Massachusetts Labor Party

N.E. Office: 515 Washington St., 3rd floor, Boston MA 02111 617-531-0901 Ed Bruno, organizer

Stronger Public Education

Campaign with the Labor Party to put a strong public education question on your district ballot this spring and to win a big "yes" vote this fall:

"Shall the Representative/Senator from this District support legislation that

• equitably invests state funds in local public schools for quality education;
• reduces class size;
• excludes use of voucher programs which siphon funds from public education;
• bars for-profit schools from public funding;
• suspends the MCAS test as the criterion for promotion or graduation; and
• establishes an authentic and fair assessment system of educational progress for our students and their schools?"

The Labor Party will run Public Education campaigns in the following districts:

• 28th Middlesex (Cambridge)-Jon King 617-864-0842
• 30th Middlesex (Somerville)-Bill Bumpus 617-625-9070 wbumpus@rcn.com
• 5th Hampden (Holyoke)-Preston Smith 413-538-2151
• 10th Suffolk (W. Roxbury/Brookline)-Seamus Whelan 617-469-8734
• 12th & 13th Bristol (New Bedford) Ben Gibarg 508-999-6839

Volunteer by calling or emailing the contacts listed above.

Useful Education Links:

Privatization of Education in Massachusetts

">Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education (CARE)
Student Coalition for Alternatives to the MCAS (SCAM)
Mass Parents
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest)
Massachusetts Teachers Association
MassRefusal.org
A useful piece on accountability