Raising the Charter School Cap in Massachusetts: The Consequence of an Uncapped Neoliberal Rationality

In September 2015, Governor Charlie Baker announced his support for raising the charter school cap in Massachusetts. This announcement has sparked a heated debate about funding for public education that problematically ignores neoliberal ideology. The Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 began a reign of neoliberalism impacting education policies. An Act Relative to the Achievement Gap in 2010 saw an intensification of this privatization and free market ideology with its explicit support of charter alternatives. Achievement has become based on standardized assessments that presume a static, ethnocentric view of knowledge. Neoliberal ideology reinforces white Eurocentrism and a meritocratic rationale, disregarding the history and realities of black and brown students. In Massachusetts the Pioneer Institute, a conservative think tank to which Governor Charlie Baker has ties, is driving this current neoliberal reform agenda and is positioned to profit from privatization of the $600 million education industry

Prospectus, June 12, 1972

GOVERNOR CITES PARKLAND STUDENT FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE; Harris Moeller Selected As New Dean of Students; Charles Gerron Is Student Senate President For 1972-73 School Year; Scholarships Awarded To Parkland Students; Parkland College Personnel Receive Recognition; Teacher Aides Hold Banquet; New Registration Procedures Will Begin In Fall \u2772 Quarter; Parkland Foundation Holds First Charter Meeting; Board of Trustees Have Two Very Eventful Meetings: Results of the Meeting of April 18, 1972, Results of the Meeting of May 16, 1972; Parkland Summer Session Begins June 19; New Non-Credit Courses Slated For Summer; Graebner to Speak at Parkland Commencement; Parkland Notices: Schedule changes, Vocational Information, Summer Jobs, Summer Graduate?, For Sale-Bargain!, Summer Registration, Lost; News From William J. Scott, Attorney General - State of Illinois; Parkland Student Government Passes Viet Nam Resolution; Journalism Club; A Day In The Park Has Large Turn-Out; The Editor\u27s View: Europe This Year - A-1; Student Senate Resolution; Seed For Thought; Unique Summer-Winter Program Developed In Maine; Youth Caucus \u2772 Organized In Illinois; Portfolios to Replace Grades; Coeds Bring Fraternity Ban, Other Campus News in Brief; New Academic Calendars; Entertainment & Fine Arts, Or ( We Got Culture Too! ); Movie Review: One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich; Ear Wax; Orpheus Reborn: Been around the block twice..., greece looks good..., ast i..., A babe be born..., Sweet sweets..., Away To The Mountain; WLS - Wavelength; Book Review: The Assassins (Elia Kazan); Summer Session \u2772; Summer Session; Course Offerings; Angel & Clayborn in Nationals; Hart Beathttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1972/1007/thumbnail.jp

To the Field of Stars : Stable isotope analysis of Medieval pilgrims and populations along the Camino de Santiago in Navarre and Aragon, Spain

The Camino de Santiago emerged in the first half of the 9th century CE following the reported discovery of the remains of the Apostle St James by the bishop of Iria-Flavia, Teodomiro. Since then, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have walked from different parts of the Iberian Peninsula, Europe, and further afield to Santiago de Compostela's Cathedral. This route was particularly important to the populations of Navarre and Aragon, two kingdoms in northern Spain that rose to prominence with the resurgence of Christianity from the 11th century onwards. Here, we present multidisciplinary analysis of medieval individuals buried in Navarre and Aragon at a time when the Camino de Santiago was reaching its peak of popularity (11th-15th centuries CE). We use stable isotope analysis (δ15N, δ13C, δ18O, and δ13Cap) and radiocarbon dating to investigate a total of 82 human individuals together with 42 fauna samples from 8 different archaeological sites located in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Twenty of these individuals were buried with a scallop shell, a symbol of a pilgrim who had completed the Camino de Santiago. Our data corroborate the use of the pilgrim's shell since at least the 11th century CE. Moreover, our results suggest that the pilgrimage was mainly an urban phenomenon for populations from the northern Iberian Peninsula, conducted equally by women and men, although with indications that female pilgrims may have had greater access to animal protein than their male counterparts. Our results represent the largest isotopic dataset of medieval individuals linked to the Camino de Santiago, allowing us to further investigate the origins and diets of potential pilgrims and, more generally, other sampled portions of northeastern Iberian society