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Category: Community Voices
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Opinion: Sheriff keeps his promise not to get involved in deportations
Sheriff Paul Heroux is concentrating his attention and allocated resources on rehabilitation and re-entry of the incarcerated, which is the primary role of a county sheriff in Massachusetts.
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Retired Air Force brigadier general: Our veterans need mental health support
“As veterans process their experiences and transition back to civilian life, we must ensure they have access to the comprehensive behavioral health services they need to live healthy and fulfilling lives.” — Donald Quenneville
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Essay contest winner: NBHS junior urged MCAS removal
“Our sophomore curriculum has an over-emphasis on MCAS.” — New Bedford High School junior D’Leiny Adianez Soto Rodriguez
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Letter: More context needed for story on candidate St. Gelais and his legal dispute
“The eight-person jury had come to the opposite conclusion after four days of trial in Taunton Superior Court.”
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Opinion: Don’t let vocational school funding hurt marginalized students
If politics is the allocation of scarce resources, then far too much of this year’s education policy energy and funding are focused on a career education model that explicitly excludes immigrant populations, by design.
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Opinion: Moving beyond MCAS
“We have an opportunity to reconsider the second part of the 1993 reforms by eliminating the MCAS graduation requirement. It’s time to establish innovative ways of accountability and assessment that ensure all students meet the curriculum standards to graduate.” — State Rep. Antonio F.D. Cabral
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Opinion: It’s high time to adopt new measures of graduation readiness
The state needs a system that is “more embracing of the growing diversity of students across race, income, language, and disability that we serve in this state.” — Dan French, president of Citizens for Public Schools
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Essay: Remembering those 1950s Saturday matinees at the Capitol Theater
“Like a welcoming and treasured friend, the Capitol Theater filled my young life with excitement as I vicariously experienced a whole new world through the magic of film.”
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Opinion: One year later, Star Store closing still stings … but spirit lives on
“It’s ironic that an adult outsider came to New Bedford and discarded downtown’s jewel of revitalization while student outsiders came to the city … and reached out to it with their art studio.” — Richard Walega, former city planner
