"State lawmakers and Gov. Charlie Baker will head into another new fiscal year on Monday without an annual budget in place.
While most states around the country have wrapped up annual budget deliberations, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate here have been unable to bridge disagreements over pieces of their nearly $43 billion spending bills.
The bills take different approaches to school aid, prescription drug price controls, a tuition and fee freeze at the University of Massachusetts and aid to the struggling nursing home industry, among other issues.
Negotiators are deliberating privately and have not disclosed what’s holding up an on-time agreement."
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"Six years ago, when the Daily News interviewed Lauren Hagen after she completed 13 years of public schooling without being absent for a single day, she appeared to issue a challenge to her younger brother Michael, then a sixth-grader.
“Even though a lot of people think it’s crazy, he should really push for it, because it’s such a great accomplishment and a great way to end your public school career,” Lauren said at the time.
Michael not only accepted his sister’s challenge, he fulfilled it.
From kindergarten through his senior year, also at Franklin High, Michael Hagen never missed a day."
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