President’s Council recognizes local nonprofit
Rama K. Ramaswamy
Community Investors, a Wellesley based nonprofit, was recently recognized by the President s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition (https://health.gov) and the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion as a National Youth Sports Strategy Champion for their work supporting community-based recreation. Community Investors received a digital NYSS Champion badge that signifies this prestigious award and continues to be committed to their support of the NYSS by facilitating free, afterschool sports for K-12 grade students throughout the greater Wellesley-MetroWest region. To be eligible to become an NYSS Champion, an organization must demonstrate interest in, understanding of, and experience with supporting youth sports, must have an organizational or corporate mission that is aligned with the NYSS vision, and must agree to sign a letter of understanding with ODPHP, which will set forth the details of ho
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In March, following the Atlanta spa shootings that left six Asian women dead, Wellesley Public Schools held a virtual event for Asian and Asian American students, as well as all students of color, to process events, noting it was not the space for white students. Now, the district is facing heat after a newly-formed conservative education group filed a federal civil rights complaint alleging racial discrimination.
Washington, D.C.-based Parents Defending Education submitted the complaint to the Department of Education on May 12 and attached a teacher email and district statement as evidence.
What happened in Wellesley
The virtual event was hosted on March 18 by Wellesley Public Schools’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It was billed as a “Healing Space for Asian and Asian American students (grades 6-12), faculty/staff, and others in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community who wish to process recent events.”