Dropout rates fall across the state MetroWest Daily News Local districts still have far fewer students leaving school than the state's largest school systems, like Boston, where 6.4 percent of the student body dropped out last year, or Lawrence, where the rate was 8.6. The highest dropout rate in MetroWest ... |
News Briefs Obama may extend job bias rules to federal contractors Gay People Chronicle Los Angeles--Another challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act was filed in federal court on February 1. The suit was filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights powerhouse, on behalf of veteran Tracey Cooper-Harris and her wife Maggie. |
![]() Boston Globe | Smaller Mass. cities seek non-profit to bolster schools Boston Globe He and his peers are tired of seeing foundation funds flow mainly to troubled schools in Boston By James Vaznis Rosalind Murphy, a corps member of Teach for America, teaches history at Revere High. In making a pitch to nonprofit groups to provide money ... |
Erik L. Brown, at 36, DJ, of Nashua, N.H., lived in Cambridge Boston Herald By Herald Staff Erik Lawrence “Eddie Bones” Brown of Nashua, NH, formerly of Cambridge, a counselor and DJ, died Saturday at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua. He was 36. Born in Boston, Mr. Brown was raised in Cambridge, where he was a ... |
Mental health officials try to help Middle Eastern refugees with PTSD Public Radio International PRI And most of them, she said, aren't seeking therapy. “There's a tendency in our culture to underestimate that and say, 'OK, that was passed. Now we are in a free society. We have to live our lives. We have to buy a car and get a job and just be normal ... |