Legal expert: Topsham school survey violated law
The survey, part of a civil rights project, sent to Mt. Ararat Middle School students also violated school district policy, according to the superintendent.
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The distribution of a survey to Mt. Ararat Middle School students appears to have violated federal law and the district’s own policy.
The anonymous survey was distributed to students as part of a diversity project by the school’s civil rights team.
However, the survey was sent without prior parental notification, violating the federal Protection of Pupil Rights Act, according to Tom Hutton, the interim director of the Education Law Association, a group that provides information on legal issues in education.
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Topsham-based school district ramps up in-person learning
Grades 4 and 5 will join grades K-3 later this month, returning to school four days a week.
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TOPSHAM Maine School Administrative District 75 will increase fourth- and fifth-graders’ in-person learning days from two to four days a week starting Feb. 22, Assistant Superintendent Amanda Hersey told the school board Thursday.
The district has been increasing in-person learning incrementally, starting with the youngest grades, since December 2020. The school board has continued to debate whether it should bring students back to school full-time and, if so, how quickly.
In the meantime, students continue to participate in a mix of in-person and remote learning. The district has also offered a remote-only option for students.
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How does a single fertilised egg divide and morph into an embryo with head, tail, limbs and organs? That question was an inexhaustible source of fascination to the biologist Lewis Wolpert, who has died aged 91. With a twinkle in his eye, he told audiences it was not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation – the stage in which a uniform ball of cells folds to become differentiated layers with the beginnings of a gut – that was “truly the most important time in your life”.
Wolpert combined his interest in fundamental problems of development with a parallel career as a science communicator. He enjoyed performing in public, and brooked no compromise in his quest to persuade people that “science is the best way to understand the world”. He broadcast frequently on BBC radio and TV, and wrote a number of popular books. The best known of these, Malignant Sadness (1999), was a fiercely objective attempt to understand his own experienc
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Professor Lewis Wolpert, biologist, author and regular on TV and radio discussing science and depression – obituary
After suffering suicidal depression, with his candour and dry humour Wolpert found himself in demand to talk about his experiences
Professor Lewis Wolpert: a knack for explaining scientific ideas
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Professor Lewis Wolpert, the developmental biologist and author, who has died of Covid-19 aged 91, was for many the approachable face of science, as a presenter or guest on numerous television and radio programmes.
As a biologist Wolpert was best known for the “French flag” model of embryonic development, proposed in a landmark 1969 paper, “Positional Information and the Spatial Pattern of Cellular Differentiation”, in which he used the French tricolor as a visual aid to show how embryonic cells can interpret genetic code to create the same pattern, even when certain pieces of the embryo are removed.
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