Founded in 1997, Mass Insight Education (MIE) is a Boston-based non-profit organization working to improve student achievement in public schools. The following information has been used for public outreach initiatives, school leadership training programs, and effective-practice research and consulting programs. MIE supports the thoughtful, strategic implementation of standards-based reform. This 2004 statement from the superintendents of urban districts in Massachusetts urged the state legislature and the Commonwealth’s political leadership to reconsider recent budgetary decisions that negatively affected education.