Tom Sannicandro

Tom Sannicandro
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 7th Middlesex district
In office
January 2005 – January 2017
Preceded byKaren Spilka
Succeeded byJack Patrick Lewis
Personal details
Born (1956-03-22) March 22, 1956 (age 68)
Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseMary Anne Sannicandro
Alma materCollege of the Holy Cross (BA)
Suffolk University (JD)
Harvard University (MPA)
Brandeis University (MA, PhD)
OccupationFounder SpecialNeedsTrustsOnline.com

Dr. Tom Sannicandro (born March 22, 1956)[1] is an entrepreneur, disability advocate, American politician, and attorney. He is the founder of SpecialNeedsTrustsOnline.com, a non-profit website providing information and estate planning documents to families with children with special needs.[2] He is on the Board of Directors of the Inclusive Higher Education Accreditation Council, Inc., an independent accrediting agency for college and university programs that serve students with intellectual disabilities.[3] He was the director of the Institute for Community Inclusion, a global disability research and policy center[4] at UMass Boston from 2017 to 2019. From 2005 to 2017, he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 7th Middlesex district.[5] Previously he served as director of the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges.[6]

Education and early career

Sannicandro earned a bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1978 and attended Suffolk University Law School, earning a J.D. in 1982. Upon completing law school, he worked as a corporate attorney, representing midsized manufacturing clients throughout New England. He later transitioned to representing individuals with disabilities. As an academic researcher, he published various articles exploring the effect of higher education on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities[7][8][9][10][11] and health care trends for children with special health care needs.[12]

He earned an MPA from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2011. He also earned a master's and a Ph.D. in social policy from Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management in 2015 and 2016, respectively. His doctoral dissertation was called The Effect of Postsecondary Education on Employment and Income for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities.[13]

Political career

From 2000 until 2005, Sannicandro served on the Ashland School Committee, becoming committee chair by the end of his tenure. In 2004, Sannicandro ran for a seat in the House of Representatives' 7th Middlesex district after Representative Karen Spilka decided to run for a seat in the Massachusetts Senate. In the Democratic Primary Sannicandro won a write in campaign against Ginger Esty and Chesley Oriel.[14] In the general election, he defeated Republican nominee Mary Connaughton, who would later be the Republican nominee for Massachusetts Auditor, unsuccessfully running against Suzanne Bump. He easily won reelection five more times, and was unopposed in 2008 and 2014. He did not seek reelection in 2016, and was succeeded by Jack Patrick Lewis.

During his tenure in the House of Representatives, Sannicandro supported legislation focusing on public higher education, and chaired the Joint Committee on Higher Education. During the Great Recession, he authored legislation using bond money to create a pool of $200 million to support public and private higher education institutions.[15] This bill became part of the 2012 Economic Development Bill.[16] In addition, Sannicandro sponsored a number of initiatives including the Inclusive Concurrent Enrollment Program,[17] where students with intellectual or developmental disabilities attended Massachusetts public colleges and universities, and the Real Lives Bill,[18] giving individuals served by the Department of Developmental Services control over their lives by controlling their budgets.

After leaving the House of Representatives, Sannicandro became director of the Institute of Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston.[19][20] He left that role in 2019 to become Director of the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges, an advocacy organization on behalf of the fifteen public community colleges in Massachusetts, their Boards of Trustees, and the approximately 150,000 students enrolled in those community colleges.[21][22]

References

  1. ^ Representative Tom Sannicandro (MA), Project Vote Smart
  2. ^ "Special Needs Trust and Estate Plans to Guarantee Your Child's Future". Special Needs Trusts Online. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
  3. ^ "Inclusive Higher Education Council". www.iheacouncil.org. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  4. ^ "Institute for Community Inclusion | University of Massachusetts Boston Research | ScholarWorks at UMass Boston". scholarworks.umb.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
  5. ^ Editorial: Choices for Election Day, The MetroWest Daily News, October 31, 2010
  6. ^ "Former lawmaker leaves $166K UMass job to head community college group". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  7. ^ "College Opportunities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities - Special Needs Resource". Special Needs Resource. 2016-09-20. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
  8. ^ "Postsecondary Education Improves Employment and Earnings Outcomes for Individuals with Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities". The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy.
  9. ^ "The Effect of Postsecondary Education on Employment, Income, and SSI for People with Intellectual Disabilities | Think College". thinkcollege.net. October 2019. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  10. ^ Sannicandro, Thomas; Parish, Susan L.; Fournier, Steve; Mitra, Monika; Paiewonsky, Maria (September 2018). "Employment, Income, and SSI Effects of Postsecondary Education for People With Intellectual Disability". American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 123 (5): 412–425. doi:10.1352/1944-7558-123.5.412. ISSN 1944-7515. PMID 30198768. S2CID 52175745.
  11. ^ "College Opportunities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities". www.eparent.com. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  12. ^ Sannicandro, Thomas; Parish, Susan L.; Son, Esther; Powell, Robyn M. (March 2017). "Health Care Changes for Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2005-2011". Maternal and Child Health Journal. 21 (3): 524–530. doi:10.1007/s10995-016-2136-4. ISSN 1573-6628. PMID 27469109. S2CID 4767829.
  13. ^ Sannicandro, Tom (2016). The Effect of Postsecondary Education on Employment and Income for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (Thesis). ProQuest 1808241726.
  14. ^ Writer, D. Craig MacCormack / News Staff. "Sannicandro launches write-in bid for Spilka seat". Milford Daily News. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  15. ^ "Sannicandro Support of Jobs Bill, Innovation Investment Fund". Framingham, MA Patch. 2012-05-24. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  16. ^ "The Voter's Self Defense System". Vote Smart. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  17. ^ edu (2014-05-27). "Inclusive Concurrent Enrollment Initiative". Executive Office of Education. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  18. ^ "Bill H.151". malegislature.gov. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  19. ^ "The Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston". www.communityinclusion.org. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  20. ^ "UMass Boston's Institute for Community Inclusion Hires New Director - University of Massachusetts Boston". www.umb.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  21. ^ manningg (2012-07-23). "Fast Facts". Massachusetts Community Colleges. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  22. ^ manningg (2012-07-23). "About MACC". Massachusetts Community Colleges. Retrieved 2020-01-24.

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