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Sen. Jason Lewis reappointed as Senate Chair of the Education Committee

Sen. Jason Lewis was reappointed by Senate President Karen Spilka as the Senate chair of the Joint Committee on Education. COURTESY PHOTO/OFFICE OF SEN. JASON LEWIS

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The following was submitted by the Office of Sen. Jason Lewis:

State Sen. Jason Lewis was reappointed by Senate President Karen Spilka as the Senate chair of the Joint Committee on Education in the Massachusetts Legislature for the 2025-26 legislative session.

Lewis will also continue to serve as a member of President Spilka’s leadership team.

Lewis was also appointed to several other leadership and committee roles for the new legislative session:

• Chair of the Senate Ethics Committee

• Vice-Chair of the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development

• Member of the Senate Rules Committee

• Member of the Joint Committee on Transportation

• Member of the Joint Committee on Public Health.

“I’m excited to continue my leadership role in advancing state funding and policies to ensure a high-quality public education for all students across Massachusetts,” said Lewis. “Our work this legislative session will be even more challenging given the chaos and misguided policies emanating daily from the Trump administration, but we will continue to focus on supporting our residents and strengthening our Commonwealth.”

One of Massachusetts’s top education policy leaders, this will be the fourth legislative session that Lewis has served as the Senate chair of the Education Committee.

Previously in this role, Lewis helped lead the effort to pass the landmark Student Opportunity Act, which when fully implemented will provide an additional $1.5 billion in state funding for public education.

Lewis has also successfully championed transformative investments in early childhood education, and recently led the passage of the Educator Diversity Act.

Among Lewis’s priorities for this legislative session is a bill he filed to revisit the state’s school funding formula to ensure adequate and equitable funding for all school districts.

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