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Massachusetts education officials to press pause on school accountability determinations Updated May 12, 2021; By Matt Murphy | State House News Service Education Commissioner Jeff Riley intends to waive accountability determinations for districts and schools based on this year’s MCAS exam, according to a senior department official who sought on Wednesday to assuage skeptics worried that the test results after a year of disrupted learning could be used against schools. Associate Education Commissioner Robert Curtin, with the department’s Center for District Support, said the results of t...

'A larger-than-life character with a quick wit and a friendly word.' Just some of the many tributes for popular Drogheda man Anthony (Tony) Lynch, who was laid to rest in St Mary's Church on Monday February 15th, after he passed away peacefully in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital the previous Friday. Tony was known to many for his generosity of spirit and time with many local voluntary organisations, including many years with the St Patrick's Day committee, serving as chairman and Grand Marshall in the past. Settling in later life on the Platin Road, Drogheda - where he had many wonderful neighbo...

The music may have died during the pandemic, but that did not stop an enterprising group recording an original Christmas song involving more than 100 talented singers, entertainers and musicians. Weeks of painstaking audio and video recording and editing made the festive tune look like the performers, from Drogheda in Co Louth, were all together. But the charity single by Gerry Simpson & Friends, entitled Santa Claus, Are you Listening?, involved dozens of artists being filmed at different time slots over several weeks. The brainchild of former Eurovision finalist and singer/songwriter Gerry,...

Basically no party preference is about 29.48% and then bring up this poll if we can in terms of impeachment, independent support impeachment, 40% compared to about 36% who oppose it and 24% who oppose, republicans 81% oppose and then democrats as we just saw the majority there in your district support 85%. >> yes, so that's the key right there, the way to defeat adam schiff in the district, we can't rely on republicans because we simply do not have enough republicans, we have to galvanize and activate independent voters, that's why -- run of the reasons i'm running as independent. heather: how...

>> you had pushed house democrats to go a little further. is this the type of action you were asking for when we spoke on friday afternoon? >> i think we all, many of us, especially from districts experiencing the brunt of the president's decisions, have been feeling a sense of urgency around this. i think the development around the whistleblower, i think these developments are exactly where we need to be. >> has the caucus been too slow, though, to move on this, to move on impeachment? >> honestly, at this point it doesn't matter. we're moving forward with it now. what we're seeing with these...