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“When neighborhoods do gentrify, Pearman found, local district schools tend to lose students. The average drop is small: 17 students, or 3% of enrollment. This comes from a decline in low-income and Hispanic students, with no countervailing increase in affluent or white students.”
What does gentrification mean for local schools? Fewer students
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The latest findings show that gentrification is relatively rare. But where it does happen, the changes have real — and complex — consequences for students.BPS needs a strong policy that keeps students and families safe. Sign petition here to demand clear criteria, transparency and communication, oversight, and accountability and training.
JOIN US IN MAKING SCHOOLS SAFE FROM ICE!
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On January 6, 2020, news broke that the Boston Public Schools has shared over 130 BPS students’ information with Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE), jeopardizing these young people’s future...There are certain baseline things that all our schools deserve. Are you part of your BPS school's Family Council (aka Parent Council)? Or part of a community organization that wants to support a fair and adequate budget for BPS schools? Bring this budget pledge to your organization and ask them to sign on.
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We the following students, parents, caregivers, teachers and community members have come together to pledge our support for a new way of creating Boston Public Schools budgets that are equitable and h...Great Op-Ed on this by youth from St. Stephen's Youth Programs: www.baystatebanner.com/2020/01/23/school-should-be-a-safe-haven-and-a-sanctuary/
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.
ABOUT QUEST
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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