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Three principals search together for ‘common practices’ to share
Principals representing three models of education— public, private, and charter schools— participated in a cross-sector conversation earlier this month on Dec. 16 about what schools need to do to provide rigorous academic instruction to all students regardless of background or achievement.
Read MoreCharter school moves back home -- to Brockton HIDE CAPTION The New Heights Charter School of Brockton at 1690 Main St.t back in August 2016, before renovations had begun. Marc Vasconcellos/The Enterprise
BROCKTON - The New Heights Charter School of Brockton finally lives up to its name.
The charter school began its inaugural year in September at a temporary Norwood location, but opened Monday at its permanent home in Brockton.
Read MoreEye On Weather: Students Travel To Alaska For Climate Change Research
BOSTON (CBS) – A group of local high school students traveled to a taiga forest, north of Fairbanks, Alaska this summer. They helped research climate change with scientists from the Woods Hole Research Center.
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Ballot Question 2: A missed opportunity
The right to expand charter schools in Massachusetts has been defeated at the polls.
Read MoreNow it’s time to fix BPS
In the often acrimonious debate over whether to lift the cap on public charter schools in Massachusetts, what was frequently ignored is just how bad our urban district schools really are and — though we know what ails them — how resistant they have been to change.
Read MoreBoston Prep graduate returns to alma mater as teacher
It was a bumpy ride for Gabrielle Edouard as she found her way back to Boston Preparatory Charter Public School, where she had been a member of the school’s first graduating class of 2011.
Congressman Seth Moulton Endorses Question 2
ROXBURY, MA - Congressman Seth Moulton (D-Salem) has endorsed Question 2, which would give thousands of children stuck in low-performing schools access to Massachusetts' best-in-the-nation public charter schools.
Read MoreNovember 6th Morning Rounds
Baker: The education kids deserve
By Governor Charlie Baker for The Milford Daily News
Charlie Baker: Charter schools work: Vote Yes on Question 2
Massachusetts has many great schools and many great school districts. And as a parent, I took it for granted that my kids were going to go to the kind of school where they would get the education they needed to be successful.
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