How To Clean Up the Common Core Mess in Massachusetts

How To Clean Up the Common Core Mess in Massachusetts

With the onset of Common Core, Massachusetts's education standards for public schools have declined. How can the state regain lost ground?

It's actually not that hard. Solid standards already exist. What's needed is the will to implement them.

Feds Charge Providence Man With Arson In Torching of Police Cruiser During Riots
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Feds Charge Providence Man With Arson In Torching of Police Cruiser During Riots

Matthew McDonald

Federal authorities have arrested a 34-year-old man who lives in Providence, Rhode Island on a charge of arson during the riots in that city in early June.

According to prosecutors, Luis Joel Sierra was on pretrial release for two state charges of heroin trafficking when he leaned into a Providence police cruiser and used a lighter and flammable liquid to set it on fire, destroying it, according to The Providence Journal.

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