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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has ordered all public and private schools in the state closed through the end of the school year. The governor's announcement during a press conference Tuesday, April 21 had been hinted at in recent days.
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Public school classes have not taken place in Boston since Monday, March 16 because of the coronavirus pandemic. So far, neither have any formal online classes for the district's more than 54,000 students. Even so, teachers are still being paid as usual.
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Only a small percentage of students and parents across the state do it, but supporters of homeschooling say the coronavirus pandemic could change the way some Massachusetts students are educated long-term. As of the 2017-2018 school year, just 3.04 percent of the Bay State's K-12 students were
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Within weeks, the Coronavirus shutdown will draw to its inevitable conclusion. Life will settle into a new normal. In the long run, very likely our lives will change modestly. Perhaps we'll maintain a modified "social distance," becoming more like the Victorians and less like modern "
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Following up on my suggestion of small church services through online signup to get around coronavirus restrictions, a reader suggested outdoor Masses. That got me to thinking of what Irish Catholics did during penal times. Mass was illegal and persecuted in Ireland from around the 1650s to the 1750s, as
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Let's agree that the powers-that-be – the governor, the archbishop, ministers, public health officials – are trying to do what they think is best. They want to limit the spread of coronavirus so fewer people get sick and fewer people die. When it comes to stopping access to religious services,
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Iona College, a Catholic school in New Rochelle, New York, has just hired scandal-ridden Rick Pitino as its new basketball coach. Pitino, fired by Louisville in 2017 amid allegations of multiple recruiting violations, testified in open court in 2010 that he paid $3,000 to a woman he'd
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[Editor's Note: The following article contains quotations from state-approved sex education manuals that describe certain sex acts and sexual situations in graphic terms. New Boston Post does not consider this article appropriate for children to read. We are publishing it because this material will become mandatory in all
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