding reform bill. Dear Legislator, The Student […]
November 4, 2019
A recent opinion piece in The Hill by Allison Scott and Julie Flapan makes an excellent case for expanding access to computer science education, a […]
October 17, 2019
Next week, the Massachusetts House will take up the Student Opportunity Act, a bill that has the potential to greatly improve equity and student readiness […]
October 10, 2019
Nicholas Christ, President and CEO of BayCoast Bank, was elected to the board of directors of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE). BayCoast is […]
October 2, 2019
On Thursday, the Massachusetts Senate will debate the most important legislation dealing with our state’s education system in more than twenty-five years. An Act Relative […]
September 20, 2019
On September 19, the Massachusetts legislature announced the Student Opportunity Act, a school funding reform bill that will increase spending on public education by $1.5 […]
September 18, 2019
MBAE created the School Spending Explorer to enable users to compare school spending within and across districts to determine whether schools are getting equitable funding […]
September 10, 2019
(BOSTON) September 10, 2019 – Organized by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, business groups from nearly every corner of the state visited the offices […]
August 6, 2019
The substantial increase in school funding made in the 2020 budget, the largest increase in Chapter 70 and other state aid for education in over […]
July 16, 2019
Click the image below to watch this interview with MBAE Executive Director Ed Lambert, Jr. on why the hotly-debated school funding issue is important to […]
June 12, 2019
Today, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education delivered a letter to every legislator with a list of five elements we want to see included in […]
June 10, 2019
In our last post, we showed that state and local spending on public K-12 education in Massachusetts is about the same as what we spend […]
May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019 – Governor Baker attended a convening of more than 150 business and civic leaders this morning to show his support for their […]
April 20, 2019
The 2020 House Budget puts down another marker in the debate about school funding reform. It does not differ considerably from the Governor’s budget on […]
February 14, 2019
More than forty legislators, led by State Representative Jeff Roy, have signed H.567 a bill that will expand opportunities for students to earn industry-recognized credentials […]
January 25, 2019
MBAE believes the Governor’s education budget and legislative proposal is a positive step toward achieving the goals we’ve stated of: 1) equitable funding, and 2) […]
December 19, 2018
The Quincy Chamber of Commerce became the latest business group to join MBAE’s fast-growing business affiliate network that now includes 31 chambers of commerce and […]
December 13, 2018
December 13, 2018 – Responding to growing demands to increase state education funding, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education and members of our business affiliate […]
October 16, 2018
New research by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Three Educational Pathways to Good Jobs, finds that two out of three jobs […]