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The Worcester School Committee approved a so-called comprehensive sex education curriculum Thursday night. The committee voted 5-2 to approve Rights, Respect, Responsibility, a sex education program produced by Advocates for Youth.
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Shanel Soucy says school officials seeking to implement a new sex education curriculum in Worcester public schools have missed the point when it comes to teen-age sexual behavior. She spoke out passionately during a meeting of the Worcester School Committee's Standing Committee on Teaching, Learning, and Student Supports
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Students at Milton High School have an incentive to fill out a 91-question survey that probes their feelings about race and human sexuality: credit toward community service that they need in order to graduate. NewBostonPost has obtained a screenshot of a school post that made students aware of this deal.
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Opponents of a proposed sex education curriculum in Worcester are hoping that the city's mayor provides the margin of victory tomorrow night. But they acknowledge it's an uphill climb.
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Opponents of a proposed sex education curriculum in Worcester are planning to hold a march against it early Wednesday morning — a day before the city's school committee votes on whether to adopt it. The curriculum, called Rights, Responsibility, Respect and published by an organization called Advocates for Youth,
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A sex education curriculum that has divided parents and school committee members in Worcester is expected to go to a vote later this week. The Worcester School Committee, which sets policy for the public schools in the second largest city in Massachusetts, is set to decide on whether to adopt
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Editor's Note: A mother in Worcester, Massachusetts addressed school officials about two sex education curriculums under consideration for use in the city's public schools on Monday, April 26, 2021. Her comments were addressed to the Worcester School Committee's Standing Committee on Teaching, Learning, and
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Critical Race Theory is the dividing line among candidates for school committee in the South Shore town of Milton this week. There are two open seats on the school committee, which under state law sets policy for the town's public schools. (The committee also hires and fires the
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