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Jared Nicholson

jared.nicholson@lynnma.gov
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State ed board should reject Lynn charter school expansion plan

by Jared Nicholson, Evonne Alvarez and Sheila O'Neil February 22, 2025February 23, 2025

The acting education commissioner’s recommendation to allow KIPP Lynn to add 450 seats represents selective enforcement of the long-standing and clear regulations governing charter school expansion in the Commonwealth.

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As mayors, we need more tools to boost housing production

by Jared Nicholson and Dominick Pangallo May 20, 2024June 13, 2024

We urge the Legislature to act quickly to pass the Affordable Homes Act, in its entirety, this session, and to give local leaders the tools we need to support our current and future residents.

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Biotech’s next destination: Why not Lynn?

by Jared Nicholson November 13, 2022November 14, 2022

AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN as an industrial hub hundreds of years ago, Lynn became known as the “shoe center of the new world” by the 1800s, thanks to the establishment and growth of the first tannery in the US in the mid-1600s. The exponential economic growth led corporations, such as Edison General Electric, to move to Lynn […]

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