Massachusetts has cut its higher education funding by an inflation-adjusted 14 percent since 2001, as both tuition and fees and student debt have increased, a new report found. The declining support for the University of Massachusetts system, four-year state universities and two-year community colleges comes amidst “growing importance” of public higher education to the state’s […]

PERSONNEL FILE – TUESDAY, DEC. 13, 2016 STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Boston Teachers Union President RICHARD STUTMAN is retiring, he announced Tuesday morning. “Except for four years in college, I have been in the BPS in one capacity or another since 1955 when I entered kindergarten at the Lyndon School with Miss Clifford and left […]

Senate President Stanley Rosenberg hinted at 2017 agenda items Tuesday, highlighting climate change, housing, education funding, and economic issues for low- and middle-income families while not dismissing the possibility of raising taxes to help pay for those initiatives. “We still have some huge needs around housing and homelessness, we haven’t done a multi-year commitment to […]