{"id":34991,"date":"2019-11-14T16:41:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T21:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/?p=34991"},"modified":"2021-05-20T20:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T00:47:47","slug":"deval-patrick-presidency-heres-where-he-stands-on-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/deval-patrick-presidency-heres-where-he-stands-on-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Deval Patrick Presidency? Here\u2019s Where He Stands on Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deval Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor, is officially joining the 2020 Democratic presidential race.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With only three months until voters cast their ballots, Patrick is expected to rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/joe-biden-on-higher-education-and-6-other-key-issues\/\">Joe Biden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/pete-buttigieg-2020-on-higher-education-and-6-other-key-issues\/\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> as the more moderate Democratic candidate in a field led by progressives such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/bernie-sanders-2020-on-higher-education-and-6-other-key-issues\/\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/elizabeth-warren-2020-on-higher-education-and-6-other-key-issues\/\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a>.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His announcement comes just one day before the filing deadline for the New Hampshire primary, which will be pivotal to his campaign, as New Hampshire neighbors his home state of Massachusetts.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having grown up with his family in a two-bedroom tenement in the South Side of Chicago, Patrick is a strong proponent of giving people the opportunity of upward mobility. Personally, he is the first in his family to go to college and law school. He\u2019s also had the opportunity to work in nonprofits and in business.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve had a chance to live my American dream,\u201d Patrick says in his announcement video. \u201cBut over the years, I\u2019ve seen the path to that dream gradually closing off bit by bit.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Deval Patrick Announcement Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IJCY7qN48hU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patrick understands that the path to upward mobility relies on a strong education system. Once named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/59607.htm\">America\u2019s Greatest Education Governor<\/a> by the National Education Association, Patrick has done a lot to advance public education in the state of Massachusetts and improve the high school to college pipeline for low-income students.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And although he has not yet announced a definitive higher education platform for his candidacy, his past actions as governor point to a few steps he may take if elected president.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably, Patrick has been a long-time proponent of free community college, first suggesting the idea back in 2007. Although his plan was not approved, he helped lay the groundwork for what has now become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/why-both-democrats-and-republicans-support-free-community-college\/\">free community college movement<\/a> across the United States.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As governor, Patrick also pushed forward a set of strategies that would make it easier for students to transfer courses and credits across higher education institutions in Massachusetts. That way, transferring from community college to a four-year institution would be more feasible for students.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2010, Patrick played a role in launching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.edu\/visionproject\/\">The Vision Project<\/a>, which aimed to increase students\u2019 ability to engage in research, academic and career opportunities at state universities and ensure they\u2019re receiving the skills they need for postsecondary and lifelong success.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also under Patrick\u2019s governance, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education voted to create the University of Massachusetts School of Law \u2013 Dartmouth, the state\u2019s only public law school. The intention was to create an opportunity for students, who may not otherwise have been able to afford it, to study law.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Altogether, under Patrick\u2019s leadership, the state of Massachusetts invested more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/59607.htm\">$2 billion<\/a> in state colleges and universities.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Patrick\u2019s most notable accomplishment as governor came at the K-12 level when he signed the Achievement Gap Act into law. The purpose of the legislation was to make sure black, Hispanic and low-income students receive the same quality education as white or more affluent students.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And during Patrick\u2019s time as governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/news\/post\/grading-deval-patrick-education\">there was<\/a> a 20-point increase in the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) test scores of white students and a 28-point increase in the performance of black students.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI got my break. But you and I know that there were lots of other kids on the South Side of Chicago just like me &#8212; just as wide-eyed and hopeful, just as eager to learn, just as curious and ambitious &#8212; but who didn\u2019t get their break,\u201d Patrick said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=362&amp;v=02k5xbz4GLo&amp;feature=emb_logo\">video<\/a> accepting his NEA award for America\u2019s Greatest Education Governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deval Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor, is officially joining the 2020 Democratic presidential race.&nbsp; With only three months until voters cast their ballots, Patrick is expected to rival Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg as the more moderate Democratic candidate in a field led by progressives such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.&nbsp; His announcement comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":34995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,230,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-650","category-news","category-lead-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deval-Patrick-2020.png",830,533,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deval-Patrick-2020-224x144.png",224,144,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deval-Patrick-2020-300x193.png",300,193,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deval-Patrick-2020.png",830,533,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deval-Patrick-2020.png",830,533,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deval-Patrick-2020.png",830,533,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deval-Patrick-2020.png",830,533,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jackson Schroeder","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/author\/jackson-schroeder\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Deval Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor, is officially joining the 2020 Democratic presidential race.&nbsp; With only three months until voters cast their ballots, Patrick is expected to rival Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg as the more moderate Democratic candidate in a field led by progressives such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.&nbsp; His announcement comes&hellip;","featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Deval-Patrick-2020.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}