Could parents in Massachusetts someday use public funds to pay tuition at religious schools?
Supporters see impoverished kids escaping failing public schools and getting a good education and moral formation. Opponents see public education starved for funds and large numbers of kids getting deprived.
While some Massachusetts towns are hiring diversity czars, the town of Andover plans to create an entire division of town government "that will focus on diversity and inclusion," the town manager said.
Andrew P. Flanagan, the Andover town manager, said "systemic racism … exists in our community" and that he wants to come up with ways "to make racial equity and inclusion a core function of municipal government," according to a written statement dated Monday, June 29 and reported by the Lawrence Eagle Tribune on Saturday, July 4.
