Information - Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education

August 15, 2023

2024 State Budget Features Big Investments in Education, Student Pathways

The Commonwealth’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget, signed by Governor Healey on August 9, 2023, includes investments in key education policy initiatives over the next year. The legislature and Governor Healey continue to demonstrate their commitment to growing impactful education programs […]

May 12, 2022

2021 Impact Report: Key Accomplishments and Driving the Work Ahead

As MBAE transitions to a new membership business model, we have spent considerable time meeting with employers and learning that workforce is a primary area of concern, diversity and inclusion are a top priority, and equitable educational opportunities is a […]

April 13, 2021

MBAE Brings on Director of Membership

MBAE is pleased to announce that Karen Clawson Cosmas has joined our team as our first ever Director of Membership. Karen comes to MBAE with a diverse professional background and experience including in politics, non-profit communications and fundraising, and consulting. […]

November 23, 2020

Choosing A Return to Better: New Report and December 9th Event

The COVID-19 pandemic is necessitating a reinvention of teaching and learning that could serve as a defining moment in education that can minimize student learning loss now, and bring about long-term, sustainable improvements that lead to better opportunities and outcomes […]

October 31, 2020

Early College is a tangible equity and recovery strategy

Out of the 11.6 million jobs created in the post-Great recession economy, 11.5 million went to workers with at least some college education, and 8.4 million of these went to workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to the […]

February 11, 2020

Early College: Supporting a proven strategy for boosting college completion

Commissioner Jeff Riley announced last week that Early College is one of three priority strategies he’d like to see districts adopt as part of the three-year plans they are required to develop to close equity and opportunity gaps. While relatively […]

January 7, 2020

MJ Ryan from Partners HealthCare Joins MBAE Board of Directors

The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education elected MJ Ryan, Sr. Director for Workforce Development and Economic Opportunity for Partners HealthCare, to our Board of Directors. MJ is the current Chair of the Boston Health Care Careers Consortium and a member […]

October 17, 2019

House must restore accountability language in ed funding bill; add focus on college and career readiness

Next week, the Massachusetts House will take up the Student Opportunity Act, a bill that has the potential to greatly improve equity and student readiness for future success if funds are deployed strategically by districts. Senate amendments to the bill […]

October 10, 2019

BayCoast Bank’s President and CEO Joins MBAE Board

Nicholas Christ, President and CEO of BayCoast Bank, was elected to the board of directors of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE). BayCoast is a community bank serving SouthCoast Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Mr. Christ has over 40 years […]

September 18, 2019

Find out how your district distributes funding to schools

MBAE created the School Spending Explorer to enable users to compare school spending within and across districts to determine whether schools are getting equitable funding and to evaluate the relationship between spending and outcomes. Learn about funding in your schools […]

August 6, 2019

Biz Asks Commissioner to Ensure New Funds Follow Students

The substantial increase in school funding made in the 2020 budget, the largest increase in Chapter 70 and other state aid for education in over a decade, combined with two previous years of increases, amount to a significant “down payment” […]

June 12, 2019

Business Groups Detail Elements of School Funding Reform Bill

Today, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education delivered a letter to every legislator with a list of five elements we want to see included in the final school funding reform bill. The letter was signed by our statewide business partners […]

June 10, 2019

K-12 student enrollment trends in Massachusetts: Second in a series on school funding

In our last post, we showed that state and local spending on public K-12 education in Massachusetts is about the same as what we spend on MassHealth, the largest item in the state budget each year. According to state law, […]

February 14, 2019

40+ Legislators Sponsor Bill that Expands Student Opportunity to Earn Industry-Recognized Credentials

More than forty legislators, led by State Representative Jeff Roy, have signed H.567 a bill that will expand opportunities for students to earn industry-recognized credentials (IRCs) in high school. IRCs are used by employers to certify that an applicant is […]

September 25, 2018

Changes at MBAE

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I’m often told how critical MBAE’s voice is in our state’s efforts to deliver the high quality education every child deserves. We’re known for rejecting the status quo when it is failing, challenging the system to […]

August 1, 2018

Legislature Fails to Reach Consensus on School Spending

There were high expectations that the legislature would act on findings of the 2015 Foundation Budget Review Commission (FBRC) to adjust the foundation budget for health insurance, special education, English Language Learners and low income students to increase funding by […]

July 23, 2018

MBAE Participates in Regional Effort to Identify High-Value Credentials

MBAE is pleased to participate in a recently launched initiative from the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) to identify high-value credentials in key growth industries and make this information more readily available to the public via the Credential […]

June 27, 2018

Increasing Access and Equity in Computer Science

The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) has taken long overdue action to expand access to computer science with a vote at its June 26 meeting letting districts count computer science courses for graduation. The courses must include rigorous […]

June 27, 2018

Ed Secretary Meets with MBAE Affiliates

MBAE affiliates met with Secretary of Education Jim Peyser on Wednesday to discuss affiliate priorities and the Baker Administration’s agenda, in a discussion that focused on empowering educators to drive school improvement, increasing student exposure to growing industries while still […]

May 30, 2018

A Model for School Funding Reforms

The Denver Public School’s recently released budget document, the Budget Transparency Guidebook, provides detailed information about how the district spends its money, breaking down how much goes directly to schools, how much is spent centrally and for what services, and […]