by Greg Reibman | Dec 1, 2018 | Newton |
Here’s the video from the Nov. 27, 2018 Newton School Committee public hearing on a citizen’s petition about Newton Schools’ curriculum, followed by the committee’s deliberations and votes on the petitions.
Newton School Committee Curriculum Public Hearing November 27, 2018 from NewTV on Vimeo.
A statement released by the committee after the hearing can be found here. by Village 14 | Nov 30, 2018 | School Committee, Schools |
A statement released today from the Newton School Committee ….
Dear Newton Families,
As a result of a formal petition alleging anti-Semitism in the Newton Public School history curriculum, the School Committee was required to hold a public hearing on the petitioners’ requests. On Tuesday evening, approximately 400 students, faculty, staff, and community members attended the public hearing at Newton South.
We fully recognize that anti-Semitism, as well as bigotry and outright hate and intolerance against Muslim, Immigrant, Black and Brown and, LGBTQ members has become more pronounced in this country in the past few years. It is deeply distressing and we should all be working together to address it. However, we categorically rejected that Newton Public Schools’ curriculum is anti-Semitic or that there is an anti-Semitic bias inherent in our schools.
At the hearing, students, parents, teachers and other community members overwhelmingly
by village14 | Nov 27, 2018 | Newton, Newton North, Newton South, School Committee |
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NECN story here.
Students, alumni, teachers, parents, clergy, city councilors and many others testified in opposition to citizen’s petition promoted by Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a group that has long-complained of an anti-Israeli bias in the Newton Public Schools, at a packed public hearing at Newton South High School
by Village 14 | Nov 26, 2018 | Newton North, Newton South, School Committee |
In advance of a public hearing Tuesday night (Nov. 27, 6:30 p.m. at Newton South) more than 300 recent Newton North High School graduates have signed a letter in support of “our teachers and our school system in their mission to craft a curriculum that promotes critical thinking.”
The alumni wrote the letter in response to an on-going campaign by “Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), a group whose members have been targeting our school system for years and have recently begun targeting individual teachers” over discredited claims of an anti-Israel bias in Newton Public Schools.
Tuesday’s hearing is the result of a citizens petition and is expected to draw
by Gail Spector | Apr 18, 2016 | Newton, Schools |
Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz of Temple Emanuel in Newton delivered probably the strongest sermon I’ve ever heard Saturday. As the senior rabbi of one of the largest Conservative synagogues in the country, Gardenswartz’s words (delivered to several hundred... by Village 14 | Apr 12, 2016 | Newton |
Verity Educate, one of the sources Charles Jacobs’ organization Americans for Peace and Tolerance and their supporters repeatedly cite to discredit Newton Schools’ curriculum released this letter today. Bold type has been added by Village 14 for emphasis....