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Three Massachusetts Colleges Will Cost More Than $90,000 Per Year To Attend Next School Year
Talk about sticker shock. Three private colleges in Massachusetts will cost more than $90,000 to attend during the 2024-2025 school year.
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Text of Boston City Council Resolution On Boston Public Schools Accommodating Muslim Students In School System
Editor's Note: The Boston City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 encouraging Boston public schools to encourage and support Muslim students in the school system. The text is below. Below that are images of the three pages of the resolution. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Sharon Schools To Stop Giving Students Good Friday and Jewish High Holy Days Off
Good Friday will no longer be a day off for students in Sharon, Massachusetts, starting next school year. Nor will two Jewish holy days. The school district scrapped Good Friday, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah (two days), and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving from the list of days off it provides students.
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Sharon Using Genderbread Person To Teach 11-Year-Olds That There Are Infinite Genders
Gender exists on a spectrum, and more than two genders exist, a curriculum at Sharon Middle School School says. The sixth-grade health curriculum at Sharon Middle School uses the genderbread person to teach this claim as fact, rather than the common understanding that there are two sexes, male and female,
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‘Sexual Assault and Molestation Insurance’ More Than Doubles Cost of Prom Buses In Saugus
A requirement for sexual assault and molestation insurance has more than doubled the cost of hiring buses to take Saugus High School students to and from the senior prom later this spring, the class president said. The initial price quote from the first bus company the seniors tried came in
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Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Engaging In Cash Discrimination Against Fans
Thanks to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, you can no longer pay cash for a ticket to many Massachusetts high school sports playoff games. That's because the MIAA handles ticketing for its postseason tournament games, and the state's high school athletic governing body requires people to
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Westborough Public Schools Scrap Good Friday Day Off, Go With Full Days Off For Muslim and Hindu Holidays
Good Friday will no longer be a day off for students in Westborough, Massachusetts, starting next school year. Instead, the school will give students days off for a Hindu holiday and another for a Muslim holiday.
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Vermont Girls’ Basketball Team With Transgender Center Loses State Championship Game
A high school girls' basketball team in Vermont with a male player on it was unable to win a state championship this past weekend. The Long Trail School girls' basketball team lost the Vermont Principals Association Division 4 state championship game to West Rutland 49-38 at Barre Auditorium
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