BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker and some lawmakers are refusing to budge on a bill that would give transgender people access to public restrooms and locker rooms based on their sexual identity rather than their physical gender, despite increased pressure from activists.
Nicknamed by conservatives as the "bathroom bill," the measure would expand a 2011 law aimed at preventing discrimination against transgender people by extending that protection to cover access to public accommodations. Baker has been noncommittal about the bill, which opponents have said could expose children and women to sexual predators and invade their privacy.
BOSTON – Project Veritas, a nonprofit "guerilla reporting" organization that has made headlines exposing questionable practices at taxpayer-backed activist groups like now-defunct ACORN, released an undercover video on Tuesday that it says shows Common Core is little more than a publishing ploy to sell more textbooks.
The national Common Core State Standards Initiative in public schools is "all about the money," the group says in highlighting a sales executive's comments caught on a hidden camera in California. As with any video, there's no easy way to tell how much it has been edited or to judge the context of what is being shown.
