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Mass. Teachers Eligible for Vaccine Next Week
Teachers, school staff and child care providers should receive at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine by the end of March, according to the Biden administration.
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Teachers Say They Want the COVID-19 Vaccine Before They Head Back to the Classroom
Children who have been marooned at home for months by the pandemic are slowly returning to classrooms, but many teachers say they won’t go back until they’ve received the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Will Jill Biden Keep Teaching When She Becomes First Lady?
If Jill Biden were to continue her teaching job when her husband takes the Oval Office, it would make her the first first lady with a job outside the White House
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Decapitated French Teacher Warned Not to Show Prophet Muhammad Images Before ‘Islamist' Attack
French authorities say a suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibility on social media minutes after the attack
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No COVID-Related Spike of Teacher Retirements in Mass. Before School Year
The beginning of the school year amid the coronavirus pandemic did not lead to the surge of teacher retirements some had feared. That’s according to figures the NBC10 Investigators obtained from the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System. Those stats show the roughly 2,600 retirement applications were actually a little below the average of 2,800 retirements over the previous five years. In…
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Teacher Retirements Below Average
Some school officials had expressed concern that the pandemic would lead to a surge in teacher retirements, but figures show fewer retirement applications have been submitted than usual.
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Inclusive Teacher: A Virtual Classroom Creating Buzz
The coronavirus pandemic has many teachers reinventing what education looks like. Many teachers have created “Virtual classrooms” for their students. But one texas teachers story has gone viral after a photo of her virtual classroom struck a nerve and sparked a debate on diversity and inclusion in the classroom nationwide. Colton Bradford has the story.
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Class During COVID: ‘This Is Not Business as Usual'
That’s according to Ned Parsons, the Head of School at The Rivers School in Weston. So just how different will the start of the school year be? A fascinating and thoughtful conversation on how independent schools are gearing up for a very different fall.
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A Teacher Explains How to Talk to Children About Racism
It’s never too early to start teaching children to be antiracist, said Brittany Smith, a pre-kindergarten teacher from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Steps as simple as buying books that feature diverse faces is a good start.
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‘Tell Me What the Reality Looks Like': Trying to Stop Suicides as Social Media Explodes
When Dese’Rae Stage interviews survivors of suicide attempts for a website she created, she asks herself a question news reporters may not always consider: How much did it hurt? A survivor herself, she wants to be sure that readers of her website “Live Through This” come away with a real picture of suicide — no romance, no facile explanations and...
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Child Molester Victims to Get Nearly $11M in Settlement
Twelve former students of a man convicted of sexually abusing them when he was their teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school will receive a combined $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the school, an attorney said.
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Many Homes Still Without Roofs in Puerto Rico, 2 Years After María
When Doña Milagros Matos Marquez and her husband Don Cruz Marquez received the news that Hurricane María was approaching Trujillo Alto in Puerto Rico, they expected some rain and maybe a little bit of wind, like with previous storms. Instead María blew their roof off once the storm made landfall exactly two years ago on Friday. In the months after...
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Virginia Teacher Arrested for Holding Student Upside Down: Police
A Virginia teacher was charged with assault after he allegedly grabbed an 11-year-old girl by the ankles and held her upside down. Tenkoran Agyeman, 40, was arrested Tuesday after the incident was reported to have occurred at Rippon Middle School in Woodbridge on Nov. 1 or Nov. 4, Prince William County police said Wednesday. Police say Agyeman grabbed the student…
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Life Sentence for Revere Man Who Murdered His Wife
The Revere man who was convicted of murdering his wife, Vanessa MacCormack, will spend the rest of his life in prison after an emotional sentencing in which he denied ever hurting her.
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Husband Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Beloved Lynn Teacher
A Massachusetts man was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of his wife, a beloved Lynn teacher, though he maintained at the Monday hearing that he was innocent. Andrew MacCormack, 31, was found guilty last month of strangling, beating and stabbing 30-year-old Vanessa MacCormack on Sept. 23, 2017.
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Former ‘DWTS' Dancer Slams Substitute Teacher Lecturing His Child for Having 2 Dads
A substitute teacher berated a Utah fifth grader after he said during a pre-Thanksgiving lesson that he was thankful he’s finally going to be adopted by his two dads, the parents said. The boy’s classmates said the teacher told him, “that’s nothing to be thankful for” and lectured the 30 kids in the class about her views on homosexuality. She...
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At This Boston School, Friendships Lift More Students to Graduation Day
Jason Moreno isn’t the type of student you’d expect to receive extra attention from his teachers. Moreno plays sports and serves on student council at the Snowden International School in Boston, where he’s a sophomore. Teachers say he’s bright and funny. He has plenty of friends, and he goes home each night to a supportive family.
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Gov. Charlie Baker Signs Bill With $1.5B in New School Spending
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has signed into law a bill that would provide $1.5 billion in new spending on the state’s K-12 education system when fully phased in over seven years. Supporters of the measure say it will help ensure schools have the resources needed to provide high quality education for students across Massachusetts, regardless of zip code or income...
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Sex Assault Victim ‘Devastated' After Case Dropped
Jamie Forbes came forward decades after he says his former teacher at Milton Academy attacked him as a teen. Now that the case against Reynold Buono has been dropped, he worries that he revealed his darkest secret for nothing.
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10-Year-Old Charged With Sex Offense at Maryland School
A 10-year-old has been charged with fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault for an incident at an elementary school, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.