Jeanne Tuthill, an assistive technology specialist at the CCATT Center, has prepared a post for Carole Zangari’s PracticalAAC Blog, and we are pleased to share the blog with you: If…
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School Committee passes transgender student policy
NORTHAMPTON — School Committee here voted on Thursday to approve a policy that expands protections to transgender and gender nonconforming students and employees of Northampton Public Schools. “The policy you…
Title VI / Civil Rights Coordinator Training
Understand Your Responsibilities. Strengthen Compliance. Create Equitable Schools. Federal civil rights laws require schools and districts to ensure that students have equitable access to educational programs and opportunities regardless of…
U.S. Education Secretary Statement on Passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann
Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona issued the following statement on the passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann: “On March 4, our country lost a great disability rights leader…
Teaching disability history in schools is ‘long overdue,’ advocates say
…before we knew what shellshock was,” she said. “If we’re going to talk about women’s rights and abolitionism, let’s also talk about women’s rights in relation to involuntary commitment to…
Youth
…blog blog tag transgender rights Youth Power – Get Involved! Hampshire County Leaders of Today Council: SPIFFY has been supporting a group of youth in Hampshire County to create a…
Orientation to Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum
Emerging America is developing Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum with support from a Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources grant and an Expand Massachusetts Stories grant…
Gill-Montague school system seeks ways to address civil rights concerns
…several civil rights related incidents in the schools. Sullivan conceded the schools could do better at policing racially related harassment and other civil rights violations, and suggested hiring a second…
Teaching about Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement Outside the South
…and Civil Rights with their students, but they are almost exclusively Southern stories. In this workshop we will explore how we can bring stories about segregation and civil rights struggles…
Daughter to receive same civil rights award as mother
…Both her parents were teachers, and even seeing her mother, Sonia Nieto, win the prestigious Massachusetts Teachers Association Lifetime Civil Rights Award did not convince Lopez that the hard work…