My Turn: We must cherish public higher education
UMass campus in Amherst.
Published: 5/26/2021 4:45:14 PM
In words unchanged since 1780, the education clause of our state’s Constitution reads that “[i]t shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish… the public schools and grammar schools in the towns.”
Is the Legislature living up to this constitutional mandate? Not yet.
Per-student state funding for public higher education fell 31% from 2001 through 2019, driving up tuition and fees and mounting student debt.
The CHERISH Act (S.824 and H.1325 An Act to commit to higher education the resources to ensure a strong and healthy public higher education system), which I filed with Reps. Sean Garballey and Paul Mark, draws its inspiration from our constitutional obligation. Co-sponsored by upward of 90 House and Senate colleagues, the bill would require the commonwealth to fund public higher education at no less
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Dear Jo with Sen. Jo Comerford: We must cherish public higher education
UMass campus in Amherst.
Published: 5/25/2021 1:16:15 PM
In words unchanged since 1780, the education clause of our state’s Constitution reads that “[i]t shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish… the public schools and grammar schools in the towns.”
Is the Legislature living up to this constitutional mandate? Not yet.
Per-student state funding for public higher education fell 31% from 2001 through 2019, driving up tuition and fees and mounting student debt.
The CHERISH Act (S.824 and H.1325 An Act to commit to higher education the resources to ensure a strong and healthy public higher education system), which I filed with Reps. Sean Garballey and Paul Mark, draws its inspiration from our constitutional obligation. Co-sponsored by upward of 90 House and Senate colleagues, the bill would require the commonwealth to fund public higher
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