My commitment to public education is personal. I believe in the promise of excellent public education.
My father was a public school teacher. My mom and sister were public school librarians. My aunt was a public school social worker. My wife, Ann, is a public school social studies teacher and served on the Northampton School Committee. Our two children attend Northampton public schools.
I use the phrase “I have skin in the game” when I talk about my commitment. It’s far from ideological. It’s personal.
Please take a moment to look at the education bills I have filed and co-sponsored this session, which appear below.
Filed bills
Filed bills
- S.248: An Act evaluating additional educational assistance to school districts with low or declining enrollment
- S.249: An Act ensuring best practice incentives
- S.250: An Act adding a suicide prevention hotline number on student identification card
- S.741: An Act Committing to Higher Education the resources to Insure a Strong and Healthy public higher education system (CHERISH Act)
- S.2465: An Act quantifying the SPED Gap by comparing actual special education costs to current special education assistance
- S.2814: An Act responding to the COVID-19 emergency by instituting a moratorium of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System
Co-sponsored bills
Co-sponsored bills
- S.16: Proposal for a legislative amendment to the Constitution to provide resources for education and transportation through an additional tax on incomes in excess of one million dollars
- S.160: An Act establishing a student loan bill of rights
- S.236: An Act establishing a commission on regional school district foundation budgets
- S.238: An Act providing rightful opportunities and meaningful investment for successful and equitable education
- S.240: An Act relative to universal prekindergarten access
- S.244: An Act relative to mental health education
- S.263: An Act relative to healthy youth
- S.264: An Act to support health development among preschoolers
- S.267: An Act regarding breakfast after the bell
- S.285: An Act relative to safety and violence education for students (the SAVE Students Act)
- S.288: An Act relative to affordable and accessible high quality early education and care
- S.298: An Act relative to the financial impact of charter schools
- S.301: An Act establishing farm to school grants to promote healthy eating and strengthen the agricultural economy
- S.305: An Act ensuring language readiness in deaf and hard-of-hearing children entering kindergarten
- S.312: An Act stopping harm inflicted by the exploitation of life and development
- S.313: An Act relative to preventing sexual abuse of children and youth
- S.327: An Act concerning genocide education
- S.500: An Act ensuring safe drinking water in schools
- S.736: An Act requiring sexual misconduct climate surveys at institutions of higher education
- S.737: An Act to prevent bureaucratic overreach in the collection of student debt
- S.740: An Act providing access to higher education for high school graduates in the Commonwealth
- S.744: An Act to guarantee debt-free public higher education
- S.756: An Act creating higher education opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities, autism, and other developmental disabilities
- S.762: An Act relative to advance placement examinations
- S.764: An Act relative to sexual violence on higher education campuses
- H.774: An Act ensuring safe drinking water in schools
- H.1208: An Act requiring sexual misconduct climate surveys at institutions of higher education
- S.1487: An Act relative to the cost of living adjustment for state and teacher retirees
- S.1689: An Act encouraging employer student loan repayment
- S.2185: An Act ensuring fair funding for rural schools
- H.3756: An Act to increase student access to career technical education schools and programs which are aligned with regional labor market needs
