BOSTON – Massachusetts Senate President Stanley Rosenberg told a business group Wednesday that he plans to bring forward for debate in the upper chamber a measure dealing with transgender people's access to public restrooms, locker rooms and other facilities.
The controversial "bathroom bill," as it is often called, has languished in the Judiciary Committee for most of the 2015-2016 legislative session. The measure (H 1577/ S 735) would give transgender people the right to use the public facilities of their choice rather than their sexual anatomy.
Before we win the fight against the inferior Common Core standards in Massachusetts, we need to prepare the Commonwealth, and potentially the country, for the aftermath of the disastrous experiment known as Common Core. The fight for an academically sound K-12 education will not end with the elimination of Common Core.
United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) believes the first step toward reclaiming excellent education for America's children is to end the US Department of Education (USED) and all federal education mandates, and return control of the public schools to local boards and parents. As an increasing number of parents, teachers, and voters in the Commonwealth move closer to dismantling the Common Core experiment (November 2016 ballot question), and as President of USPIE's chapter in the Bay State, I propose questions concerning policies that should be considered for the future of education.
