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Senate passes sweeping changes for underperforming schools
- 11-18-2009
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By Milton J. Valencia/Boston Globe
The state Senate last night passed a sweeping education bill, the most significant in more than 15 years, giving Massachusetts an edge in a scramble to compete for $250 million in federal education grants. The package the Senate passed, called the most extensive since the Education Reform Act of 1993, would give the state and local school districts more authority in intervening in underperforming schools, create a system for specialized schools in local districts, and effectively double the number of charter school seats that can be located in underperforming districts. State Senator Robert A. O’Leary, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, called the package a merger of several administration proposals into one “bill on steroids.’’ “We bulked them up, we strengthened them, we sought more reform,’’ said O’Leary, a Democrat from the Cape and Islands. (more...)
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