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Students in my Beat Journalism class at Boston University are looking to interview Newton residents for the following issue-oriented stories: Pot holes Street lights Mental health in the high schools Equity in the elementary schools Teachers’ contract (parents)...More job actions from teachers start today
Effective today, Newton Teachers Association members are declining to participate in more than 40 committees. Read all about it from Boston University student Samantha Drysdale.More election stories from BU journalists
Sam Drysdale writes about the ward councilor race in Ward 2. and Naba Khan writes about the councilor at-large race in Ward 3. If you missed it, here’s Arianna Bouchard’s story about Holly Ryan in Ward 8.Holly Ryan is about to make history
Boston University journalist Arianna Bouchard writes about Ward 8 city council candidate Holly Ryan in the Boston Globe:
When she wins, as expected, she’ll become the first openly transgender elected official in Newton — and one of the first in Massachusetts.
Of the 520,000 elected officials in the United States, about 13 are transgender, according to Victory Institute’s 2018 Out for America report.