BOSTON – The Southbridge Public Schools, which have had seven superintendents and seven high school principals since 2011, should be designated chronically underperforming and placed into receivership, Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester recommended on Friday.
The Level 5 designation, which would put the Southbridge schools under state control, will be discussed at a Board of Elementary and Secondary Education forum on Jan. 25 in Southbridge where parents, teachers, residents and other officials will have a chance to speak.
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's bid for a new trial and ordered him to pay victims of the deadly attack more than $101 million in restitution.
The restitution order, issued by Judge George O'Toole Jr., is seen as largely symbolic because Tsarnaev is in federal prison and has no ability to pay.
