MILFORD, Mass. — The training program teaches alternatives to staying in lockdown during a school shooting, including fighting back.

BOSTON — Mayor Menino says the goal is open the North End school to 500 students in kindergarten through the eighth-grade in the fall of 2016.

BOSTON — The new system, which does away with the three-zone system that has been used since 1989, will go into effect in the fall of 2014.

BOSTON — The plan, advanced by a special advisory committee last month, would give parents a choice of at least six schools.

BOSTON — Sherri Killins says her resignation is unrelated to criticism of her participation in a school superintendent mentoring program.

BOSTON — With the secret search, Harvard officials say they just were trying to protect the privacy of students implicated in a cheating scandal last year.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University administrators say the search was made because a media leak raised concerns that student information considered private was at risk.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Reports say Harvard University administrators secretly searched the emails of 16 deans last fall, looking for a leak to the media about a case of cheating.

BOSTON — The governor included an additional $550 million in education spending in his proposed budget for the new fiscal year.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard President Drew Faust said in a statement Monday that Winfrey’s journey from her grandmother’s Mississippi farm to one of the world’s most admired women “is one of the great American success stories.”

GREENFIELD, Mass. — The Massachusetts Virtual Academy, a three-year-old Greenfield public school that teaches 470 students, will close June 30.

BOSTON — City Councilor Frank Baker has proposed making three of the seven seats on the Boston School Committee elected positions. Currently the mayor appoints all members.

BOSTON — The sequester threat is sending a message to colleges that, now or later, federal dollars for higher education are bound to fall.

The board approved three new charter schools Monday night and two more at its Tuesday morning meeting.