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"Boston’s gap grows from inequality, not teacher lapses," says QUEST member Mary Battenfeld in the Boston Globe. "High-quality early childhood education, well-staffed programs for language minorities and students with special needs, and access to nurses and mental health professionals have proved to help. Spending less on students who need it most does not."
It’ll take more than leaning on Boston teachers to close achievement gap
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An op-ed posed challenges to the Boston teachers contract. Readers push back.Words used in place of "middle school closings" at tonight's School Committee meeting: take off line, merge, transition, phase out, convert, reconfigure. As said in a 2015 district email, "We are not using ‘close’ anywhere."
So: We’ll close but we won’t use “close.” We’ll frame it differently.
Didn't get to be at the State House on Thursday? Join our allies at Citizens for Public Schools by signing this letter before Monday!
Ask your senator to support budget amendments for public education!
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WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? There are many steps to reach our goal of equitable and adequate school funding. Each step of the way, we need to make our voices heard and keep up the pressure on legislators t...Advocacy for Quality, Equity, and Transparency Within the Boston Public Schools System
Boston Chooses a New BPS Superintendent
May 2, 2019
On May 1, the Boston School Committee voted to offer the job of Superintendent of Schools to Dr. Brenda Cassillius of Minneapolis-St. Paul, MI. The vote was 5-2, with two Committee members casting their votes for Ms. Marie Izquierdo of the Miami-Dade School District. Dr. Cassillius immediately indicated her willingness to accept the job, pending final negotiations with the District. QUEST expressed that it is “cautiously optimistic” about the choice (QUEST press release).
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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