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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Two Of Massachusetts' Smallest Districts Struggle To Develop Anti-Bullying Plans

WBUR-FM Boston (1/6, Logan) reports that "while 390 out of 393 public school districts and charter schools have complied with the deadline set by a new state law aimed at curbing bullying in schools, two public school districts...are finding it hard to...come up with an anti-bullying plan that meets their needs." The four-student Cuttyhunk school district, "the least-populated town in the state," and the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science in Worcester are both "scrambling to pull together an anti-bullying plan after missing the Dec. 31 deadline." Cuttyhunk Director Robert Salvatelli "said it is challenging to design a plan for a school in its own district with no school committee." WBUR notes that "both school districts said they will submit a plan to the state within the next few days."


 

The Boston Herald (1/6, Bragg) reports that "the state's least populated town, Gosnold, earned a second unique distinction at year's end: It is one of two public school districts statewide that didn't submit a plan to prevent bullying in schools by Dec. 31 as required by" state law. Gosnold has just seven students, and "didn't seem to need a plan to help reduce bullying in classrooms and on the Internet," according to school officials, who "attributed the lapse in completing the plan to procrastination and possibly not realizing that state law required it."

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