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"The meeting was yet another discordant note in a process in which BPS officials appear to have ignored the requests of School Committee members who expressly called for input from the McCormack students, teachers and parents in the drafting of the RFP.”
No agreement on McCormack field lease - The Bay State Banner
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From the outset, McCormack students, teachers and residents of the abutting Harbor Point neighborhood testified against what many saw as an attempt to transfer public open space into private hands.“Adaptive reuse of the Rogers School is part of a larger campaign in Boston to make former schools and other public facilities available for housing and community gardens, said Sheila Dillon, the city’s chief of housing and director of neighborhood development.”
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Boston selects developer for region’s first LGBTQ-friendly senior housing complex - The Boston Globe
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The state’s LGBT Aging Commission estimates that 65,000 older LGBTQ adults live in Massachusetts, many of whom can’t depend on family members as caregivers.What happens when BPS population increases and more space is needed?
Announcement last spring that their building would close, the Jackson Mann and Horace Mann School haven't heard anything since then about their future.
Jackson/Mann and Horace Mann Schools ask what’s in their future
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Yet another BPS building controversy: Teachers and parents say they’ve heard nothing since the April announcement that their building must…Advocacy for Quality, Equity, and Transparency Within the Boston Public Schools System
Will the School Committee keep its word about the Dever/McCormack fields?
November 5, 2019
In 2018, the Boston Public Schools Committee issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to develop fields belonging to the Dever Elementary School and John W. McCormack Middle School. Members voted after assurances that those communities would have input into what would happen to their open space.
Now a private field house operated by The Boys & Girls Clubs is the sole proposal submitted, and the school communities were only informed after the deadline passed. Will the School Committee members live up to their word and accept the community input that they promised?
Click on the following dates to view full School Committee discussions about the RFP for developing the Dever/McCormack fields: April 11, 2018 (beginning at minute 44:30); May 9, 2018 (beginning at 2hr 26 min); and May 23, 2018 (beginning at 1 hr 12 min).
Current issues QUEST is focused on:
Facilities, Resources and School Closings
Quality education requires a commitment by the school district to the efficient, sustained, and equitable use of resources.
Privatization of Education
Public education, including its physical facilities, is a public good that should be under community control.
Student Assignment
All students should have equitable access to quality school options through a transparent and accessible system of school assignment.
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QUEST (Quality Education for Every Student) is a volunteer grassroots organization of parents with children in Boston Public Schools. Founded in 2012, the group initially came together over concerns about the inequities of proposed changes to the BPS assignment system. We continue to ask how education policies and practices can help to dismantle past oppression, increase opportunity, and provide greater access to quality education for all.
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