![]() ![]() ![]() Tap and go: The city of Boston, Google, Sanofi, and retailers at Assembly Row plan to pay for the rides that their 10,000 employees take on MBTA buses and subways. “As sure as MCAS scores prove nothing more than the income of the school district and the community, so, too, I can tell you we’ll be back here in the Legislature and the districts for as long as it takes to tear down the system you are perpetuating,” he said. He told the board members that true reform of the state’s educational system would require the removal of most of them. “We on the other hand have as a core belief that the purpose of schools must be to nurture thinking, caring, active, and committed adults, parents, community members, activists, citizens.” tied to the capitalist class and its needs for profit,” he declared. “The focus on income, on college and career readiness, speaks to a system. ![]() “We have a fundamental difference of view of what schools are for,” he said, dressed in a red Fair Share T-shirt. In testimony before the board, which was preparing to vote on increasing the MCAS scores needed to graduate, Page indicated he had no interest in an educational system preparing students for the world of work. The MTA is headed by Max Page, an on-leave professor of architecture at UMass Amherst, who served notice at an August 15 meeting of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that he and the teachers he represents are determined to dismantle the state’s current education system. The campaign in favor of Question 1 has focused on soaking the “super-rich,” some of whom, including New Balance chief Jim Davis and Paul and Sandy Edgerly, are contributing millions of their own to the opposing side. ![]()
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