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SAVE THE DATE: BPS student rally in May!
Reminder: Family2Family is tomorrow. QUEST will be there and will be talking facilities from 1 to 2:15pm. Join us!
See btu.org/family2family/ for more info.
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A coalition of Dual Language schools is petitioning BPS to provide the funds to meet the needs of their students. BPS has long been criticized for its education of English Language Learners. Now is not the time to make cuts to programs that work. Please read and sign.
Dual Language Coalition Letter, March 2024
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With this letter, we are asking BPS to fully fund our Dual Language programs and not to cut teaching positions in the 2024-2025 budget. Please read the whole letter here. Please sign this and share it...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Ousted Assistant Superintendent Aketa Kapur is taking BPS to court for improper termination. She challenged their treatment of English Language Learners, long a trouble spot for the district, and she lost her job.
Aketa Kapur: “BPS looks at bilingualism as a deficit. It is an asset.”
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Advocacy for Quality, Equity, and Transparency Within the Boston Public Schools System
In 2023, Boston Public Schools embarked on a project called Reimagine School Funding, seeking to update its school funding policy in a collaborative way. BPS invited a variety of stakeholders and personnel to work on the project, including a steering committee, a principal working group, a funding policy design working group, and consultants, sixty people in all.
At the end of the yearlong process, a report was written making recommendations and reviewing intended impact. To date, the report has not been released publicly, despite requests. QUEST believes that the work of the Project should be made public and in the interest of transparency, is releasing the report here.
We especially applaud the recommendations of the committee that BPS “collect and make available all revenue information by school, inclusive of philanthropy, fundraising, and other private sources” (page 28), echoing QUEST’s ongoing work on equity in funding and private fundraising in schools.
NOTE: When the Reimagine School Funding project was announced, QUEST asked to bring our historical knowledge and equity perspective to the new plan through a seat on the working group. Our participation was denied.
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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