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On June 3, my team and I faced a potentially impossible task: I was Chairing a hearing of the Joint Committee on Higher Education, at the exact same time two […]

On Friday, April 25, I had the distinct pleasure and privilege of giving a keynote speech at “Policy in Action: I Am a Policy Maker, Now What?” an event hosted […]

On March 31, I was honored to share a few words with the new inductees to the Pi Sigma Alpha organization at UMass Amherst, which is the National Honors Society […]

On March 24, I had the opportunity to host and Chair a Joint Committee on Ways and Means hearing at UMass Amherst focused on the education and local aid funding […]

On Wednesday, October 2, I joined Governor Maura Healey, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Senate President Karen Spilka, Senate Ways & Means Chair Michael Rodrigues, Executive Office of [...]

The following is important news about the FAFSA application and financial aid in Massachusetts which I shared with superintendents. Please feel free to use these advocacy materials in your own [...]

During the Ways and Means hearing I co-chaired with Representative Andy Vargas at Greenfield Community College in early March, we heard comprehensive testimony from Healey-Driscoll Administration [...]

On February 10, an article listing 11 places in Massachusetts that could be ghost towns by 2100 came across my desk. Five of these 11 towns are in Franklin County. […]

This session we are going to make community college free in Massachusetts. It’s an incredible opportunity, and a very complex policy that we have to get right. As Senate Chair […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      CONTACT  Sarah Blodgett, Office of Senate President Karen E. Spilka  Sarah.Blodgett@masenate.gov   Sean Fitzgerald, Office of Senator Michael J. Rodrigues  [...]