Michael Jonas
Executive Editor at CommonWealth
Executive Editor of CommonWealth Beacon, which covers politics, ideas, and civic life in Massachusetts
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1 week ago |
commonwealthbeacon.org | Michael Jonas
THE GOVERNOR proposes, the Legislature disposes. So goes the saying that points to who ultimately wields power on Beacon Hill. On most issues, lawmakers can have the final say. That’s true for things introduced by the governor, but it also extends to other players in state government. A case in point is the ongoing debate over vocational high school admission policies, which a top House official is suddenly looking to upend through one legislative lever or another.
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1 week ago |
newsfromthestates.com | Michael Jonas
THE GOVERNOR proposes, the Legislature disposes. So goes the saying that points to who ultimately wields power on Beacon Hill. On most issues, lawmakers can have the final say. That’s true for things introduced by the governor, but it also extends to other players in state government. A case in point is the ongoing debate over vocational high school admission policies, which a top House official is suddenly looking to upend through one legislative lever or another.
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2 weeks ago |
commonwealthbeacon.org | Michael Jonas
AGAINST THE BACKDROP of the pandemic learning slump – which brought a further slide in already anemic reading proficiency rates for Massachusetts 3rd graders – advocates are redoubling their efforts behind legislation that would require all school districts in the state to use “evidence-based” literacy instruction in teaching early elementary grade students.
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4 weeks ago |
commonwealthbeacon.org | Michael Jonas
WHEN IT WAS her turn to testify last month to the state board of education before it voted on a proposal from KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School to add 450 seats, the school’s executive director, Nikki Barnes, tried to send a message before she even began to speak. “Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ‘round,” Barnes sang as she approached the microphone, unspooling several lines of an old spiritual that became one of the anthems of the US civil rights movement.
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1 month ago |
commonwealthbeacon.org | Michael Jonas
KITTY DUKAKIS, the wife of former governor Michael Dukakis, who brought an emotive yin to his often technocratic yang, died on Friday at their Brookline home. She was 88. The cause was complications of dementia, their son John said. She was a prominent presence throughout her husband’s public life, which included a record-setting 12 years as governor and serving as the Democratic nominee for president in 1988.
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