Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Eleven o'clock. Here comes the son Que the Beatles sixty
Speaker 2: three in Boston. Nice to be with you on Laurie Kirby.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening right now. President Joe Biden has just
Speaker 2: wrapped up his speech before the UN General Assembly in
Speaker 2: New York, his final as sitting president. We get the
Speaker 2: very late now and his special report from CBS News.
Speaker 3: Stand behind the principles of Uniteds. We stand firm against aggression. Well,
Speaker 3: we add in the conflicts that are raging today. We
Speaker 3: take on global challenges like climate change, hunger.
Speaker 1: And disease.
Speaker 4: He talked about Israel and new air strikes that have
Speaker 4: killed more than eight hundred and fifty people in Lebanon
Speaker 4: this week, and he called for an immediate end to
Speaker 4: the war in Gaza.
Speaker 3: Put forward a cutter in Egypt to cease fire, and
Speaker 3: hostage deal spend in doors by the US Security Council.
Speaker 3: Now is the time for the parties of finalize's terms
Speaker 3: bring the hostages home.
Speaker 4: There is no meeting scheduled between mister Biden and Israel's
Speaker 4: Prime Minister net and Yahoo on the sidelines of the
Speaker 4: UN meeting. Before he exited the stage, the President also
Speaker 4: warned of the dangers of AI, including the way it
Speaker 4: will change wars CBS News special report. I'm Deborah Rodriguez
Speaker 4: well more throughout the day, both here in streaming on
Speaker 4: the iHeartRadio app in other news. It's a disappointing finish
Speaker 4: for school kids statewide as the state tries to claw
Speaker 4: its way back from the pandemic. Wbz's Hiles Shaffle has more.
Speaker 1: It's definitely not what the state was looking for.
Speaker 5: English Language Arts results show low achievement in all grades.
Speaker 1: The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education was hoping for
Speaker 1: a post pandemic rebound, but this year's MCAST score say differently.
Speaker 1: Kids across the board scored worse than the English Language
Speaker 1: exam compared to last year. They were basically flat or
Speaker 1: a little worse at men and the science results are
Speaker 1: mixed to no clear win. THEREDESSI Interim Commissioner Russell Johnson
Speaker 1: put it like this.
Speaker 6: These results are concerning as we continue to combat pandemic related.
Speaker 1: Learning loss, and this may seem bad, but the numbers
Speaker 1: are even worse compared to the pre pandemic, down double
Speaker 1: digits in English. This all comes a minute ballot pushed
Speaker 1: by the mass Teachers Association to kill the mcasss graduation requirement.
Speaker 1: They say it's just not a fair way to evaluate students.
Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffel WBZ Boston Snows Radio.
Speaker 2: It's eleven ZHO two. Governor Healy has ordered all state
Speaker 2: and US flags to fly at half staff today. They
Speaker 2: are honoring. We are honoring a World War II hero.
Speaker 2: US Marine Corporal Irwin King was killed in the August
Speaker 2: nineteen forty two Guadalcanal campaign in the Pacific theater of
Speaker 2: the war, but his remains only returned home to Massachusetts
Speaker 2: last week. King hail from Clarksburg. This is a small
Speaker 2: community of sixteen hundred that separates North Adams from the
Speaker 2: from mop border. A burial with full military honors will
Speaker 2: follow today's funeral, and King will be laid to rest
Speaker 2: at South UW. Cemetery in North Adams. Oh, it's so
Speaker 2: pretty out. Those clouds were very ominous and now they're
Speaker 2: beautiful cumulus clouds and that sun blue skies breaking through
Speaker 2: in the Greater Boston area. We have a nice day
Speaker 2: all in all. I was thinking this week would be
Speaker 2: all clouds and some showers, But here's another bonus day.
Speaker 2: Nice and again, first full week of autumn. High sixty six,
Speaker 2: low fifties tonight Inland and again a little bit cool
Speaker 2: for some of you. You were in the forties last night.
Speaker 2: How about that? Mostly cloudy Thursday, two, Wednesday and Thursday
Speaker 2: with some showers looking nice and warm and dry and
Speaker 2: sunny Friday into the weekend eleven oh five, Last Springs.
Speaker 2: Campus turmoil over the war in Gaza is spilling into
Speaker 2: the new semester. Wbz's Jim McKay says, yet another university
Speaker 2: president is now in the hot seat.
Speaker 6: At Brandeis and Waltham, the faculty senate with a no
Speaker 6: confidence vote for university president Ronald Leebowitz one fifty nine
Speaker 6: to forty nine results. The vote was taken because of
Speaker 6: budget shortfalls, fundraising, student protests, and staff layoffs. Last November,
Speaker 6: there was a student walkout as part of a demonstration
Speaker 6: over the Israel Hamas war, with some professors believing it
Speaker 6: turned from a protest into an incident of hate. Earlier
Speaker 6: this year, Brandeis leadership announced they were cutting some sixty
Speaker 6: positions because of declining enrollment. The faculty Senate no vote
Speaker 6: now goes to the Board of Trustees for potential additional action.
Speaker 6: Jim McKay WLIBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: On Edge in schools across the nation and Massachusetts. School
Speaker 2: districts across as date have been dealing with an influx
Speaker 2: of kux threats that turned out to be non credible.
Speaker 2: Halfway across the nation, a ten year old boy in
Speaker 2: Texas is now being charged with making a terror's threat
Speaker 2: against his school.
Speaker 5: These's Jim Ryan. Schools nationwide, according to Education Week, have
Speaker 5: seen a spike in hoax threats and actual violence since
Speaker 5: they're shooting at Georgia's Appalachi High earlier this month. Since
Speaker 5: the beginning of the new school year, FBI Houston alone
Speaker 5: has received more than thirty hope school threats. The FBI's
Speaker 5: Christopher Soyez this.
Speaker 6: Number is more than any given month last year.
Speaker 5: He's renewing the agency's plea to social media users, if
Speaker 5: you see threats posted online, reach out to law enforcement.
Speaker 5: Jim Ryan ABC NOS.
Speaker 2: Eight new England schools plays high and a new ranking
Speaker 2: of the nation's best colleges. This list was compiled by
Speaker 2: US News and World Report. Are you guessing number one? Well,
Speaker 2: it's Princeton leading the pack, MIT and Harvard not far
Speaker 2: behind in second and third place, respectively. Boston College and
Speaker 2: Tufts tying for the thirty seventh spot, bu Tyme for
Speaker 2: the forty first spot, and Northeastern is in this list
Speaker 2: but just outside the top fifty. You are now in
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