Carolyn McCarthy: “I made a promise a long time ago. I made a promise to my son and to my husband. If there was anything that I could do to…”

If our young people are not involved in the decisions that we are making, ... it is not going to mean anything.

Violence and bullying prevention is necessary to a successful academic career. We need to take these threats seriously and we must act on them to prevent further tragedies.

It’s like a cancer in our society. And if we keep doing nothing to stop it, it’s only going to spread.

One of the things that we are seeing with the charter schools, that they have the ability of not taking children with disabilities or special needs, which obviously is a burden onto our public schools because they bring down the test…