Advantage Schools, Inc. & Gabrieli
Long before Gabrieli was a candidate for governor, the Boston Globe’s Scott S. Greenberger wrote a fascinating article about Advantage Schools, Inc. In the May 13, 2001 article, readers are told:...
View Article“Another market on the edge of change.”– Gabrieli
Flashback to my August 19 post connecting the dots of Gabrieli’s investments in Advantage Schools, and the Lexington Institute quote: While still a long way from achieving profitability, leading...
View ArticleChapter 40T, Special Development Districts, is back
Chapter 40T, left in limbo last year, is back (S146/H159) and moving through the legislature quickly; it's already out of the Community Development and Small Business committee and before the Bonding...
View ArticleThe ongoing canard about Fernald
In the years I worked for COFAR, I was never able to get the Globe or the media in general to understand that using a per-person cost figure at an institution like Fernald, without making an...
View ArticleThe Continuing Attack on Bureaucracy
I focused on Chapter 3 of Kamarck's book, titled “Democratic Accountability,” in which she lays out the basis of her argument that traditional bureaucracies have depended on adherence to rules and...
View ArticleWhy aren’t the candidates talking about our hollow government?
[Cross-posted from the Accountable Strategies blog] The book details how Halliburton has used $20 billion in public reconstruction funds to build “city-states” for the thousands of contractors that...
View ArticleFernald and the folly of unchecked privatization
By way of disclosure, I have been working as a consultant to The Fernald League for the Mentally Retarded, Inc., a nonprofit, family-run organization seeking to keep Fernald open. However, I’ve...
View ArticleAlleged union bashing by CEO of DDS provider confirms the plan is keep...
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) We hope a federal investigation of Triangle, Inc., a corporate provider to the Department of Developmental Services for alleged anti-union activity brings public...
View ArticleChannel 5 uncovers tip of the DDS system iceberg
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) A Channel 5 investigative report earlier this week disclosed that group homes and other providers of services to the developmentally disabled are often not...
View ArticleDDS appears to look the other way as provider illegally bans guardian from...
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) Despite a broadly worded state regulation that gives residents of state-funded facilities the right to be visited, a human services provider agency is upholding a...
View ArticleHas the Globe just shown a newfound, if inadvertent, support for the Pacheco...
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) Although we are an advocacy organization that focuses on human services, we have at times waded into the ongoing controversy over the operation of the MBTA in...
View ArticleConnecticut has moved ahead of Massachusetts on direct-care worker wages
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) It apparently took the threat of a major strike, but the Connecticut Legislature passed a bill and the Connecticut governor signed it earlier this year to raise...
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