BOSTON – New charter schools will open in Springfield and Brockton, while charter schools in Boston and Everett will be able to add additional grades after votes by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday.
The board approved a series of recommendations from Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester, authorizing the openings of the New Heights Charter School of Brockton and the Libertas Academy Charter School in Springfield along with expansions of schools in Everett and Boston. Chester said that both schools met a "high bar" with their applications and were "poised to provide a strong education for the students they will eventually serve."
(CNSNews.com) – "I am very clear-eyed about the hurdles to finally closing Guantanamo," President Barack Obama told the nation on Tuesday, as he submitted his plan to shutter the military prison in Cuba.
One of those hurdles is a law barring the transfer of Gitmo detainees to U.S. soil, which Obama himself signed. There are 91 prisoners now held in the facility.
