Years ago, long before she became a powerful pol, Karen Spilka was a mom to two school-aged kids. And one day, she noticed that her son was having trouble learning to read. And now, motivated by her own experience, the Ashland lawmaker is making what she describes as “high-quality comprehensive literacy instruction,” a top priority for the New Year, she wrote in a Substack post published Wednesday.
Read More“I think if this keeps up, we’ll be all walking around with neck braces from whiplash,” Spilka, D-Middlesex/Norfolk, quipped during a wide-ranging interview Thursday with MassLive in her office at the State House.
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