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Boston takes steps to unify school application forms

Students, their parents and educators are being invited to community meetings starting next month to discuss plans to create one form for applying for Boston charter and district school slots, City Hall said Friday. The six meetings begin Oct. 8 in Dorchester at the Kroc Center. It's set

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School choice: Fig leaf of the pro-Common Core Right

A recent report by the conservative Heritage Foundation suggests that the best way to fight the controversial Common Core educational standards is to oppose the "centralization of education." The report tells dissident parents that the best way to fight Common Core and improve schools is to promote "

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Speaker DeLeo backs charter school options for districts

BOSTON – Massachusetts school districts should be allowed to pursue charter schools if they want, Speaker Robert DeLeo told his colleagues in the House of Representatives Wednesday, stirring up an issue in his annual address to the House that has been mired in the Senate where charters are viewed with skepticism.