Two former administrators from Boston's Tobin School, principal Natasha Halfkenny and assistant principal Coreen Miranda, have each been fined $4,000 for violating conflict of interest laws.
The fines stem from their misuse of tickets that had been donated for Tobin School students to attend the musical Hamilton at Citizens Bank Opera House. Instead of giving these tickets to the students, the administrators took several tickets for themselves and their sons, who were not students at the school, according to a press release from the State Ethics Commission.
Massachusetts students as of 10 years ago were not only excelling on the state's Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exams but were also performing on par with some of the top-ranked education systems worldwide, according to a newly published study from Pioneer Institute.
The study compared MCAS results from 2001 to 2015 with scores from international assessments taken between 2007 and 2015.
