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...Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores, whereas the Peabody School suffers from declining enrollment, according to Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn. Under this plan, the Tobin School would continue only as a K-5 elementary school. Fowler-Finn said that allocating part of the $125 million district budget to the new hybrid middle school would allow for the implementation of an Intensive Studies Program (ISP) at the Peabody School. ISP, along with the Achievement Via Independent Determination program, would aid the school in improving their level of achievement, Fowler-Finn said. Peabody School Principal Joellen Scannell said...
...Dubay and the center filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, which raises all kinds of confounding questions about rights and choice and what we really mean by equality, when we look at the social and biological roles played by men and women in the course of becoming parents. Feit argues that within a short window of time after discovering an unplanned pregnancy - he has proposed a month, but thinks a week might even be more appropriate - a man should have the right to terminate his legal and financial obligations to the child. "I'm not talking about fathers opting...
This is Karl Rove's worst nightmare: a large crowd has gathered in a restaurant in the small town of Montrose, Pa., on a sunny Sunday afternoon in February to listen to the Democratic candidate running in the 10th Congressional District, a rural conservative bastion considered "safe" for Republicans. The candidate, Chris Carney, is soft-spoken and well informed. The audience is enthusiastic and predominantly Democratic, but peppered with Republicans who seem every bit as angry about the Bush Administration as do the Democrats. One man, dressed in a jacket and tie, stands up and confesses he's a lifelong...
...lost both legs in Iraq, is running in Illinois) for the Democrats' long-shot efforts to retake the House in 2006. They may also represent the beginning of the Dems' long climb back to credibility on national-security issues. Chris Carney has one of the toughest races. "The district is so Republican that no one really thinks he can win, even with Sherwood's problems," says G. Terry Madonna, who runs Franklin and Marshall College's Keystone Poll. But Iraq-war veterans running as Democrats is something new under the political sun-and Karl Rove's nightmare is that candidates...
According to Middlesex district attorney spokeswoman Emily LaGrassa no “major things” have happened in the case. It has so far included only two court dates, including a July arraignment and a September pre-trial hearing, she added...