BOSTON – The state education commissioner next week will ask the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to approve new charter schools in Springfield and Brockton and expansions at five existing charter schools, including four in Boston.
Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester on Tuesday announced his recommendations in support of Libertas Academy Charter School, which would serve 630 students in grades 6-12 in Springfield, and the New Heights Charter School of Brockton, a regional school that would serve 735 students in grades 6-12.
(CNSNews.com) –- A three-judge federal appeals panel in Washington has overturned a lower court ruling that allowed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to withhold documents from the public regarding its Fast and Furious gun-running scandal.
Senior Circuit Judge Douglas Ginsburg, who wrote the February 12 ruling, cited a prior case which found that "the test for determining whether an agency has improperly withheld records placed under seal by a court is 'whether the seal, like an injunction, prohibits the agency from disclosing the records'."
