May 7, 2013
At a hearing today at the State House, MBAE Executive Director Linda Noonan testified that the Legislature should raise the cap on charter schools and […]
March 25, 2013
It has become a truism to say that schools are the only sector that citizens of 2013 could visit that would look like they did […]
November 20, 2012
Data is an essential tool for teachers and school leaders as they work to bring about positive student learning outcomes. Last year MBAE Board Member […]
September 19, 2012
Although many of us tuned in this week to learn the results of the 2012 MCAS exams and were pleased to find continued growth in […]
September 11, 2012
In his opinion column in The New York Times, Tom Friedman wrote again about how the game has changed and how Americans have to be prepared […]
June 27, 2012
Reports Spotlight Need to Better Prepare Students for Careers Education is an economic issue. Simply put, today’s students are tomorrow’s workforce. Two reports released yesterday […]
June 7, 2012
It is good news that Stand for Children and the Massachusetts Teachers Association have come up with a legislative proposal that both organizations can support […]
March 9, 2012
With the introduction this week of a new state-sponsored website that tracks each New York school districts progress on implementing teacher evaluation, Governor Andrew Cuomo […]
January 23, 2012
The connection between education and economic development is one that employers have emphasized for many years. In fact, it is the reason MBAE exists – […]
May 25, 2011
In a Washington Post ranking of public high schools that most effectively prepare students for college, the schools ranked #1 and #2 in Massachusetts were […]
April 21, 2011
MBAE’s December 2010 study, “School Funding Reality: A Bargain Not Kept“, revealed that all of the $700 million in new Chapter 70 school aid from […]
April 12, 2011
This morning, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education and The Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, held the second in a series of three […]
March 18, 2011
For the past seven months, a 40-member Task Force has been working to recommend a new teacher evaluation system to the Board of Elementary and […]
March 14, 2011
MBAE Board Members and staff were treated to an inspiring tour of the Boston Renaissance Charter Public School recently that reminded me of why it […]
December 9, 2010
This morning, MBAE issued School Funding Reality: A Bargain Not Kept, our report on school funding and spending trends in Massachusetts. We did the study […]
December 3, 2010
The December 1 deadline has passed, and not one new municipality or school district signed on to provide employee health benefits through the state’s Group […]
August 30, 2010
As the Deputy Director at MBAE, one of the main projects has been tracking, evaluating, and summarizing the education stimulus programs of which Race to […]