Massachusetts Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients now have more options of where they can use their benefits.
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's administration announced on Wednesday that people can now use the benefits to purchase food online from Price Rite Marketplace. It's a supermarket chain that has locations in several Massachusetts cities, including Brockton, Revere, Lynn, and Boston.
A school committee member in Northampton is taking flak for the way he asked a question about math students of varying levels of understanding being put in the same classroom.
Michael Stein, one 10 members of the city's elected school committee, asked a question about "differentiated instruction" during a committee meeting earlier this month that didn't go down well with the high school principal. Stein referred to students in combined classes as "second-class learners" and "first-class learners."
