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M.I.T. research finds special needs students benefit from charter school education

STATE HOUSE — Special education students and English language learners enrolled at charter schools are more likely to earn higher scores on the state's standardized tests and reach certain other achievement markers than their peers in district schools, according to a study of Boston students presented Monday. The study,

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Charter school opponents can’t hide from the data

Effective arguments are becoming harder to come by for charter school opponents. At first their big claim was that charters "siphon" money from traditional public schools, but that's a tough sell now that school districts receive more than two years of funding after a student chooses

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Runaway Red Line train’s safe stop brings Baker’s praise

BOSTON — Halting a runaway Red Line subway train with 50 passengers aboard with no injuries drew praise for the two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority workers who performed the feat from the T's control center last Thursday, stopping the driverless train in north Quincy by shutting off the power

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‘In the Heart of the Sea’: a ‘Nantucket sleigh ride’ through survival and depravity

Herman Melville's classic "Moby-Dick" has long been considered as a tale of vengeance and a battle against the forces of nature. Like Melville's novel, director Ron Howard's film "In the Heart of the Sea" (rated PG-13) concludes that, when pushed

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Mass. court to decide whether Islam-education order went too far

BOSTON (AP) — After a landlord was convicted of pushing her Muslim tenant down a flight of stairs, a judge ordered her to respect the rights of all Muslims and to take an introductory course on Islam. Now the highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to decide whether the judge

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DraftKings wins reprieve to stay in play in NY

NEW YORK (AP) — Daily fantasy sports giants DraftKings and FanDuel took a hit Friday in their fight to stay in business in New York, but a scramble to an appeals court kept DraftKings in play at least through the end of the NFL regular season. FanDuel, meanwhile, had already suspended

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Boston agency OKs affordable housing, school projects

BOSTON – Plans to create 95 affordable housing units won approval Thursday from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, along with an expansion of Dorchester's Epiphany School, a 127-room hotel in East Boston and a new Harvard Business School auditorium in Allston. In the city's Chinatown area, two nonprofit

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Runaway train stemmed from ‘multiple errors,’ Baker says

BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker and top transit officials blamed "multiple errors" by the operator of a Red Line train which rolled out of the Braintree station early Thursday with some 50 passengers aboard and no driver. Two brakes had been disengaged and a throttle-like device may have been