The Great Divide
Braintree teen hasn’t been to school this year. Is special education system to blame?More than 10,000 Massachusetts students were educated ‘out-of-district’ last year. Here’s what to know.
A federal law requires school districts to provide every special education student with a “free and appropriate education.” If a district does not have the means to provide such an education itself, it must pay the cost to educate the student elsewhere.
In Holyoke, a home of her own: One woman’s struggle to build a life in the state’s poorest placeLike others in this city’s large Puerto Rican community, Nereida Badillo longed for a more stable life. But history is difficult to overcome.
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