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Imagine forming a movement that demands immediate fundamental change in how people act, talk, and think about something basic to the human experience. How do get your way quickly? Accuse your opponents of hate.
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Arlington School Committee members have laid the foundation this past week for policies ensuring students are called by their preferred pronouns in any circumstance and allowing students to play sports with the sex with which they identify. "It is about making safe spaces for children, and as a former
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More than 80 Massachusetts superintendents are calling for making free school meals permanent. The superintendents sent a letter to lawmakers requesting that $160 million from the so-called millionaire's tax go towards the endeavor.
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Left-wingers demanding extreme positions and ostracizing those who don't agree are driving ordinary people to align with social conservatives, a liberal columnist for The Boston Globe says. Kat Rosenfield, a novelist, uses a conflict over including the book Gender Queer in school libraries as an example.
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is traveling to Ireland next week. Healey will meet with the taoiseach (or prime minister), Leo Varadkar; foreign affairs minister Tánaiste Micheál Martin, Senate chairman Cathaoirleach Jerry Buttimer, and the Irish parliament's LGBTQI+ caucus.
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Juneteenth will be a state holiday in Rhode Island next year. Governor Dan McKee, a Democrat, signed a bill (S.444) into law on Monday making Juneteenth a state holiday beginning next year.
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Should young Americans go to college? Two former professors addressed the topic in Don't Go to College: A Case for Revolution, released in August last year.