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BOSTON – When Carl and Julie Stone discovered four years ago that their third child, Josiah, would be born with trisomy 21, or Down syndrome, they didn't blink. "It didn't frighten us, it didn't scare us, it didn't make us sad,"
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker used his first State of the State speech to appeal for bipartisanship in solving ongoing challenges in agencies such as the MBTA and the Department of Children and Families, while reiterating a call for the expansion of charter schools. "Giving parents in underperforming districts
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STATE HOUSE — Highly potent edible forms of marijuana make up nearly half the legalized market in Colorado and have had dangerous consequences for adults and children, according to a Massachusetts senator who returned last week from a research trip. Back from what he called an "eye-opening trip," Sen.
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New York City (CNA/EWTN News) — Children in conflict areas desperately need an education, but violence and lack of funding finds one in four of them out of school. A staggering 24 million kids living in conflict areas around the world are missing out on their primary education according to
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BOSTON – The Southbridge Public Schools, which have had seven superintendents and seven high school principals since 2011, should be designated chronically underperforming and placed into receivership, Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester recommended on Friday. The Level 5 designation, which would put the Southbridge schools under state control, will be discussed at
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As a fan of The Hunger Games trilogy, I cannot wait to see the final part of the film series.
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Ted Cruz's presidential campaign fired off an angry email to supporters Wednesday, ripping into a Washington Post editorial-page cartoonist for depicting the Texas senator's two young daughters as dancing monkeys. The Tea Party-backed Republican also spoke out about the cartoon during a campaign stop in Tulsa,
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LONDON – In a less traditional piece of charitable work, more than 1,000 nuns worldwide are swapping their habits for outfits typically worn by prostitutes or laborers. The 1,100 sisters belong to the group Talitha Kum, an 11-year-old network of women fighting human trafficking based in Rome and funded
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