BOSTON – Charter school expansion foes mobilized to announce organized opposition to a ballot question that would lift the cap on the number of the publicly funded institutions in Massachusetts, gathering outside the State House Wednesday to rally support.
The head of the group, Juan Cofield, who is also a regional leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, ratcheted up the rhetoric of inequality in his comments at the gathering, likening what he called a "dual-school system" to a form of segregation.
BOSTON – Supporters of an initiative to end the adoption of national Common Core education standards in Massachusetts pledged to obtain the petition signatures needed to put the issue before voters in November after lawmakers on Wednesday sent a similar legislative proposal to a study committee, where little action is expected.
"We're going to move forward," said Donna Colorio, a Worcester School Committee member and a leader of the ballot campaign, who spoke about the issue at a State House lobbying rally. "We're planning on getting our remaining 11,000 signatures. We will be doing a lot of education. We will be working in the communities to educate different people in the communities."
