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Topics:

Student Assignment

Privatization of Education

Boston Compact and Unified Enrollment

Facilities, Resources, and School Closings

Student Assignment

See also:

QUEST position statement on

Student Assignment

and

in Further Reading:

Student Assignment

* “Timeline of Home-Based student assignment, 2012-2018”

* Letter: School zone plans fly in face of Boston parents’ wish for quality, by Harneen Chernow, October 10, 2012

* Op Ed: "Making quality and justice keys to BPS plans,” by Mary Battenfeld and Megan Wolf, Jamaica Plain Gazette, December 21, 2012

* Press release: “BPS parents skeptical about new school assignment proposals,” January 23, 2013

* Petition to “Slow down the assignment plan”

* Letter to External Advisory Committee about assignment proposal, January 30, 2013

* Press release: “BOSTON parent group takes position on school assignment proposals,” February 20, 2013

* Interview on Boston Neighborhood Network News (Sai Samant and Megan Wolf), “Parents discuss school choice and equity,” February 27, 2013

* Paper on Student Assignment, prior to the adoption of the Home-Based plan

* Op Ed: “Neighborhood over school quality,” by Mary Battenfeld, Boston Globe, March 1, 2013

* Letter to School Committee Chair after adoption of home-based assignment plan, April 26, 2013

* Questions about school assignment, 2014

* Letter to Superintendent after adoption of home-based assignment plan

* Press release: “Parents give Boston School Committee cake and criticism for failure to review BPS student assignment plan,” April 5, 2017

* Forum with Black Educators Alliance of Massachusetts and Union of Minority Neighborhoods, “Whose children? What schools? Unveiling the politics of school assignment in Boston,” October 21, 2017

* Joint student assignment letter, January 2018

Privatization of Education

See also:

QUEST position statement on

Privatization of Education

and

in Further Reading:

Privatization, Charters, and Portfolio Districts

* Petition: “Adequate Funding for Public Education and Maintaining the Charter Cap," March 12, 2014

* Press release: “More than 1000 sign Boston parent group petition to fully fund education and keep charter cap,” March 18, 2014

* Letter: “Don’t lift the cap until impact is fully understood,” by Megan Wolf, Boston Globe, March 19, 2014

* Interview on Boston Neighborhood Network News (Mary Battenfeld and Kevin Murray), “Parents voice concerns over charter school expansions,” April 3, 2014

* Op Ed: “We’re real parents in a real crisis,” by Mary Battenfeld, Washington Post, April 13, 2014

* Press release: “BPS parents call on Massachusetts legislature to ‘keep the [charter] cap’,” May 20, 2014

* Op Ed: “State should keep the cap on charters,” by Mary Battenfeld, Boston Globe: Podium, May 23, 2014

* Press release: “BPS parents urge senators to reject charter cap expansion,” July 1, 2014

* Interview on Boston Neighborhood Network News (Maura O’Toole and Megan Wolf), discussion of lifting the cap on the number of charter schools, July 8, 2014

* Petition: “Maintain the charter cap and support district public schools,” July 12, 2014

* Letter: More charter schools are not the answer, by Harneen Chernow, Boston Globe, November 3, 2014

* Interview on WBUR (Mary Battenfeld), “Charter schools and public schools: Is there another way?” March 24, 2015

* Letter: “Boston parents say ‘NO’ on 2,” by Mary Battenfeld and Odette Williamson, Beacon Hill Times, November 4, 2016

* Petition: QUEST and YOUNG Coalition, “Bostonians say NO to lifting the charter cap,” October 21, 2016

Boston Compact and Unified Enrollment

See also:

in Further Reading:

Boston Compact and Unified Enrollment in Boston and Nationally

* Press release: “BOSTON parent group questions renewing Boston Compact and pursuing a unified lottery,” September 17, 2015

* Flyer: “Unified enrollment: including charter schools in the BPS assignment system?” October 2015

* Press release: “Attorney general rules that charter-district group is not subject to state open meeting laws,” July 12, 2016

* Paper: “Enroll Boston: A dangerous plan for our students and our schools,” September 18, 2017

* Press release: “Boston parents call on Mayor Walsh to abandon unified enrollment plan for city public schools,” September 19, 2017

* Interview on Boston Neighborhood Network News (Mary Battenfeld and Kevin Murray), “Parents question combined school enrollment,” September 27, 2017

Facilities, Resources, and School Closings

See also:

QUEST position statement on

Facilities, Resources, and School Closings

and

in Further Reading:

Facilities, Resources, and Build BPS

* Workshop on the budget with Citywide Parent Council, February 8, 2015

* Statement on school closings at budget hearings, March 2015

* Press release: “BPS parents press for increased transparency after school closings controversy,” November 22, 2015

* Press release: “Boston parents demand full disclosure regarding plan for city’s public schools,” November 30, 2015

* Press release: “Parent group uncovers ‘McKinsey Report,’ rejects legitimacy of audit of Boston Public Schools” April 29, 2016

* Interview on Boston Neighborhood Network News (Kevin Murray), “Group disputes facilities report,” May 5, 2016

* Press release: “BPS parents release e-mails showing City Hall’s secretive plans on school closings,” June 7, 2016

* “QUEST Summary of Emails Released June 7, 2016”

* Interview on Boston Neighborhood Network News (Kevin Murray), “Group airs process emails,” June 14, 2016

* Interview on Boston Neighborhood Network News (Mary Battenfeld), “Parent reacts to ‘BuildBPS framework,” March 3, 2017

* Op-ed: "Where is the road map for Boston Public Schools facilities?," May 22, 2018

* Community Groups' Statement on Build BPS and School Closings, November 14, 2018

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