The Waterbury Public School system has a legal obligation to support and accommodate its transgender and non-binary students.
Robert Goodrich
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Use Waterbury’s federal COVID funds to invest in students, not buildings
Waterbury plans to spend the majority of its American Rescue Plan dollars on property upgrades instead of investing in educational programs.
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Student engagement is more important than attendance
In 2019, a student could show up to school, sit in their seat for the requisite hours, and go home, and we could have safely said that they had attended school that day. If they completed assignments, asked questions, studied in the library, and participated in school-based activities, we could have confidently considered them engaged in the process of learning. What happens when school is without a building?