Education Commissioner Discusses Decision To Order Takeover Of Four Schools

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published November 2, 2013 at 12:53 PM EDT

For the first time under a 2010 education reform law in Massachusetts the state is taking over four struggling schools. The state will place into receivership two schools in Boston, one in New Bedford and the Morgan Community School—a K through 8^th grade school—in Holyoke. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Mitchell Chester about the action.

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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.

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