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BOSTON – The Berklee College of Music, Boston's musical education powerhouse, will merge with the classically oriented Boston Conservatory to expand academic offerings to students in both schools, the two institutions said Tuesday. The boards of both unanimously approved the move in votes last month, the schools said in
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BOSTON — Legislation that's been dubbed the ''millionaire tax'' is going before a legislative committee on Beacon Hill. The proposed amendment to the state constitution calls for an additional tax of 4 percent on filers with annual incomes of $1 million or more. Supporters say
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NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush rolled out a broad education reform plan Monday that would shift power and money to states and local school districts — and away from the federal government. The former Florida governor also wants to revamp how high school graduates and their parents
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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 – A second undercover video portraying Common Core as an exercise in profiteering by publishers including Boston textbook giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt surfaced Thursday, showing an executive of the company saying such education initiatives are "never about the kids." The video, from Project Veritas, a nonprofit journalism outfit
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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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BOSTON – Project Veritas, a nonprofit "guerilla reporting" organization that has made headlines exposing questionable practices at taxpayer-backed activist groups like now-defunct ACORN, released an undercover video on Tuesday that it says shows Common Core is little more than a publishing ploy to sell more textbooks. The national Common
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BOSTON – Senate President Stanley Rosenberg touched a nerve on Monday when he painted a bleak picture of the prospect of advancing a bill to increase the number of charter schools through the Senate this year, but his read of fellow senators jibes with what supporters of expansion are hearing from
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