The Cambridge School Committee dodged a self-imposed deadline to evaluate superintendent Victoria Greer, but paused long enough in passing a $268.3 million budget to call the president of the Cambridge Education Association a liar and slanderer.

A high school resource officer discharged their firearm accidentally at around 1:45 p.m Tuesday on campus without disrupting the school day.

As with police departments nationwide, Cambridge struggles to hire officers while staying active in an array of enforcement, outreach and other work from combating a drug crisis to tamping down fights in schools, leaders said.

A plan to reshape Cambridge transportation over the next decade includes more than 30 action items for people who need cars in daily life and others.

Educators and parents marked the roughly quarter-century since the MCAS standardized test was introduced with what was essentially an online teach-in.

Public meetings this week look at an evaluation for embattled schools superintendent Victoria Greer and the state of policing in Cambridge. There’s also the first of two town halls run by an organization looking into the term’s City Council agenda on housing.

Public meetings this week look at a proposed six-story U-Haul rental center, creating and shaping public safety policies, an Inner Belt hotel and more.

A teacher at the Amigos School has been charged with sexual assault and placed on administrative leave, Cambridge Public Schools told families.

Peter Simon, 54, of Woodsville, New Hampshire, was indicted on two counts of second-degree murder and other charges in connection with fatally striking Jackson, a 36-year-old National Grid employee, and Waltham police officer Paul Tracey, 58.

The surveillance technology is “unreliable, ineffective and poses serious threats to basic civil rights,” says a letter from an ACLU Technology for Liberty Program.