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Maura Healey

Healey hopes MIT forum will help shape data initiative

STATE HOUSE — Striking a balance between privacy and innovation will be the theme of a forum Thursday that Attorney General Maura Healey hopes will shape her office's work around the protection of consumer data. The forum, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a collaboration among Healey&

Massachusetts

Voters may soon get to weigh in on charter schools, Common Core

BOSTON — Proponents of two ballot initiatives aimed at reforming Massachusetts public education dropped off boxes of signed petitions to Secretary of State William Galvin's office on Wednesday. Sponsors of measures that would expand the number of public charter schools and prevent the state from continuing to rely on