Danese G. Moore, a former Afro-American columnist who was active in the civic, cultural and political life of Columbia and Howard County, died April 28 of pneumonia at Gilchrist Center Howard County. She was 86.
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West Hartford has a new Civilian Police Review Board. (Tim Jensen/Patch)
WEST HARTFORD, CT The West Hartford Town Council Tuesday appointed the members of its new Civilian Police Review Board.
The council established the CPRB in February. West Hartford is one of the first Connecticut municipalities to have established a civilian police review board using new authority provided in the police accountability legislation adopted by the state General Assembly last summer.
The CPRB consists of seven civilian regular members and three alternates appointed by the council.
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The CPRB will be responsible for reviewing the internal investigation of all complaints received by the West Hartford Police Department and for providing the council with annual policy recommendations.
West Hartford’s new civilian police review board will include several attorneys, a consultant to the state department of children and families, a psychiatric clinician and a retired corrections officer among others.
St. Louis Public Radio Amy Ryan, a Rockwood parent, reacts Friday during a parent-organized forum on the district s diversity curriculum.
What started as a tense debate over whether Rockwood’s schools should reopen in person last fall has descended into schoolyard bullying among the adults.
Politics didn’t used to enter the schools. The elementary recitals and high school football games were where parents could put conservative versus liberal views aside, don the school colors and root for their kids.
But without that common social fabric in a year of social distancing, the Rockwood School District community is ripping at the seams, frayed first by the pandemic’s closure of schools and then shredded by a fight over whether and how to teach diversity in classrooms. The district’s superintendent and diversity director are both walking away, but educators in the district continue to feel under siege from a group of parents leading a charge against a diversity curriculum t
Fight against CXC continues
Article by May 4, 2021
Separate petitions opposing the Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) current CSEC and CAPE examination structure for 2021 have so far garnered almost 30 000 signatures.
Paula-Anne Moore, the spokesperson and coordinator of the Group of Concerned Parents in Barbados, believes the large number of signatures is an indication of the disapproval across the region with the regional body’s decision not to adjust its examinations in light of the difficult situations confronting students due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A petition started by the Caribbean Union of Teachers has so far attracted 4 978 signatures, another supported by the Caribbean Coalition for Exam Redress has garnered 1 035 signatures, while a petition reportedly launched by students has so far reached 22,905 of its targeted 25,000 signatures.