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PITTSFIELD â A new diversity, equity and inclusion officer. Sustainable funding for an early childhood education program. The expansion of prekindergarten for every elementary school.
Those are among the highlights of a $67.9 million budget approved Wednesday by the Pittsfield School Committee for the coming fiscal year.
The spending figure requires City Council approval during the city budget process next month, and it reflects an increase of about $3.4 million over the current year â a rise of about 4.4 percent.
The district is banking on an increase in state education funding of at least $1.17 million, which is likely to increase after lawmakers on Beacon Hill finalize a statewide spending plan while advocates press officials to stick to funding levels promised in the Student Opportunity Act.
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Oct. 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay student at the University of Wyoming, was robbed and beaten in the parking lot of a Laramie, Wyo., bar. His two anti-gay assailants then took him to a remote spot outside town where he was stripped naked, tied to a wooden fence, tortured and left to die. Shepard was found by two mountain bikers who delivered him to a hospital in Fort Collins, Colo., where he died six days later. Two men, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, were convicted of murder â Henderson also was convicted of kidnapping â and sentenced to life in prison.
Shepardâs murder rocked the nation and prompted calls for extending hate crime laws to cover violence based on an individualâs sexual orientation. And, indeed, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act â aka Hate Crimes Act of 2009 â bears Shepardâs name and the name of another hate crime victim, a Black man who was murdered by a group of Texas white su
PITTSFIELD â As city leaders look toward filling several key school district positions, several more community leaders have voiced dissent with the School Committeeâs superintendent decision.
Joseph Curtis, who joined the district in 1994, was serving as deputy superintendent for about five years before the committee tapped him last year to serve as interim chief, and then this week, the permanent superintendent.
Pittsfield High Principal Henry Duval was picked for interim deputy superintendent position under Curtis, and told The Eagle Friday he plans to resume his PHS post.
âMy intention is to be back at Pittsfield High School next year,â said Duval.