Jim Stergios, Author at CommonWealth Magazine

Jim Stergios

Executive Director, Pioneer Institute

Stories by Jim Stergios

Agreement on Boston schools must be call to action

Pact with state education department is only the first step

Contracting with private providers could avert MBTA cuts

Control board owes it to those most dependent on T to explore options

Time to fix the charter school cap

Use of growth scores deprives thousands of kids of better options

Executive branch overreach, blanket orders having harmful effects

Legislature should step in to bring more accountable governing

Transparency on health care costs is something we should all agree on

New Bedford pols fail kids with opposition to charter expansion

Alma del Mar school has been shining model of success

Past time to get serious about health care costs

Legislature must rein in spiraling spending

Yawkey Way renaming only sanitizes history

We should grapple with our past, not erase it

Charter ruling a step backwards

Court seems increasingly reluctant to remedy educational inequities

T privatization survives key union challenge

Arbitrator rejects ‘get out of jail free’ card

Getting to yes on MassHealth

State leaders need to work together to tackle Medicaid challenge

Baker doubling down on failed biotech strategy

State subsidies -- an expensive mistake -- have marginal economic impact

Congressional delegation should butt out

Focus on T’s retirement fund, not privatization efforts

Extend the T’s Pacheco Law exemption

Let’s fix the MBTA once and for all

Charter question defeat presents new challenge

Are Question 2 foes ready to embrace needed district schools reforms?

Has the Lawrence school receivership run out of steam?

Turning schools over to charter operators may be the best hope for sustained improvement

South Coast Rail not the way to go

Let’s invest in cities, not in transporting people out of them.

Moving backwards

Common Core jeopardizes ed reform