We're at Bristol Community College (across the street from Fall River's new Durfee High project) for the Joint Committee on Ways and Means hearing on education accounts. This Committee is jointly chaired by Senator Michael Rodriguez of Westport and Representative Aaron Michelwitz of Boston. Note that generally the administration makes their pitch first, thus we'll hear early on from Lt. Governor Polito, Secretary Peyser, and the three Commissioners (early ed, K-12, and higher ed).
Posting once we start
Vice Chair Denise Garlick introduces Rep. Carole Fiola (of Fall River) and Sen. Jason Lewis (of Winchester, Assistant Vice-Chair), who will be co-chairing today.
President of Bristol Community College welcoming the joint committee...two members from Fall River School Committee and one from New Bedford School Committee here today
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
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:
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.
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.
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