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Massachusetts
BOSTON — Superintendent of Schools Tommy Chang said Monday night via social media he will "address" what one city homeschooling parent described as an "unprofessional" and "threatening" letter regarding testing requirements. Chang issued an unsolicited response after being tagged in a Twitter post by a
Massachusetts
BOSTON — Student activists at Boston Latin School, the embattled prestigious exam school that's already seen two top administrators leave in response to allegations the institution is rife with racism, appear to be at odds with a new movement aimed at creating an atmosphere of unity at the school.
Boston Globe
BOSTON — The two Boston Latin School students whose viral videos alleging racial hostility at the prestigious exam school ultimately led to the resignation of two top-level administrators declined offers to spend the summer interning at district's Office of Equity. Richard Weir, communications director for Boston Public Schools, confirmed
Massachusetts
BOSTON — While the state has suspended two of the top three medicinal marijuana-prescribing doctors, the physician at the top of the list continues to maintain her Northampton practice, a review of records shows. According to the results of a Freedom of Information Act filing with the state Board of Registry
new hampshire
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), currently engaged in a heated battle to retain her seat, on Thursday praised the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's announcement that the federal government will help pay for programs to place catch monitors aboard commercial groundfishing fishing fleets. Ayotte had
Massachusetts
BOSTON — Massachusetts may become the third state to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21 years old, as a bill proposing the new age requirement flew briskly through the Senate and could land on the floor of the House for a debate before the current session ends.
gun control
WASHINGTON — New Hampshire U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, currently engaged in a heated campaign to win a second term and keep the Senate's balance of power tilted in favor of the GOP, is beginning to show a willingness to break from her party to confront controversial gun issues.
Seth Moulton
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, the first-term Democrat from Salem and veteran of the Iraq War, has endeared himself to national anti-gun activists after taking a hard line against the sale of semiautomatic weapons to civilians. Days after a gunman slaughtered 49 innocents in the name of Islam at