STATE HOUSE — Leadership of the Massachusetts Teachers Association has vowed to fight a ballot initiative to expand charter schools with everything it has, but the issue has exposed strife within the union heading into new leadership elections in May.
The MTA Board of Directors over the weekend backed away from a plan put forward by President Barbara Madeloni to commit $9.6 million in union resources to the "Keep the Cap" campaign to fight charter expansion.
AMHERST, Mass. – Amherst College has responded to a raunchy wrongful-dismissal lawsuit by describing its allegations – that a supervisor urged female teaching assistants to have sex with students to boost enrollment in Spanish classes – as "frivolous," and by asserting that the lecturer who sued was legitimately let go.
The allegations, if true, echo previous instances involving using sex to charm athletes into joining collegiate teams and speak to the increasingly prevalent attitudes towards on-campus sex as commonplace and nothing special.
