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President Joe Biden isn't the least popular president of all time or anywhere close to that, but people's perception of him has changed over the past seven months. Biden, who took office on January 20, 2021, this year, entered office with an approval rating above 50
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In any healthy, well-functioning democracy, when things go terribly wrong, heads roll. Not literally, of course. People resign. The military leaders and government officials honorably take the responsibility for the disaster and resign. And if they don't resign, they are fired.
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School districts all over Massachusetts are reflexively reinstating mask mandates for K-12 students and staff as the new school year draws near. Worcester, the second-largest school district in Massachusetts, is mandating masks for all staff and students, vaccinated or not, following the path paved by Boston Public Schools. The city&
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The state's education commissioner is seeking authorization to require all students and staff at public schools in Massachusetts to wear masks indoors at least through October 1. The announcement on Friday, August 20 is an about-face for the administration of Governor Charlie Baker, who has repeatedly in recent
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Bloomsbury Publishing Company is developing a series of books that presents research studies about re-inventing teacher education. Everybody know that teachers need better training than they're getting now. But for some reason many people don't seem to know what sort of training that should be. Most
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A high-ranking GOP member of the Massachusetts Legislature will soon step down, creating an open seat in a left-leaning district — and one that Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman Gus Bickford thinks his party will flip. State Representative Brad Hill (R-Ipswich) will step down from his post as Assistant Minority Leader of
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The school year is beginning, but with fewer Catholic schools. Hundreds closed last year in the United States. Maybe more should shut their doors, according to one popular American bishop.
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By Matt Murphy State House News Service
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