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What would it take to combine two households? Now think about what it will take to combine two schools. Shaw teachers share their perspective.
What does it take to make a school merger work? Shaw teachers share their story and their worries
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Not just two buildings, but also two cultures, even two curriculaThe 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.
"Our son is a white, typically developing, middle-class kid — a curious, self-motivated learner with good grades and average test scores. He has spent his entire BPS career in diverse inclusion classrooms, surrounded by peers with different backgrounds, learning styles, and challenges. In that time he’s found that there are multiple ways to be and to learn. He ranked schools based on his own experience, impressions, and interests."
QUEST member Travis Marshall, can you not find something to bash on re BPS? The Globe, Last Night at School Committee, etc. would be sorely disappointed. Thank you for your nuanced look at student assignment for 7th grade.
Our journey through the 7th grade lottery
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What we heard, what we did, how we decidedI bet they choose an exam school
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?
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.
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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