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By Katie Lannan and Michael P. Norton STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is shrugging off the state Legislature's unsuccessful attempts to address education funding inequities, but others are using this week's collapsed talks on Beacon Hill as an election-year rallying call for
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A bill that would have required all public school districts in Massachusetts that teach sex education to adopt state standards – which include a curriculum showing students how to use thin plastic wrap as a makeshift barrier – failed in the Massachusetts Legislature. The Massachusetts Senate passed Senate Bill 2128 by a
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I have a plan for Massachusetts public schools that will help their students become better people, more productive citizens. In schools, we will teach the Ten Commandments. Then we will move to the Beatitudes, and finally a summation of the two great commandments presented by that first century prophet Jesus
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By Michael P. Norton STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE With time running out again on comprehensive sex education legislation, state Representative James O'Day says he's trying to convince his Massachusetts House colleagues that the bill is not about encouraging young people to be sexually active.
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Brett Kavanaugh once was an altar boy. He now volunteers as a lector in his parish. He serves meals to the homeless, dishing out food alongside a priest. And Kavanaugh coaches his daughter's Catholic Youth Organization basketball team. Sounds untrustworthy.
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Since the disappointing results of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests were made public on April 10, it has been puzzling that no one at the National Assessment Governing Board, including its chairman (former Governor John Engler of Michigan), has suggested that Common Core-aligned standards and tests might
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Massachusetts can't sustain 29 state college campuses and within the next 10 years will have to reduce the number, the president of the University of Massachusetts said. "Demographically, there's no way that 29 will survive," said Marty Meehan, president of the University of Massachusetts,
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The deaths, in the same week last month, of the great scholar of the Middle East Bernard Lewis and the great scholar of Russia Richard Pipes are a warning to American conservatives: don't give up on the universities. Lewis and Pipes are being rightfully remembered for their influence
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