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Hope someone's planning on tracking the "priority use of Dever/McCormack and Harbor Point kids" at the new Boys and Girls Club when it's finally built. Talk is cheap in BPS and these promises will likely never be considered again.
School Committee votes to transfer McCormack land to Boys and Girls Club - The Bay State Banner
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In one of its most divided votes in recent years, the Boston School Committee narrowly approved a controversial plan to transfer a sports field, playground and basketball courts at the McCormack Middl...Last night's School Committee vote allowing the Dorchester Boys & Girls Club to develop BPS land at the McCormack and Dever schools.
The motion passed with 3 YES votes out of 7 members.
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Any insight as to why two members chose to abstain ?
Proposal for Boys and Girls Club at McCormack fields narrowly passes. Votes: 3 yea (Loconto, Oliver-Davila, O'Neill), 2 no (Robinson, Rivera), 2 abstain (Coleman, Tran).
"Guarantees" made about who will get priority use. Are those like guarantees for equity analyses and mitigations for student assignment plans?
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Remember in 2017 when the Hyde Square Task Force Teens found the TD Garden failed to follow through on their guarantee to the youth of Boston? Side note, they never got their teen center either. 🙁 www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/08/14/the-teens-who-discovered-garden-failed-...
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Update on BPS regarding COVID-19
March 29, 2020
During this public health crisis, we hope people are finding the resources they need to be safe and healthy. Resources, from the Boston Public Schools, including breakfast and lunch meal sites, can be found here.
As we adjust to new circumstances, we believe we also must keep our eyes open regarding a number of policy initiatives at the state and city level. We also must ask how parents will continue to be heard with limited access to meetings and truncated time tables.
Here is a set of articles that highlight the issues we should stay attentive to:
- * “No DESE Intervention Without Parent Input,” in the Baystate Banner
- * "The problems cited in DESE's report on BPS are present in suburbs too. They're just easier to hide," School Yard News
- * “Parent Urge State to Cancel MCAS Testing,” Boston Globe
- * “Common Good Platform,” by the Boston Teachers Union
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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