Southbridge schools placed in state receiver’s hands

BOSTON – In the wake of a "parade of discontinuity" and low performance, the Southbridge Public Schools went into state receivership Tuesday by a unanimous Board of Elementary and Secondary Education vote, becoming the third district in Massachusetts to be removed from local control.
"We have a school district that … continues to underperform," Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester said before the vote. "We've seen seven superintendents in the last four or five years."