McAnneny, Chieppo: Voters should reject ballot effort to end MCAS

Retaining and attracting talent are among state lawmakers’ and the business community’s top priorities. “An educated population is uniquely important for Massachusetts,” the late Thomas Birmingham, former Senate president and senior fellow at Pioneer Institute, once said, “because the commonwealth is blessed with little in the way of natural resources. We live by our wits.”That’s why it’s so important to defeat an initiative, proposed for the