MCAS results will not be used against public schools
BOSTON – Education Commissioner Jeff Riley intends to waive accountability determinations for districts and schools based on this year’s MCAS exam, according to a senior department official who sought on Wednesday to assuage skeptics worried that the test results after a year of disrupted learning could be used against schools. Associate Education Commissioner Robert Curtin, […]
![BOSTON – Opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts rose by 5 percent in 2020, marking the first increase in three years and climbing to a level slightly higher than the previous peak in 2016. Public health officials on Wednesday announced a total of 2,104 confirmed and estimated opioid deaths in 2020, a year marked by the […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/image-7-1.jpg?w=289 "BOSTON – Opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts rose by 5 percent in 2020, marking the first increase in three years and climbing to a level slightly higher than the previous peak in 2016. Public health officials on Wednesday announced a total of 2,104 confirmed and estimated opioid deaths in 2020, a year marked by the […]")
![LOWELL — A Lowell woman will spend a year in prison for embezzling over $182,000 from the veterinary hospital that employed her, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. Sasha Saulnier, 33, was sentenced by a U.S District Court judge on Monday after she pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud in January of […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1095791206-e1552574673263-1.jpg?w=289 "LOWELL — A Lowell woman will spend a year in prison for embezzling over $182,000 from the veterinary hospital that employed her, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. Sasha Saulnier, 33, was sentenced by a U.S District Court judge on Monday after she pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud in January of […]")
![PEPPERELL – A SWAT team helped police serve a search warrant that led to the discovery of two guns, a binder full of LSD tabs and over 500 grams of methamphetamine being kept in a Mill Street home where two young children lived, according to police. Three men were arrested as Pepperell Police, with help […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/low-l-PepperellArrests-1.jpg?w=250 "PEPPERELL – A SWAT team helped police serve a search warrant that led to the discovery of two guns, a binder full of LSD tabs and over 500 grams of methamphetamine being kept in a Mill Street home where two young children lived, according to police. Three men were arrested as Pepperell Police, with help […]")
![BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker will take part in event on Tuesday with President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of governors to highlight the state’s progress in vaccinating residents, the governor said Monday afternoon. Massachusetts over the weekend passed the milestone of administering more 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine since the effort began […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Virus_Outbreak_Vaccines_05236-1.jpg?w=281 "BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker will take part in event on Tuesday with President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of governors to highlight the state’s progress in vaccinating residents, the governor said Monday afternoon. Massachusetts over the weekend passed the milestone of administering more 4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine since the effort began […]")
![The Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth has announced the winners and honorable mentions of this year’s Public Service Announcement Project. This year, participating students were challenged to create a video PSA featuring the theme “We Stand Together.” The theme is inspired by Black Lives Matter at School, a national committee of educators organizing for anti-racism and […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/download-1.png?w=300 "The Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth has announced the winners and honorable mentions of this year’s Public Service Announcement Project. This year, participating students were challenged to create a video PSA featuring the theme “We Stand Together.” The theme is inspired by Black Lives Matter at School, a national committee of educators organizing for anti-racism and […]")