Build a headquarters for social entrepreneurs. Housing creative, committed people and organizations under one roof would promote collaboration and innovation.
Offer social entrepreneurial fellowships. Providing Boston area college, business, law, and medicine graduates the opportunity to compete for two-year social entrepreneurial fellowships and loan forgiveness programs will encourage new generations of young leaders to act on their idealism.
Require service and civic curriculums. Boston's colleges and universities, which shape the minds of tomorrow's global leaders, should require students to engage in community service in Boston's neighborhoods and increase the work study allocation for service from 7 to 25 percent to enable all students to do so. Additionally, colleges should emphasize citizenship and public service in their curriculums.
Scale community service initiatives. Since community service experiences are where many new civic ideas are born, Boston should become an "All Star service city," with at least 20 percent of our young people participating in a year of fulltime service, and all elementary, middle, and high schools in the metro region adopting comprehensive community service programs.***
You must not have gone to public school. I attended in the 1980's where I learned that Ronald Reagan was frightening and the USSR was maligned, among other things. If I had not had an alternative view to consider at home, I might be one of those ignorant Mooreites.
One of the best things we could do for this country (and the worst things for the Democrats) would be to eliminate public schools. It would be worth it even if taxes were used to reimburse some parents the cost of private school. The teachers would be the same, of course, but at least parents could shop around, and it would be students, rather than bad schools that would be guaranteed funds.
You can bank on that. You would drop dead at the number of "Clavelle for Governor" bumper stickers affixed to the rear of teachers' cars in the People's Republic of Vermont. In case you're not familiar with Clavelle; he is the former Mayor of Burlington...a "progressive" who makes Bernie Sanders look like Jesse Helms. These teachers, mostly women, fill the heads of Vermont children with socialist doctrine on a daily basis. This is CHILD ABUSE; plain and simple. These are young POW's of a ruthless education cartel which won't stop until they get every child they can their hands on under their control. I have seen signs popping up around Vermont pleading with conservatives to "Take Back Vermont". Cheaper Than Dirt is selling a lot of their product in Vermont as of late. Things are bubbling just below the surface. As far as I am concerned, nearly everything that has gone wrong with this country can be traced back to a teacher. Fie on them all; INCLUDING the conservative ones who won't organize and fight back.