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Pro-Palestine Harvard Students Mocked Over 12-Hour Hunger Strike

Twelve whole hours. That's how long more than 30 pro-Palestinian Harvard students participated in a hunger strike on Friday last week to show their solidarity with 17 Brown University students who participated in an eight-day hunger strike to pressure Brown Corporation to divest from Israel on Friday, February

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Federal Appeals Court Hears Oral Arguments In ‘There Are Only Two Genders’ Middleborough Middle School Case

A public school can't celebrate transgenderism with flags, posters, and teaching material and then censor the other side, a lawyer for a Middleborough student who wore a T-shirt saying "There are only two genders" told a federal appeals court Thursday. "The school decided this subject

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Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor: ‘Let’s Do “All That We Can’ To Prevent Teacher Strikes

By Chris Lisinski State House News Service

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New Hampshire Transgender Track Athlete Favored To Win State Championship Meet This Upcoming Weekend

If betting on high school sports were legal, then it would make sense to bet on the male competing on the girls' side of the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 state championship meet next weekend. That's not a hunch. Going into the Division 2 state

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Lethargy and Leftism: Inside the Newton Public Schools As Teachers’ Strike Drags On

Newton students have now missed six consecutive school days due to a teachers' strike led by the Newton Teachers Association, the teachers union for the city's public schools. While the union sings "We Shall Overcome" at their rallies, as if their situation is at all

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Gender Queer Incident Draws Sharp Comments At Western Massachusetts School Committee Meeting

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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Race vs. Gender Identity In Amherst Public Schools Flap Over Interim Principal

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 Remained President of Harvard, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey Says

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.