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After Gov. Maura Healey on Monday unveiled $375 million in mid-year spending cuts to balance the state budget, progressive groups painted the maneuver as a byproduct of a relief package that they feel was unnecessarily packed with benefits for wealthy Bay Staters.

Gov. Maura Healey has carved out an enthusiastic defense of tax relief, declaring herself "proud of the tax cuts."

Gov. Maura Healey defended a $1 billion-a-year package of tax cuts signed into law last year after her administration said this week that Massachusetts is expected to collect $1 billion less in fiscal year 2024 revenues than originally anticipated.

A teacher in Great Barrington wants an independent investigation after a police officer searched her classroom for a copy of "Gender Queer."

Healey says the $1 billion in tax breaks were "imperative," despite a projected revenue shortfall.

The Massachusetts Teachers Association, in its first public statement since the Dec. 8 incident, says the local union has provided strong support for the teacher whose classroom was visited by

Ballot questions nixing the MCAS graduation requirement and allowing for audits of the Legislature advanced towards the 2024 ballot.

Another local teachers union is demanding the Massachusetts Teachers Association rescind an "inflammatory" resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.

A local teachers union this week sought to distance itself from a controversial resolution about the war between Israel and Hamas approved by the Massachusetts Teachers Association Board of Directors.

The Massachusetts Teachers Association's leaders are facing heat after the MTA board called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, and said Israel's government is carrying out a "genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza."