{"id":5839,"date":"2021-09-08T07:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:29:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:29:06","slug":"ma-public-hearing-for-education-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/ma-public-hearing-for-education-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"MA Public Hearing for Education Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Massachusetts legislature have a public hearing on bills <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/192\/H584\/Cosponsor\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/192\/H584\/Cosponsor\">H.584<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/192\/S365\/Cosponsor\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/192\/S365\/Cosponsor\">S.365<\/a>&#8211; &#8220;An Act Relative to anti-racism, equity, and justice in education&#8221; on Monday, September 13, 2021 at 11:00 a.m ETS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill would introduce the teaching of ethnic studies through a critical social justice lens in Massachusetts public schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We <strong>oppose<\/strong> this bill as it would promulgate a harmful and divisive ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead we should be teaching the recognition of common humanity and the celebration of ethnic cultures per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/content\/pdfs\/fair-pro-human-learning-standards.pdf\">FAIR learning standards.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can register to testify by submitting <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=a36UCyb_E0uuHFc8Z1DIiK1QxE5I4lZCuIQCSIu7mFZUQlROMUVZNUhDUzFFWUZVOEpTOTZQTVpJTC4u\">this form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written testimony can be submitted the House and Senate Chairs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email subject line is:&nbsp;EDUCATION COMMITTEE TESTIMONY-Oppose &nbsp;H584\/S365 An Act Relative to anti-racism, equity, and justice in education<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>House Chair Alice Peisch at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:Alice.Peisch@mahouse.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Alice.Peisch@mahouse.gov<\/a><br>Senate Chair Jason Lewis at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:Jason.Lewis@masenate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Jason.Lewis@masenate.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts legislature have a public hearing on bills H.584\/S.365&#8211; &#8220;An Act Relative to anti-racism, equity, and justice in education&#8221; on Monday, September 13, 2021 at 11:00 a.m ETS. The bill would introduce the teaching of ethnic studies through a critical social justice lens in Massachusetts public schools. We oppose this bill as it would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":5876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairforall.org\/metro-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}