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Parents for Defending Education has filed similar complaints against programming in the Milton Public Schools and elsewhere intended to foster inclusive spaces for students of color.
Backers of the measure say it’s needed to improve communication between parents and the schools, but critics argue it is a veiled effort to dismantle a district racial equity policy.
A 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer?
“Science doesn’t support prosecution of second graders,” one lawyer said. Still, in New York, children as young as 7 can be charged with a crime.
An arrest of a child shook tiny Brasher Falls, a hamlet near the Canadian border, and may have restarted a push in the Legislature to change New York’s law.Credit.Malik Rainey for The New York Times
June 3, 2021Updated 9:43 a.m. ET
At the forested edge of the Canadian border this spring, state police arrested a person from the hamlet of Brasher Falls, N.Y., population about 1,000. He was charged with rape.