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Massachusetts isn't the most fiscally prudent state in the country. The Massachusetts House of Representatives unanimously approved a $47.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2022 earlier this week — and it contained well over 1,000 amendments. Some of those were pieces of pork the state could do
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A member of the Worcester School Committee who voted for a comprehensive sex education program on Thursday quoted from Pope Francis and cited the experience of Catholic Ireland as support for her position. Tracy O'Connell Novick, who was one of five members of the committee to vote for
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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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By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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The organization that produced a sex education curriculum that the Worcester School Committee may adopt later this week is enthusiastic about abortion, based on numerous public statements the group has made. The curriculum, called Rights, Respect, Responsibility, comes from an organization called Advocates for Youth, which is headquartered in Washington
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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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