Pro-Palestine Harvard Students Mocked Over 12-Hour Hunger Strike

Pro-Palestine Harvard Students Mocked Over 12-Hour Hunger Strike

Twelve whole hours.

That's how long more than 30 pro-Palestinian Harvard students participated in a hunger strike on Friday last week to show their solidarity with 17 Brown University students who participated in an eight-day hunger strike to pressure Brown Corporation to divest from Israel on Friday, February 9, according to The Harvard Crimson.

Massachusetts Legislature’s Education Committee Recommends Bill That Would Replace Merit-Based Admissions For Vocational Schools With Blind Lottery
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Massachusetts Legislature’s Education Committee Recommends Bill That Would Replace Merit-Based Admissions For Vocational Schools With Blind Lottery

Matthew McDonald

A Massachusetts state legislative committee has voted to recommend a bill that would replace merit-based admissions at public vocational high schools with a blind lottery, supporters of the bill said.

The Joint Education on Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature reported the bill out of committee, according to a press release Thursday, February 15 from Vocational Education Justice Coalition, which maintains that using grades, attendance, disciplinary record, and guidance counselor recommendations of eighth-graders "discriminates against Students of Color, English Language Learners, Special Needs Students, and Low Income Students."

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