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	<title>Education &#8211; Will Brownsberger</title>
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		<title>Cell Phone Free Schools</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/cell-phone-free-schools/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/cell-phone-free-schools/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Brownsberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today the Senate passed legislation to ban cell phone use in public schools. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Youth Advisory Council</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/yac/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arianna Turner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our office is forming a Youth Advisory Council for the 2023-2024 school year.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The schools and COVID-19</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/the-schools-and-covid-19/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/the-schools-and-covid-19/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Brownsberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 epidemic creates a huge challenge for our schools. Education leaders face difficult choices. ]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Returning to Campus</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/returning-to-campus/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/returning-to-campus/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Quinn Diaz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A look at local institutions of higher education's plans to reopen campuses this fall]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Virtual Education Committee Oversight Hearing on Remote Learning</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/virtual-education-committee-oversight-hearing-on-remote-learning/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/virtual-education-committee-oversight-hearing-on-remote-learning/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Quinn Diaz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 14:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The hearing will be livcestreamed on the legislature's website on Wednesday, May 13 at 11:00 AM.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>No MCAS this Spring</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/no-mcas-this-spring/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Brownsberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 01:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today the Senate and House agreed on legislation to waive the MCAS test for students this spring.   The legislation sits on the Governor's desk for his approval.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Senate Passes the Healthy Youth Act</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/senate-passes-the-healthy-youth-act/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alicia Brisson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Press Releases]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This bill ensures that Massachusetts schools electing to provide their students with sex education use age-appropriate and medically accurate curriculum.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Senate Passes Breakfast After the Bell Legislation</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/senate-passes-breakfast-after-the-bell-legislation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alicia Brisson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policies and Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Press Releases]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This bill would provide breakfast after, as oppose to before, the school day begins for qualifying schools.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Healthy Youth</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/healthy-youth/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/healthy-youth/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Brownsberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The “healthy youth” bill that we just passed in the Senate requires that if a public school offers sex education, the curriculum should be age-appropriate, medically-accurate and comprehensive. ]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Leaving Minuteman Again</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/leaving-minuteman-again/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/leaving-minuteman-again/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Brownsberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2019 15:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Policies and Programs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Belmont Town Meeting voted last week to reconfirm its previous decision to withdraw from the Minuteman Regional School district.  Town Meeting members made the right decision.  ]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Legislation to Expand Access to Universal Pre-Kindergarten</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/legislation-to-expand-access-to-universal-pre-kindergarten/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alicia Brisson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Legislation that would expand access to universal pre-kindergarten across Massachusetts.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The SAVE Students Act Bill</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/the-save-students-act-bill/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alicia Brisson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[S285 would build school-wide responses to threatening and self-injurious behavior in students.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Elementary School Recess Bill</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/elementary-school-recess-bill/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/elementary-school-recess-bill/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alicia Brisson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[S330 would mandate daily recess for elementary schools across the Commonwealth.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>21st Century Education Trust Fund</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/21st-century-education-trust-fund/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Quinn Diaz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Aid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Included in the Student Opportunity Act, the Trust Fund seeks to support school districts and schools pursuing innovative approaches to improving student outcomes and closing opportunity gaps.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Senate Unanimously Passes Student Opportunity Act</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/senate-unanimously-passes-student-opportunity-act/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/senate-unanimously-passes-student-opportunity-act/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Quinn Diaz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The bill invests $1.5 billion in public schools, updates statewide education policy, and supports effective approaches to closing opportunity gaps for students throughout Massachusetts.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Education Aid Bill Released</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/education-aid-bill-released/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/education-aid-bill-released/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Brownsberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Aid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, the legislature’s Education Committee released the Student Opportunity Act, a very significant education reform bill. ]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Aid for Local Schools</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/aid-for-local-schools/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/aid-for-local-schools/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Brownsberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 20:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Aid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of momentum in this legislative session to change our local school aid formula and provide more aid to local schools.  The new math will work differently for each of the three communities that I represent – Belmont, Boston and Watertown.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>System Responses to Problematic Behaviors by a Child Under 12</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/system-responses-to-problematic-behaviors-by-a-child-under-12/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne Johnson Landry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Children and Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a result of the recent increase in the age of juvenile court jurisdiction at the lower end to 12 for purposes of adjudicating juvenile delinquency, Senator Brownsberger's office has received a number of inquiries as to how the court system, a school system, or other entities might respond to problematic behaviors by a child under the age of 12.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Belmont Cultural Council Seeks Funding Proposals</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/belmont-cultural-council-seeks-funding-proposals/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Quinn Diaz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belmont]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Proposals for community-oriented arts, humanities, and science programs due October 15!]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fair share income tax proposal off the ballot</title>
		<link>https://willbrownsberger.com/no-fair-share-ballot-question/</link>
					<comments>https://willbrownsberger.com/no-fair-share-ballot-question/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Brownsberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2018 21:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statewide Transportation Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court handed down a decision that blocks the proposed surtax on incomes over $1 million.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
		
		
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