Media Coverage

In a column published in the Boston Business Journal, EDC President and CEO David Offensend writes about the federal budget now working its way through Congress and its likely effects on several local and global programs.

A new report from EDC on educational equity in career academies was recently featured in Education Week.

In this commentary in Education Week, EDC’s David Jacobson argues that lawmakers would do well to focus on issues that resonate with both red and blue constituencies, or what he calls the “purple” agenda. He puts forth four education priorities that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

As lawmakers debate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, EDC Vice President Shelley Pasnik, director of the Center for Children and Technology, discussed the importance of public media to serve low-income communities and provide free, high-quality media tools for young children and families. Read the interview conducted by the nonprofit New America.