“Are we spending ‘too much’ on kids in P-Town, Cambridge, Lincoln, Weston, etc, or are we just spending ‘too much’ on THESE KIDS?’ asks BPS parent Kristin Johnson.
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New Bedford to pursue “innovation zones”
Teachers and administrators working together to create positive changes in schools: “A group of teachers working with the school administration to remake New Bedford middle schools is leaning against using a so-called “innovation zone,” a special governing structure that could have allowed principals and a group of elected teachers to approve changes to things like the length of the school day, curriculum or staffing.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2017/03/mayor_bps_closures_not_viable_option
Teachers, students, parents slam proposed BPS budget
Thanks student, parents, teachers who spoke out against budget cuts which disproportionally affect our neediest schools.
Chicago Public Schools to revamp high school application process
Chicago considering unified enrollment. Parents ask questions about school closures and School Mint Inc. potentially makes $250,000.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-school-universal-application-met-20170123-story.html
BPS budget comes under fire
The Opportunity and Achievement Task Force testified last night: “[We are] opposed to the 2017-2018 budget as it is currently written because it will have a negative impact on the district’s efforts to eliminate opportunity and achievement gaps, particularly for students attending low-performing schools,” said task force member Ayele Shakur, reading from a statement. “By using the current Weighted Student Funding Formula as its foundation, the SY18 budget systematically disinvests in the district’s lowest performing schools that have the greatest needs.”
http://baystatebanner.com/news/2017/mar/22/bps-budget-comes-under-fire/
What We Can Learn from the Massachusetts Ballot Question Campaign on Charter School Expansion
New report re: the Question 2 campaign and potential lessons for fighting the Trump Ed agenda. Great snow day read!
http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ma-charter
BPS now has data to help plan for rehab of facilities
Dorchester Reporter on the BPS facilities report, incl that BPS facilities dept. soon to come under the city’s facilities dept.
http://www.dotnews.com/2017/bps-now-has-data-help-plan-rehab-facilities
Group to study return to elected Boston school board
What would an elected School Committee mean to Boston? NAACP to explore this.
The White Choice
Vouchers, tax credit scholarships, education savings accounts– moving across the South, but coming to a state near you.
http://haveyouheardblog.com/whitechoice/
When Donors Choose, Some Win and Some Lose
Parent Kristin Johnson looks at community fundraising in schools and the inequities behind this.
http://bostonpoliticaleducation.blogspot.com/2017/03/when-donors-choose-some-win-and-some.html