BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker, who plans "a lot of level funding" in his second annual budget, said that by fiscal 2018 he will have weaned state government off the use of one-time revenue sources to balance spending.
"We need to do all we can to make sure we do live within our means because at some point, I don't know when that will be, we'll all have to tighten our belts a little bit to deal with a turndown in the economy and we better be prepared for that and not be sitting there with five, six, seven, eight hundred million dollars in one-time revenue sources that aren't going to be there," Baker told reporters on Tuesday after speaking at a luncheon for the Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers.
BOSTON – In the wake of a "parade of discontinuity" and low performance, the Southbridge Public Schools went into state receivership Tuesday by a unanimous Board of Elementary and Secondary Education vote, becoming the third district in Massachusetts to be removed from local control.
"We have a school district that … continues to underperform," Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester said before the vote. "We've seen seven superintendents in the last four or five years."
