Governor Deval Patrick has signed a bill to allow superintendents in poorly performing Massachusetts schools to impose major policy changes; charter school operators can double the number of seats in low-scoring districts; and the state may have drawn closer to $250 million in federal funding with yesterday's bill signing. The bill is aimed at reducing educational disparities along demographic fissures.
During a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day bill-signing, where several speakers invoked the civil rights icon's memory in praising the bill, Governor Deval Patrick said he was "most excited" with the innovation schools created under the bill, intending to allow administrative flexibility at traditional public schools.
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