Wicked Smart: Massachusetts’s Efforts to Turn Around a Failing School District

June 1st, 2016 - Mikia Manley

Just 30 miles north of Boston on the Merrimack River is the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. This industrial metropolitan area is home to almost 80,000 people, with a median household income of $32,851 and a poverty rate of 29.2 percent. Almost 40 percent of r... More »