Next state Secretary of Education has "a deep and varied background in public education"
Next state Secretary of Education has "a deep and varied background in public education"
MTA President Max Page and Vice President Deb McCarthy issued the following statement regarding Governor-elect Maura Healey’s appointment of Dr. Patrick Tutwiler to be the next state Secretary of Education:
We are pleased that Governor-elect Maura Healey has appointed a Secretary of Education who has a deep and varied background in public education. We fully expect Dr. Patrick Tutwiler to bring a new vision to the office, one fully rooted in the public education community.
Following the historic passage of the Fair Share Amendment, our members and our broad coalition have the funding to win the transformative investments in public higher education laid out by the Higher Ed for All campaign and to build on the Student Opportunity Act’s reinvestment in preK-12 public education.
We also have an opportunity to shift away from the Baker administration’s punitive use of high-stakes standardized testing and to instead focus on educating the whole child.
The 115,000 members of the MTA stand ready to partner with Secretary Tutwiler in creating a public education system in Massachusetts that respects all educators and that is robust, equitable, and accessible for every learner, from the earliest ages through college and life-long learning, regardless of where they live, their age, their income, their race, gender or ethnicity.