Yesterday, after not only its appointment but its first meeting, Governor Healey announced the formation and membership of her K-12 graduation council.
I do just first want to say that I dislike this thing where the Governor's office only announces things afterwards. It feels to me like an attempt to avoid critique.
Can we be blunt? The group is way too big to make meaningful recommendations.
More importantly, this group has some membership, alongside those you'd expect, that's gives some troubling insight into what voices she thinks need to be at the table on graduation.
Students, teachers, MASS, MASC, MTA, AFT, higher ed...great.
The business roundtable? MBAE (again)? Mass Taxpayers? Can we stop with "we educate children to become workers" already?
And the House minority really brought back Jim Peyser?
This continues my concern that the Governor herself doesn't have a lot of interest in public education, and is leaving it to the latter of the "Healey-Driscoll administration," whose history in Salem showed no great concern over the push for privatization.
Anyway, they're having listening sessions across the state, though those haven't been announced yet.
Just once I'd like someone setting something like this up in Massachusetts to cite the actual CONSTITUTIONAL reason we have education in Massachusetts. Until then, I guess you'll only see that on my sign at protests.
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