Black, multirace, Hispanic kids disciplined more, and school officials are reluctant to talk about it
Cambridge Public Schools students who are disciplined for misbehavior are more likely to face severe punishment – suspension – if they are black, multiracial or Hispanic than if they’re white or Asian. The disparate treatment has persisted for years and is evident in annual data published by the state education department.
In court case over fourth-grader’s punishment, judges cite legal technicality to dismiss one part
Judges have dismissed part of a lawsuit saying school officials discriminated against a black fourth-grader described as being subjected to an extraordinary on-and-off-again suspension.
New group of plaintiffs with familiar argument attempts to stop city’s installation of bike lanes
A second attempt to stop installation of protected bike lanes was filed Tuesday in the state’s Supreme Judicial Court, after another attempt last month was rejected by a judge.
Judge rejects group’s call to freeze bike lanes, allowing city to continue installation for now (updated)
A call to stop work immediately on new protected bike lanes in Cambridge and turn existing lanes back into parking spaces was rejected Friday by Middlesex County Superior Court judge John Pappas.
Group’s lawsuit and call for freeze on bike lanes get first hearing as wires come down in Porter (corrected)
A bike-lane lawsuit and call for the city to immediately halt installation of the lanes got a hearing Thursday, with Middlesex County Superior Court judge John Pappas granting the sides until the end of business on Monday to submit more information.
Brief by Bicycle Safety group responds to lawsuit seeking to roll back city installation of bike lanes
A lawsuit against the city over bike lane installations that cost parking spaces is based on flawed reasoning, and more bicyclists will be hurt or die if a judge grants an injunction to stop more lanes from being added and remove existing ones, according to a brief filed Wednesday by the Cambridge Bicycle Safety group.
Group files lawsuit over Cycling Safety Ordinance, telling city to ‘rescind, restore and prevent’ lanes (updated)
An email from the group described a situation in which “storefronts can’t serve customers because there is nowhere to park, where quiet side street neighborhoods will become de facto parking areas and loading docks and where medical patients won’t be able to access the offices of their providers.”
Seeing a growing threat of overturned rights, council acts to support LGBTQ+ community
Amid fears about the growing threat to gay and transgender rights posed in legislatures and courts across the country, city councillors turned their attention Monday to supporting LGBTQ+ residents, approving three measures unanimously.
Driver of SUV is acquitted in death of a senior, ‘tragedy’ that left judge with reasonable doubt
Ashley Monturio was acquitted Tuesday of leaving the scene after running over and killing an 80-year-old woman in the parking lot of a Cambridgeport public housing project. Cambridge District Court Judge David Frank said the prosecution hadn’t proven conclusively that Monturio knew she had hit Romelia Gallardo.
Re-creation of senior’s death in LBJ parking lot contends that driver couldn’t see or feel incident
Lawyers for Ashley Monturio, who is on trial for allegedly leaving the scene after running over an 80-year-old woman in a Cambridgeport parking lot, created their own video to counter the prosecution’s surveillance recording of the 2018 death.
