Wednesday, February 2, 2022, is the deadline for Joint Committees to take action on bills in the 2021-2022 Legislative Session.

Please email the members of the Joint Committee on Education in support of these important bills:

• Common Start (S.362 / H.605): An Act providing affordable and accessible high quality early education and care to promote child development and well-being and support the economy in the Commonwealth (Lewis/Moran - Gordon/Madaro), which would establish a universal system of affordable, high-quality early education and child care for all Massachusetts families, over a 5-year timeline.
  

• CARES Bill (S.365 / H.584): An Act relative to anti-racism, equity and justice in education (Lewis / Elugardo - Uyterhoeven), which would create a commission to develop curriculum materials with a social justice perspective of dismantling racism and ensure that ethnic studies, racial justice, decolonizing history, and unlearning racism is taught at all grade levels using a critical approach and pedagogy that is age-appropriate.