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Dockets #0622 - 0628 - Fiscal Year 2020 Budget: Public Testimony Session
A
Is
it
means
I'm?
Also
the
awesome
brightened
district
city
council
today
is
Tuesday
June
4th
like
to
remind
folks
this
is
a
public
hearing
both
being
broadcast
live
and
recorded
for
future
viewing
on
Comcast
channel
8
r,
CN,
82,
Verizon
1964
and
streamed
at
Boston,
gov
backslash
city
council,
TV
I'd,
ask
folks
in
the
chamber
to
silence
their
electronic
devices.
A
A
Six:
two:
six:
two:
zero
six
to
eight
capital
budget
appropriations,
including
loan
orders
and
lease
purchase
agreements.
I
am
joined
by
several
of
my
colleagues
to
my
far
left
in
order
of
their
arrival.
Counselor
at-large
of
the
a
garrison
to
my
immediate
left,
the
vice
chairman
of
ways
and
means
councillor
Tim
McCarthy
again
to
my
far
left,
my
friend
from
South
Boston
counselor,
Edie
Flynn
and
my
friend
from
Back
Bay
councillor
Josh,
say
come
to
my
far
right.
A
I
have
several
people
I'll
get
right
into
public
testimony
now
folks
did
not
check
the
box
so
I'm
going
to
call
you
in
order
of
signing
up
and
if
you
do
wish
to
testify,
it
just
go
right
to
that
microphone
there.
So
Ruby
Reyes
is
first
tafani
Jackson
and
Monty
Neal
and
again,
if
you
want
to
specify
what
part
of
the
budget,
if
it
all
there's
a
part
that
you
want
to
speak
to.
Okay.
B
Thank
you.
My
name
is
Ruby
Reyes
I'm,
the
Boston
education,
justice,
Alliance,
director
resident
of
Dorchester
district
4
and
I'm
here
to
talk
about
the
Boston
Public
Schools
budget
cuts.
Beija
represents
parents,
students
and
teachers
working
to
improve
the
Boston
Public
Schools
beige
is
requesting
an
additional
20
million
dollars
to
be
added
to
the
Boston
Public
Schools
budget
this
year
to
ensure
there
are
no
school
program
cuts
and
to
add
student
facing
and
support
staff
to
school
communities.
This
year's
budget
proposals
would
create
significant
budget
shortfalls
to
44%
of
BPS
schools.
B
East
boston,
high
alone
will
experience
a
cut
of
over
1
million
dollars.
East
boston
as
a
whole
will
experience
over
a
loss
of
over
two
million
dollars
and
Dorchester
will
lose
approximately
1.5
million
dollars
in
school
funding.
The
residents
of
these
communities
are
primarily
black
and
Latino.
These
budget
shortfalls
also
come
on
the
heels
of
school
committee
voting
to
close
two
schools
in
the
West
Roxbury
educational
complex.
While
the
Rogers
School
in
Hyde
Park
has
been
returned
to
the
city
as
surplus
property.
B
The
Rogers
School
in
Hyde
Park
is
slated
to
become
luxury
housing,
as
our
children
lose
their
schools
developers
gain
properties
each
year.
The
mayor
increases
bps
budget
between
two
and
four
percent,
but
this
does
not
meet
the
rising
costs
of
inflation.
Schools
that
experience
no
official
loss
are
feeling
a
shortfall
because
their
budget
increase
does
not
account
for
inflation.
B
Coupled
with
too
little
state
aid
Boston
faces
an
attic
funding
for
all
of
our
schools.
Every
student
should
have
an
educational
experience
in
which
they
feel
safe
and
cared
for
and
can
participate
in
high
quality
learning
environments
in
the
current
system,
when
one
school
wins,
another
experience
is
a
cut,
and
this
is
the
first
step
to
school
closure.
B
This
creates
a
culture
where
surviving
becomes
winning
at
another
schools,
expense
bps
further,
perpetuates
the
sick
culture
and
that
it
asks
schools
that
have
shrinking
budgets
to
showcase
how
great
their
resources
are
in
order
to
win
a
new
building
or
get
repairs
to
their
current
space.
This
culture
is
not
safe
or
healthy
for
children,
but
it
is
being
set
as
a
standard
by
the
district
and
reinforced
by
inadequate
increases
to
school
budgets.
B
At
the
city
level,
Beija
has
was
excited
to
hear
about
the
gains
won
by
the
Boston
Teachers
Union,
including
full-time
nurses,
in
every
school,
and
increasing
the
number
of
mental
health
staff.
Despite
and
with
these
gains,
only
half
of
Boston
Public
Schools
will
have
a
full-time
mental
health
staff
person.
That
means
that
only
half
of
BPS
students
will
have
access
to
these
much-needed
social
and
emotional
support
systems.
Boston
is
an
increasingly
rich
City.
Beija
asks
that
you
tax
the
wealth
in
order
to
invest
in
our
children.
B
There
is
an
opportunity
to
fund
all
of
our
schools
so
that
all
of
our
students
and
residents
are
able
to
have
access
to
quality
well
resourced
education.
This
year
the
council
can
fund
20
million
dollars
more
by
tapping
the
parking
ticket
fund.
They
shall
also
ask
that
the
council
continue
to
push
our
private
neighbors
colleges
and
universities
to
pay
their
payment
in
lieu
of
taxes
commitments
together.
They
now
owe
over
77
million
dollars.
Thank
you.
Thank.
A
C
Good
afternoon,
chairman
Tiamo,
members
of
the
council,
thank
you.
My
name
is
Monte
Neal
I
live
in
Jamaica,
Plain
and
I'm,
a
member
of
the
Boston
education,
justice
alliance
or
Beija,
and
citizens
for
public
schools
Vasia,
as
my
colleague
Ruby
just
pointed
out,
as
requested
that
the
City
Council
ensure
an
increase
of
twenty
million
dollars
in
this
year's
School
Department
budget.
C
You
will
hear
today
from
others
about
the
pressing
needs
of
this
of
their
schools.
Without
that
20
million
dollars,
the
children
in
many
schools
will
suffer
serious
program
cuts
more
immediate
funding.
In
addition
to
the
important
games
and
nurses
and
counselors
won
by
the
Boston
teachers
union
is
necessary
to
stave
off
these
cuts.
But
Boston's
weighted
student
formula
is
also
part
of
the
problem.
The
formula
establishes
too
far
too
small
a
base
for
adequate
staffing.
As
a
result,
many
schools
lack
necessary
programs
and
schools
with
small
declines
in
population
suffer
too
many
necessary
program.
Cuts.
C
We
in
Beija
say
that
Boston
needs
a
different
process
to
determine
school
funding.
We
need
to
build
with
extensive
community
participation
a
model
of
what
our
children
actually
need
to
complete
high
school
to
be
thriving,
active
engaged
adults
and
what
is
sure
to
be
an
uncertain
future.
As
our
children
face
environmental
crises,
ongoing
racism
and
deepening
economic
inequality.
C
The
city
should
then
construct
a
plan
to
get
from
here
to
there
quickly.
That
plan
will
require
that
the
city
tax,
the
rapidly
growing
wealthy
and
corporate
sectors
to
fund
education
for
the
children
communities
that
economic
development
is
leaving
behind
Beija
will
be
active
in
this
process.
We
seek
to
work
with
the
superintendent
kuselias,
the
School
Committee,
the
mayor
and
the
City
Council,
as
well
as
the
community
to
rethink
and
redesign
the
purpose
and
funding
of
public
education
in
Boston.
C
B
I'm
I
have
a
parent
who
submitted
testimony
to
read
on
her
behalf.
It's
not
able
to
be
here
today
because
she's
at
work,
hello,
my
name
is
Tiffany
Jackson
I'm,
a
member
of
I,
am
a
mother
of
two
wonderful
people.
My
son
Trayvon
and
daughter
Shania
who's
13
and
in
the
seventh
grade.
I
was
compelled
to
write
this
testimony
today,
because
my
daughter
Shania
was
recently
diagnosed
with
juvenile
diabetes
type.
1
April
4th
is
a
day.
I
will
never
forget,
and
neither
will
she
if
you
are
familiar
with
this
type
of
incurable
chronic
condition.
B
Please
listen
as
if
you
were
a
mother,
father
uncle
brother,
sister
or
guardian
as
I
picked
my
perfectly
healthy
daughter
up
from
school
on
Thursday
April
4th,
because
she
was
not
feeling
well
I
decided
to
take
her
to
the
doctor's,
see
what
was
going
on.
Never
thinking
that
she
would
be
rushed
to
Children's
Hospital
and
where
she
would
be
out
of
nowhere
diagnosed
with
type
1
diabetes
type,
1
diabetes,
a
chronic
condition.
Her
pancreas
just
stopped
making
insulin
something
we
all
have
and
a
vital
functioning
function
automatically
produced
by
our
body
for
us
to
live.
B
Hearing
that
now
to
live,
my
daughter's
body
no
longer
does
what
it
should
on
its
own
and
she
will
have
insulin-dependent.
She
will
be
insolent,
dependent
for
the
rest
of
her
life.
She
will
need
insulin
to
eat
carbohydrates.
Have
you
ever
had
to
calculate
the
food
that
you
ate
every
day
to
survive?
Have
you
ever
had
to
think
about
the
carbohydrates
you
eat
when
you're
out
at
home
at
a
social
event
in
school
and
that
you
need
to
inject
yourself
several
times
a
day
just
to
eat?
B
Think
back
to
when
you
were
13
well,
this
is
my
daughter's
life
now
injections
for
food
injections
to
correct
her
blood
sugar
injections
to
maintain
her
blood
sugar
injections
to
survive.
Could
you
imagine
the
life
adjustment
that
this
requires
I
think
God
every
day
that
there
are
full
to
full-time
nurses
at
my
daughter's
school
one
that
I
speak
with
every
single
day?
B
My
daughter
goes
to
the
nurse
five
times,
five
to
eight
times
a
day,
because
her
blood
sugar
is
low
she's
in
a
stage
they
call
the
honeymoon
phase
and
she
could
remain
in
that
phase
for
up
to
two
years.
The
honeymoon
stage
is
where
her
blood
sugar
levels
fluctuate
constantly,
but
the
scary
part
are
the
lows
one
low
and
my
daughter
could
die.
Let
me
repeat
so:
you
fully
understand
what
I
said.
B
One
low
blood
sugar
and
my
daughter
could
die
if
she
did
not
have
the
two
full-time
phenomenal
nurse
that
she
has
I
have
no
idea
what
I
would
have
done.
I'm
a
working
full-time
mother
and
businesswoman
I
speak
with
tanaya's
nursing
team
daily
to
go
over
her
numbers
and
brainstorm.
Why
she
drops
low
several
times
a
day
and
how
we
should
adjust
her
numbers
I
have
described
a
small
portion
of
the
effort
and
dedication
it
takes
from
those
nurses
to
keep
my
child
safe
and
her
mother
calm
and
able
to
work.
B
B
Therefore,
I
applaud
the
members
of
the
Boston
teachers
union
and
school
committee
for
working
so
hard
to
increase
the
number
of
full-time
nurses
in
their
contract
negotiations.
The
just
think
you
may
have
just
saved
a
life
by
providing
a
full-time
nurse
for
every
child
in
every
school.
What
a
great
move
in
the
right
direction,
however,
I
challenge
you
not
to
stop.
There
continue
to
save
children's
lives
and
support
the
families.
You
represent,
I'm,
confident
that
you
will
continue
to
do
honorable
and
moral
work.
B
Ask
you,
as
a
mother,
employee,
businesswoman
and
social
justice
advocate
if
you
would
increase
the
bps
budget
by
20
million
additional
dollars
to
further
support
the
education
and
whole
child
and
families
in
year.
2019
2020,
20
million
dollars
will
support
these
families
by
ensuring
that
students
do
not
have
school
budget
cuts.
This
year,
the
increase
in
mental
health
staff
will
only
provide
support
staff
to
half
of
the
schools
in
bps
sued.
Students
and
families
deserve
health,
safe
and
healthy
schools.
Thank
You,
Tiffany,
Jackson
Thank.
D
Good
afternoon,
thank
you
for
this
opportunity.
I'm
Linda
Freeman
in
Roxbury
I
have
a
son
in
the
bps
and
he's
at
Boston,
Green
Academy
and
he's
one
of
the
in
the
learning
for
independence
program
he's,
as
it's
indicated,
he's
a
sped
student
I'm
here
on
behalf
of
all
our
students
with
disabilities
and
those
with
who
are
il
L.
D
D
It's
better
to
have
the
proper
funding
to
take
care
of
the
resources
that
are
needed
for
our
staff
and
our
parents
and
all
involved,
including
our
nurses,
who
also
have
their
administer
the
prescriptions
and
medicines
for
some
of
our
students.
Some
of
our
students
are
in
complex
medical
apparatus
as
well.
If
you
have
no
understanding
of
it,
you
have
to
observe
I've
observed
from
years
ago,
a
student
who
was
had
complex
disability
and
was
terminally
ill
and
due
to
the
humanities
of
Boston
Public
Schools.
D
They
allowed
this
student
to
remain
at
that
school
because
he
had
a
terminal
illness.
They
wanted
to
transfer
them
and
it
was
would
have
just
escalated.
His
demise
befall
our
other
students
for
all
our
rest
of
our
students
with
disabilities
and
who
are
elo.
D
E
Good
afternoon,
members
of
the
council,
my
name
is
al
Vega
I'm,
the
director
of
policy
and
programs
at
Mass,
kashta,
Massachusetts
Coalition
for
Occupational
Safety
and
Health
I'm.
Also
a
longtime
resident
born
and
raised
in
Jamaica
Plain.
We
are.
Our
organization
is
also
members
of
the
Boston
educational
justice
Alliance.
E
Although
we've
made
many
strides
towards
improving
schools,
but
the
use
of
green
cleaners
required
an
annual
environmental
audit
and
policies
such
as
integrated
pest
management
to
reduce
infestations,
we
still
face
an
uphill
battle
when
it
comes
to
giving
schools
the
much-needed
funds
to
provide
the
proper
levels
of
maintenance
that
keep
schools
healthy
and
clean.
The
list
of
major
repairs
needed
to
eradicate
many
of
the
problems
we
see
throughout
the
system
also
continue
to
grow
year
after
year.
E
We
know
what
slashing
of
these
budgets
does
to
schools,
attempting
to
provide
all
of
the
resources
needed
to
ensure
our
kids
are
getting
the
best
education
in
buildings
that
ultimately
may
negatively
impact
their
health
in
the
long
run.
The
proposed
budget
does
not
take
into
account
all
of
these
concerns
and
schools
have
already
been
struggling
to
do
more
with
less,
particularly
after
cuts
that
started
during
the
I'm
a
crisis
of
a
more
than
a
decade
ago.
E
Unfortunately,
there
are
many
who
did
not
simply
understand
the
true
impact
of
that
decision
to
families
in
the
communities
across
our
city.
We
must
be
cognizant
of
what
we
will
continue
of
what
continued
deficit
of
public
dollars
will
mean
to
our
public
school
infrastructure
and
that
we
will
continue
sending
our
students
and
teachers
to
dilapidated
and
in
adequately
maintained
buildings
that
may
elevate.
The
potential
of
those
occupants
are
becoming
sick
or
the
risk
of
being
exposed
to
hazards
that
should
not
be
found
in
our
schools.
E
We
believe
now
is
the
time
to
stop
the
bleeding
of
resources
and
ensure
that
schools
across
the
city
do
not
have
to
choose
between
providing
textbooks
and
tablets
or
fixing
that
leaky
roof
and
upgrading
a
heating
system.
We
will
never
improve
these
conditions
that
we
continue
to
see
less
custodians,
a
lack
of
needed
maintenance
or
capital
repair
projects
being
put
on
hold
for
an
indefinite
number
of
years.
E
It
will
be
difficult
to
ensure
that
we
have
the
most
highly
educated
students
and
a
strong
and
motivated
cadre
of
teachers
and
staff,
while
the
building's
they
spent
most
of
their
lives
and
continue
crumbling
around
them.
While
we
ignore
their
pleas
to
improve
these
conditions,
climate
change
issues
are
are
already
making
things
worse
and
the
need
for
air
conditioning
in
all
buildings
and
heat
stress
policies
are
something
that
other
cities
and
districts
around
the
country
are
focused
on
already
to
be
proactive,
as
conditions
continue
to
get
more
extreme.
E
The
business-as-usual
mentality
must
stop
and
we
must
properly
maintain
order
up
buildings
and
reduce
the
billion
plus
dollars
worth
of
capital
repairs
projects
that
our
schools
need
to
be
dealt
with
in
a
timely
and
just
manner
to
avoid
the
fate
of
schools
like
the
West
Roxbury
educational
complex
in
the
school
communities
there.
We
know
that
they
had
been
asking
for
help
for
years
on
this
and
now
and
no
one
was
able
to
do
enough,
and
now
students
and
families,
as
well
as
teachers
are
scrambling
to
figure
out
what
to
do.
Next.
E
We
can't
keep
approving
a
budget
like
this
that
will
only
force
everyone
else
to
continue
fighting
each
other
for
what's
left
of
the
pie.
What
we
have
seen
over
the
last
few
years
is
not
working,
and
you
have
heard,
or
will
be
hearing
from
many
others
here
about-
why
we
encourage
you
to
vote
no
on
this
budget
as
it
stands,
and
at
a
minimum,
ask
for
an
additional
twenty
million
dollars
to
help
schools
with
this
and
numerous
other
problems
created
by
the
underfunding
of
our
district.
Ultimately,
our
facilities
are
just
one
of
the
many
areas.
E
We
must
be
more
vigilant
around,
so
that
students
and
teachers
can
live
work
and
play
in
an
environment
that
is
safe
and
healthy
for
all,
and
this
will
only
be
possible
when
we
properly
invest
in
all
our
schools,
which
should
be
a
priority
for
Mayor
Walsh
and
all
members
of
the
City
Council
with
us
here
today.
Thank
you
so
much
for
your
time.
Thank.
F
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B
F
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B
B
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B
F
B
B
F
B
G
G
I
am
a
product
of
Boston
Public,
Schools
I've
lived
in
Boston,
all
of
my
life
and
I
raised
a
child
and
graduated
from
medicine,
Park,
High,
School,
so
I
understand
very
deeply
just
what
some
of
the
problems
are
and
the
constraints
around
it
that
we
have
to
face.
We
literally
don't
have
avenues
to
try
and
address
the
tremendous
amount
of
issues
that
happen
in
our
schools
every
single
year.
G
This
is
only
one
of
the
very
few
ways
that
we
have
to
ask
you
to
really
pay
attention
to
making
sure
that
our
young
people
have
the
things
that
they
deserve
to
learn
well
in
the
classroom.
Our
funding
structures,
both
statewide
and
locally,
are
flawed
and
they
continue
to
be
flawed
and
they
shortchange
our
children
until
that
gets
fixed.
You
will
see
us
here
in
an
other
spaces
advocating
hard
for
what
we
believe
they
deserve.
G
We
just
one
tentative
agreement
as
a
contract
as
a
teacher's
union,
we're
very
excited
about
that
ta.
It
took
us
18
months
to
get
there
because
we
refused
to
walk
away
from
that
table
without
what
we
thought
would
really
dramatically
change
the
reality
and
the
quality
of
the
education
being
able
to
have
be
done
in
the
classroom.
We
did
not
get
everything
we
wanted
in
that
contract.
That
contract
hasn't
even
been
approved.
Yet
our
members
will
look
at
that
next
week
and
we
hope
that
we
can
move
forward
with
it.
G
There
are
other
things
that
our
schools
need
desperately
that
we
believe
you
have
the
power
and
the
control
over
the
budget
to
give
them.
That's
money
right
now:
it's
20
million
dollars
understand
that
that
20
million
dollars
helps
keep
us
afloat.
It
doesn't
fix
the
fundamental
things
that
are
wrong
with
our
system.
This
is
us
asking
you
for
another
band-aid,
so
as
many
as
our
young
people
as
possible
can
make
it
through
this
next
school
year.
Our
systems
are
deeply
flawed
and
we
need
to
address
those
challenges.
G
So
this
20
million
dollars,
while
it
is
very
important
and
will
add
value
into
the
system-
it's
still
not
enough,
and
so
we
implore
you
to
take
advantage
of
the
authority
and
access.
You
have
right
now
to
help
our
school
system
in
this
year
as
much
as
possible
and
then
come
back
together
and
actually
look
seriously
at
the
weighted
student
formula
at
the
funding
cycle
and
the
way
the
state
funds
public
education
and
fix
the
problems
that
are
broken
there,
because
that's
ultimately
what
it
is
that
we
need.
Thank
you
thank.
H
My
name
is
David
Russell
I'm,
a
teacher
at
McKinley,
South,
End
Academy
since
1988,
and
just
give
a
brief
personal
account
of
the
need
for
more
money.
We
routinely
dig
into
our
pockets
for
for
all
kinds
of
things.
At
a
meeting
yesterday
we
were
planning
our
end-of-the-year
activities.
We
have
an
oratory
contest,
it's
gonna
be
the
20th
anniversary.
20Th
annual
one's
been
a
wonderful
event
where
kids
present
poems
and
we
have
a
group
of
judges
to
come
in
and
we
offer
some
prizes.
You
know
we
pay
for
it.
That's
the
only
way
it
can.
H
It
can
happen.
We
have
a
field
day
at
the
end
of
every
year.
We
had
a
meeting
yesterday
to
make
plans
for
that.
You
know
we
all
we
all
pay.
We
all
pay
for
that.
There's!
That's
just
that's
just
ordinary
a
couple
years
ago,
I
did
a
survey
in
the
spring
of
staff
just
to
try
to
get
a
little
more
numbers
on
okay,
so
we
routinely
a
lot.
Our
wall
is
how
much
does
that
come
to
and
the
with
with
incomplete
results
we
got
twenty
three
thousand
and
something
dollars
that
have
been
spent
by
staff.
H
H
H
Quite
a
few
decades
old
grading
over
our
windows,
sort
of
metal
bars
for
us
for
security,
that's
all
rusted
and
the
windows
haven't
been
washed
and
who
knows
how
long
cuz,
they're
locked
on
and
don't
get
opened,
and
the
kids
make
it
feels
to
the
kids
like
okay,
we're
in
prison.
Of
course,
the
Billy
weren't
there
to
lock
the
kids
in
there.
For
you
know,
for
security
on
first
floor,
they
know
to
stop
break-ins,
but
it
it
gives
the
feeling
of
run
down
the
institution
without
value
and
then
without
the
kids.
H
Even
thinking
about
that
or
consciously
considering
it,
it
feels
like
a
place.
That's
not
a
value,
and
you
know
we
work.
Our
best
to
you
know,
put
things
together
for
the
kids
again
picking
up
our
own
wallets
to
pay
for
things.
A
couple
years
ago,
teacher
was
transferred
to
a
classroom
that
had
no
furniture,
so
he
said
okay
me
bringing
my
saw.
I
get
some
wood
start
building
some
tables
and
we
ended
up
finding
from
a
local
church
and
other
sources.
Furniture,
but
it
was
kids
are
coming.
I
got
an
empty
room.
H
What
he
gonna
do
so
you
know
that's
not
that's
not
a
typical
story,
but
but
not
you
know
it
didn't
cause
a
wildfire
of
indignation
in
the
school
because
you
know
we
take.
We
take
care
of
what
we
got
to
take
care
of
my
first
when
I
got
my
first
classroom,
I
was
brought
in
there's
no
clock.
No
no
I
was
not
etc
went
to
Bradley's
and
you
know,
bought
a
whole
bunch
of
things.
33
years
later,
my
clock
in
my
room,
there's
another
one.
H
A
B
Wanted
to
share
testimony
on
behalf
of
REO
bronze,
okay.
She
thank
you.
Members
of
the
City
Council.
My
name
is
Arielle
Browns
I
live
in
district
6
work
at
st.
Stephen's
youth
programs
in
district
2,
st.
Stephen's
youth
programs
has
had
a
decade-long
partnership
with
the
Blackstone
school
seven
years
ago.
The
school
was
placed
in
turnaround
status
and
st.
Stephen's.
Youth
programs
played
a
critical
role
in
the
school's
improvement
plan.
We
revived
the
school's
12,000
title
lending
library
and
continued
to
fund
a
library
coordinator,
who
runs
the
library
and
coordinates
a
team
of
library
volunteers.
B
Initially
our
collaborative
effort
was
successful
and
the
school
met
all
the
goals
of
its
turnaround
plan
and
was
promoted
into
innovation
status.
However,
as
the
additional
funding
for
the
turnaround
process
ended,
nearly
1
million
in
support
had
to
be
cut
from
the
school's
budget.
An
administrative
transitions
have
continued.
There
have
been
seven
principles
since
the
turnaround
progress
began.
The
district
has
systematically
disinvested
from
the
school
this
year
due
to
yet
another
shift
in
status.
B
B
The
school
still
faces
significant
barriers
to
providing
holistic
student
support.
The
school
is
losing
to
community
feel
coordinators
and
several
partnerships,
including
City
Year.
They
are
also
missing
an
inclusion
stand
coordinator,
and
while
we
recognize
that
one
councillor
is
more
than
many
BPS
schools
are
allotted,
it
is
vastly
insufficient
to
meet
the
needs
of
nearly
600
high
needs.
Students,
st.
Stephen's,
has
a
deep
commitment
to
the
Blackstone
school
and
we
hope
that
you
will
demonstrate
your
commitment
as
well
by
restoring
the
remaining
funding
for
missing
positions
and
partnerships
at
Blackstone.
B
I
Good
afternoon
good
afternoon,
my
name
is
Caroline:
blue
I
work
at
East,
Boston
high
school
I've
been
there
for
eleven
years
and
I
just
wanted
to
chat
a
little
bit
about
the
population
of
our
school
is
81%
English
language
learners,
and
we
do
not
have
sort
of
staffing
as
far
as
like
nurses
and
therapists
to
provide
our
students
who
are
coming
a
lot
of
them
with
traumatic
experiences
that,
as
Arielle
mentioned,
the
holistic
student
support
we
used
to
have
the
health
center
at
our
school.
That
was
an
invaluable
resource.
I
It's
no
longer
able
to
be
there
and
we
also
used
to
have
psychologists
interns
that
would
speak
with
the
students
be
able
to
provide
that
sort
of
support
and
that's
no
longer
there
either.
Our
students
really
need
that
kind
of
support.
If
they
don't
get
it
often,
the
teacher
is
asked
to
sort
of
fill
in
in
those
kind
of
areas,
so
I
too
am
requesting
that
20
million
dollars
for
the
budget
so
that
we
can
not
please
we,
our
students
can
receive
those
services
that
they
so
desperately
need.
Thank
you
thank.
A
A
J
My
name
is
Eileen
Carver
I
teach
second
grade
at
the
Dudley
Street
Neighborhood
School
in
Roxbury
I've
been
working
in
the
BP
in
the
Boston
Public
Schools
since
the
early
1990s
and
have
two
children
who
are
Boston
Public
School
graduates.
This
is
a
very
busy
time
of
year
for
teachers,
we're
assessing
the
progress
our
students
have
made
over
this
school
year.
J
For
every
dollar
that
is
cut
from
a
school
budget,
there
is
a
cost
in
terms
of
academic
and
social/emotional
growth
for
our
students
at
the
Dudley
Street
School,
where
I
work
for
the
next
school
year,
we
have
to
cut
one
learning
specialist
and
our
full-time
social
worker
is
being
reduced
to
part-time.
What
does
this
mean
in
our
second
grade
classrooms?
We
have
many
students
who
started
the
year
significantly
below
grade
level.
J
Some
of
these
students
already
made
more
than
a
year's
worth
of
reading
progress
as
of
our
spring
assessments,
what
we
did
in
March
and
they
are
continuing
to
grow
as
we
now
assess
their
reading
progress
at
the
end
of
the
school
year.
They
were
able
to
make
this
progress
because
of
the
combined
efforts
of
classroom
teachers
and
learning
specialists
who
teamed
together
to
meet
each
student
where
they
were
and
provide
the
precise
instruction
they
needed
next
year.
Our
ability
to
do
this
work
will
be
diminished
because
our
team
will
have
stronger.
J
Second
graders
feel
blue
when
they
are
unable
to
access
the
chapter
books
that
many
of
their
peers
can
read
when
3rd
4th
5th
and
middle
school
students
can't
read
on
grade
level,
it's
a
disaster
and
leads
to
students
giving
up
being
pushed
out
and
fueling
the
school
to
Prison
Pipeline.
We
are
also
cutting
the
hours
of
the
social
worker
at
my
school.
Why
does
this
matter?
There
are
several
key
ingredients
to
effective
learning.
One
is
teachers
being
prepared
with
excellent
instruction.
J
This
is
our
responsibility
as
teachers,
and
we
do
everything
within
our
power
to
carry
it
out.
Another
critical
piece
to
student
learning
is
students
being
emotionally
ready
to
access
the
instruction
we
prepare
in
my
second
grade.
Classroom
I
have
two
students
who
have
been
threatening
to
hurt
their
own
bodies
because
of
emotional
distress.
I
have
another
student
whose
physical
home
has
been
destroyed
by
a
mentally
ill
family
member
and
his
ability
to
sleep
safely
is
threatened
nightly
this
year.
These
students
receive
support
from
our
school
social
worker
next
year.
They
may
not.
J
This
year,
these
students
are
making
significant
academic
progress.
What
will
happen
next
year?
Your
decisions
on
how
we
spend
money
in
the
city
of
Boston
will
have
major
implications
for
the
life
chances
of
children
in
our
city.
Our
children
are
brilliant,
capable
and
as
full
of
dreams
as
children,
anywhere
their
ability
to
achieve
and
to
exercise
the
self-determination
they
have
a
right
to
depends
on
the
resources
available
in
our
schools.
As
Miss
Tanisha
Sullivan,
president
of
the
n-double
a-c-p,
has
stated
our
students
face
trauma
that
grows
out
of
violence,
poverty,
racism
and
immigration
struggles.
J
We
need
the
city
of
Boston
to
allocate
20
million
more
dollars,
so
we
can
meet
both
the
academic
and
social/emotional
needs
of
our
students.
We
need
this
money,
so
our
students
have
the
schools
they
deserve.
Nothing
is
more
important
to
our
future
in
our
neighborhoods,
our
city,
our
country
and
the
world.
Thank
you.
Thank.