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Resolving to "show up" for youth and bolster safety for all Massachusetts communities, about two dozen gun violence prevention activists gathered outside the State House Thursday demanding that elected leaders pass stronger gun control laws to crack down on what they described as a public health crisis.
Beacon Hill’s Big Three have now all come out against this ill-conceived priority of the Massachusetts Teachers Association.
Deb McCarthy followed a family path into public education, becoming a fifth-grade teacher in the same small coastal Massachusetts town where her mother taught for more than 50 years.
The bill’s advocates gathered Wednesday over Zoom to argue that the high-stakes MCAS has been a failure, blocking vulnerable students from pursuing their goals in higher education and careers.
BOSTON — In a week where students across Massachusetts will sit for state-required standardized tests, a newly formed coalition of education organizations will step into the arena and throw its support behind the controversial exams against a backdrop...