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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Take a trip through time with 'Back to the Future: The Musical'
“Back to the Future: The Musical,” one of the latest adaptations of a classic film to hit Broadway, retells the story of eccentric scientist Doc Brown and hip teenager Marty McFly and their adventures in the iconic time-travelling DeLorean. -
Concord Town Meeting members pressure school committee to rename middle school
Concord Town Meeting members overwhelmingly voted in favor of renaming the middle school for Ellen Garrison, a Black abolitionist. The vote was symbolic, but puts pressure on the school committee to reconsider its vote to name the school the "Concord Middle School." -
How AI-powered robots in law enforcement could become a tool for 'supercharging police bias'
"You do not want a system prone to bias going around with the capacity to kill people," says Nir Eisikovits of UMass Boston's Center for Applied Ethics. -
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.
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