Massachusetts Schools

Massachusetts Backs Off School Bake Sale Ban

AP | Posted 05.11.2012

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BOSTON -- Cupcakes, brownies and other baked goodies will be spared the chopping block at Massachusetts schools after Gov. Deval Patrick backed down f...

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Massachusetts School Committee Wants To Give Condoms To 12-Year-Olds

Posted 03.16.2012

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A Massachusetts school has taken its first step toward giving students as young as 12 free access to condoms at school. The Springfield School Comm...

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Billionaire Family Offers Massachusetts Campus For Free

AP | By JAY LINDSAY | Posted 03.14.2012

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NORTHFIELD, Mass. -- A billionaire family from Oklahoma has turned a no-stoplight town in Massachusetts into an essential destination for Christian in...

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Cancer-Causing Gas Abundant In 70,000 U.S. Schools: Why You'd Never Know

Posted 03.01.2012

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A toxic, cancer-causing gas is threatening the health of students in thousands of classrooms across the country, but many districts aren't doing anyth...

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School Officials Apologize For 'KKK Chicken Tenders' On School Lunch Menu

Posted 02.29.2012

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METHUEN, Mass. — School officials in a Massachusetts town are apologizing for sending home a lunch menu that listed KKK Chicken Tenders as an option...

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Phoebe Prince Bullying Suicide Lawsuit Settled For $225,000

AP | Posted 12.28.2011

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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- A lawsuit brought by the parents of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in Massachusetts who committed suicide after re...

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Principal Bans Halloween Costumes, Says Holiday Is 'Problematic'

Posted 12.14.2011

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A Massachusetts elementary school principal has lashed out against traditional American holidays, banning costumes in school for Halloween and telling...

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Why One Group Wants This Out Of Schools

AP | Posted 11.08.2011

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By Associated Press BROOKLINE, Mass. -- A group in one Massachusetts town wants to ban students from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in the publi...

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Millions Of Public Education Dollars - For Swordfish, Golf And Booze

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 11.01.2011

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Massachusetts' state auditor is calling for sweeping reform of oversight and financial accountability for the state's 30 special education agencies af...

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Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies: A Failing Idea

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.05.2011

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Many school children in America are on summer break right now, but here's a pop quiz about discipline policies in our nation's schools that's just for grownups.

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Bully Of Teen Who Hanged Herself: "I'm Not A Mean Person" [VIDEO]

Posted 09.10.2011

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Sharon Chanon Velazquez, one of six teens charged in the Massachusetts bullying case of a 15-year-old Irish immigrant who committed suicide last Janua...

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Mass. Teen Football Player Charged With Murdering Ex-Girlfriend

Posted 09.05.2011

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Nathaniel Fujita, a former high school football player in Wayland, Mass. was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of his 18-year-old ...

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WATCH: Mom Furious Daughters Given Oral Sex Survey In Middle School

Posted 08.16.2011

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A Massachusetts mother of two middle school students was alarmed to discover her children had been forced to take a survey about sex in the classroom....

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Will Common Core Standards Make Students College-Ready?

Posted 06.27.2011

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UPDATE: Since this story was first published, it has been clarified that 44 states and U.S. territories, not 48, have stated an intention to adopt the...

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Students Grow Ideas To Green Their Schools

Posted 05.25.2011

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In a clear role role reversal, kids across the country are schooling their teachers and communities about reducing waste. These students have come u...

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