Salem schools superintendent will replace Tutwiler as state education secretary
Massachusetts’ current Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler was one of Gov. Maura Healey’s first appointees when she was elected to office.
Colleges are reconnecting with students who left before earning their degrees
As the college-age population shrinks, states and campuses are trying to bring adult learners back before it’s too late.
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Healey seeks to limit courthouse immigration arrests, cooperation with ICE
The governor and top lawmakers are pushing immigration bills that would bolster due process rights and limit where — and under what circumstances — ICE can detain people in Massachusetts. -
As more residents move out of state, Massachusetts’ economic future hangs in the balance
With fewer international immigrants and people moving out of the state, experts say it’s a threat to the state economy. -
Monica Cannon-Grant sentenced to home confinement in fraud case
The Boston community activist pleaded guilty last September to several charges. -
Mass. activists who oppose ICE push for boycott of local bank
Over the last week, local activists who oppose the Trump Administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants and protesters have focused a boycott on Citizens Bank, criticizing the bank’s financing of the two of the country’s largest private operators of immigrant detention centers. -
AG Campbell sues 9 towns for noncompliance with MBTA Act
The communities have so far refused to rezone in accordance with the 2021 law, intended to boost housing production near MBTA stations.
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