The Center for School Reform seeks to improve the academic performance of Massachusetts’ public schools through broad public debate, legislative outreach, and scholarly research. The Center promotes the free exchange of ideas related to academic excellence, competition, and data-driven approaches to public education, so that students, citizens, and the Commonwealth as a whole can compete globally.

Recent school reform events include: "Dumping the Know-Nothing Amendments: Church, State, and School Reform," with former US Ambassador to the Vatican, Ray Flynn, and "The Liberal Arts and Closing the Achievement Gap," featuring Virginia Secretary of Education Gerard Robinson.

The Center for School Reform generates practical ideas that public policy makers, individual schools, and school districts can implement by:

• › publishing research that offers constructive recommendations;
• › sponsoring forums, conferences and events supporting education and school reform;
• › contributing opinion and commentary to state and national newspapers; and
• › testifying before the Massachusetts Legislature and state Board of Education on pending education reform issues.

The Center’s work is built on the premise that the Commonwealth should uphold its constitutional obligations to all our school children by increasing academic rigor, the quality of its expectations, and the equality of the educational opportunities it provides.

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For more information on Pioneer's Center for School Reform (CSR), please contact Jamie Gass at jgasspioneerinstitute.org or 617.723.2277 ext. 210.