Sen. Lewis reappointed as Senate Chair of the Education Committee

State Senator Jason Lewis was reappointed by Senate President Karen Spilka as the Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Education for the 2025-26 legislative session. Senator Lewis will also continue to serve as a member of President Spilka’s leadership team. Senator Lewis was also appointed to several other leadership and committee roles for the new legislative session:

• Chair of the Senate’s Ethics Committee
• Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
• Member of the Senate’s 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 Senator 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 Senator Lewis has served as the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Education. Previously in this role, Senator 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. Senator Lewis has also successfully championed transformative investments in early childhood education, and he recently led the passage of the Educator Diversity Act. Among Senator 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.