MALDEN — Standardized tests present a threat to democracy and shouldn't be expanded, the state teachers union president told the state's education board today.
Barbara Madeloni, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, spoke out against several new high school testing proposals at Tuesday's monthly meeting of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting.
STATE HOUSE – Years before it became the centerpiece of a federal extortion case that rocked Boston City Hall, an outdoor music festival and its hiring practices were the subject of debate within the office of former Attorney General Martha Coakley.
Boston Calling's offer to let music fans work to gain tickets to its weekend-long pop music festivals appeared "highly problematic" and seemed to violate the minimum wage law, a lawyer in the attorney general's Fair Labor Division told a top City Hall aide, according to emails obtained by the News Service through a public records request. A couple months later in the summer of 2014 the aide, Tim Sullivan, allegedly extorted the company to hire union workers.
