LAS VEGAS (AP) — A driver with a 3-year-old in her car repeatedly smashed into crowds of visitors on the Las Vegas Strip, killing a woman from Arizona and injuring dozens of others, authorities said.
Video of the car plowing into pedestrians in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood casino-hotels "looks like it's very intentional," police Capt. Brett Zimmerman said Monday. The 1996 Oldsmobile sedan was fully on the sidewalk twice Sunday evening, including once when it traveled for 200 feet.
BOSTON — As Massachusetts school districts prepare for the MCAS 2.0 era to launch in the spring of 2017, ballot activists are pledging to undo the education standards behind one of the exams expected to influence the revamped student assessment test.
In November, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted on a new standardized assessment program for the state, choosing to develop a hybrid of the existing MCAS test and consortium-developed PARCC exam. The board on Monday afternoon plans to hold a meeting in Malden of its assessment committee, with an agenda to include an update on testing plans for spring 2016 and a review of a proposed working group process for the MCAS 2.0.
