PTO

Imagine being at your school's PTO meeting when a school department representative comes in and says, you can't opt your child out of the PARCC assessments. Could s/he be right? Take a look at "Refusals to Take an Assessment."

A Brockton woman who once won an award for her involvement in the city's public schools has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from a parent-teacher organization. Authorities say 40-year-old Maureen Pierson skimmed between $4,000 and $8,000 from fundraisers while treasurer of the PTO at the Huntington Elementary School...