School aid called uneven
11 districts shut out of federal job funds
While some local school officials are welcoming a pair of recent federal funding awards, several are contending that their districts were shortchanged.
The state announced funding allocations from the $250 million that Massachusetts is receiving as one of 10 grant recipients in the second round of the federal Race to the Top competition. The local grants will go to communities that agreed to participate in the program and to spend the funds on school reforms.
Separately, the state announced funding from $204 million Massachusetts was allotted through a new $10 billion federal Education Jobs Fund program, created
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While some local school officials are welcoming a pair of recent federal funding awards, several are contending that their districts were shortchanged. (By John Laidler, Globe Correspondent)
Magazine ranks Westwood High School 11th best in state
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Harvard psychology professor Marc Hauser canceled a Harvard Extension School class on cognitive evolution that he was scheduled to start teaching yesterday and dropped plans to offer a spring class called “The Moral Sense: From Genes to Law.’’ (By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff)
$197m later, Newton North opens
NEWTON — It began as a simple renovation project. It ended up the most expensive public school ever built in Massachusetts. (By Erica Noonan, Globe Staff)
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