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Understanding your child’s test scores
Now that the first month of school is over, parents can get ready for the next milestone of the school year – they will soon get reports of the state tests their children took last year.
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Teachers openly campaigning for and against Question 2
BOSTON – The political debate surrounding charter school expansion is playing out in classrooms across the Commonwealth, with teachers from traditional public schools and public charter schools openly campaigning on both sides of a ballot initiative that would expand the number of Massachusetts charters, the Boston Globe reported last week. Currently,
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Pioneer report disputes claim that charters fail special needs students
BOSTON — A Pioneer Institute report is countering claims by the "No on Question 2" crowd that charter schools do not adequately serve special needs students. The Hub-based think tank that specializes in free market advocacy released its report Thursday morning, which quickly raised put opponents of the ballot
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Italian Home for Children: innovative instruction with new urban garden
It is a hot and humid sunny day in late August as a small group of children come running outside. They are excited to get their hands dirty and have fun picking bright red tomatoes off the vine, scavenging for sweet juicy strawberries, and composting old fruit and vegetables. This
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Boston takes steps to unify school application forms
Students, their parents and educators are being invited to community meetings starting next month to discuss plans to create one form for applying for Boston charter and district school slots, City Hall said Friday. The six meetings begin Oct. 8 in Dorchester at the Kroc Center. It's set
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GRLZ Radio: allowing young women to be heard and respected
Twelve years ago, a group of high school girls from Dorchester was driving to a soccer game with their coach. According to the story that has since been handed down, the radio was blasting songs with lyrics that were degrading to women. The girls were disgusted and became quite upset.
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Foster grandparents enrich toddlers’ lives – and vice versa
BOSTON – Toddlers bounced around the classroom in the Head Start site on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester, playing with toys, building with blocks or making their way up the climbing structure. Standing tall above the children, Bobbie Williams, 78, smiled as she offered to read a picture book to a young
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Boston cancels school ahead of snowstorm
BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh closed Boston's public schools for Friday citing an approaching winter storm forecast to drop as much as 8 inches of snow on the metropolitan area starting in the early morning hours. Some 500 trucks will be treating the city's streets by 6
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