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Students in two North Shore communities will be back in school Wednesday after tentative deals were reached on new contracts.

Marblehead schools are set to reopen Wednesday after teachers reached a tentative deal on a new contract.

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There’s no end in sight for the striking teachers on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Teachers from unions across the state are at the State House on Tuesday to encourage Gov. Maura Healey to take a stand on the dispute....

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Dozens of teachers lined the street outside a Beverly City Council meeting as their strike is poised to set a record for longest in recent Massachusetts history.

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Students will return to the classroom Wednesday in the Massachusetts communities of Beverly and Marblehead. The Marblehead School Committee said late Tuesday afternoon that it had reached a tentative deal with the Marblehead Education Association. The Beverly School Committee announced a tentative agreement later Tuesday evening. “Both the School Committee and the Association recognize the stress and hardship caused to…

Dozens of teachers lined the street outside a Beverly City Council meeting as their strike is poised to set a record for longest in recent Massachusetts history. 

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As the Beverly and Marblehead teachers strikes stretched on, a third-party mediator stepped in, while students in Gloucester returned to classes after the town’s own strike.

It’s back to class in Gloucester Monday, after 10 days of no school due to the teachers’ strike there. But educators in Beverly and Marblehead remain on strike.

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Monday marks 11 days of no school for Beverly – which ties Newton as the longest teachers strike in the state since the 1990’s.

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As two North Shore teachers strikes drag on, the one in Beverly on Monday tied a recent one in Newton as the longest in modern Massachusetts history. The Beverly strike has stretched on for 11 days, and negotiations have become increasingly contentious as students there and in Marblehead missed another day of school while, in Gloucester, the North Shore third…

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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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