Among the keys to school safety are improved communication, clear positive rules and consistency among all adults in enforcing rules and treating students positively.

Nicholas A. Fischer, Ed.D
Massachusetts vs. Connecticut educational success — one man’s experience
Jacqueline Rabe Thomas’s three-part series about spending, education reform and student achievement in Massachusetts and Connecticut provides an outstanding review of the progress of education in both states over the past 25 years. I see the series from the perspective of having been Associate Commissioner for Finance and Accountability in Massachusetts from 1993 to 1998, Superintendent of the Fall River (MA) Public Schools from 2005 to 2009, and Superintendent of the New London Public Schools in Connecticut from 2009 to 2014.