What does last night mean for school funding?

While the big news (rightfully) this morning is Ayanna Pressley beating Michael Capuano in the Congressional race, the state rep races have implications for next steps on school funding:

In a stunning rebuke to House Speaker Robert DeLeo and his leadership team, Ways and Means Chairman Jeffrey Sanchez and Assistant Majority Leader Byron Rushing, both of Boston, lost their re-election campaigns, according to multiple Democratic sources.

(that's from State House News, so it's paywalled)

The races--particularly Nika Elugardo's race against Sanchez--have turned to a large degree on House inaction. The Safe Communities Act was certainly a big part of that, but lack of action on school funding was also part of it. The question these districts asked of Sanchez and Rushing was "great, you're in leadership, but what good is that doing your constituents?"

How this shakes out with the rest of the House turnover and what impact that has on House leadership next session remains to be seen. But losing seniority wasn't an argument that concerned people last night.
...as we saw from soon-to-be Congresswoman Pressley.

Rep. Capuano on federal education policy

Citizens for Public Schools' event tonight with Rep. Michael Capuano speaking on federal education policy
Capuano: "if you want to be an auto mechanic, you can be an auto mechanic"
"...nobody ever told me that there was such a thing as an AP test"
"I have no problem with tests...but I do have a problem with every child taking a test that will never be used in their lives"