School districts across Massachusetts weigh teacher and staff cuts
Massachusetts school districts across the state are facing budget deficits and weighing educator layoffs, citing millions in spending shortfalls as pandemic-era funding runs out.
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Concord’s Minute Man park designated ‘endangered historic site’ ahead of private jet airfield expansion
Activists have stepped up their opposition to the proposed expansion in recent months, urging Gov. Maura Healey to intervene and get the site’s owner — the quasi-public Massachusetts Ports Authority — to cancel the project.
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Local Vietnamese American community commemorates Black April
The fall of Saigon, 49 years ago, marked the end of the Vietnam War. -
USDA cuts allowable sugar and sodium levels in school meals
The updated nutrition guidelines allow schools several years to meet the reduced sugar and sodium requirements. -
Codman Academy to unionize with the Boston Teachers Union
Statewide, nearly half a dozen independent charter schools have unionized. -
No plans for new state taxes, Healey tells business group
Sluggish tax revenue collections this fiscal year prompted the governor to make budget cuts. Still, some bills with the governor’s backing would let municipalities impose their own local taxes. -
Meet Brenda Kelley of Lenox, Massachusetts’ elementary principal of the year
"Our days are long days. Days can be tough. But you know, every day, there’s something positive happening within a school building," Kelley says.
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