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"According to state data released last month, 1 in 4 Massachusetts public high school students are enrolled in some form of technical education (excluding “early college”)."
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Fun fact: The federal endowment tax applies only to colleges with over $500,000 in wealth per student. If colleges subject to the current endowment tax let in enough more students, they could escape the tax entirely. @ezraklein@mattyglesias@willfaustin https://t.co/91jaMZjeix
"Question 2 appears to be yet another data point documenting a major political realignment in this country. Higher educational attainment has become a significant marker for how many people identify politically and vote." -@willfaustin https://t.co/XLGVIcaMMH
“Setting clear goals, public leadership, creating monitoring systems, reinforcing culture, celebrating success, and empowering individual schools does not fit on a bumper sticker. But that is how you drive change.” - @willfaustin. https://t.co/UjyfZ2jkA2
Any intervention in response to recent MCAS results will go only so far without students frequently participating in class, writes @willfaustin. https://t.co/OhFARfe1hJ
I’m voting No on 2 because no matter the community, every child deserves the highest quality education.
If Question 2 passes, we'll become one of two states that don’t have a statewide standard for graduation. The only standard remaining would be four years of gym.
There is an uncomfortable but true trade-off: Whatever real or perceived value of safety a cellphone may bring, it will most definitely mean a child will do worse in school academically and socially, writes @willfaustin. https://t.co/WmgRgJ3qxK
"Closing the summer access gap is a potential path to closing achievement and opportunity gaps." Research shows that youth who attend 80% of summer programming will see better outcomes. We're honored to be featured in this piece by @willfaustin.
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Page 2. https://t.co/WssxNRIFln. Even on a spot check, there are schools with no invitations where applicants averaged a B. No doubt, the GPA requirement means fewer students qualify but it doesn’t explain the total difference.
@willfaustin Very interesting - didn’t the number of applicants from Year Z of the old policy to Year 1 of the new policy approximately halve? (Without looking it up, something like 2,200 -> 1,200?)
If you could point to where that data appears in the court record, would love to review it.
I thought the same thing! But when I extrapolated from the GPA data provided for the 2021 court case, I found that the vast majority of students in the former admission system had B averages are higher, too. Thank you for amplifying my work!
Although Will’s op-ed in @GlobeOpinion gets the big things right, it misses the real reason exam school applications are down. Under the old system, any student - even academically poor ones - could apply. The new GPA minimum weeds out a lot of no-chance applicants.
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Thank you to the @BosSchoolsFund who announced Wednesday at the Rafael Hernandez School the first recipients of the PEAK investment, which is part of a $2.3M initiative over the next three years. Among these recipients are the @hernandezK8sch, @SamuelAdamsEB, and @SumnerBPS