Year | Legislator Name |
2023 | Ron Walker, Executive Director, Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color |
2022 | Senator Harriette Chandler |
2021 | Rep. Ronald Mariano Speaker of the House |
2020 | Congresswoman Katherine Clark |
2019 | Mary Borque, School Superintendent |
2018 | Congressman Richard Neal |
2017 | Frederick Clark, President, Bridgewater State University |
2016 | Michael Cavanaugh, Vocational leader, School Committee Member, Friend of Public Education |
2015 | Michael McGlynn, Mayor of Malden |
2015 | Roy Belson, Superintendent of Schools, Medford |
2014 | Robert Antonucci, President, Fitchburg State University; Former Commissioner of Elementary & Secondary Education |
2013 | Professor Ogretta McNeill, Educator, School Committee Member |
2012 | Jonathan Kozol, Teacher, Author, Humanitarian |
2011 | Karla Brooks Baehr, Educator, Superintendent |
2010 | Roberta Doering, MASC and NSBA President |
2009 | Thomas Menino, Mayor of Boston |
2008 | Senator Edward M. Kennedy |
2007 | Representative Nicholas Paleologos |
2007 | Senator Gerald D’Amico |
2006 | Representative Anne Paulsen |
2005 | Bradford Washington, Founder, Boston Museum of Science |
2004 | Jean McGuire, Executive Director, METCO |
2003 | Senator James Collins |
2003 | Senator Walter Boverini |
2002 | Representative David Bartley |
2002 | Representative Michael Daly |