Massachusetts education officials are reviewing a wave of applications for new and expanded charter schools as activists mull a ballot question lifting a cap on charters that has already been reached in places like Fall River, Lawrence and Holyoke.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's immigration broadside against Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone on Monday was "an act of desperation," Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said, before blasting the feds for failing to reform the nation's immigration system.
