The state's education commissioner is now seeking authority to mandate that students ages five and up, staff and educators in public K-12 schools wear masks indoors through Oct. 1.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association wants all eligible students and staff returning to public schools and colleges to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
We've just spent the last year and a half battling Charlie Baker's ridiculous COVID mandates. Now we have to fight to keep Baker from raising the gas tax.
School Committeeman Chris Cotter says he wants to hear the views of parents and others on masks rather than just adopt an administrative policy recommendation.
SouthCoast communities will be getting nearly half a million dollars for dams and seawall repairs as part of a state infrastructure grant program, the Baker-Polito Administration announced yesterday.
The politics of fear and confusion are again taking hold again in Massachusetts and will likely get worse as summer days melt into the indoor days of winter.
Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law a $47.6 billion budget for this fiscal year, striking $7.9 million in spending from the bill lawmakers sent him a week ago.