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BOSTON – Formula changes that would let more state money flow to local school districts won praise Friday from labor and school leaders who also acknowledged that covering the nearly $432 million cost of the revisions poses a challenge. Teachers union representatives, school committee members and administrators urged the Joint Committee
Massachusetts
BOSTON – If efforts to repeal Common Core education standards succeed and the state returns to the old approach used with the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, tests in place before 2010, it may find itself in good company. In Michigan, a state Senate committee has advanced a bill that
Catholic
NEW YORK – The Rev. Douglas Al-Bazi, a Chaldean Catholic Church parish priest from Erbil, Iraq, took the podium at the United Nations last week to share his experiences while held captive by Islamic State, the horrors he witnessed, and to appeal for help. "Friends, I am a priest. I
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday he "appreciated" the changes made to the House version of the controversial "bathroom bill" unveiled Friday, while Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, an Amherst Democrat, said he was still reviewing the additional language, which gives the attorney general a role
Syria
(CNSNews.com) – In its efforts to prop up its ally in Damascus, the Iranian regime has deployed its own military advisers, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) units and Shi'a fighters from Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan – and now it appears to be recruiting its own children. A promotional musical
Russia
BEIRUT (AP) — A wave of airstrikes and shelling killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, including dozens at a hospital, monitors and activists said Thursday. The contested city is now one of the main battlegrounds of Syria's devastating
internet
U.S. institutions of higher education and U.S. local governments are under extraordinary pressure to cut costs and eliminate from institutional or governmental ledgers any expenses whose absence would cause little or no pain.
children
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Flint water crisis became a criminal case Wednesday when two state regulators and a city employee were charged with official misconduct, evidence-tampering and other offenses over the lead contamination that alarmed the country and brought cries of racism. "This is a road back to restoring
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