A positive view of Black history takes root in CT
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Maame Obeng, an African-American teen attending Danbury High School, feels lucky to live in a diverse town where she’s able to see other people who look like her at school.
“However, I did partake in numerous Advanced Placement honors classes. When I was in class, my classmates weren’t African-American. They weren’t Hispanic,” she said. “I looked around the class and everybody was white.”
As schools recognize and mark the start of Black History Month with celebration and education, Obeng and many other people of color say they’re not looking forward to hearing more about slavery, segregation and the Civil War, along with many other events that traumatized and killed Black people.
The legislature’s Public Health Committee tabled one controversial issue and raised another during one of its first meetings of the session. “When we get.
Democratic leaders of the legislature’s public health committee said Wednesday they will again push a bill to end religious exemptions for vaccinations among Connecticut schoolchildren over Republican objections that the committee should focus on less controversial and coronavirus-related matters.
In their first official meeting of the year, leaders of the legislature’s education committee highlighted combating inequality, building students’ social and emotional skills and increasing teacher diversity as key issues to address this session, along with maintaining bipartisan collaboration among lawmakers. Sen. Doug McCrory, D-Hartford and Senate chair of the committee, said they are .
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