Word: stated
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...also agreed that, with the results of a state audit of district finances in hand, the budget process will be especially exacting this year. Many committee members say they need to take a "critical look" at why Cambridge has high per-pupil spending but test scores below state averages...
Passing the tenth-grade version of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) will be a requirement for graduation starting with current ninth-graders. D'Alessandro says she hopes to work out alternative assessments, such as portfolios or senior projects, with the state...
Pressure from the state makes this term seem all the more important. On the school committee, there is a sense that the panel needs to act decisively in the coming months...
...also just sent in my request for an absentee ballot from the great state of New Hampshire," Hill says...
...welcome but somewhat belated act of conscience, Illinois Gov. George Ryan announced a moratorium Jan. 31 on executions in his state. Illinois has been ground zero for the death penalty battle: over the past 13 years, 13 prisoners have been released from death row on the grounds of their innocence, more than have been executed during the same period. Although Ryan had consistently defended the death penalty until now, another exoneration last month and a scathing review of the justice system by the Chicago Tribune apparently convinced him to change his mind. In a statement that we should expect...