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...most radical and most specific detail of the program is also the one most aggravating to teachers’ unions—states that have so-called “firewall laws?? will be ineligible. Due largely to the clout of teachers’ unions, many states maintain such legislation, which prevents school boards from factoring in student performance on standardized tests when evaluating teachers or assigning their pay grades...
...state still subject to “blue laws??—legislative relics of the colonial era—it isn’t surprising that the Puritan vibe carries over to the subway system. Boston and Cambridge bars close by 2 a.m., which leaves seemingly little reason to stay out late. That is, unless you’re 20, and your night doesn’t start until 11:30 p.m. at the earliest. With college campuses smattered from Davis Square to Chestnut Hill to Waltham, there’s ample opportunity for a vibrant, energetic...
Several residents drew parallels between the current petition and the zoning variance—a one-time exception to zoning laws??granted last month to Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc, a developer that plans to build biotechnology labs in East Cambridge...
...interview yesterday, a week after the initial count, Kelley declined to elaborate his reasons—no justification is required by the by-laws??but said that he took the action “at the advice of a lot of people who didn’t think the process was where it should have been...
...proactive in digitizing their material. Harvard University’s withdrawal is unfortunate but both understandable and expected. That said, as legal pressure from publishers continues to grow, Harvard can and should find other ways—beyond just allowing the scanning of books no longer subject to copyright laws??to aid Google’s digitization project. For example, Harvard should explore the possibility of allowing books that are published through its own publishing house to be scanned. Many important works, such as the Loeb Classical Library series, could be made available to Google in this...