Newton schools remain closed for 8th day on Tuesday amid teacher strike

The two are expected to return to the bargaining table Tuesday in hopes of reopening schools. The strike is the longest teacher work stoppage in the state since the 1990s and follows nearly a half dozen others across Massachusetts in the last 20 months. Newton schools will be shuttered for an eighth day Tuesday after the School Committee and teachers union remain gridlocked over terms of a new contract. “Union leaders are not letting educators return to their classrooms while negotiations continue to resolve the contract,” Fuller said in an...