Maura Healey on Education

	Maura Healey on Education

Literacy Launch: make Massachusetts first in literacy

Tonight, I am announcing Literacy Launch. Over the next five years, backed by budget investments, we will make the best reading materials available to more districts. Schools using the right materials are seeing major gains. We can bring that impact to every classroom. We will also mandate that educator training programs teach evidence-based instruction. Massachusetts is home to the first public school, first college, and first library. We are going to be first in literacy, too. Source: 2024 State of the State Address to the Mass. legislature , Jan 17, 2024

Pandemic requires additional support for public schools

The right to a public education is constitutionally protected in Massachusetts, and Healey said in order to honor that right, the current system needs additional money from the federal government--with protections for public schools over private schools. "I don't know why we don't recognize that fundamentally as a society, not only it's the right thing to do, it's just bedrock to building the kind of community, economy and state that we aspire to by supporting education." Source: WGBH (NPR Radio) on 2022 Massachusetts Gubernatorial race , Jun 23, 2022

Opposed ballot measure expanding number of charter schools

Maura is a longtime advocate for equitable funding for our public schools and improved behavioral health services for our students. She supported the Student Opportunity Act, which provides more equitable funding for our school districts. She opposed the 2016 ballot measure that would have drained millions from our public schools by expanding the number of charter schools in the state. Source: 2022 Massachusetts Governor campaign website MauraHealey.com , Jun 7, 2022

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