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Hawaii passes law mandating 180-day school year - Boston.com

Hawaii passes law mandating 180-day school year - Boston.com

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Students at Flag Day celebration reflect on meaning of Stars & Stripes

While political pundits speculate whether the country seems more divided than ever these days, Isabel Basow answers this seemingly complicated question with a simple metaphor. (By Alex Katz, Globe Correspondent)

Cherie Jimenez has turned her life around from drugs, prostitution, and abusive relationships and is helping other women to do it, too.

A lot of people knew Cherie Jimenez in the 1970s. They just didn’t all know about each other. (By Linda Matchan, Globe Staff)

Catholic University names BC law dean as president

WASHINGTON — John H. Garvey, a Boston College Law School dean with a long record of scholarship on some of the most divisive issues in the Catholic Church, will be named president of the Catholic University of America today. . (By Daniel de Vise, Washington Post)

Metco students, parents upset by school cutbacks

School officials in Lincoln and Sudbury voted last week to merge two of their three Metco programs, a cost-saving measure that has angered Boston students and parents who say they were excluded from the process and are worried about the future of the program. (By James O’Brien, Globe Correspondent)

Salem plans Horace Mann charter high school

Salem is preparing to seek state approval to open its own charter school even as organizers of the Road to Success Charter High School ready a revised plan for a charter school serving Lynn and Salem. (By John Laidler, Globe Correspondent)

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