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Election roundup: Charter schools, District 8 forum and a look back at America's most corrupt politician
By adamg on Thu, 09/12/2013 - 8:40am
The Globe reports the mayoral forum sponsored by the Boston Teachers Union was just what you'd expect: Candidates opposed to expanding the cap on charter schools (Consalvo, Ross, Yancey and Arroyo) got a much warmer reception than those who didn't (Connolly, Walsh, Walczak and Barros, with the strongest charter supporter of them all - Conley - not present). Golar Richie continued her position of not really taking a position on the issue.
Marjorie Eagan declares Charlotte Golar Richie our next mayor, well, assunming she gets into the final.
Two of the three Conguys - Connolly and Conley - would fight an Everett casino. Walsh and Ross say they're not happy City Hall decided not to fight to get Boston declared a casino war zone "host community," given the impact on Charlestown. Still no word from any candidates if they feel the same way about Suffolk Downs and Winthrop.
Over at CommonWealth, James Aloisi (yes, that James Aloisi) begins a series on what we can learn from pre-Menino mayoral elections, you know, like back in the 1800s. Over at MassPoliticsProfs, Maurice T. Cunningham looks at the election of 1925, which he says involved "America's most corrupt politician" - and no, he's not talking about Curley.
The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay holds a forum tonight for the five candidates running to replace Mike Ross. Starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Rabb Lecture Hall at the Copley Square library.
Bonus fun fact: While there are five candidates in District 8, there are eight candidates in District 5.
The Dorchester Reporter introduces us to the three people running against Charles Yancey in Yancey's other race, to keep his seat as District 4 city councilor.
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Golar Richie
What's her angle? I have a better read on most of the other 'real' candidates in terms of some of their focus and ideas (Rob Consalvo is going to ... do things!) but Golar Richie just seems to be running for mayor, inoffensively as possible. I can see why her backers tried to get Barros to drop out (without her knowledge, allegedly.)
5 in D8 and 8 in D5
yes, but originally 6 made the D8 ballot... Rich Giordano, who then dropped out because he got a job he had been trying to get for a couple years. I think there were also 9 certified in D5 but one dropped out.
The Boston Teacher's Union is
The Boston Teacher's Union is about teacher benefits first. The kids and eduction are secondary.
The charter schools have them shaking in their flip flops. That's cause the charter schools show money doesn't necessarily mean results.
Crazy talk! Next thing you'll
Crazy talk! Next thing you'll tell us is that there are way too many administrators for too few teachers and than a large number of students are unnecessary being classified as special needs.
BPS
Boston Public Schools is the best urban public school system in the nation. People should be ashamed of teacher bashing. 3/4 of the kids in our schools are from poor families and 40% are ELL. These are the biggest challenges BPS teachers and students face.
I think Cambridge Public Schools may disagree
But BPS prob is better than a lot of urban districts.