Education

Four Massachusetts institutions are waiving tuition for families with annual household incomes under a certain amount. Brandeis University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the latest schools to announce the move, joining all four University of Massachusetts’ campuses and College of the Holy Cross. The institutions will offer free or half tuition for students whose families make less than…

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MIT is also expanding its tuition-free program.

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Kirabo Jackson, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University and former economic advisor to President Biden, discusses how education policy in the U.S. may shift under the new Trump administration.

The teacher strike continued Monday in three communities on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Here’s the latest on the ongoing saga.

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Monday marks another day out of the classroom for students in three North Shore communities, as educators in Beverly, Gloucester and Marblehead return to the picket line in an ongoing strike. The teacher strikes entered their second school week amid ongoing negotiations, and schools will remain closed Tuesday. In Beverly, the teachers’ union there is expected to be in court…

School was canceled for three communities on the North Shore amid ongoing educator strikes.

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A backlash to standardized tests has been fueled by complaints they take up too much classroom time and questions about how well they measure readiness for college or careers.

Preschoolers are getting suspended or expelled at a rate three times higher than K-12 students.

The University of Massachusetts is simplifying its message for prospective in-state students and their families: If you make under $75,000, you can come to any one of the system’s campuses for free. There’s been a surge in state funding for financial aid in recent years, especially since the passage of a surtax on high-earners in 2022 that has generated more…

Battle lines continue to form around a ballot question to change a key component of the education reform law that some say made Massachusetts the best educated state in the country, separating politicians who are used to standing on the same side of most issues, and simultaneously creating strange allies. The day after U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat,...

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education could be called into court to desegregate Massachusetts schools.

An educator with experience advising the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) believes it’s time to sue the state agency if it doesn’t do more to reduce racial imbalances in public schools. “They still have an opportunity before someone files a lawsuit,” said Dr. Raul Fernandez, the former chair of DESE’s Racial Imbalance Advisory Council (RAIC). “My...

Should MCAS be ended as a graduation requirement in Massachusetts or be kept as-is? Voters will decide in the 2024 election.

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Should tipped workers get a minimum wage in Massachusetts? It’s on the ballot for in the 2024 election, and we dove into the issue to see what supporters and opponents of Ballot Question 5.

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Massachusetts voters will decide on five ballot questions this election. Question 2 presents an issue that could impact students, parents and teachers in Massachusetts. If approved, it would eliminate the MCAS standardized test as a graduation requirement. A no vote would keep it as is. “I know how much harm that has done,” said Deb McCarthy, the vice president of…

Members of the union demonstrated before school on Monday as they continued their push for a new contract.

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The Boston Teachers Union held walk-ins at over a dozen schools in the city as contract negotiations drag on between the union and school district. Before-school rallies were held at walk-ins at 15 schools in the city, putting pressure on the contract negotiations that have gone on for months, the union said in a news release. The Boston Teachers Unions…

Though she’s no longer teaching, Kimberlee Maniscalco’s thoughts often find their way back to her students.  “I loved them and taught them as if they were family to me. We were. I called them our class family,” she said.  The fond memories of her kindergarten class in Winthrop live on in the mementos and keepsakes she still holds on...