As Massachusetts overhauls its standardized student assessment program, the state education commissioner is proposing new methods of testing high schoolers, including the eventual addition of history and social science tests as a graduation requirement. Commissioner Mitchell Chester plans to present to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday a series of policy recommendat…
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FEDERAL BAN MEANS POT STILL OUTLAWED IN SOME PARTS OF MASSACHUSETTS
Marijuana legalization in Massachusetts has a big federal asterisk. Bay Staters last week celebrated their new freedom to carry and gift up to an ounce of marijuana, displaying the drug openly on the State House steps on Thursday, the day the marijuana legalization ballot law took effect. Had they brought bags of pot to celebrate […]
MBTA, CARMEN’S UNION AGREE TO CONTRACT RUNNING THROUGH JUNE 2021
The MBTA and its largest union have come to terms on a new contract, one that T officials say will save the system an annual average of $22 million over the next decade, and that the union chief said will protect his members’ jobs and will improve their quality of life. While the T and […]