Published June 10, 2010

• Meghna Chakrabarti is booking the researcher who found nearly half of Massachusetts third graders can’t read at a third-grade level. I am reporting a sidebar that seeks to explain what “third-grade reading level” means.
• Ted Siefer is following a possible U.S. Senate vote to block EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, which followed from a Supreme Court ruling on Massachusetts v. EPA.
• Mark Navin is producing a segment about the breakaway Anglican church in Amesbury.
• David Boeri is profiling the Bangladeshi valedictorian from Boston English High School.
• Bob Oakes and Lisa Tobin are attending the final graduation of Provincetown High School, which is closing.
• Jesse Logan is following a lockdown at a high school in Milton, a change in policy at Brockton Hospital’s ER after a woman with a sick infant was denied help, and a state education commissioner’s response to calls for preschool teachers to be better educated.