As the ballot question campaign to expand charter school access heats up, six groups have proposed opening new charter schools in Massachusetts and 12 existing charter schools want to increase enrollment, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced Monday.
DESE will decide by mid-September which of the six groups interested in establishing a charter school it will invite to submit a complete proposal, with final applications due Nov. 1, DESE said. Commissioner Mitchell Chester will then decide which applications he will recommend to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education for consideration in February 2017.
STATE HOUSE — Republican leaders in the Massachusetts House and Senate are hardly rushing to endorse their party's presidential nominee.
Quizzed about their stance on Donald Trump over the past few weeks, the House and Senate minority leaders and several lawmakers on their leadership teams declined to say whether Trump will receive their votes in November.
