Brockton schools are in chaos. Teachers spend more time on discipline than instruction, violence is rising, and parents are ignored. A child who doesn’t feel safe cannot learn. It’s time to restore order, strengthen security, and put families back at the center of our schools.
Brockton schools are slipping—not because our kids lack ability, but because leadership has lost focus. Test scores are falling, classrooms are chaotic, and parents are shut out. My opponent has had 18 months to act, but nothing has changed. It’s time to get back to basics—reading, writing, math, and discipline—and back to excellence.
Brockton’s schools didn’t lose $18.3 million to fraud—they lost it to incompetence. Taxpayers then paid another $400,000 for audits that confirmed what families already knew: weak leadership, rubber-stamp oversight, and broken systems.
Massachusetts law already requires annual audits, but in Brockton they’ve become little more than check-the-box exercises. Numbers get reconciled, but problems never get fixed.
Stephen Pina’s Audit Reform Plan changes that. It makes audits enforceable, public, and tied to results—protecting classrooms, restoring trust, and holding leaders accountable.