September 18, 2025 The Honorable Simon Cataldo General Court of Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA 02133 Re: EDUCATION COMMITTEE TESTIMONY, H. 698, and S. 338 Dear Representative Cataldo: I understand that at the hearing on H. 698 and S. 338 on Tuesday you indicated that you had heard from only proponents of the legislation and…
Month: September 2025
My Testimony on Science of Reading Legislation
Dear Chairperson Lewis, Chairperson Gordon, and Committee Members: My name is Maruice T. Cunningham, and I am a retired professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. In 2016 I became curious about the dark money being spent on Question 2 to expand charter schools in Massachusetts, upward of $20 million in…
Charlie Kirk’s Murder and the Danger of Asymmetrical Political Violence Unacknowledged
Charlie Kirk put me on his “Professor Watchlist” -a list expressly designed to facilitate the harassment of those listed- because I connected the dots between Donald Trump’s violent and hateful rhetoric (which Kirk parroted for a living) and real life violence. Kirk rejected my hypothesis as well as the broader notion that violent rhetoric and…