Tuesday, January 10, 2012 -- For Immediate Release
BOSTON – The Senate on Tuesday took decisive action to end mismanagement and financial abuses at the Commonwealth’s education collaboratives, which help teach children with special needs, Sonia Chang-Díaz announced. With a unanimous vote, ...
Legislation Will Increase Transparency, Set Clear Standards
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 -- For Immediate Release
BOSTON—The Joint Committee on Education today reported out favorably a bill aiming to improve the fiscal accountability of Massachusetts’ network of education collaboratives.
“The Committee has worked hard to craft a bill that a...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 -- For Immediate Release
Boston – On the last day of formal session for the year, the Massachusetts Legislature passed the Transgender Equal Rights bill. Gov. Deval Patrick, a vocal proponent of the legislation, has already pledged to sign the bill into law, which means ...
BOSTON—Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz, Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Education, filed legislation today to improve the governance and fiscal accountability of Massachusetts’ network of educational collaboratives. The bi...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 -- For Immediate Release
BOSTON – Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz, Rev. Hurmon Hamilton, Mel King, John B. Cruz and others spoke out in support of S. 1568, An Act to Create Equitable Jobs Access, on Tuesday, October 18 at the State House. Massachusetts state agencies ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 -- For Immediate Release
September 27, 2011, BOSTON - Teachers, students, parents, and elected officials from cities and towns around Massachusetts testified in support of S. 185, An Act Preventing Students from Dro...
Monday, September 26, 2011 -- For Immediate Release
September 26, 2011, BOSTON--The Massachusetts Senate today voted to approve an amendment to help ensure that minority- and women-owned businesses (“MBEs and “WBEs”, respectively), as well as workers of color and women...
Thursday, August 25, 2011 -- For Immediate Release
BOSTON—The Special Commission on School District Collaboration and Regionalization submitted to the Legislature today a report containing a series of recommendations to support inter-district collaboration and regionalization.
“This report is the c...
BOSTON – Financial literacy legislation sponsored byState Senator Jamie Eldridge was given a favorable report today by the Joint Committee on Education. Senate Bill 204, “An Act Relative to Financial Litera...
BOSTON— The Massachusetts Legislature today passed a $30.59 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2012. The budget reduces the state’s FY12 Stabilization Fund draw by $15 million and closes a $1.9 billion budget gap with funding reductions,...
A legislative committee has begun crafting an omnibus bill to make changes to the state’s election laws, an aide to Election Laws Committee co-chair Sen. Barry Finegold told the News Service on Monday.
“Senator Finegold wanted me to let you know th...
More than 40 years have passed since the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but attendees at the recent MLK Memorial Breakfast were reminded why it’s important to remember his dream.
Hundreds of people gathered...
The MBTA is seeking to plug a budget hole by raising fares and cutting service—including weekend E Line subway/streetcar trips and most of the JP Loop bus service. The highest-ridership lines in Jamaica Pl...
A parade of 75 speakers, including many Jamaica Plain officials and residents, blasted the MBTA’s proposed fare hike and service cuts at a Roxbury Community College meeting last night.
FOREST HILLS— The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) may reach a decision on the future of the Casey Overpass in private this week, but it will not immediately hold a public meeting to an...
Prison sentence reforms—including a beefing-up of the so-called three strikes laws—recently passed by the state legislature are sparking controversy across the city and in Jamaica Plain.
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