After winning a long fight to impose a surtax on the state's highest earners designed to fund education and transportation, unions and educators from throughout Massachusetts are making it clear that public higher education is on the top of their priority list for the newfound funds. "This is the perfect moment to send a message to House and Senate leadership, to our next governor, that we need to make sure that as this money comes in out of the millionaire's tax that we're committing that to public higher education," said state Sen. Jamie Eldridge, D-Acton, during a coalition meeting Thursday at the State House.
