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Susan Cole, pioneering advocate for traumatized children in schools, dies at 72
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated May 16, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Susan Cole.(Jessica Scranton)
Susan Cole was already the stateâs leading advocate for children whose learning abilities are hobbled by traumatic experiences when she took her work to a new level.
Along with her five students at Harvard Law Schoolâs Education Law Clinic, she began lobbying lawmakers to provide grants to Massachusetts school districts that set up trauma-sensitive environments. Facing difficult odds, they succeeded in getting the proposal added to legislation tightening gun laws, which was signed into law in 2014.