Mandy McLaren
Reporter at The Boston Globe
Reporter at The Great Divide Newsletter
teacher turned reporter, currently telling stories for @BostonGlobe Great Divide education team. [email protected]
Articles
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mandy McLaren |Craig F. Walker
Circle time, emulating the structured carpet activity in grade school, had become part of his mother’s attempt to give her boy some semblance of a normal school day routine. But it only underscored Dante’s isolation: The solitary boy, a circle of one. Dante, who uses a tablet to speak, finally responded to the song: “I feel,” he paused, with shoulders slumped, steel blue eyes downcast, “broken.”“Now that we’re together, learning‘s so much fun.
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2 months ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mandy McLaren |Christopher Huffaker
“I’ve had kids coming all year,” she said matter-of-factly. “I got two in the last month.”Across Massachusetts, a growing number of educators are finding themselves in similar positions. The state’s population of English learners has grown 25 percent since 2019, a dramatic uptick fueled by the large number of migrants arriving here in the last several years.
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2 months ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mandy McLaren
“What is going to happen to my kid if the principal, the counselor, and the special education coordinator are sitting there saying they’re going to war with me for asking that they provide accommodations to help my child learn?” he recalled thinking that day in mid-March.
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Mar 24, 2025 |
bostonglobe.com | Mandy McLaren
The lawsuit, filed Monday in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleges the administration’s actions are unlawful and will decimate crucial services for millions of students. The lawsuit was filed by Democracy Forward, a left-leaning Washington, D.C.,-based legal organization. Easthampton and Somerville public school districts, as well as the American Federation of Teachers, its Massachusetts affiliate, and other unions, are listed as plaintiffs.
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Mar 20, 2025 |
bostonglobe.com | Mandy McLaren
A little more than a week after his education secretary slashed nearly half of the US Department of Education’s workforce, President Trump on Thursday afternoon signed an executive order aimed at abolishing the Cabinet-level agency, which for decades has played a vital role in ensuring all students, regardless of their disadvantages, have equal educational opportunities.
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