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1 week ago
Quest

The annual Family2Family Conference is coming up! The theme this year is Creating Safe and Welcoming Schools. Great opportunity for parent learning and organizing! Please share. ... See MoreSee Less

The annual Family2Family Conference is coming up! The theme this year is Creating Safe and Welcoming Schools. Great opportunity for parent learning and organizing! Please share.
3 weeks ago
Quest

3 slides from last night's Green New Deal Community Listening Session, which was much more focused on big picture questions like "what's working/what needs improvement in BPS" and "Imagine how the educational experience could look different" than on facilities planning.

Will communities will have the opportunity to share to specific facilities related concerns and ideas at some point?
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3 slides from last nights Green New Deal Community Listening Session, which was much more focused on big picture questions like whats working/what needs improvement in BPS and Imagine how the educational experience could look different than on facilities planning. 

Will communities will have the opportunity to share to specific facilities related concerns and ideas at some point?

Advocacy for Quality, Equity, and Transparency Within the Boston Public Schools System

QUEST Parents Release Analysis of Boston Public School Fundraising

April 13, 2021

In 2018, Boston Public Schools did an audit of private fundraising in its 125 schools. The information was quietly released in school-by-school reports.

QUEST has now collated the data in easy-to-read spreadsheet, examined it for racial and socio-economic inequities, and requests further study and policies to address the disparities. We believe it’s especially critical to pay attention to this information now, as Boston examines its exam school admissions policies and schools struggle to recover from the effects of Covid-19.

Press release
BPS: race and private funding
Private funds per school
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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.

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Privatization of Education

Public education, including its physical facilities, is a public good that should be under community control.

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Student Assignment

All students should have equitable access to quality school options through a transparent and accessible system of school assignment.

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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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