BOSTON – Among potential ballot measures that may go before voters in November, raising the cap on charter schools won the most support in a recently released survey of Massachusetts voters.
The proposed initiative asks voters to allow the creation of up to 12 new charter schools each year, with emphasis on adding these publicly funded institutions in low-performing districts as measured by standardized tests. Almost 50 percent said they approve of lifting the cap, while 33 percent disapproved and 16 percent were undecided in the Boston Globe-sponsored survey from Suffolk University in Boston.
HARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — As Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigned in West Virginia this month before thousands of voters, ex-convict Keith Judd slipped into the state unnoticed.
There were no campaign rallies. No preplanned speeches. No organized public events. Just a chance for the Democratic presidential candidate who received 41 percent of the vote in the state's 2012 primary against President Barack Obama to drive around and see it for himself.
