Education commissioner Mitchell Chester

MCAS scores at the Global Learning Charter Public School in New Bedford improved the most ever in school history. The state had placed the charter school on probation, and had given the administration through next year to improve academic achievement...

The Commissioner of Education has issued a four-point plan to improve academic acheivement at the struggling John A. Parker School in New Bedford.  The state declared Parker a "level five" school last year, one of only a handful of "chronically underperforming" schools in Mass...