Editor's Note: The Boston City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 encouraging Boston public schools to encourage and support Muslim students in the school system. The text is below. Below that are images of the three pages of the resolution.
Members of the Quincy School Committee are mulling whether to add Lunar New Year as a school holiday next school year.
Quincy has a large number of Asian students who celebrate Lunar New Year, which occurs sometime between January 21 and February 19, and a large number of families have asked school officials to make it a school holiday.
