A while back I submitted the following oped to the Boston Globe. It was not selected for publication. I’ll leave it here as submitted and have more to say about it soon. The Globe covers numerous aspects of education but never explores the enabling force behind interest groups like Massachusetts Parents United or Parents Defending…
Category: Boston Globe Education
DFER, a Campaign Finance Bundler, Scores Op-ed in Boston Globe
A recent commentary in the Boston Globe by Mary Tamer, state director of Democrats for Education Reform Massachusetts, was notable in that you don’t see a newspaper cede op-ed space to political money “bundlers” every day. Note the quotation marks. I’m not calling DFER a bundler I’m quoting DFER’s former president calling DFER a bundler….
The Globe Keeps Missing a Huge Schools Issue. Why is That?
Suppose WalMart swept into Boston and spent millions to acquire Market Basket. The town would go ballistic. It would be covered every day in every media outlet, front page of the Boston Globe. But the Walton Family Foundation of Arkansas—the exact same heartless* mercenaries—spends millions of dollars to take over public schools and it gets…
Your Massachusetts Parents United Reader
This happened April 29. Boston Globe Education published a piece quoting Keri Rodrigues, president of the Walton backed AstroTurf front Massachusetts Parents United. A friend messaged me asking of the Globe “How are they so bad at this?” And my response was the Globe isn’t bad at this: it’s intentional. But just in case the…