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Members of a western Massachusetts school committee got an earful this past week about a police search at a middle school for a graphic novel called Gender Queer. On December 8, 2023, an anonymous complaint was made to Great Barrington police that a sexually explicit book had been shown to
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A black female educator offered the position of interim principal at Amherst Regional Middle School doesn't want it anymore after being publicly criticized by the mother of a student who identifies as transgender for the way she used restorative justice to handle complaints of bullying. The mother, Kara
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Claudine Gay should have stayed on as president of Harvard University instead of resigning last week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said Tuesday. Healey made the comment during an appearance on Boston Public Radio on WGBH on Tuesday, January 9.
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Each school year, more Massachusetts public school students are identifying as non-binary. Since the start of the 2019-2020 school year, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's public school enrollment data has broken down gender into three categories: male, female, and non-binary. In this instance, "non-binary&
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Imagine if over this past Columbus Day weekend then-Harvard president Claudine Gay had issued a statement along these lines: The killing and kidnapping of hundreds of innocent civilians by Hamas in Israel on Saturday, October 7 horrifies me. I condemn it.
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Race-based opposition was a factor in the forced resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay earlier this week, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Wednesday. Wu seemed to acknowledge that Gay made mistakes in the way she handled the university's response to Hamas's invasion of Israel in October
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Timeline December 15, 2022Harvard announces Claudine Gay will be next president of the university July 1, 2023Claudine Gay takes office as president of Harvard September 29Gay inaugurated as president of Harvard, highlights in speech "the importance of courage" October 7Hamas invades Israel, killing about 1,200 civilians; a
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Police investigated a claim last month that a sexually explicit book had been shown to children at a middle school in Great Barrington, a town in western Massachusetts. The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, a self-described trans nonbinary person who uses "e/em/eir" pronouns,
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