BOSTON – If efforts to repeal Common Core education standards succeed and the state returns to the old approach used with the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, tests in place before 2010, it may find itself in good company.
In Michigan, a state Senate committee has advanced a bill that would require dropping Common Core and replacing it with the education standards used in Massachusetts up until 2010.
BOSTON – The fight against natural gas pipelines in Massachusetts hasn't subsided in the wake of Kinder Morgan's suspension of its controversial $3.3 billion Northeast Energy Direct project.
More than 150 anti-pipeline demonstrators gathered outside the State House Tuesday to call for an end to other proposed pipelines in the state, their chants of "No to pipelines" and "Yes to clean energy" drowning out the notes of "America the Beautiful" playing from a Laborers International Union of North America truck that displayed pro-pipeline messages while waiting in traffic nearby.
