Boston, MA - January 25: Joe Barrett, a Special Education Support Staff member with Newton Public Schools, sat on the steps of the Massachusetts State House alone after demonstrating with about ...

The Newton strike is the latest in an upsurge of teacher strikes in Massachusetts since 2019, after 12 years without a single strike. Since then, strikes have broken out in Dedham, Sharon, Andover ...

Viraj Dhanda's norm-shattering acceptance was made all the more poignant because he was considered intellectually challenged ...

The article Police Looking For Missing Newton Teen appeared first on Newton Patch. NEWTON, MA — The police department is ...

(JTA) – Authorities in Newton, Massachusetts, said they are investigating a string of seven recent instances of vandalism targeting homes with pro-Israel signs as individual hate crimes.

Teachers strikes are illegal in Massachusetts, so the fines piled up quickly. On Tuesday, a judge ordered the Newton Teachers Association to pay the school district $275,000 in fines.

NEWTON, Mass. — A Massachusetts man is dead after he was struck by a UPS truck while riding a bicycle in Newton, according to the Middlesex District Attorney's Office.

NEWTON, Mass. — As teachers in Newton continue to strike, a second family in the Massachusetts city has gone to court to ask a judge to put an end to the educators' work stoppage.

NEWTON - Massachusetts schools are on winter break this week, except in Newton. Eleven days of missed school during the recent teachers' strike there came at a cost to students, teachers and ...

NEWTON — City teachers began picketing Friday after the Newton Teachers Association (NTA) voted overwhelmingly the day before to go on strike. Classes were canceled for the day.