BOSTON (AP) – A college student who survived serious injuries in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed in a car accident in Dubai over the weekend, a spokesman for Northeastern University said Monday.
Victoria McGrath was killed Sunday, along with her roommate at Northeastern, Priscilla Perez Torres, the Boston school confirmed.
BOSTON – Hundreds of Boston Public Schools students climbed Beacon Hill Monday to protest proposed state education budget cuts as the Legislature's Joint Committee on Education began a marathon public hearing inside the State House, drawing heated testimony from supporters and opponents of charter schools and Common Core education standards.
The timing of the student rally didn't appear directly linked to the hearing, in which Boston Mayor Marty Walsh voiced opposition to raising the limit on charter school authorizations. Immediately after he left the hearing room, a host of reporters surrounded the mayor to ask for comments on the rally outside and the city's school budget gap.
