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Texas social workers will begin conducting DNA tests today to identify the 416 children taken into custody from the fundamentalist Mormon ranch near Eldorado since April 3. A district court judge granted the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) permission to test the children last Friday, as the agency's custody workers continued to struggle with the serious, complicated task of determining which children belong to whom - a task further clouded by the fact that children and mothers gave evasive, shifting answers during interviews...
When Thomas D. Fowler-Finn arrived in Cambridge in 2003 to serve as superintendent of the city’s public school system, the district had been losing nearly 100 or more students annually, and the city’s only public high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin (CRLS), was on probation for failing to meet state standards. Re-orienting the system’s focus in order to improve performance on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) would not prove easy.“A teacher stood up at a meeting and said...
...been charged with breaking a 1784 state law—prohibiting lewd conduct that shocks and alarms an unsuspecting or unwilling public—which the Cambridge District Court then declared unconstitutional on the basis that the law was overbroad...
Bethany Stevens, assistant district attorney representing the Commonwealth ruling, declined to comment...
Another public comment came from Cambridge City Councillor Craig A. Kelley, who has two children in the school district. “My wife and I would not want to have them any place else,” he said, lauding the “immense amount of good news about our public school system...