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From YouTube: Boston School Committee Meeting 4-6-22
Description
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boston School Committee holds "virtual" meetings online in order to practice safe social distancing and stay current with issues important to the Boston Public Schools.
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A
A
Do
have
a
quorum.
Thank
you,
ms
sullivan
tonight's
session
is
being
shared,
live
on
zoom.
It
will
be
rebroadcast
on
boston
city,
tv
and
posted
on
the
school
committee's
webpage
and
on
youtube.
Tonight's
meeting
documents
are
posted
on
the
committee's
web
page
bostonpublicschools.org
school
committee.
Under
the
april
6
meeting
link
this
the
meeting
documents
have
been
translated
into
all
of
the
major
bps
languages.
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After
the
interpreters
finish
introducing
themselves
and
providing
zoom
instructions,
we
will
activate
the
interpretation
icon
the
globe
at
the
bottom
of
your
screen:
click
the
icon
to
select
your
language
preference,
we'll
have
spanish
interpreters.
Please
introduce
yourself
and
give
zoom
instructions
in
espanol.
E
Thank
you
very
much,
madam
chair
good
evening.
Everyone,
my
name,
is
juan
bernal.
I
am
one
of
the
simultaneous
spanish
interpreters
assigned
for
this
meeting.
Today
we
will
be
providing
simultaneous
interpretation
taking
intervals
of
30
minutes
with
my
colleague
interpreter
mr
randolph
dominguez.
At
the
same
time,
interpreter
herrera
will
be
providing
interpretation,
gabriela
herrera
poor
for
miss
polanco,
garcia,
who
is
the
member
of
the
committee
as
well?
Spanish
speaking,.
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F
A
G
Hello
good
evening
my
name
is
armando.
Montero,
I'm
going
to
be
your
cave
at
any
chapter
for
tonight.
G
A
H
Thank
you,
madam
chair
hi,
everyone.
My
name
is
terry
anna
and
I
will
be
your
simultaneous
cantonese
interpreters.
J
Thank
you,
madam
chair
hi,
everyone.
My
name
is
wei
for
tonight's
for
tonight
tina
and
I
will
be
your
chinese
mandarin
interpreters.
K
A
You,
our
american
sign
language
interpreters,
are
lucy,
annette,
christina
desalvo
and
sharon
mendes.
Thank
you
all
for
assisting
us
this
evening.
Thank
you
to
all
of
the
bps
staff
behind
the
scenes
who
also
provide
support
for
our
virtual
meetings
to
run
smoothly.
We
will
now
activate
the
interpretation
icon
at
the
bottom
of
your
screen,
I'd
like
to
remind
everyone
to
speak
at
a
slower
pace
to
assist
our
interpreters.
A
Thank
you.
Everyone
who
signed
up
for
public
comment
sign
up
for
public
comment
close
today
at
4
30
pm.
Please
make
sure
that
you
are
signed
into
zoom
under
the
same
name.
You
use
to
sign
up
for
public
comment.
You
can
use
the
zoom
tools
to
rename
yourself
so
that
committee
staff
will
be
able
to
recognize
you
when
it
comes
time
to
call
on
you.
Thank
you
for
your
cooperation,
a
brief
announcement
before
we
get
started
this
evening.
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A
B
C
L
M
D
A
O
This
month
is
autism
acceptance
month,
and
this
designation
used
to
be
called
autism
awareness
month,
but
in
2021
was
changed
to
acceptance
by
the
autism
society
of
america,
though
this
revision
may
seem
simple.
It
is
crucial
in
order
to
help
ignite
and
change
ignite
change
in
the
lives
of
those
with
autism
and
their
wonderful
families.
O
Awareness
is
knowing
that
someone
has
autism
while
acceptance
shows
and
demonstrates
inclusion
during
the
month
of
april.
Let's
all
take
the
time
to
celebrate
the
uniqueness
each
child
brings
to
our
community
and
recognize
the
families
and
the
school
communities
who
do
the
incredible
support
and
supporting
our
children.
I
also
wanted
to
say
a
quick
word.
O
As
national
student
athlete
day
today,
we
recognize
and
honor
all
of
our
bps
athletes
for
their
hard
work
and
outstanding
accomplishments.
As
student
athletes,
they've
achieved
excellence
in
academics
and
athletics,
while
also
making
significant
contributions
to
each
of
their
own
schools
and
communities,
I'm
proud
of
their
dedication
and
their
commitment,
and
I
encourage
our
students
to
keep
up
the
good
work
and
I'm
excited
about
the
budget
investments
that
we
are
putting
in
boston,
public
schools
around
athletics.
O
O
History
tells
us
that,
whether
when
it
the
weather,
starts
getting
warmer
there's
opportunity
to
get
outside,
we
experience
some
of
these
events
more
regularly
out
in
the
community,
which
then
means
that
we
have
to
coordinate
better
and
make
sure
that
we
are
doing
our
prevention
efforts
so
bps
and
our
office
safety
services
re
continue
to
remain
in
close
contact
with
our
mayor's
office
and
the
boston
police
department.
O
We
are
going
to
start
weekly
meetings
with
them
very
intentionally
to
make
sure
that
we
are
all
on
the
same
page
about
what
we
are
doing
within
the
community,
so
that
we
can
share
information
across
the
community
and
ensure
that
our
students
are
safe
in
our
schools
and
that
the
incidents
that
we're
seeing
within
the
community
don't
get
into
our
school
we'll
remain
in
daily
contact
with
our
partners.
Working
on
this
continued
strategy
to
ensure
our
students
are
safe
and
our
staff
is
safe,
with
increased
access
to
counseling
and
social
workers.
O
This
year
we've
been
able
and
the
expanded
role
of
our
safety
officers
we've
been
able
to
provide
additional
access
and
support
services
to
our
students
and
keep
the
lines
of
communication
open
among
staff
members
in
our
schools,
so
that
we
can
try
to
be
on
the
prevention
side.
When
we
see
flare-ups
of
disagreements
among
students
and
then
quickly
intervene,
we've
also
ensured
every
classroom
and
all
of
our
schools
have
safety
plans
that
direct
them
to
how
to
best
respond.
We
have
operational
leaders
who
respond
to
our
schools
and
provide
help.
O
We
also
have
crisis
prevention
teams
who
are
in
place
and
support
our
teachers
and
our
counselors
and
social
workers
at
the
school
and
then,
of
course,
we
are
continuing
to
work
on
preventative
measures
around
reviewing
all
of
our
safety
equipment
in
schools,
including
cameras
and
metal
detectors
when
appropriate
to
use
them.
We
have
had
some
supply
issues
with
getting
the
cameras,
but
we
are
working
diligently
in
order
to
get
more
cameras
in
our
schools
that
have
been
requested
by
our
high
school
principals.
O
We've
also
appointed
a
safety
committee
comprised
of
leadership
from
multiple
departments
and
again
we're
going
to
be
meeting
regularly
to
review
the
data
out
of
the
community
work
with
mbta
as
well,
and
also
our
school
leaders.
The
committee
will
bring
me
recommendations
on
any
adjustments
or
additions
to
our
safety
plans.
That
may
be
needed.
O
O
O
O
This
is
more
than
double
the
city
rate
and
nearly
triple
the
city
rate
for
new
positive
races,
cases
that
are
recorded
that
were
recorded
in
march.
So
we
have
not
yet
made
the
kind
of
progress
that
makes
them
comfortable
in
order
to
lift
this
mandate
at
this
time.
But
we
continue
to
be
in
daily
conversations
with
boston
health
commission.
O
We
know
that
the
warmer
weather
brings
for
us
having
the
ability
to
open
for
windows
and
begin
to
start
and
shift
activities
outside,
and
so
we
believe
that
if
we
can
get
our
vaccination
rates
up
and
see
these
the
trends
start
to
trend
down,
we
would
be
able
to
make
the
decision
around
unmasking,
but
for
right
now
we're
going
to
hold
tight
a
little
bit
longer
and
just
kind
of
watch,
these
metrics
alongside
boston,
health,
commission
and
the
mayor's
office
for
more
information
on
our
vaccines
and
a
list
of
upcoming
vaccine
clinics
in
bps
schools.
O
O
I
want
to
first
give
a
huge
shout
out
to
the
team,
particularly
dr
eckelson
and
his
leadership,
to
share
a
moment
of
gratitude
for
the
team
in
bps
through
what
was
a
really
huge
herkling
effort
and
speedy
work
to
prepare
for
the
visit
last
week
to
prepare
for
the
follow-up
review.
O
All
of
these
materials
provided
yet
another
reminder
of
the
really
incredible
work
and
progress
that
boston
public
schools
has
made.
Since
the
initial
review
in
2019
and
the
report
issued
in
2020,
we
not
only
stayed
the
course
amidst
the
covid19
pandemic
and
ongoing
recovery
efforts,
but
also
made
significant
and
strategic
progress.
O
I
want
to
thank
the
state
review
team
for
the
time
that
they've
taken
to
learn
about
our
progress
over
the
last
two
years.
We
believe
that
the
state
will
see
progress
in
our
instructional
focus
on
equitable
literacy,
a
focus
on
multi-tiered
systems
of
support
as
a
key
anchor
for
the
district,
a
clear
and
focused
strategic
plan
that
serves
as
the
district's
north
star
progress
toward
a
more
linguistic
and
racial
and
ethnically
ethnically
representative
faculty.
O
O
I
wanted
to
give
some
brief
updates
on
union
negotiations.
As
you
know,
we
are
continuing
to
negotiate
with
the
boston
teachers
union,
as
well
as
our
bus
drivers,
as
two
of
our
largest
unions
and
ones
that
are
very
important
to
our
students
overall
academic
achievement
and
the
mission
of
the
district.
So
we
continue
to
make
progress
with
them.
My
team
has
had
meetings
both
with
the
boston
boston
teachers,
union
and
the
bus
drivers
union,
pursuing
the
priorities
that
we
have
discussed
as
a
school
committee.
O
I
know
several
sumner
families
are
here
today
to
speak
about
the
potential
of
using
the
irving
school
instead
of
the
bcyf
spaces
as
not
to
displace
important
community
programming
at
the
community
center
in
roslindale.
We
are
continuing
these
conversations
with
the
city
and
our
operations
team
to
ensure
the
best
space
for
the
summer
sixth
grade.
O
O
O
These
notifications
are
for
any
students
who
register
between
january
5
and
february
7
and
will
be
entering
grades,
k0
k1,
6
and
9
in
september
assignment
notification.
Letters
were
sent
out
by
email
and
by
postal
mail.
If
you
do
not
have
an
email
address
on
file,
did
not
receive
the
email
or
did
not
receive
the
paper
letter.
Please
call
the
bps
welcome
center
at
617-635-9010.
O
O
I
know
committee
members
are
curious
about
the
results
of
the
round
and
want
and
what
we
are
learning
about.
Families
choices
since
the
round
was
just
processed.
The
team
has
not
had
a
lot
of
time
to
crunch
all
the
numbers,
but
I
can
share
a
few
early
data
points
and
provide
more
comprehensive
information
in
a
follow-up,
not
including
our
special
ed
assignments,
which
follows
a
different
process.
O
O
However,
at
sixth
grade,
91
percent
of
applicants
received
one
of
their
top
three
choices
with
70
percent
receiving
their
first
choice,
speaking
of
which
exam
school
invitations,
and
for
our
grade
seven
and
grade
nine
applicants
will
be
sent
out
in
late
april
or
early
may,
all
other
grade.
Seven
assignments
will
be
sent
out
near
the
end
of
may
after
exam
school
invitations
are
finalized.
O
O
Additional
details
will
be
provided
in
june,
including
transportation
eligibility,
the
timeline
for
families
receiving
bus
assignments
for
your
bus
eligible
students
and
how
to
opt
out
of
bus
transportation.
If
you
don't
need
it
for
information
on
bps
transportation
eligibility.
Please
visit
www.bostonpublicschools.org.
O
And
though
it
only
feels
like
the
beginning
of
spring
summer
is
just
around
the
corner
and
the
time
to
start
planning
for
your
student
summer
learning
enrichment
and
job
or
an
internship
opportunity
is
right.
Now
this
summer,
bps
will
again
provide
a
series
of
programs
for
students
to
access
support
services,
academic
recovery
and
acceleration
initiatives,
along
with
a
myriad
of
other
wonderful
enrichment
activities
with
our
partners
at
boston
after
school
and
beyond.
O
Aside
from
summer
learning
programs
at
the
bps,
we
also
have
our
summer
stuff
publication
in
an
online
format
on
our
website
summer.
Stuff
outlines
all
of
the
potential
opportunities
for
students
in
three
main
areas,
including
school
and
partner-based,
programming
camps
and
recreational
activities
and
employment,
internships
and
volunteer
opportunities
for
our
youth.
O
O
Lastly,
as
a
quick
reminder,
april
19
through
22
is
spring
recess
for
boston
public
schools.
Take
this
time
to
enjoy
the
incoming
spring
weather,
relax
reset
and
prepare
to
return
to
school
and
finish
the
rest
of
the
school
year,
strong
if
you're
looking
for
any
enrichment
activities
for
your
students
to
take
part
in
during
spring
recess.
Please
visit
the
boston
public
schools
website
at.
O
Dot
www.bostonpublicschools.org
forward
slash
april
a-p-r-I-l
for
additional
information
about
any
of
the
programs
we
have
listed
on
our
site.
Please
reach
out
to
the
program
coordinators,
but
first
enjoy
your
time
off
and
as
another
quick
update,
the
bps
calendar
for
school
year.
2223
is
now
available
on
the
bps
website
at
www.bostonpublicschools.org.
A
Thank
you,
superintendent
for
your
report.
I
will
now
open
it
up
to
questions
and
discussions
from
the
committee.
I'd
like
to
remind
my
colleagues
about
our
agreed
upon
norm
that
we
each
have
five
minutes.
That's
one
to
two
questions
and
I'd
like
to
remind
vps
staff
to
also
be
brief
in
your
responses.
A
Q
And
the
information,
I
know
that
you
just
gave
us
some
top
numbers
as
it
relates
to
enrollment
and
registration.
So
thank
you
for
that.
That
was
one
of
the
questions
that
I
had,
but
I
do
have
one
question
for
the
k.
Q
0
and
the
k
1
spots
is
that
is
that
enrollment
or
or
options
that
were
given
to
families
specific
to
our
school
buildings,
or
does
that
also
include
partnerships
with
community-based
organizations.
R
P
Okay,
thank
you.
That's
really
helpful
and
then
the
other
piece.
Q
That
I
have
a
question
on:
is
I've
been
tracking
the
summer
stuff
website
so
excited
to
see
more
information
on
there?
I'm
wondering
how,
where
the
decision
point
was
for
what
schools
were
going
to
be
offering
summer
programming
and
whether
that
was
just
kind
of
how
did
we
come
to
the
idea
of
what
school
communities
would
be
able
to
offer
any
summer
programming.
O
There's
a
couple
of
things
that
go
into
summer
programming.
The
first
is,
of
course
you
know
who's
ready
to
do
summer
programming
and
we
ask
them
schools
to
raise
their
hand.
The
second
is
where
there's
need
for
esy
programs,
which
is
our
extended
year,
programs
for
students
with
special
needs,
and
so
we
want
to
make
sure
that
they
get
it
and
then
the
third
consideration
is
just.
Is
there
any
kind
of
construction
going
in
a
building
during
the
summer?
O
You
know:
is
there
other
major
renovations
that
are
happening
at
the
building?
That
would
interfere
with
it?
Do
those
buildings
have
air
conditioning?
We
try
to
also
account
for
that,
although
we
have
our
air
conditioners
going
in
starting
the
spring,
but
they
won't
all
fully
be
in
until
later
this
fall.
So
that's
that's
how
those
decisions
are
made.
I
don't
know
if
dr
eccleston
or
denise,
if
you
would
like
to
speak
any
further
on
decisions
around
summer
school
sites.
R
You
hit
the
nail
on
the
head,
it
is
honestly,
what's
you
know?
Where
are
we
already
having
building
programs
that
we
can
expand
upon
and
whether
or
not
facilities
are
available
for
use
really
are
the
driving
factors
in
those
decisions,
and
this
year
we're
in
more
places
than
ever?
I
think
we
are
in
49
or
50
building
locations
this
summer.
S
All
right,
let's
just
make
one
just
so
clear,
go
ahead!
Oh
just
one
point
of
clarification.
I
just
wanted
to
make
it's
not
that
it's
only
the
students
who
attend
schools
that
are
hosting
the
site
that
will
have
access
to
summer
school
will
be
available
to
students
far
beyond
that.
It's
just
those
are
the
schools
that
are
available
to
us
to
use
for
summer
sites
and
more
students
beyond
just
the
students
who
are
enrolled
in
those
schools
will
have
access.
Q
Perfect
that
was
going
to
be
one
of
my
follow-up
questions,
so
thank
you
for
for
sharing
that.
My
other
question
is:
what
does
our
summer
programming
kind
of
target
numbers
look
like
in
comparison
to
last
year?
I
know
we
had
a
big
push
last
year,
but
we
didn't
necessarily
hit
all
of
the
students
and
families
that
we
wanted
to
serve,
and
so
how
are
we
thinking
about
target
and
goals
and
growth
for
this
year
to
catch
more
students
and
families.
R
I
can
jump
in
dr
richelson
can
join
me
if
he,
if
he
has
additional
items
to
add
we're
excited.
We
are
looking
to
expand
seats
across
all
types
programs
to
serve,
have
seating
available
for
up
to
15
000
students-
that
is
a
large
increase
from
last
year,
and
I'm
trying
to
think
off
the
top
of
my
head,
what
that
was
last
year,
but
I
know
the
fifth
quarter:
seats
were
less
than
five
thousand
and
those
are
moving
to
eight
thousand.
R
To
give
you
an
example,
and
then
I'm
trying
to
think,
oh
so
in
terms
of
outreach,
we're
coming
back
at
the
end
of
april
with
a
full
report
on
summer,
but
for
outreach.
We
just
literally
went
live
at
the
start
of
this
week.
R
All
families
are
receiving
the
automated
phone
calls
emails
texts,
we're
going
to
be
going
up
with
billboards
fairly
soon.
I
think
in
another
week
we're
working
with
our
community
partners
we're
also
going
to
do
some
leafleting
and
tabling
at
events
and
neighborhoods.
I
know
we've
got
one
scheduled
for
grove
hall
again,
I
think.
Next
week
we
will
be
doing
a
blitz
of
social
media.
R
We
are
just
on
the
phone
with
the
mayor's
office
today,
coordinating
some
efforts
around
pushing
out
and
we
will
be
relying
very
heavily
on
staff
in
our
schools,
such
as
our
family,
liaisons,
to
not
only
make
sure
that
families
understand
and
receive
the
messaging,
but
that
they
have
support
registering.
R
It
is,
I
think,
a
blessing
and
a
curse.
We
have
a
lot
going
on
on
the
summer
page,
but
that
can
also
make
it
difficult
to
navigate.
So
we
are
providing
some
guides,
as
well
as
some
tutorials
video
tutorials
in
multiple
languages,
for
families
and
staff
who
want
to
and
can
support
our
families.
Q
Appreciate
that-
and
I
don't
have
another
question
but
just
the
comment-
I
know
that
sometimes
students
and
families
are
less
excited
about
hearing
summer
school
and
so
summer,
programming
or
summer
camp
summer
activities
feels
a
lot
more
inviting
and
exciting
and
then
the
final
pieces
to
your
point
around
engaging
with
families.
I
know
at
my
son's
school
one
of
the
things
that
they're
going
to
be
doing
is
in
one
of
our
spring
campus
days.
Q
We
are
going
to
be
having
teachers
and
some
volunteers
who
are
going
to
be
able
to
sit
with
families
to
actually
help
them
do
registration
on
the
spot,
so
just
thinking
of
different
ways
to
support
families.
But
thank
you
appreciate
the
work
that's
been
done
today.
O
And
I
think
you
know,
I
don't
think
that
chief
schneider
mentioned
that
also
we'll
be
enlisting
our
family
liaisons,
making
sure
that
they
have
the
information.
Many
of
them
are
multilingual
so
trying
to
make
sure
that
all
our
families
have
the
information.
O
C
Thank
you
for
the
report.
My
first
question
is
actually
related
to
the
newly
appointed
safety
committee.
Will
that
committee
be
also
meeting
throughout
the
summer
as
well
to
also
be
thinking
proactively
about
the
next
academic
year.
O
O
We
do
that
anyways
typically,
but
I
just
think
with
the
ongoing
mental
health
crisis
that
is
happening
across
our
nation,
with
our
youth
that
it
is
particularly
important
that
this
year
we
look
at
multiple
cross-sector
supports
for
children
not
just
with
bpd,
but
also
with
the
overall
mental
health
and
prevention.
This
is
why
summer
school
is
important.
This
is
why
making
sure
our
kids
have
jobs
is
important.
You
know
to
keep
kids
engaged
positively
in
athletics.
O
You
know
any
way
that
we
can
keep
kids
engaged
positively
will
really
be
good
for
our
overall
community,
so
that
coordination
will
continue.
It's
not
really
a
committee.
It
is
really
just
staff
to
staff
constant
communication
with
the
city
and
city
resources,
coordinating
with
our
resources
at
bp
at
bps.
C
Okay,
thank
you
because
that
was
going
to
be
a
follow-up
question,
like
of
mine,
shifting
directions
just
out
of
curiosity
with
regard
to
registration,
how
do
you
actually
select
which
students
receive
their
top
choice
versus
those
who
are
receiving
their
top?
Three,
I'm
just
curious.
R
So
we
don't,
we
don't
select
them
but
yeah.
So
it's
it's
all
an
assignment,
algorithm
or
lottery.
So
every
student
receives
a
random
number
and
you,
the
algorithm
at
its
highest
level,
will
basically
look
by
number
at
a
student's
choices
and
if
whatever
first
choice
that
has
an
available
seat
is
where
they
get
slotted.
So
if
it's
their
first
choice
great,
if
not,
then
it
moves
to
their
second
choice.
If
not,
then
it
moves
to
their
third
choice
and
so
forth.
R
V
But
in
that,
but
thank
you
for
answering.
C
That
and
then
my
my
last
question
is
actually
related
to
spring
recess.
Like
will
there
be
another
round
of
the
acceleration
academies
that
were
in
that
were
held
in
february,
and
what
is
the
registration
looking
like
for
that?.
S
Yes,
sorry,
it's
always
impossible
to
find
my
buttons,
so
we
are
planning
on
an
april
acceleration
academy.
In
february.
S
You
may
remember
that
we
focused
our
efforts
in
the
area
of
literacy
in
in
april,
we'll
focus
our
efforts
in
math
there's
a
similar
problem
that
is
sort
of
framing
the
curriculum
for
this
period
of
time,
which
is
how
do
we
make
boston,
a
richer
sort
of
more
inclusive
community
for
all
of
its
residents
and
students
are
tackling
complex
math
work
through
that
and
we'll
make
policy
recommendations
to
mayor
wu.
We're
very
excited
about
the
curriculum
and
we'll
be
happy
to
share
that
with
the
committee.
S
I
can
follow
up
with
a
memo
and
or
presentation
in
the
in
the
weeks
to
come,
but
we,
our
enrollment
for
this,
is
up
from
february
we
serve
the
most
students.
We've
ever
served
an
acceleration
academy
in
february,
and
we
have
more
schools
participating,
it's
upward
of
70
schools.
At
this
point
I
don't
remember
the
exact
number
of
students
that
we're
sort
of
targeting,
but
I
can
provide
an
update
in
the
coming
days
on
that
information.
L
All
right,
I
too
can't
find
my
button.
You
would
think
after
a
few
years
of
this,
we
would
have
gotten
better.
Thank
you
so
much
for
the
report
and
for
the
update.
I
have
a
few
follow-up
questions
as
well.
The
first
is
just
around
the
safety
incidents
that
we've
been
hearing
about
and
reading
about,
and
I'm
following
up
on
a
question
from
dr
alkins
as
well.
L
I
think,
unfortunately,
sometimes
we
hear
about
these
things
and
are
sometimes
through
the
media,
but
our
gut
reaction
is
to
go
back
to
some
of
the
ways
things
were,
and
we
know
that
some
of
the
ways
things
were,
including
a
heavy
police
presence
in
in
schools,
caused
incredible
psychological
harm
to
so
many
of
our
young
people,
and
so
it's
a
complex
situation
that
we're
grappling
with,
particularly
as
we
watch
headlines,
but
I'm
curious
from
you
it
can.
L
Are
we
seeing
a
decrease
in
the
number
of
incidents
that
require
police
presence
in
schools,
therefore
sort
of
leading
us
to
believe
year
over
year,
even
looking
at
a
more
traditional
school
year,
like
1819
or
1920,
sort
of
leading
us
to
believe
that
we
are
still
seeing
increased
safety
in
our
schools,
because
I
I
know
the
narrative
based
on
the
headlines
can
feel
like
things
are
a
little
bit
more
unsafe
than
than
we
would
hope.
O
O
O
That's
why
it's
so
important
for
us
to
make
sure
that
we
are
working
with
our
partners
at
the
city
and
bpd
to
ensure
that
and
with
and
the
mbta
to
make
sure
that
our
students
are
safe
on
their
way
away
to
and
from
school,
but
in
school
we
don't
see
a
huge
increase
in
violence
or
those
sorts
of
things
we
have
seen
fights
kids,
kids,
you
know,
will
make
a
poor
choice
and
and
do
and
fight
in
school,
and
our
safety
officers
are
trained
in
de-escalation
to
be
able
to
handle
those
when
they,
when
they
happen,
doesn't
mean
that
we
condone
it
or
that
we
accept
that,
and
so
we
have
our
counselors
and
our
social
workers
who
try
to
better
understand
when
there
is
something
that's
coming
up
with
students.
O
You
know
typically
there's
you
know
some
indication,
you,
you
get
a
sense,
you
know
as
a
school
principal
former
school
principal,
you
get
a
sense
when
something's
not
right
in
the
school
building,
and
you
can
feel
that,
and
so
you
try
to
get
to
the
bottom
of
it
and
resolve
it
through
mediation
or
restorative
justice
measures
of
something
like
that.
Before
it
escalates
so
we're
we're
very
fortunate
in
boston
to
have
the
kind
of
resources
that
we
have
around
counselors
social
workers,
school
psychologists,
safety
officers
in
all
of
our
schools.
O
L
Yeah
worse
and
it's
easy
to
read
the
headlines
and
just
think
that
things
are
sort
of
universally
bad.
So
it's
actually
it's
really
helpful.
I
think
for
all
of
us
to
hear
that
the
data
aligns
to
previous
years
and
while
we
may
see
sort
of
a
confluence
of
of
incidents,
it's
not
different
than
a
previous
time
in
our.
W
O
I
would
share
that.
You
know
if
you
look
at
previous
years
as
well.
You'll
see
you'll,
see
flare-ups
during
times
when
you
see
a
a
larger
number
of
events
that
happen
in
a
shorter
period
of
time,
and
then
you
have
to
have
a
whole
community-wide
presence
to
kind
of
bring
it
down
whether
it's
some
other
type
of
activity
between
you
know
rival,
groups
of
students
or
something
like
that.
So.
L
Yeah,
my
second
question
was
just
around
the
demand
data
I
think,
to
follow
up
on
ms
lopez
question.
You
know
that
40
number
is
feels
really
sad
right,
sad
for
the
families
who
didn't
get
their
first
choice
and,
at
the
same
time
really
optim.
I'm
super
optimistic
about
all
of
the
families,
the
96
who
did
get
their
top
three
in
the
other
cycle
of
admissions.
L
I'm
curious
to
to
the
question
ms
lopez
asked
around
our
programs,
our
cbo
programs
and
community-based
programs
outside
of
our
schools.
Is
there
any
effort,
one
to
universalize
the
application
process,
which
I
think
would
actually
allow
for
a
more
intellectually
honest
conversation
about
families,
choices
and
the
first
choice,
second,
choice
and
third
choice,
and
then
at
the
sec,
the
sort
of
second
question
here:
a
universal
application
and
any
indicator
until
we
have
that
around
families
who
are
applying
to
both
at
the
same
time,
if
that
makes
sense.
O
O
You
know,
through
child
fine,
we're
able
to
get.
Obviously
you,
as
you
know
this,
you
work
with
special
ed
we're
able
to
usually
get
students
who
have
disabilities.
We're
able
to
find
them
get
them
seats
right,
because
it's
our
obligation
to
serve
them
sooner
as
three-year-olds
and
four-year-olds,
but
the
city
made
a
commitment
to
four-year-olds
around
universal
pre-k
and
so
expanding
out.
That
program
is
what
needs
to
happen
bps.
O
Our
buildings
are
about
95
full
and
we're
not
able
to
do
it,
which
then
has
required
us
to
go
outside
of
our
school
buildings
and
partner
with
community-based
organizations
and
home-based
care
and
then
develop
the
quality
rating
systems.
I'm
encouraged
that
the
mayor
has
created
the
office
of
early
learning.
Kristen
mcswain
will
be
leading
this
office
to
be
able
to
then
coordinate
services
alongside
bps
and
find
new
incentives
to
get
people
to
offer
early
childhood
opportunities
for
our
three
and
four-year-olds,
because
we
just
don't
have
a
lot
of
spots
for
our
three-year-olds.
O
D
Madam
chair
superintendent,
thank
you
for
your
report.
First
of
all,
thank
you
for
the
deci
review
update
and
I
know
how
hard
the
effort
was
on
by
you
and
your
entire
team
to
gather
all
that
information
and
have
everyone
ready
to
go.
I
know
miss
lapierre
and
miss
palenco
garcia,
and
I
had
a
nice
conversation
with
the
desi
team
at
their
request-
and
I
know
chair
robinson
did
separately
as
well.
D
So
thank
you
for
the
work
of
the
whole
team,
in
particular
dr
eccleston,
but
I
did
want
to
address
a
different
matter,
and
that
was
the
chart
that
you
showed
about
assignments,
because
I
personally
found
it
a
little
bit
confusing
and
I'm
just
nervous
because
I
I
may
have
heard
it
wrong,
but
I
believe
your
verbal
description
was
different
from
the
chart
and
I'm
nervous
if
the
chart
is
on
our
website.
D
So
in
it
in
particular,
you
said
that
assignments
and
miss
snyder.
Maybe
you
can
help
me
on
this
or
someone
could
put
that
chart
back
up,
but
I
believe
you
said
assignments
to
some
of
the
grades
and
then
six
seven
and
nine
would
be
out
by
march
31st.
That's
what
the
chart
said
and
then
it
said
the
other
grades
would
be.
May
31st
get
in
the
superintendent's
verbal
description.
D
She
said
the
exam
schools
at
a
minimum
would
be
out
end
of
april,
beginning
of
may,
and
so
I
know,
since
exam
school
assignments
are
in
fact
grades.
Seven
and
nine.
I
think
that
chart
may
be
wrong,
so
either
it
needs
to
be
footnoted
or
annotated.
To
correctly
show,
because
I'm
nervous
about
people
going
to
the
website
and
and
having
improper
information
is.
Is
that
something
that
could
be
corrected.
R
Yeah,
thank
you,
mr
o'neill.
Absolutely
I
will
confirm
what's
on
our
website
and
update
it,
if
it's
not
the
correct
one,
because
we
do
have
a
correct
version
that
we
hand
out
upon
registration,
which
is
basically
a
document,
the
card
that
says
what's
next
and
in
it
it
has
a
similar
chart
which
is
footnoted
about
grade
seven,
the
exception
to
grade
seven
and
exam
schools.
So
we
will.
R
R
No
ninth
grade
actually
did
receive
theirs
because
it's
so
they
don't
have
their
exam
school
results
yet,
but
they
all
have
a
general
seat.
They
have
such
a
much
smaller
population
of
applicants
and
available
seats
that
were
able
to
include
them
in
the
algorithm
for
all
of
grade
nine
and
then
tell
them
afterwards
if
they
have
an
exam
school
seat
in
which
they
could
take
instead,
but
that's
we
can
only
do
it
for
ninth
grade.
So
it's
just
the
seventh
grade
anomaly.
D
Well,
it's
actually,
if
you're
not
telling
people
whether
they
got
into
an
exam
school
for
ninth
grade
until
the
end
of
april.
That
is
also
an
anonymous.
So
that
should
both
should
be
noted.
Please
and
as
other
high
school
assignments
are
impacted
by
the
exam
school
ones.
We
have
plenty
of
good
high
schools
in
the
city.
A
lot
of
people
want
to
go
to
fenway.
They
want
to
go
to
boston
arts
academy.
They
want
to
go
to
snowden.
D
I
can
keep
mentioning
others
at
the
risk
of
upsetting
schools,
who
I
don't
mention
so,
but
there
are
some
parents
who
are
waiting
on
the
exam
schools,
all
three
of
our
exam
schools
to
make
decisions
not
only
about
other
boston,
public
high
schools,
but
also
private
schools,
charter
schools,
parochial
schools,
etc,
and,
as
mr
cardet
hernandez
pointed
out
to
us
at
the
last
meeting,
some
schools
are
requiring,
at
least
on
on
the.
D
I
think,
your
your
son,
mr
carter
hernandez,
was
looking
for
what
k
zero,
I
believe,
or
something,
and
yet
the
daycare
is
looking
for.
A
deposit
and
same
thing
happens
for
private
and
parochial
and
other
schools
as
well.
So
I
will
reiterate
my
request
of
last
week
that
the
more
we
can
do
to
shave
a
day
or
two
every
day
helps
to
get
those
exam
schools
out.
I
appreciate
the
time
to
make
sure
that
it
is
done
right
and
proper
for
people
to
understand
it.
R
I'm
sorry
superintendent.
I
just
want
to
add
one
more
thing
that
the
special
schools
for
ninth
grade
those
invitations
were
also
sent
out
on
march
31st
so
to
the
fenways
and
baas
and
et
cetera
so
but
understood,
and
I
I
we
are
we're.
We
are
running
every
day,
trying
to
shave
off
a
day
or
two.
If
we
can,
I
know
that's
not
going
to
help
with
deposits,
but
we,
we
honestly,
are
doing
everything
we
can
around
the
clock
and
the
team
is
working
very,
very
hard.
U
D
O
That's
our
goal
too,
mr
o'neill,
it's
just
that
you
know
with
the
new
policy.
We
just
want
to
be
cross
our
t's
and
dot
our
eyes
this
time
fully.
M
X
Good
evening,
madam
chair
and
thank
you
superintendent
for
the
report
that
you
shared
with
us.
I
just
want
to
extend
a
little
more
about
what
mr
o'neill
was
mentioning.
X
X
X
Yeah,
the
parents
who
are
connected
tonight
with
us
have
a
lot
of
questions
and
a
lot
of
doubts.
They
don't
know
what's
going
on
and
I
think,
even
though
the
final
report
is
not
ready.
I
know
that
there's
a
preliminary
one
and
it
would
be.
I
would
like
to
know
any
information
that
we
can
to
let
them
know
as.
O
Thank
you,
miss
polanco,
garcia.
I
think
we
are
anticipating
getting
the
review
report
back
from
desi,
probably
the
first
week
in
may
hopefully,
second
week
of,
may
it
depends
on
how
quickly
they
can
pull
together
and
review
all
the
evidence
we
gave
them.
We
gave
them
quite
a
bit
and
then
we'll
make
factual
corrections
to
anything.
That's
not
accurate,
factually
and
then
the
report
will
become
public
at
the
end
of
probably
near
the
end
of
may.
O
O
We've
done
everything
we
can
to
ensure
that
they
had
everything
possible
and,
if
they're,
honest
brokers,
you
know
they
will
see
the
progress
that
the
district
has
made.
O
Certainly,
you
know
making
the
kind
of
significant
progress
in
boston,
public
schools
to
to
address
deep
inequities
and
systemic
barriers
to
student
achievement
takes
time,
and
we
will
continue
to
you
know,
move
forward
with
with
the
systemic
changes
and
the
foundation
that
we've
built
over
the
past
three
years
to
address
things
like
facilities
to
address
the
operational
challenges
that
we
have
with
transportation,
for
instance,
to
get
at
the
deep
nature
of
disproportionality
of
how
we
assign
students
to
special
education.
O
Those
things
are
going
to
take
an
immense
amount
of
training
and
restructuring
in
order
to
address,
and
so
I
anticipate
that
the
commissioner
will
identify
some
of
those
pieces
of
work
that
we
still
have
to
address,
as
well
as
some
of
the
systemic
issues
around
identifying
our
own
risk
and
auditing
our
own
systems,
so
that
we
can
better
hold
ourselves
accountable
to
things
like
graduation
rates.
You
know
that
came
up
and
making
sure
that
we
just
continue
to
do
our
due
diligence
around.
L
Thank
you
so
much
again,
I'm
going
to
ask
some
fast
questions.
One
I
just
want
to
confirm
at
what
capacity
are
our
current
early
age
programs,
our
pre-k
and
our
our
any
of
our
three's
programming
as
well,
like
you
had
mentioned
95?
Is
that
accurate
or
is
there
something?
Is
there
a
different
number?
We
should
be
looking
at.
O
That's
a
building
capacity,
so
expanding
early
child.
You
know
we
this
lack
the
space
in
our
buildings.
You
know,
given
our
summoner
issue
right
and
our
issue
at
the
mendo
and
blackstone
it's
like.
If
we
wanted
to
expand
more
programming,
you
have
to
have
the
early
childhood
space
and
early
childhood
spaces
require
a
different
kind
of
space
than
just
you
know.
You
would
have
at
a
high
school
traditional
cat
classroom
or
something
so
they
require
all
kinds
of
different.
You
know
lighting
and
bathrooms,
and
water
and
space
and
all
of
that
play
spaces,
etc.
O
L
A
different
question
to
15
years
here
you
know
there
was
a
story
that
some
of
us
saw
this
week
in
the
globe
around
the
sort
of
ripple
effect
of
high
school.
The
exam
delay
on
the
rest
of
our
high
school
admissions
process,
and
then
you
know
there
was
a
question
that
was
sort
of
alluded
to
in
the
piece
as
well
around.
L
What
I
think
is
amazing,
which
is
a
report
that
you
guys
are
calling
eligible
families
and
encouraging
them
to
apply
to
exam
schools,
offering
them
information
around
their
opportunities.
But
it's
suggested
that
we're
seeing
a
decrease
in
the
number
of
families
who
are
applying
to
exam
schools
as
well
as
our
high
schools.
Can
you
offer
us
some
insight
into
where
we,
where
we
are
in
terms
of
applicants
for
both.
O
I
I
think
that
what
we
are
seeing
is,
as
we
begin
to
look
at
increasing
our
high
schools
and
the
quality
of
our
high
schools.
I
believe
that
we
will
see
a
right
sizing
in
our
exam
schools.
It
won't
have
anything
to
do
with
the
policy.
It
will
just
because
there's
this
pool
of
high
schoolers
that
are
available.
O
If
you
really
improve
your
other
high
schools,
then
some
of
those
kids
are
going
to
choose
other
opportunities
for
their
students,
and
so
I
think,
as
the
years
go
on
and
as
we
continue
to
implement
high
school
reforms
and
there's
opportunity
for
vocational
education
at
madison
parks,
etc,
and
I
think
parents
will
choose
that-
and
students
will
choose.
That
does
not
mean
that
they
won't
choose
exam
schools.
It
will
just
be
that
that's
a
different,
that's
a
different
and
better
fit
for
for
their
child,
so
I
think
we're
seeing
some
of
that.
O
As
you
know,
brighton
high
school
has
seen
an
increase
in
their
registration
by
100
students,
and
so
I
mean
you're
gonna
start
seeing
kids
choosing
other
high
schools.
I
think
the
other
factor
is,
is
that
you
know
our
students
and
and
who
live
in
poverty
or
families
might
work
to
jobs
or
speak
languages
other
than
english,
and
this
can
be
sometimes
complex
and
confusing.
O
Just
still
don't
even
know
that
the
policy
has
shifted
for
them
or
maybe
don't
have
the
expectation
or
think
that
their
child
could
even
be
eligible.
So
you
know
this
is
a
whole
culture
shift
within
our
system
around
equity,
to
ensure
that
families
who
traditionally
have
not
been
included
to
let
them
know
yes.
Indeed,
your
child,
you
know,
is
eligible
and
you
could
apply
because
that's
this
has
they
haven't
seen
that
as
being
available
to
them
in
the
past.
L
I
think
to
your
point
too:
it
will
be
helpful
for
us
soon
to
look
at
some
of
that
demand
data
and
to
understand,
particularly
as
we're
implementing
some
reforms
to
think
about
like
where
are
families
voting
with
their
feet,
or
at
least
with
their
rank
and
looking
at
the
types
of
schools
that
families
are
showing
increased
interest
in
and
their
top
three
choices.
L
The
likelihood
of
getting
into
those
schools
and
then
ways
that
we
can
continue
to
expand
the
type
of
programmatic
offerings
that
each
of
those
schools
holds
into
some
of
the
the
programs.
That
might
seem
less
desirable.
At
this
point,.
O
We
will
be
bringing
forward
a
report
on
the
exam
schools
in
june.
I
had
promised
that
we
would
have
a
review
of
what
we
were
finding
if,
in
fact,
there
were
any
places
where
we
felt
that
we
needed
to
adjust
the
policy,
and
if
there
were
any
recommendations
that
I
would
make
to
the
policy
and
changing
the
policy.
You
know,
for
instance,
around
the
10
points.
There
was
a
lot
of
discussion,
a
lot
of
angst
around
the
10
points.
Did
it
or
did
it
not
impact?
O
You
know
how
we
were
able
to
get
invitations
out.
I'd
like
to
know
that
and
I'd
like
the
public
to
know
that
transparently,
and
so
we
will
be
talking
about
those
types
of
impacts
in
the
policy
and
what
we're
seeing
in
the
data
as
best
we
can
and
what
the
data
is
telling
us.
You
know
we'll
be
only
one
year
of
implementation,
so
it
may
be
limited
data
right,
but
we
will.
We
will
bring
that
forward
in
june.
Prior
to
my
leaving.
L
L
L
Yeah-
and
I
would-
and
I
know
I'm
out
of
time,
but
I
would
say
I
hope
we
can
do
the
same
with
the
the
pre-k
seats
as
well
and
looking
at
the
choices
given
the
40
percent
of
our
families
getting
within
their
top
three
choices.
It
would
be
interesting
to
look
at
sort
of
where
families
were
where.
L
O
R
Is
that
all
right,
I
want
to
add
one
more
thing
about
the
40.
The
40
is
exclusive
of
special
education
seats,
so
I
just
want
to
make
sure
we're
really
clear
that
is
out
of
like
400
or
less
available
0
seats,
roughly
half
go
to
students
with
ieps,
so
we're
talking
about
40
to
accessing.
Roughly
half
of
that
number.
It's
a
really
small
number.
R
C
Like
comment
around,
why
I
was
sort
of
asking
about
the
question
of
like
sort
of
algorithmic
bias
with
potential
within
the
lottery
system
for
for
school,
so
I
I
would
definitely
appreciate
sort
of
a
follow-up
conversation
and
just
thinking
about
how
it
might
even
I
forget
how
long
it's
been
since
we've
gone
to
this
particular
system,
but
looking
at
if
there
has
been
an
increase
in
segregation,
for
example
like
of
schools
along
these
lines
too,
and
particularly
with
the
use
of
the
racial
equity
planning
tool,
I
think,
would
be
you
know
a
great
use
of
it,
so
that
we
can.
O
When
I
first
came
here
in
my
community
tours
and
my
listening
tours,
they
were
not
satisfied
with
the
choices
that
they
had
and
the
way
that
kids
were
assigned
and
the
time
that
it
took,
and
so,
but
that's
a
level
of
work
that
I
just
wasn't
able
to
get
to
you
know,
and
I
I
will
leave
that
in
the
transition
as
a
work
to
look
look
forward
to.
A
Thank
you,
I'm
superintendent.
I
have
two
quick
questions
again.
Thank
you
so
much
for
the
report.
One
is
with
regard
to
safety
within
high
schools.
I've
had
several
conversations
in
the
last
couple
of
weeks
with
both
the
high
school
and
middle
well
middle
school
age,
students
leaving
the
building
during
the
day
without
permission
and
sometimes
getting
into
difficulty
within
the
community,
and
I
guess
my
question
is:
what
mechanisms
do
we
have
to
keep
students
in
buildings
irregular?
A
You
know
versus
allowing
them
to
go
out
during
the
school
day
and
not
being
clear
about
their
returning
and
did
not
know
what
kind
of
you
know
what
kind
of
security
was
allowed
on
the
inside
of
buildings
to
prevent
students
from
leaving
other
than
at
dismissal
or
other
scheduled
times.
O
Well,
I
haven't
heard
that
I
know
of
one
incidence
where
a
student
left
the
school
building
and
got
into
some
some
difficulty.
I
don't
I
don't
have
an
answer
for
you
on
that,
but
I
will
absolutely
look
into
it.
You
know
each
individual
school
building
and
our
high
schools
has
their
own
individual
security
plan
and
safety
plans
they're
all
very
different.
Some
use
the
the.
O
What
do
you
call
those
monitors
that
you
go
in
and
out
of
on
upon
coming
in
where
they
check
metal
detectors
and
wanding,
and
things
like
that?
Some
have
open
lunch.
V
I
can
elaborate
if
you'd
like
a
superintendent,
exactly
what
you
said.
Some
campuses
have
open
campuses
for
lunch,
particularly
the
high
schools
and
then
young
people.
Unfortunately,
if
they
want
to
leave
they
leave,
but
if
we
hear
about
them
leaving,
then
the
code
of
conduct
can
come
into
play
as
far
as
I'm
leaving
unauthorized,
but
in
some
instances
we've
had
circumstances
in
which
young
people
are
out
on
on
open
campus
for
lunch
and
then,
unfortunately,
things
happen.
A
Thank
you,
my
my
other
question
is
with
regard
to
summer
planning,
and
I
remember
last
summer,
our
goal
was
that
every
student
would
have
some
type
of
plan.
Is
that
does
that
continue
to
be
the
goal
for
the
summer
of
making
sure
that
students
actually
do
have
summer
plans.
O
I
would
love
for
that
to
be
a
goal
so
that
every
student
had
a
plan.
It
is.
I
know
that
recently,
mr
harris
sent
out
a
notice
to
all
of
his
school
leaders,
asking
them
to
work
with
their
staff,
their
family,
layouts
and
staff,
their
social
work
staff
to
make
sure
that
the
students
that
need
it,
the
most
at
least,
would
have
a
plan,
and
that
you
know
everybody
would
have
the
information
in
which
to
secure
their
engagement
for
the
summer.
V
May
I
comment
again:
superintendent
we've
also
had
a
meeting
the
city
meeting
hosted
by
dr
falk
from
the
city
of
boston,
a
safe.
What
is
it
a
safety
committee
and
when,
in
that
meeting,
a
number
of
different
agencies
from
throughout
the
city
came
together
to
introduce
their
summer
plans?
V
So
I'm
not
sure
if
that
that
report
is
public,
but
I
can
follow
up
on
that
and
get
that
information
to
you,
but
some
in
excess
of
at
least
10
to
almost
15
different
agencies
throughout
the
city
came
with
summer
plans
and
we
have
a
few
plans
of
our
own
that
we've
been
rolling
out.
That's
going
to
begin
as
soon
as
the
april
break.
O
Yeah,
I
think
ms
robinson
was
talking
about
individual
student
plans.
You
know
that
there
that
their
parents
had
made
choices
for
what
would
what
would
be
their
engagement,
whether
it's
a
camp
for
two
weeks
and
summer
summer
school
for
a
few
weeks
and
maybe
another
sailing
class,
or
something
like
that-
that
we
would
have
record
of
that
on.
You
know
in
panorama.
A
Great,
thank
you.
So
much
is
there
any
further
discussion.
A
Z
L
B
Q
Miss
robinson
and
apologize
if
I
apologize
in
advance
if
I
get
another
laughing
fit,
but
on
behalf
of
my
fellow
search
committee
co-chairs,
dr
pam
edinger
and
marcus
mcneil,
I'm
happy
to
share
an
update
on
the
superintendent's
search
process
and
bring
forward
two
major
recommendations
to
move
this
work
forward.
Q
As
we
shared
at
the
last
school
committee
meeting,
we
received
seven
responses
to
the
rfp
for
an
executive
search
firm,
an
rfp
evaluation
committee
reviewed
the
proposals
and
found
three
of
the
seven
to
be
highly
advantageous
of
the
three
firms
that
were
interviewed.
The
committee
determined
that
one
offers
the
most
advantageous
solution
that
meets
and
exceeds
the
boston
public
schools
objectives
that
firm
being
one-fourth
consulting
llc
jg.
Q
In
addition,
the
evaluation
committee
was
impressed
with
the
full
team
that
jg
would
assign
to
the
boston
search
the
range
of
their
background
and
experience
with
districts
of
our
size.
The
fact
that
the
team
was
fully
bilingual
and
had
a
strong
commitment
to
dei
initiatives
and
that
jg
is
a
certified
minority-owned
firm
as
one
of
as
was
one
of
the
other
finalist
firms
in
particular.
Q
The
committee
feels
that
mr
carranza
is
well
suited
to
understand
the
complexities
of
the
boston
position
and
uniquely
positioned
to
recruit
qualified
candidates
to
explore,
potentially
applying
one-fourth
consulting
llc
jg.
Consulting
total
pricing
proposal
was
75
000,
not
including
travel
for
superintendent
candidates,
etc.
So
those
types
of
expenses
which
was
comparable
with
the
other
two
finalists
and
while
price
was
considered
by
the
evaluation
committee,
it
was
after
they
had
reached
unanimous
agreement
that
jg
was
the
most
advantageous
based
on
their
proposal
and
presentation.
Q
I
want
to
thank
the
rfp
evaluation
team
for
their
thorough
work,
chief,
human
capital
officer,
al
taylor
and
search
committee,
mem
member
michael
o'neill,
as
well
as
jose
valenzuela
for
participating
in
this
and
a
special
thanks
to
her
business
manager,
naveen
reddy
for
providing
project,
support
and
guidance
to
ensure
that
the
rfp
review
process
was
completed
efficiently
and
in
compliance
with
all
legal
requirements.
Q
I
note
that
the
following
vote
of
the
school
committee:
if
boston
public
schools
is
authorized
by
the
school
committee
to
enter
into
the
contract
with
jg,
then
all
proposals,
evaluations,
etc,
will
be
publicly
available,
as
required
by
the
rfp
procedure.
Q
The
full
search
committee
was
briefed
on
this
decision
at
our
meeting
yesterday
and
tonight.
I
am
pleased
to
bring
forward
the
rfp
evaluation
committee's
recommendation
for
the
school
committee's
consideration
and
a
vote
later
this
evening.
I've
shared
a
lot,
so
I'm
just
going
to
pause
here
for
any
questions,
as
it
relates
to
the
search
firm.
L
Bert,
thank
you
for
your
leadership
here
and
we.
I
know
we
all
appreciate
it,
and
I
know
how
fast
the
search
committee
is
moving.
So
thank
you
question
about
this
firm
particularly.
Have
they
done
any
searches
in
new
england
or
in
the
region
similar
to
this
and
have
they
done
also
any
other
superintendency
searches
that
you
would
like
to
speak
of.
Q
I'm
going
to,
I
was
not
necessarily
a
part
of
the
rfp
group,
so
I'm
going
to
lean
on
mr
o'neill
to
see
if
there's
anything
he'd
like
to
share
as
it
relates
to
that.
D
Yes,
thank
you,
miss
lopero
and
specific
answer
to
your
question,
mr
carder
hernandez.
They
have
done
two
searches
for
boston,
public
schools.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
they
were
a
semi-finalist
for
our
last
superintendent
search
and
at
the
time
the
chair
at
the
time,
introduced
them
to
bps
for
bps
to
consider
using
them
in
the
future.
D
So
they
did
two
searches
for
bps
that
al
tiller,
who
was
a
member
of
the
selection
committee,
had
been
involved
in.
They
have
also
done
a
number
of
superintendent
searches
and
the
reference
checks
included
with
the
chair
of
the
board
of
austin
school
district,
which
is
a
very,
very
similar
district
to
boston.
In
fact,
the
austin
boston
connection
is
very
strong
and
they
also
just
completed
the
search.
I
believe
it
was
for
east
baton
rouge
and
the
reference
check
was
with
them
as
well,
so
they
have
done
a
number
of
superintendent
searches.
D
D
I
just
want
to
make
sure
to
mention
to
the
rest
of
the
committee
and
to
the
public
that,
as
a
long-time
member
of
the
school
committee
and
past
chair
of
the
council
of
great
city
schools,
I've
been
involved
in
three
searches:
superintendent,
searches
now
for
boston
and
a
search
for
the
chair
of
the
executive
director
of
the
council,
great
city,
schools
and
I've
actually
informally
advised
a
number
of
other
districts
as
well.
Who
have
asked
for
advice.
So
in
the
course
of
that
work,
I've
actually
had
experience
with
their
interactions.
D
With
most
of
the
firms
that
replied
to
the
rfp,
including
the
three
that
were
chosen
as
semi-finalists
to
make
presentations
to
the
selection
committee.
All
three
were
chosen
unanimously.
By
the
way,
one
previously
did
a
search
for
a
boston
superintendent.
The
other
two
were
semi-finalists
and
searches
that
I've
been
involved
in
in
the
past,
so
I
had
had
interactions
with
all
three
of
them
over
the
years.
I
also
do
know
publicly
note
publicly
for
the
record
that
I
said
I
was
a
pastor
of
the
council
of
great
city
schools.
D
Miss
lopera
mentioned
that
one
of
the
jg
which
we're
recommending
tonight
brought
in
mr
richard
carenza
to
be
a
search
officer
on
this,
and
mr
cardenza
was
a
previous
chair
of
the
council
of
great
city
schools
as
well.
I
overlapped
with
him
on
the
executive
committee,
have
a
professional
friendship
with
him.
I
know
he
also
worked
with
mr
cadet
hernandez
in
new
york
previously,
so
I
was
not
aware
that
he
was
part
of
the
team
as
soon
as
I
did.
D
I
made
that
aware
to
the
full
rfp
selection
committee
and
was
advised
just
to
make
sure
to
reference
this
to
everyone
in
each
step
along
the
way,
because
it
did
not
impact
my
judgment,
the
decisions
we
made.
I
actually
thought
quite
highly
of
all
three
of
the
firms
that
were
semi-finalists
and
the
decisions
we
reached
to
make.
D
This
recommendation
was
unanimous
among
the
three
of
us
who,
on
the
selection
committee,
which
again
was
jose
val
valenzuela
and
al
taylor,
and
we
assisted
every
step
of
the
way,
in
particular
thanks
to
mr
naveen
reddy,
the
business
manager
for
bps,
who
kept
us
very
much
on
the
straight
now
of
the
rfp
process.
So
I
just
wanted
to
make
that
aware
to
folks
and-
and
that
is
it.
L
L
This
is
the
first
time
I'm
hearing,
obviously
that
he
would
be
involved
in
the
search
and
I'm
like
mr
o'neil.
I
just
want
to
name
that
this
is
new
news
for
me
here.
Despite
my
long
relationship
with
him.
D
Yeah
and
mr
mr
carden,
so
there's
been
no
communications,
you
know
with
anyone.
D
This
was
you
know
as
as
you
well
know,
he
is
about
as
ethical
as
as
they
come,
and
it
was
a
discussion
at
the
search
firm
at
the
at
the
review
committee
level,
as
miss
lopero
suggested
that,
based
upon
his
experience
and
some
of
the
issues
he
has
tackled
in
the
past,
he
actually
would
have
a
strong
understanding,
as
he
demonstrated
in
the
presentation
to
the
group
about
the
challenges
faced
by
boston
and
how
that
would
impact
recruiting
candidates
to
consider
applying.
So
at
the
recommendation,
it
was
just
strictly
told.
D
AB
P
AC
Q
The
other
recommendation
we're
bringing
forward
for
a
vote
this
evening
is
the
superintendent's
job
description.
The
search
committee
has
worked
diligently
over
the
past
few
weeks
to
update
the
job
description
from
the
2018
search
process
in
a
way
that
reflects
the
district's
current
opportunities
and
challenges
and
incorporates
incorporates
the
feedback
we've
heard
from
the
community.
Q
The
listing
includes
a
preferred
experience,
such
as
experience
serving
as
a
district
leader
for
a
comparable
district
experience
partnering
with
the
community
during
the
coven
19
pandemic,
and
one
that
we've
heard
quite
consistently
familiarity
with
the
boston
area
and
boston
community,
as
well
as
multilingualism
with
a
preference
for
fluency
in
one
or
more
of
the
nine
major
languages
of
the
district.
Q
Following
a
great
deal
of
thoughtful
discussion,
the
search
committee
unanimously
approved
the
job
description
at
last
night's
meeting,
with
the
understanding
that
the
school
committee
and
or
the
search
firm
may
choose
to
make
surface
edits
to
polish.
The
document
before
it
is
posted
and
circulated
widely
can
pause
here
for
any
questions,
as
it
relates
to
the
job
description.
A
Miss
lapera,
I
have
just
a
question
for
clarification.
A
So
tonight
are
we
voting
on
the
job
description
as
ready
to
move
out,
or
is
this
sort
of
a
draft
that
the
search
firm
will
sort
of
polish
and
then
it
will
be
submitted?
Will
it
come
back
to
us
again
before
being
submitted
for
for
potential
candidates,
or
is
this
the
only
opportunity
the
school
committee
will
be
looking
at
the
job
description.
Q
So
this
would
be.
We
would
be
voting
on
the
the
job
description,
its
content
and
its
spirit
as
it's
drafted,
with
the
understanding
that
the
school
committee
would
be
able
to
make
surface
edits
on
any
pieces
that
perhaps
are
redundant
or
but
it
would
not
be
substantial,
edits
moving
forward.
And
that
would
be
the
same
mandate
that
we
would
give
to
the
search
the
search
firm,
that
it
would
only
be
polishing
for
exterior
exposure.
D
Thank
you,
madam
chair,
and
I
just
want
to
thank
ms
lopera
for
her
work
on
this
and
mention
in
particular.
The
search
committee
worked
really
hard
to
listen
over
the
public
listening
sessions
that
were
done.
We
received
a
lot
of
input.
We
particularly
also
received
a
lot
of
written
input
on
people's
suggestions
for
the
job
description.
The
public
has
focused
on
this
quite
a
bit
and
in
particular
one
umbrella
organization
that
was
representing
15
different
groups
that
are
interested
in
education
put
together
really
really
thoughtful
potential
job
description.
D
I
think
they
had
five
key
bullet
points
and
I
know
miss
lopera
and
dr
ettinger
and
mr
o'neal
and
mr
mcneil.
The
three
coaches
worked
hard
to
really
incorporate
that
feedback
and
feedback
from
other
interested
parties
that
sent
it
to
really
make
sure
it
was
worked
into
this
job
description.
So
I
just
want
to
thank
the
people
that
both
attended
the
public
listening
sessions,
including
the
one
co-hosted
by
bsac.
D
So
thank
you,
ms
mercer,
for
that,
because
the
student
comments
were
really
listened
to
and
incorporate,
I
believe,
were
incorporated
substantially
into
this
job
description
and
and
also
miss
polanco,
garcia.
Obviously,
the
one
that
you
helped
co-host
as
well,
so
I
just
I
just
had
to
call
out
the
written
comments
we
received
because
they
were
extraordinarily
thoughtful.
C
No
thank
you.
Thank
you
again,
miss
lopera
for
like
for
the
work
and
and
and
mr
o'neill
the
same
to
you
and
everyone
else
like
on
the
committee.
Could
you
just
give
me
a
somewhat
of
a
summary
again?
What
is
exactly
different
in
in
this
description?
I
mean
all.
The
points
are
very
like
valid
and
sort
of
well
developed,
making
me
sort
of
wonder
what
was
in
it
before
that.
That
was.
C
That's
just
me
being
real
but
like
what
like,
so
I
guess
more
attention
to
these
things.
C
Q
Appreciate
the
question,
and
there
there
were
some,
I
would
say,
significant
additions,
but
we
we
started
off
with
a
really
good
starting
point
with
the
2018
job
description,
the
pieces
that
we
made
front
and
center
this
go
round,
where
an
emphasis
around
equity,
an
emphasis
around
really
bringing
the
the
district
continuing
to
move
the
district
towards
being
becoming
an
anti-racist
district,
an
emphasis
in
supports
or
experience
with
serving
multilingual
learners.
Q
Students
with
special
needs,
multilingual
learners
with
special
needs
and
moving
the
district
from
from
our
current
sheltered
language
to
really
more
native
language
instruction
and
bilingualism.
Q
So
there
were,
there
were
some.
I
think,
real
changes
in
terms
of
the
spirit
of
the
job
description
and,
if
you
haven't
seen
the
2018,
we're
happy
to
send
you
over
what
that
looked
like.
So
you
can
see
like
the
the
real
comparisons,
but
in
terms
of
of
the
spirit
of
the
work,
oh-
and
I
should
also
mention
like
the
impacts
of
cobin
right,
so
how
we're
seeing
those
impacts
of
covet
and
what
we
think
needs
to
be
prioritized
moving
forward.
Q
Somebody
on
the
search
the
search
committee
mentioned
yesterday
that
it
can't
solely
be
focused
on
academic
recovery,
although
that
is
an
incredibly
important
piece,
but
like
the
healing
that
students
and
community
really
need
to
go
through
and
so
cobia
recovery
recovery,
as
it
relates
to
mental
health,
academic
recovery.
And
there
was
another
point
that
I'm
that's
slipping
my
mind
at
the
moment,
but
happy
to
send
you
where
we
started
and
you
obviously
have
a
very
branded.
D
Thanks
apparently,
I
also
just
mentioned
one
other
thing
that
I
think
was
a
change
from
before.
That
was
a
direct
result
of
what
we
heard
in
the
listening
sessions,
and
so
dr
elkins
in
the
past
one.
We
said
five
years
experience
as
a
sitting
superintendent.
D
D
This
was
something
that
came
across
loud
and
clear
and
it'd
be
great
if
there
was
superintendent,
and
so
we
found
a
way
to
phrase
it
where
we
talked
about
experience
leading
a
large
district,
we
didn't
put
a
year
limit
on
it,
but
we
talked
about
that
at
the
at
the
core,
they're
an
educator,
and
that
was
specifically
something
we
heard
over
and
over
again
in
the
listening
sessions,
including
in
particular
the
student
session.
We
heard
that
quite
often
and
then
the
I
think
we
highlighted
a
bit
more.
L
It's
the
theme
of
the
evening.
I
am
naming
this
because
it's
like
the
elephant,
possibly
in
the
room,
but
this
is
like
an
incredibly
big
job,
with
a
pretty
complex
set
of
skills
that
a
person
would
require
in
order
to
meet
all
of
this
a
unicorn
one
could
say
so,
I'm
just
sort
of
saying
it,
because
it's
worth
naming
on
first
blush.
L
It
reads
us
two
jobs,
two
different
people
possibly,
but
I
would
like
I'd,
be
remiss
if
I
just
didn't
sort
of
say
that
up
front,
particularly
as
we
are
going
through
this
process
again
trying
to
find
the
right
person
to
lead
our
system
at
this
particular
moment,
but
recognizing
that
we
also
want
to
to
create
the
job
in
a
way
that
it
is
that
it
is
realistic
and
something
that
someone
can
also
experience
success
in,
and
so
this
is
less
of
a
question
and
just
more
of
of
a
comment
that
we
want
to
bring
someone
in
who
we
also
want
to
see
win,
and
we
have
to
create
the
conditions
for
that
to
happen,
but
also
a
description
of
a
job
that
would
allow
them
to
also
achieve
success.
Q
Q
But
the
reality
is,
there's
a
lot
of
there's
a
lot
of
good
work.
That's
happening
and
there's
a
lot
of
work
to
be
done,
and
I
think
the
spirit
of
this
job
description
is
about
a
leader
who
can
move
continue
to
move
the
district
forward
and
knowing
that
the
the
the
way
there
are
specific
qualities
that
we're
looking
for.
Q
There
are
specific
skills
that
we're
looking
for,
but
those
skills
also
engage
a
team,
and
so
I
think
it's
really
important
for
this
person
as
they're
looking
at
boston,
to
understand
where
we
are
where
we
want
to
be,
and
then
where
they
have
direct
skills
and
experience
to
move
these
pieces
forward
and
where
they
will
know
that
they
will
need
to
hire
or
they
will
need
to
have
specific
team
members
to
help
complement
that
as
the
full
scope
of
work.
Q
And
so
I
appreciate
you
naming
that
because
it's
there
is
a
lot
and
there
is
a
lot
of
work
and
we've
talked
about
how
the
superintendent
role
has
been
an
incredible
challenge.
But
I
I
think
that
it's
also
important
for
us
to
be
transparent
with
candidates.
That's
like
this
is
where
we
are
and
where
we
want
to
be.
We
want
you
to
help.
We
want
you
to
be
one
part
of
getting
us
to
where
we
want
to
be.
A
AE
AF
V
U
C
Like
in
the
in
the
globe
resonated
with
me
too,
I
got
mixed
feelings
about
that
comment,
but
I'm
not
going
to
go
there,
but,
but
certainly,
I
think
this
also
speaks
to
us
too,
because
when
I
read
the
job
description
I
didn't
think
of
it
as
just
for
the
superintendent.
I
thought
like
this
is
our
job
description.
C
P
Q
Move
over
to
my
next
portion
of
engagement,
perfect.
So,
as
you
know,
the
search
committee
has
held
four
remote
community
listening
sessions,
two
general
sessions,
a
spanish
speaking
session
and
a
student
focused
session
in
total,
we've
had
more
than
300
registrants
and
more
than
770
attendees
across
the
four
sessions.
Q
Bostonpublicschools.Org
s-u-p-t
hyphen
search
and
video
testimony
as
well
as
text
submissions
are
being
accepted
via
the
search
website
and
as
of
noon.
Today
we
have
received
about
470
survey
responses
and
the
survey
will
remain
open
until
april
15th
and
we
will
look
forward
to
seeing
the
number
of
the
survey
responses
grow
and
continuing
to
hear
from
a
diverse
group
of
stakeholders.
Q
As
member
o'neal
mentioned,
we
have
also
been
receiving
input
and
feedback
from
the
community
with
the
in
our
in
the
dedicated
search
email
at
superintendent
search
at
bostonpublicschools.org,
and
so,
as
you
can
see,
we
have
many
ways
for
people
to
engage
and
we
continue
to
explore
more
ways
to
hear
from
our
community.
Q
We
will
be
continuing
to
collect
and
synthesize
all
of
this
feedback,
we're
going
to
continue
to
look
for
themes
and
share
it
with
the
community,
and
this
input
will
inform
the
interview,
questions
and,
ultimately,
the
candidates
that
are
considered
I'd
like
to
also
just
close,
by
being
very
clear
that
our
engagement
work
doesn't
end
with
the
creation
of
the
job
description.
I
know
that
there's
been
a
lot
of
quick
work
to
get
that
job
description
done,
but
the
feedback
that
we
receive
continues
to
inform
the
interview
questions
for
the
candidates.
Q
So
this
is
an
ongoing
process,
so
we
welcome
continuous
feedback
and
input
from
the
community
and
just
want
to
say
a
last
point
of
a
thank
you
to
my
fellow
search
committee
members
for
their
time
and
commitment
to
this
important
process.
I
am
now
done,
and
so
I
will
turn
it
over
to
you.
Madam
chair.
Thank.
A
You
and
again
thank
you
and
to
you
and
the
whole
committee
for
your
amazing
work.
The
committee
looks
forward
to
taking
action
on
these
recommendations
later
this
evening.
I'll
now
ask
staff
to
invite
our
superintendent
to
rejoin
the
meeting.
We'll
now
move
on
to
general
public
comment,
ms
sullivan.
B
B
B
B
B
B
AA
Good
evening,
members
of
the
school
committee
and
superintendent,
my
name
is
jessica
tang
and
I'm
a
middle
school
teacher
proudly
serving
as
the
president
of
the
boston
teachers
union,
I'm
here
this
evening
on
behalf
of
our
8
500
and
service
educators
and
in
partnership
with
our
families,
students
and
community
allies,
as
well
as
3000
retired
educators,
many
of
whom
are
serving
also
as
critical
substitute
teachers
during
the
staffing
shortage
prices,
we're
here
with
one
united
message
after
two
extremely
difficult
years
and
now
entering
our
eighth
month
without
a
contract,
our
students,
families
and
educators
deserve
the
proposals
we've
set
forth
in
our
contract
package.
AA
We
are
delivering
a
petition
signed
by
thousands
of
btu
educators
from
across
the
district.
Over
5500
signatures
were
added
in
just
a
couple
of
weeks.
We
are
united
here
this
evening
to
share
proposals
and
ask
for
weekly
bargaining
sessions,
because
now,
perhaps
more
than
ever,
a
contract
is
needed
to
address
a
wide
range
of
issues
in
our
district,
including
special
education,
multilingual
learners
facilities
and
common
good
proposals,
including
housing
for
families
facing
unaffordable
and
unstable
housing.
Many
of
these
issues
have
been
exacerbated
by
the
pandemic.
AA
We
know
that
the
central
office
is
going
through
transition,
staffing
storages
and
it
has
been
challenged
there
in
addition
to
how
challenging
it
has
been
in
our
schools
all
the
more
reason
we
need
a
contract
in
order
to
retain
the
staff
we
do
have.
The
district
needs
to
show
our
educators
and
families.
How
much
we
appreciate,
respect
and
care
for
them.
This
contract
will
facilitate
stability
and
progress
that
can
attract
talent
as
well.
AA
Our
joint
interest
with
the
school
committee
is
to
provide
the
best
possible
educational
opportunities
for
every
student
and
the
proposals
we
presented
were
created
and
informed
by
our
families
and
students.
In
addition
to
btu
educators,
many
have
already
been
put
into
place,
codifying
games
that
this
committee
and
superintendent
have
initiated
and
approved
for
next
year's
budget
in
our
contract
will
move
this
district
forward
and
sustain
the
quality
guarantee
into
the
future.
AA
Lastly,
we
also
hope
that
school
committee
will
join
us
in
the
city
council
and
taking
a
resolution
vote
against
state
receivership
and
additionally
disempowerment
zones.
We
are
in
agreement.
There
is
work
to
be
done.
Our
stakeholders
are
here
with
us
to
share
what
interventions
we
do
need
not
top
down
ones,
but
ones
that
are
ground
up,
and
our
contract
is
one
of
the
greatest
tools.
AA
P
Apologies
miss
madam
chair
and
ms.
Q
Sullivan
just
taking
a
moment
to
remind
folks
to
p,
please
speak
slowly
as
our
interpreters
are
having
a
hard
time
following
the
speed.
So
if
we
can
just
be
mindful
of
our
interpreters,
that
would
be
really
helpful.
Thank
you.
AH
Hi,
thank
you,
chair
robinson,
for
this
opportunity
to
testify
about
my
experience
at
mission
hill
school.
My
name
is
nathaniel
iliff,
I'm
a
seventh
grader
at
boston,
latin
academy
and
I
attended
mission
hill
school
from
second
grade
through
sixth
grade.
I
would
also
like
to
testify,
on
behalf
of
my
little
sister
zoe,
who
is
in
k1
at
mission
hill
school.
I
know
that
everyone's
experience
at
school
is
different
and
I
can
only
tell
you
about
my
experience
and
maybe
a
little
about
my
sister's
experience.
AH
I
think
my
experience
matters
because
I
was
taught
for
four
years
by
the
two
teachers
who
the
district
suspended
at
the
beginning
of
the
school
year.
I
learned
so
much
from
those
teachers.
I
learned
how
to
be
a
better
writer.
I
learned
how
to
work
together
with
my
classmates
and
how
to
be
helpful
and
how
to
be
helpful
to
them.
Most
of
all,
I
learned
how
to
be
a
member
of
classroom
with
people
and
of
different
ages
from
different
backgrounds,
with
different
likes
and
dislikes.
AH
I
really
love
and
appreciate
all
the
teachers
I
had
at
mission
hill.
They
were
all
unique
in
their
own
ways.
My
fifth
and
sixth
grade
teacher
played
music
in
the
morning
as
a
welcome
as
you
come
in
each
year.
We
voted
on
the
name
of
our
classroom
when
I
was
in
fifth
grade.
We
couldn't
agree
on
a
name
for
nearly
two
months,
but
in
the
end
we
figured
out
how
to
find
a
name
that
we
could
all
be
happy
with.
AH
AH
T
I'm
here
urging
the
school
committee
have
a
contract
negotiation
meeting
with
the
boston
teachers
union
to
ensure
boston,
public
schools,
students,
teachers
and
staff.
Members
are
studying
and
working
in
an
environment
that
directly
benefits
them.
The
priorities
outside
vtu's
contract
aim
to
create
an
environment
where
students
and
staff
can
prosper.
T
All
of
these
priorities
are
fundamental
to
creating
and
maintaining
an
equitable
district
that
provides
students
with
the
education
they
deserve.
Their
proposals
relating
to
housing,
justice
are
especially
important
to
me.
Having
a
stable,
comfortable
living
environment
is
essential
to
a
student's
ability
to
thrive
students
and
their
families
need
and
deserve
state-of-the-art,
affordable
housing.
How
can
a
student
even
contemplate
worrying
about
their
coursework
when
they're
worried?
T
T
Eventually,
we
were
able
to
find
affordable
housing
if
the
proposals
outlined
in
the
contract
are
implemented,
for
example,
bringing
together
private
and
public
sectors
to
help
house
four
thousand
homeland
students
advocating
that
bps
families
can't
be
evicted
during
the
school
year
in
increasing
affordable
housing
near
bps
schools,
then
multitudes
of
bps
students
and
families
will
be
able
to
live
a
comfortable
life
without
the
insecurity
without
the
threat
of
housing
and
security
looming
over
japan.
These
measures
will
bring
us
closer
and
closer
to
ensuring
that
our
district
is
safe
and
equitable
to
all.
T
Students
deserve
equity.
The
contract
also
prioritizing
improving
the
number
of
social
emotional
supports
present
in
schools
aiding
and
addressing
the
mental
health
prices
currently
present
in
our
district,
as
well
as
providing
students
with
state-of-the-art
facilities
which
make
all
the
difference
in
improving
a
student's
experience
at
school.
Their
priorities
will
be
instrumental
in
addressing
the
needs
of
everyone
across
the
district,
and
bps
must
hear
them
now.
T
B
AJ
Hello,
my
name
is
violet
caney.
I
live
in
jamaica
plain.
I
am
in
the
fifth
grade
at
the
mission
hill
school,
I
have
attended
mission
hill
since
I
was
in
k1.
I
am
worried
about
my
school's
future.
I've
heard
that
boston
public
schools
thinks
our
school
is
not
a
safe
place
for
students.
That
is
not
my
experience.
AJ
AJ
AJ
AJ
When
I
was
in
fourth
grade,
our
classroom
community
decided
that,
instead
of
learning
about
poems
from
white
male
authors,
we
would
explore
different
voices.
Female
poets
and
poets
of
color
mission.
Health
school
is
special
because
we
work
hard
to
build
our
community
during
friday.
Share.
We
make
time
to
learn
about
what
is
happening
in
other
classrooms,
sing,
songs,
like
step
by
step
and
lift
every
voice
insane
and
reflect
on
the
acts
of
kindness
that
is
happening
every
day
in
our
school.
AJ
I'm
glad
I'm.
I
am
at
mission
hill,
but
this
year
has
been
hard
community
members
are
missing
and
there's
a
lot
of
uncertainty.
I
want
us
to
move
forward,
but
the
uncertainty
has
made
me
afraid
of
what
will
come
next.
I
miss
the
school
we
had
before
this
year.
If
we
are
given
the
chance
to
heal
our
community,
we'll
come
back
stronger
and
better
than
ever.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
AK
Okay,
good
afternoon
community
members,
my
name
is
carina
gonzalez
and
I'm
a
freshman
attending
boston
line
academy.
I
implore
you
to
listen
to
our
campaign
for
restorative
justice
to
be
practiced
in
bps
display
actions.
Society
latina
has
been
fighting
to
make
the
student's
mental
health
a
priority.
Cops
and
schools
contribute
a
lot
of
distress
within
the
child
leading
to
poor
conduct.
We
ask
you
to
have
a
change
of
heart
and
allow
there
to
be
more
counselors
in
school
that
take
restorative
justice
practices,
seriously
revise
disciplinary
actions
and
minimize
cops
in
schools.
AK
This
will
help
support
bps
and
your
claim
as
an
anti-racist
district.
According
to
the
aclu
51
of
students
of
public
schools,
identify
white
and
16
of
students
of
public
schools
identify
as
black.
Yet
42
of
the
suspicions
are
black
students
and
31
are
white
students.
It
is
known
unless
to
suspend
or
expel
for
discretionary
violation
are
nearly
three
times
more
likely
to
be
encountered
with
the
juvenile
justice
system
the
following
year
as
a
latina
young
lady
who
lives
in
the
projects.
AK
I
understand
that
these
aesthetics
are
higher
for
black
students
due
to
the
racism
and
the
unconscious
bias.
In
the
educational
beat
when
students
are
acting
up,
it
is
because
they're
going
through
hardships
and
they
should
have
a
safe
place
at
school
to
talk
by
coming
together
in
restorative
justice.
This
can
be
done
by
revising
the
code
of
conduct
and
having
several
physical
and
emotional
courses
such
as
mental
health
practices
and
self-defense
classes.
My
prayers
and
I've
gone
through
experiences
where
guidance
was
needed
physically
and
emotionally.
AK
We
depend
on
school
resources
and
administrator
to
provide
that
yet
to
the
insufficient
counselors
and
support
the
school
system
has
failed
us
to
better
the
lives
of
bp
students.
We
demand
that
in
each
school
there
should
be
one
concern
for
what
150
students
and
that
there
should
be
a
working
group
to
review
the
school
resource
officer
roles.
Their
government
benefits
in
the
exploitation
of
black
and
vulnerabilities
in
persons
and
jails
which
starts
through
the
school
to
prison
pipeline.
AK
The
exploitations
and
labor
by
our
bodies
are
not
to
contribute
to
higher
systems
of
capitalism
and
white
supremacy.
Their
students
could
have
made
a
difference
in
the
world,
but
that
was
taken
from
them
by
being
human
and
making
mistakes.
What
are
you
going
to
do
about
that?
This
can
all
be
stopped
by
making
all
these
sims
come
true
in
the
2023
budget
in
bps.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
AK
Z
Plus
you
put
your
practices
good
afternoon:
superintendent,
casillas
and
members
of
bps
board.
My
name
is
brittany,
kenyans
and
I'm
a
resident
of
east
boston.
I
attend
to
fenway
high
school
and
I'm
a
young
community
organizer
at
social
latina.
I'm
asking
you
to
please
listen
to
students,
parents
and
gender
community
members
who
are
advocating
for
fully
funding
and
ethnicity
studies
models
in
boston,
public
schools.
In
my
home
country,
guatemala,
there
are
ethnic
studies,
courses
that
we
can
take
and
learn
from
it.
But
when
I
came
to
united
states
there
was
none.
Z
I
have
lost
the
connections
to
my
ethnicity
and
the
significant
role
that
latinx
community
plays
in
the
society.
This
was
also
shocked
to
me
because
bps
is
made
up
in
a
large
part
by
latinos
latin
students
make
up
43
percent
of
old
young
in
bps,
but
latin
teachers
only
make
up
10.7
percent
of
the
teachers
in
the
district.
This
means
latinx.
Students
are
not
able
to
express
their
culture
and
ethnicity
in
the
classrooms.
Z
Z
Furthermore,
there
should
be
an
opportunity
of
bps
teachers
to
receive
a
license
in
acne
studies,
and
we
should
provide
at
least
one
part
teacher
at
each
school
who
provides
acne
studies
courses
incorporating
their
demands
will
allow
latinx
students
and
other
students
of
color
to
connect
more
with
their
own
histories
and
contributions
known
that
I'm
a
student
at
fenway
high
school,
I
have
been.
I
have
the
opportunity
to
explore
some
of
these
topics
again
in
a
spanish
class.
Z
Unfortunately,
not
everyone
is
as
lucky
as
I
have
been,
which
is
why
we
also
demand
that
there
should
be
a
biarry
of
acne
studies
courses
offered,
as
well
as
in
two
intro,
to
the
ethnic
studies
courses,
which
will
teach
an
intro
to
critical
race
theory.
Other
courses
show
include
migration,
black
latino,
indigenous
and
asian
studies.
Z
AL
B
AM
AM
From
our
research
we
found
that
school
leaders
expectations
what
about
constitutes
the
school
counselor
role
are
often
out
of
sync,
with
with
counselors
expectations,
typically
reflect
confusion
about
what
counselors
can
should
do.
For
example,
blake's
2020
study
of
high
school
counselors
found
that
school
leaders
direct
counselors
to
devote
time
to
administrative
tasks
such
as
scheduling
and
test
coordination
that
fall
outside
the
counselor's
role,
as
defined
by
this
by
the
american
school
counselors
association's
2019
national
model.
AM
Therefore,
bps
needs
to
allocate
more
resources
to
counselors,
effectively
assign
time
for
all
the
students
needs
in
their
own
personal
tasks.
Bps
needs
to
needs
to
hire
more
guidance,
counselors
and
equitability
assign
one
counselor
to
every
200
students
at
every
school.
In
bps.
AM
We
need
to
improve
the
citywide
average,
which
leaves
behind
our
underfunded
school
guidance
counselors.
Additionally,
I
want
to
share
my
personal
story
in
receiving
direct
support
from
a
counselor
half
in
me,
high
school,
in
the
positive
influence
this
had
on
me
my
freshman
year.
I
had
a
support,
supportive
counselor
that
helped
me
through
rough
times.
AM
I
was
able
to
express
my
feelings
and
resolve
issues
at
school
and
to
get
to
know
my
counselor.
I
am
an
an
example
that
that
it
is
important
to
appropriate,
appropriate
counseling
at
bps,
so
she
dot
is
asking
for
more
following
resources
to
p
to
be
provided
for
our
young
people.
All
bps
should
have
several
courses
available
for
physical
and
emotional
support.
AM
Could
please
wrap
up
our
school
partners
to
create
safe
community
spaces
for
the
healing
and
full
well-being
for
our
students
and,
lastly,
bps
needs
to
form
a
working
group
that
reviews
current
school
resource
officer
roles
in
an
effort
to
ensure
a
transparent
and
fair
process
for
hiring.
This
working
group
should
focus
on
updating
the
sro's
role
to
include
our
sort
of
justice
practices
in
creating
spaces
for
healing
with
our
minority
students
in
bps.
We
are
distrusting
of
the
police
department's
role
in
our
school
system.
K
B
E
E
E
Has
been
putting
a
lot
of
pressure
to
be
able
to
allocate
funds
in
having
teachers
that
are
able
to
allocate
this
type
of
ethnic
studies
and
better
funding
for
them
for
this
matter
for
their
purposes.
E
E
E
E
So
I
had
to
have
to
go
through
and
ashamed,
but
they
put
me
in
shame
basically,
and
I
was
endurance
because
I
have
a
mixed
race
and
they're
latino
as
well.
I
have
some
african
descendants
as
well,
and
that
has
been
they
put
me
into
a
kind
of
a
shame
because
of
this.
AB
E
AB
E
E
Every
course
that
is
given
regarding
immigration,
they
have
to
include
all
different
races:
the
black
race,
the
enthusiasts
the
hispanic
race.
All
different
cultures
have
to
be
included
in
this
type
of
studies.
N
AB
AB
E
B
AN
Mike
heisman
dorchester
basia,
commissioner
jeffrey
riley
and
destiny,
provide
the
bps
with
problems
and
obstacles
that
make
it
impossible
for
us
to
provide
a
high
quality
education
for
our
children.
We
are
a
high
needs.
District
and
desi
provides
us
with
insufficient
funds
since
1993,
the
commonwealth
has
cursed
boston
with
mks
the
massachusetts
child
abuse
system.
AN
This
discriminatory
system
is
designed
to
ensure
the
children
who
attend
wealthy
white
schools
of
the
suburbs.
Look
like
they
are
doing
an
excellent
job.
While
communities
like
ours
are
guaranteed
to
do
poorly,
we
are
then
judged
to
have
failed.
Punitive
actions
are
again
are
taken
against
our
children
and
hostile
actions
against
schools
that
they
designate
as
low
performing.
AN
AN
Coping
with
this
tragedy
in
an
under-resourced
system
hosting
many
unsafe
and
unhealthy
facilities
has
devoured
an
enormous
amount
of
our
school
systems,
time
and
energy.
I'm
sick
and
tired
of
hearing
from
gr,
jr
and
jesse
that
our
children
are
falling
behind,
look
at
the
test
scores
and
ignoring
that
a
major
reason
has
been
corona.
AN
AN
AO
Good
evening
my
name
is
john
mudd,
I'm
resident
of
cambridge
and
a
long
time
education
advocate
in
boston
tonight.
I
want
to
thank
the
search
committee
for
listening
for
keeping
elimination
of
opportunity
and
achievement
gaps
as
the
top
priority
for
the
new
superintendent
and
for
adding
a
statement
on
providing
access
to
native
language
for
multilingual
learners
that
specifies
shifting
our
approach
from
english
immersion
under
question
2
to
the
use
of
native
language
under
the
look
act.
AO
So
thanks
now
comes
the
hard
part,
the
actual
search
for
candidates
who
can
meet
the
ambitious
criteria
we
have
set
as
a
community
in
this
process.
I
want
to
emphasize
from
the
beginning
the
critical
importance
of
background
checks
on
candidates.
What
I
call
checkouts
from
my
experience
and
I
hate
to
say
it
in
five
searches
for
superintendent
in
boston.
AO
We
haven't
done
enough
of
this
in
the
past,
and
we've
paid
the
price
just
as
we've,
just
as
we've
checked
out
candidates,
I
was
glad
to
hear
that
the
search
committee
has
done
its
due
diligence
in
vetting
the
search
firm
applicants
in
the
last
search.
The
public
was
able
to
see
all
the
qualifying
firm
proposals
and
comment
on
them.
This
time
that
didn't
happen.
AO
Having
been
close
to
the
search
for
the
director
of
the
office
of
english
learners
that
the
firm
conducted
here,
I
was
glad
to
hear
that
the
search
committee
had
satisfied
itself
that
the
firm
is
now
up
to
the
job.
AO
Someone
with
richard
karen's
experience
is
important
to
hear
about
his
involvement
and
not
only
is
the
firm
crucial
but
the
the
team
and
who
leads
the
team
that
actually
does.
The
work
is
critically
important,
because,
finally,
I
want
to
reiterate
the
crucial
importance
of
checkouts
on
candidates
and
that
you
insist
that
the
search
firm
do
careful
and
thoughtful
search
checkouts
and
that
you
do
it
yourself
or
ask
others
for
help.
Thank
you
for
allowing
me
to
talk.
AP
Hi,
thank
you,
chair
robinson,
for
this
opportunity
to
testify.
I
am
jessica
berwick
I
live
in
jamaica,
plain
and
am
a
doctor
in
our
community
and
a
parent
of
a
seventh
grader
at
boston,
latin
academy
who
attended
mission
hill
school
from
second
through
sixth
grade
and
another
child
in
k1
at
mission
hill
school.
AP
AP
AP
We
have
waited
for
any
real
information
about
the
allegations
that
led
to
this
suspension's
nearly
a
full
academic
year
ago,
while
our
school
has
been
dragged
through
the
mud
in
the
press
and
the
district
has
undermined
our
school's
ability
to
recruit
and
retain
teachers
and
families.
We
are
still
waiting.
AD
AD
AI
My
name
is
allison
cox.
I
live
in
jamaica,
plain
and
the
pair
of
two
kids
at
mission
hill
school
and
the
co-chair
of
our
school
governance
board.
This
fall,
the
superintendent
wrote
to
mission
hill
families
saying
I,
and
the
team
at
bps
continue
to
pursue
the
best
interests
of
our
students,
staff
and
overall
community.
AI
This
commitment
has
not
been
upheld.
Instead,
it's
become
increasingly
clear
that
the
district
is
deliberately
trying
to
phase
out
the
school
via
its
inaction.
I
understand
and
support
the
need
to
investigate
past
allegations
of
harm.
What
I
cannot
understand
is
why,
in
attempting
to
write
allegations
of
past
wrongs,
our
current
students,
staff
and
families
are
being
punished.
AI
The
district
is
curating
a
version
of
mission
hill
without
authentically
engaging
with
the
community.
It
is
not
offered
listening
sessions,
nor
has
it
provided
surveys
or
other
opportunities
for
mission,
hill
families
and
parents
and
staff
to
share
their
impressions
of
instruction
and
culture
leading
up
to
this
year
or
in
the
time.
Since
the
district
interviewing
this
fall.
AI
Decisions
are
being
made
about
our
school
without
input
from
our
community
at
family
council
last
week,
family
spent
time
wrestling
with
how
we
could
respond
to
the
bps
wide
family
survey
in
a
way
that
makes
it
clear
that
our
low
scores
there
are
not
a
reflection
of
the
school
we
know
and
love,
but
rather
the
result
of
the
negligence
we've
been
experiencing.
Since
september,
the
district's
youngest
students
received
lottery
results.
Last
friday,
we've
heard
from
excited
families
eager
to
get
to
know
our
school
because
of
the
district's
failure
to
share
information.
AI
There
is
very
little
we
can
tell
those
families
about
what
our
school
will
be
next
year.
Our
staff
teachers
bps
should
be
incredibly
proud
to
have
in
its
ranks,
deserve
to
make
career
plans,
knowing
what
bps
has
in
store
the
principal
candidates.
We're
interviewing
deserve
to
know
what
they're
applying
to
lead.
The
teacher
teaching
candidates
who
we
are
finally
allowed
to
start
interviewing,
deserve
to
know
if
the
positions
they're
applying
for
even
exist.
AI
The
district's
actions
this
year
have
broken
our
trust,
but
mission
hill
is
a
remarkably
caring,
thoughtful
and
resilient
community.
It
is
not
too
late
for
us
to
heal
and
move
forward,
but
we
need
the
district's
genuine
partnership
to
do
so.
I
asked
that
this
committee
take
steps
to
ensure
the
district
prioritizes.
The
educational
experiences
of
our
school's
current
and
future
students
assurances
that
our
school
will
continue
to
exist
and
be
allowed
to
heal
and
move
forward
are
long
overdue.
AQ
Hello,
my
name
is
virginia
stein.
I
live
in
jamaica,
plain,
I'm
a
parent
of
a
child
at
mission,
hills
school
and
of
her
brother,
who
is
a
future
k1
student.
My
family
is
prato,
attend
mission
mission
hill
because
of
the
democratic
values
at
the
basis
of
the
school
and
how
it
resonates
in
the
teaching
and
school
life.
For
example,
my
child
learned
to
listen
to
other
viewpoints
while
expressing
her
own
voice
in
kindergarten
in
a
society
filled
with
this
transformation,
she's,
learning,
evidence-based
critical
thinking,
making
her
be
a
better
classmate
and
an
informed
citizen.
AQ
I'm
also
proud
of
mission
hill
school
community
who
takes
care
of
one
another,
for
example
through
a
partnership
with
farm
school
for
families
in
need
for
food
or
weekly
events
to
support
teachers
and
staff.
I
love
mhs
teachers
because
they
are
deeply
dedicated
to
adapt
my
child's
learning
journey
to
her
specific
needs.
They
listen
and
respond
to
her
concerns
with
kindness
and
knowledge.
There
are
countless
times
when
my
child's
teachers
offer
to
speak
with
our
family.
When
we
ask
for
help
with
her
learning
or
emotional
issues,
this
year
has
been
hard.
AQ
The
atmosphere
was
changed
at
the
school,
with
sadness,
anxiety,
perceptible
in
the
classroom
and
outside
the
building.
With
this
heavy
climate,
my
daughter
didn't
feel
engaged
at
all
in
the
learning
until
early
december,
which
was
a
third
through
the
school
year
with
changes
in
leadership.
School
was
left
with
new
before
and
after
school
programs
and
parents
scrambling.
AQ
The
interim
leadership
didn't
seem
to
care
and
didn't
help
set
up
such
a
program
until
a
couple
of
dedicated
parents
and
staff
elaborated
a
plan
for
a
few
weeks
of
release
relief,
I'm
worried
about
what
may
happen
next
year
with
the
report
not
being
released
yet
will
the
school
still
be
open
and
at
what
educational
cost
will
it
be
able
to
retain
its
vital
status?
That
is
attracting
excellent
staff
and
teachers?
What
about
the
teachers
who
may
be
living
in
this
climate
and
open
positions
that
cannot
be
filled?
AQ
AQ
Vpns
surely
needs
to
address
past
reports
of
problems
at
mission
hill,
but
doing
so
in
a
way
that
undermines
the
learning
of
current
students
and
the
experiences
of
current
families
to
disservice
to
its
community.
I
would
like
the
report
to
be
released
as
soon
as
possible.
This
is
my
child's
future.
Thank
you.
Thank.
B
You
just
madame
fuoco
is
not
signed
into
the
meeting,
so
next
we'll
hear
from
edith
bazil
rachel
young,
alison
friedman,
lauren
peter
elizabeth
ferenz,
pamela
rose
and
lon
drucker.
If
you
could,
please
raise
your
hands
virtually
in
zoom
zeal.
AR
The
leader
must
commit
to
reforming
special
education,
which
is
a
place
of
segregation,
mistreatment
and
miseducation,
especially
for
black
students,
which
the
district
believes
cannot
learn.
Students
with
disabilities
are
often
denied
appropriate
services,
supports
interventions
and
compensatory
services.
Parents
concerns
are
often
ignored.
AR
Bps
needs
a
student
and
parent-centered
empathic
listener
committed
to
tearing
down
silos
of
special
education,
a
department
which
overtly
resists
hiring
highly
qualified
black
professionals.
A
leader
who
understands
inclusion
is
not
a
privilege.
It
is
a
right
just
as
all
citizens
have
a
right
to
fully
participate
in
society.
AR
Madam
chair
there's
an
influx
of
esser
funds,
where's
the
focus
of
critical
mental
health
services,
for
example.
Mckinley
students
are
black
and
latinx
students
with
disabilities,
mental
health
issues,
but
are
often
maligned
as
troubled
and
gang
involved,
the
district
projects,
a
2023
expenditure
of
103
000
for
each
mckinley
student
next
year.
AR
What
do
students
get
for
a
hundred
and
three
thousand
dollars?
No
science
labs,
no
gym,
no
library,
no
cafeteria
metal
detectors,
random
random
searches,
a
timeout
loan
with
cinder
blocks
less
than
20
graduation
rates,
random
searches,
more
than
60
chronic
absenteeism.
Mckinley,
is
not
included
in
bps.
My
way
cafe.
The
quality
guarantee
high
school
redesign
or
mass
core
one-third.
One-Third
of
mckinley
students
disappeared
since
2020
where's.
AR
The
outrage
about
these
practices
rooted
in
anti-blackness
and
ableism,
adding
psychologists
and
social
workers
without
a
solid
infrastructure
for
delivery
of
high
quality
services
is
educational
malpractice,
bps
hired
a
senior
advisor
for
special
education
in
january,
yet
there's
no
plan,
no
vision
or
no
reform.
Mckinley
is
only
one
of
the
egregious
failures
of
special
ed.
AR
AS
Hi
good
evening-
and
please
forgive
me
because
I'll
be
reading
a
little
off
of
my
phone-
my
name
is
rachel
young,
I'm
a
proud,
sumner
parent
and
a
roslindale
resident.
I
sent
an
email
earlier
today
to
the
school
committee
and
the
superintendent
basically
describing
our
past
experiences
these
past
few
months
with
the
build
bps
team
and
our
efforts
to
expand
a
sixth
grade.
AS
These
communication,
or
the
communication
I
will
say
with
build
bps-
has
been
completely
unsuccessful.
We
have
had
one
meeting
one
meeting,
not
multiple
meetings
as
build
bps
will
tell
you.
We
have
had
one
meeting
with
the
bill,
pps
team.
It
was
supposed
to
be
in
february
and
got
pushed
to
march.
At
that
meeting,
the
build
bps
team
was
completely
unprepared
to
have
a
productive
conversation
with
our
school
community,
nate
cooter
recycled,
slides
from
a
presentation
to
the
blackstone
school.
AS
He
couldn't
answer
any
questions
about
staffing
and
punted
to
our
principal
and
when
we
asked
for
an
additional
nurse
at
our
second
campus,
he
said
that
that
decision
was
out
of
his
hands
when
we
asked
who
we
could
petition
to
to
get
our
nurse,
he
said
snarkily.
Well,
I
think
the
sumner
community
is
well
well
familiar
with
how
to
advocate
I'm
sorry
that
we're
advocates
and
that
we're
gadflies.
AS
We
are
doing
what
we
think
is
right
for
our
school
and
we're
not
going
anywhere
now
the
problem
we're.
Having
is
that
on
monday,
we
were
told
by
our
principal
not
through
any
dialogue
with
the
build
bps
team,
not
from
any
meeting
or
correspondence
directly
with
the
build
bps
team
but
secondhand
through
our
principle.
That
no
longer
were
we
going
to
be
at
the
community
center
next
door,
which
was
what
mr
cooter
had
promised
us
and
committed
to
at
the
march
9th
meeting.
AS
But
now
we
were
being
told
two
days
after
k1
placement
letters
went
out
now
we
were
being
told
that
we
were
going
to
be
at
the
irving,
a
half
mile
away
from
our
school.
This
was
such
new
information
that
it
threw
us
off
our
seats.
We
had
a
meeting
plan
that
evening
to
start
looking
at
the
interview
process,
we
had
with
sixth
grade
teachers
to
talk
about
fixtures,
furniture
and
equipment
that
we
needed
for
our
classrooms.
AS
All
of
that
got
thrown
out
the
window
when
we
suddenly
were
talking
about
this
plan
b
that
we
had
just
learned
about
and
to
make
things
worse.
We
were
also
told
at
the
same
time
that
this
would
only
be
a
one
year
plan.
It
was
temporary
because
we
were
being
considered
for
a
merger
with
another
school,
so
we
were
now
looking
at
these
multiple
contingencies,
because
we
had
no
real
information
from
build.
Bps.
B
AS
AS
AS
B
AT
AT
Okay,
hello,
members
of
the
boston
school
committee,
I'm
alison
freeman.
I
have
one
child
at
the
charles
sumner
and
one
child
at
the
hailey
today,
I'm
speaking
on
behalf
of
the
sumner
community,
we
know
that
we're
going
to
be
adding
our
new
grade
level
in
the
irving
building
and,
to
be
honest,
the
space
is
much
more
conducive
to
running
classrooms,
but
the
downside
is
that
it's
farther
away.
As
a
result,
we
are
asking
for
a
few
things.
AT
We
would
like
the
committee
that
makes
decisions
about
nurses
to
reassess
our
situation
since
the
situation
has
changed.
I
park
right
in
front
of
the
irving
building,
often
times
and
walk
to
the
summoner
for
dismissal,
with
waiting
for
a
traffic
light
and
crossing
a
major
street.
It
takes
upwards
of
five
minutes
and
that
doesn't
include
getting
in
and
out
of
a
building
because
of
the
one-way
streets
and
lights.
I
don't
think
driving
is
any
faster.
AT
AT
AT
The
time
it
would
take
for
a
nurse
to
get
from
the
sumner
to
the
irving
might
be
too
long
for
her.
We
would
also
like
to
know
if
there
will
be
any
other
schools
co-located
in
the
irving
building.
We
think
that
planning
for
sharing
resources
and
or
keeping
things
completely
separate
is
really
important,
and
that
requires
conversations
between
staff
who
will
be
gone
in
the
summer
20
seconds.
It
also
may
impact
which
grade
level
summers
decides
to
send
over
to
the
irving
building,
and
we
need
to
tell
teachers
if
they
are
moving
soon.
AT
The
other
thing
is
that
we
would
like
to
bring
two
grade
levels
over
there
being
farther
away.
A
single
grade
level
could
be
like
an
island
of
culture.
I've
had
that
at
my
own
school
with
a
single
grade
level
in
a
building
and
it
went
very
poorly,
so
we
would
like
to
be
able
to
bring
two
grade
levels
over
to
that
building.
AU
Hi,
my
name
is
lauren
peter,
I'm
a
sumner
parent
and
roslindale
resident.
My
daughter
is
a
sumner
student.
I'd
like
to
correct
a
misapprehension
from
earlier.
I'm
not
upset
about
the
change
to
the
irving
allocation
for
a
single
year
per
se.
I
am
I'm
very
concerned
that
I
don't
believe
that
equity
tools
are
being
used
as
the
driving
force
behind
decisions
that
are
being
made
for
our
community.
AU
It's
extremely
important
to
us
that
summoner
students
have
a
safe
and
high
quality
experience
next
year
for
the
single
year
that
they're
allowed
to
be
at
the
urban
campus
and
the
year
after
that,
where
we
move
again
to
a
location
that
we
haven't
been
told
where
that
will
be
so
again
we're
kind
of
working
with
unknowns,
which
is
really
un
unhelpful,
and
you
know,
there's
a
good
possibility
that
we
will
be
moving
again
in
the
third
year,
and
this
has
caused,
as
as
was
said
before,
like
a
great
deal
of
apprehension
and
uncertainty
among
the
parent
community
that
we
already
have
and
we're
in
the
middle
of
school
choice.
AU
AU
The
irving
was
on
the
table
for
a
single
year
before
this,
the
fact
that
it
wasn't
chosen
between
november
and
april,
a
lot
of
time
was
lost.
To
that
end,
I
request
that
our
budget
be
reassessed
for
a
second
nurse
potential.
Potentially
additional
specialist
needs
some
special
education
services,
as
alison
mentioned.
Y
Y
Y
Y
Then
it
was
very
difficult
to
make
any
progress,
making
plans,
because
we
didn't
know
what
the
space
was
going
to
be
at
bcyf,
our
staff,
our
school
leader,
wasted
time
lost
time,
and
then
it
was
announced,
at
least
from
the
perspective
of
the
parents,
and
only
to
a
limited
number
of
parents,
because
bps
has
not
announced
this-
the
entire
school
committee
on
monday
that
we
were
going
to
the
irving.
But
it's
a
done
deal.
I
agree
with
what
lauren
and
allison
have
said:
I'm
not
against
the
idea
of
the
irving,
I'm
against
the
process.
Y
Y
I
would
really
like
to
ask
that
you
try
to
rebuild
your
trust,
our
trust
in
you
by
being
open,
active
communicators
involving
all
of
us,
providing
us
the
school
nurse
for
the
second
campus,
providing
us
extra
specialists,
since
this
specialist
will
be
transferring
farther
thinking
about
extra
special
education
services
being
transparent
about
where
our
school
building
will
have
extra
space
for
2023
2024,
because
you
haven't
announced
that
this
information
about
the
possibility
of
the
irving
has
existed
since
billbps
announced,
we
didn't
have
space
in
the
fall.
What
has
changed?
Y
Where
are
we
going
in
23
24?
Please
announce
that
asap,
so
that
families
who
are
deciding
if
they
are
going
to
enroll
at
the
summer
have
accurate
information
and
families
considering
other
schools
for
next
year
have
accurate
information.
You
owe
us
that
honesty
and
transparency
that
way
bps
will
be
a
school
choice
and
people
will
not
continue
to
leave
the
district.
Thank
you.
AC
We
are
parents,
residents
and
taxpayers
of
this
city,
and
we
and
our
children
and
my
children
deserve
better.
I
implore
you
to
meet
with
btu
to
negotiate
a
new
contract,
so
we
have
the
basic
learning
and
working
conditions
that
we
are
entitled
to.
I've
heard
several
teachers
and
parents
make
similar
complaints
about
the
conditions
of
their
school
buildings,
and
it
is
completely
unacceptable
for
any
family
to
have
to
endure
these
conditions.
B
AF
Hi
good
evening,
hi
members
of
the
bps
school
committee,
thanks
for
the
opportunity
to
speak,
my
name
is
lon
drucker,
my
family
and
I
live
in
jamaica
plain.
I
am
a
parent
of
a
student
of
a
parent
of
a
student
in
k1
at
mission
hill.
We
have
been
a
mission
hill
school
family
for
less
than
a
year,
and
yet
we
love
mhs
mission
hill
is
a
great
school
with
fantastic
teachers
and
a
unique
and
effective
teaching
method.
We
very
much,
for
example,
value
the
school's
emphasis
on
inclusion.
AF
I
wear
my
new
mission
hills
school
hoodie
proudly
around
my
neighborhood
in
the
fall
of
2021.
The
district
ordered
an
emergency
school
review
with
the
on-site
portion
occurring
on
november,
8th
and
november
9th
2021,
and
here
I
sit
on
april
6
20
2022
five
months
later,
without
a
single
piece
of
follow-up
information
from
bps.
AF
AF
The
final
report
will
be
shared
with
the
full
community
and
we
will
provide
a
forum
to
discuss
the
report
and
any
possible
next
steps.
We
will
also
make
the
final
report
available
to
the
school
committee.
The
report
will
provide
context
about
the
school's
strengths
as
well
as
its
challenges,
while
the
ongoing
legal
investigation
has
impacted
our
ability
to
discuss
all
aspects
of
mission
health.
AF
It
is
our
sincere
hope
that
this
report
will
provide
a
complete
and
accurate
picture
of
the
school
in
terms
of
instruction
professional
learning
student
opportunity
to
learn
20
seconds
and
leadership
and
government
governance.
This
report
will
further
refine
and
provide
a
more
complete
picture
of
the
overall
experience
of
our
students.
That's
the
end
of
the
verbatim
email.
AF
This
sounds
like
a
great
plan,
but
unfortunately
it
never
happened
by
not
releasing
any
information
about
this
emergency
review
and
fulfilling
the
district's
own
commitments
to
the
school
community
mission
hill
school,
the
community
staff
and
students
have
all
been
thrust
into
uncertainty
and
are
worse
off.
I
ask
that
the
district
help
us
all
understand
the
delay
and
lack
of
communication.
AF
Is
it
the
upcoming
superintendent
change
the
results
themselves,
something
else?
Despite
this
uncertainty,
the
school
has
provided
a
great
education
for
my
son
this
year
and
the
community
is
strong.
However,
the
school's
future
is
at
risk
directly
due
to
the
ongoing
uncertainty
and
unknowns
created
by
bps.
AF
How
can
any
school
plan
for
its
future
and
higher
staff
when
critical
elements
of
its
future
are
kept
hidden,
I'm
thoroughly
confused
about
how
not
releasing
information
about
the
review
benefits.
Students
please
act
now
by
releasing
the
school
review
results
and
fulfilling
your
commitment.
Thank
you.
AV
Mr
o'neill
earlier
mentions
tonight
that
we
are
in
competition
with
charter
and
private
schools,
many
of
which
have
new
buildings.
We
are
losing
this
competition
earlier
this
evening.
In
many
of
your
opening
remarks,
you
acknowledge
the
need
for
better
facilities,
I'm
here
to
tell
you
even
to
beg
you
to
move
expeditiously
on
this
topic.
AV
AX
AX
I'm
here
to
tell
you
tonight
a
bit
about
why.
I
believe
it
is
incredibly
important
that
boston,
public
schools
prioritize
equal
pay
for
equal
work
in
its
hopefully
forthcoming
contract
with
this
union
specifically
schedule
a
pay
for
non-traditional
schools
like
mine,
my
colleagues
and
I
were
very
happy
to
hear
about
the
march
16
school
committee
vote
in
favor
of
extended
pay
for
industry
charter
schools,
including
up
dorchester.
AX
AX
AX
AX
AX
AX
AX
AX
AY
Hello,
I'm
sharon
hinson,
mother
of
a
bps
graduate
former
bps
student,
employee
educator,
hyde
park,
homeowner
and
founder
and
executive
director
of
black
teachers
matter.
There
are
so
many
things
to
talk
about
the
desi
sword
of
damocles
receivership,
bps,
superintendent,
cassilius's
departure,
ongoing
superintendent
search
exam
school
admission
process,
btu,
contract
mission
hill,
the
pa
sha,
resignations
of
so
many
school
principals
and
teachers,
elected
versus
appointed
school
committee,
discussions
about
returning
the
police
to
schools,
achievement
gap,
grading
policy,
declining
attendance,
school
safety
and
the
hits
just
keep
on
coming
tonight.
AY
That
being
said,
I
have
the
following
questions
or
points
that
I
would
like
address.
Please
do
we
really
have
to
adhere
to
the
mayor's
deadline
to
hire
a
permanent
replacement
for
superintendent
casellius
in
the
next
few
months
and
who
is
the
most
qualified
to
be
an
interim
replacement
from
within
bps?
AY
AW
AA
U
AA
AG
Teachers
union
members
have
been
working
without
a
contract
for
seven
months
now,
during
the
seven
months
we
have
been
going
above
and
beyond
in
our
roles
to
support
ourselves,
our
students,
our
families
and
our
communities.
During
a
pandemic,
it
is
important
to
settle
a
contract
now,
so
that
educators
and
service
providers
can
receive
a
much-needed
boost
of
morale.
There
is
no
excuse
for
this
lack
of
solidarity
with
the
educators,
students
and
families
that
trust
this
district
teaching.
During
this
unprecedented
time,
specifically,
an
inclusion
classroom
has
been
challenging.
AG
In
every
school,
the
only
way
to
achieve
the
achieve
this
is
to
guarantee
inclusion
done
right
and
writing
in
the
contract.
That
is
the
only
way
we
can
guarantee
equitable
implementation
of
inclusion
across
the
district,
and
not
just
at
a
few
global
schools.
We
need
an
equitable
contract.
Now,
educators
and
families
deserve
the
proposals
we
have
set
forth
in
our
contract
package.
AG
AA
AD
AD
AA
B
AZ
AZ
AZ
My
family
is
proud
to
attend
mission
hill
because
it
has
taught
my
son
to
be
a
kind
and
caring
and
integral
member
of
a
community
friday
share
curriculum
breakfast
family
council,
family
picnics,
clean
up
days,
listening
sessions
have
all
helped
us
become
deep,
a
part
of
a
deep
community.
My
child
has
thrived
in
mixed
age
grade
classrooms
that
allow
him
to
be
ahead
in
the
areas
he's
skilled
at
and
take
his
time
to
revisit
areas.
AZ
He
struggles
with
both
academically
and
behaviorally,
the
independence
that
the
school
has
had
in
the
past
allowed
teachers
to
see
students
as
both
individuals
and
members
of
a
community.
It
allowed
the
school
to
focus
on
social
justice
and
democracy
together.
The
curriculum
to
help
me
feel
confident
that
my
child's
needs
were
being
met
and
helped
me
understand.
My
child's
individual
needs
better
while
giving
him
the
chance
to
show
what
he
knew
through
many
avenues.
AZ
I
have
loved
mission
hill
teachers
because
they
have
always
gone
above
and
beyond.
Even
in
the
middle
of
a
pandemic,
I
have
loved
the
diversity
of
staff,
and
I
thank
goodness
that
my
introduction
to
boston
public
school
and
mission
hill
was
with
one
of
the
very
teachers
who
was
suspended
at
the
beginning
of
the
year.
She
made
our
experience
amazing
and
made
me
want
to
be
part
of
that
community.
AZ
Unfortunately,
this
year,
sorry,
unfortunately
this
year
we
feel
more
just
like
a
number
at
bps,
despite
still
having
caring
teachers.
I
have
never
met
the
new
interim
principal
that
was
placed
there
by
bps.
She
has
never
reached
out
to
families
and
it's
a
small
school
where
part
of
the
draw
was
that
everybody
knew
everybody
there
by
failing
to
engage
our
community
and
not
allowing
us
to
be
part
of
discussions
about
the
future
of
our
school
and
not
sharing
information
or
reports
in
a
timely
manner.
Bps
has
forced
many
parents
to
make
decisions.
AZ
In
the
absence
of
this
information,
there
is
speculation
about
what
the
future
holds
for
our
school
by
not
giving
us
timely
and
important
information.
Parents
are
not
able
to
make
decisions
about
their
children's
educational
future.
I
don't
know,
and
the
teachers
don't
know
what
to
do
hannah,
I'm
afraid,
you're
past
your
time.
Can
I
just
finish
up
one.
My
experience
as
a
bps
parent
has
made
me
nervous
about
what
the
upcoming
year
will
bring.
AZ
B
BA
Hi,
can
you
hear
me
yes
good
evening,
hi
good
evening,
hello,
everyone?
My
name
is
anne
moseley,
I'm
a
parent
of
a
child
who
attends
young
achievers
and
I'm
I'm
grateful
and
happy
to
be
here
and
I'm
going
to
speak
about
the
stabilization
in
the
homeless
situation,
going
to
boston,
public
schools
and
forgiving.
While
I
read
my
testimony,
stabilizing
housing
is
important
necessary
for
boston,
public
schools,
children
and
families.
It
provides
a
it
provides
peace
of
mind
and
housing
should
be
a
human
right.
BA
I
strongly
support
the
school
committee
advocating
that
evictions
do
not
occur
while
children
are
in
school.
Moving
moving
of
an
eviction
is
very
socially
emotionally
damaging
to
a
child
and
can
cause
negative
outcomes
in
a
child's
academic
performance.
Delaying
the
eviction
until
a
child
is
out
of
school
allows
families
to
find
adequate
and
affordable
housing.
This
can
be
especially
time
consuming
because
the
affordable
housing
in
boston
ranges
from
60
to
110
ami,
while
the
majority
of
the
families
who
are
facing
evictions
are
in
a
30
to
50
percent
range
ami
range.
BA
BA
If
these,
if,
if
these
demands
were
met,
it
would
make
mean
to
me
as
a
parent
that
bps
is
con,
is
supporting
families
staying
stronger
in
promoting
healthy
attitudes
and
relationship
relationships
between
the
home
and
school
that
are
already
estranged
and
will
increase
the
academic
success
for
children,
okay,
for
children
k
through
12..
Thank
you.
K
BB
Hello,
thank
you
for
having
me
and
I
apologize
in
advance
for
the
noise.
In
the
background,
my
son
has
autism
and
tourette's,
so
sometimes
he's
just
spooling
lines
from
movies.
So
if
you
hear
anything,
no
worries
nobody's
being
abused,
he's
just
talking,
so
I
wanted
to
come
today
to
talk
about
school
culture
and
school
safety.
BB
My
son
was
a
student
at
the
nathan
hill
school,
where
he
was
educated
by
some
amazing
teachers
who
included
me
in
on
his
learning
experience
in
one
in
his
sixth
grade
year,
under
the
leadership
of
miss
turner,
his
teacher,
who
was
who
is
an
amazing
school
teacher.
She
was
able
to
have
my
son
so
engaged
in
learning
that
that
was
his
first
year
receiving
the
honor
roll
for
the
entire
year,
because
she
tailored
his
academic
experience
around
what
it
was
that
he
needed.
BB
He
read
the
most
amount
of
books
that
he's
ever
read
in
his
academic
life
and
it's
triple
the
amount
of
what
he's
slated
to
read
this
year
at
a
new
school.
Well,
it's
not
new,
but
at
the
warren
prescott,
it's
new
to
him
where
the
school
culture
is
very,
very
different.
BB
As
my
son
prepares
to
go
on
into
high
school,
I
am
very
concerned
about
what
choices
I
have
available
for
my
son,
based
on
the
safety
issues
within
the
schools
right
now.
The
way
that
the
school
safety
is
being
addressed,
our
kids,
our
teachers
and
the
staff
are
being
used
as
an
experiment,
there's
a
science
experiment
that
is
allowing
principles
to
be
attacked.
BB
That
is
allowing
students
to
be
grouped,
and
then
it's
also
allowing
a
lot
of
the
things
that
are
happening
on
the
school
which
aren't
being
addressed
in
the
school
by
professionals
and
de-escalated
is
turning
into
street
wars.
That
my
friends
and
my
family
members
are
casualties
of.
I
am
begging
the
school
committee
to
rethink
the
safety
structure,
the
physical
safety
structure
of
students
with
mbps
and
do
something
about
this.
These
fights
are
not
healthy
for
our
kids
and
it
really.
BB
B
AL
Yes,
marjorie
is
on
the
meeting.
AL
Yes,
I'm
theresa
castro
pragazer
of
roxbury,
and
I
have
a
fifth
grader
at
the
hail
and
a
seventh
grader
who's
there
from
second
to
sixth
grade
and
I'm
the
co-one
of
the
co-chairs
of
the
parent
council.
I'm
here
asking
you
to
act
in
accordance
with
the
values
you
express
to
parents
that
you
highly
value
of
qualified
teachers
of
color
from
the
community.
AL
I
first
heard
a
miss
turner
from
the
principal
at
the
time,
miss
mitchell
woods.
When
my
son
was
in
first
grade
at
another
school,
she
told
me
there
was
a
substitute
teacher
in
first
grade,
miss
turner
who
was
doing
a
dynamite
job.
I
compared
the
work
mr
turner
was
giving
her
class.
My
son's
work,
miss
turner's
work
seemed
to
be
a
whole
grade
level.
Above
my
sons,
I
was
on
the
hiring
committee
for
the
sixth
grade
teacher
in
the
spring
of
2020..
AL
She
was
the
only
candidate
that
had
licenses
in
elementary
math,
math,
coach,
esl
and
moderate
disabilities.
Her
online
lesson
was
exceptional
and
far
outshone
the
other
candidates.
In
both
content
and
presentation.
It
was
my
impress,
I
was.
It
was
impressive.
How
quickly
she
transitioned
to
the
virtual
form
last
year
she
was
respectful
and
kept
the
class
engaged
in
learning.
As
you
heard
from
cordelia,
and
I
talked
to
several
parents
that
had
the
same
express
experience
that
cordelia
had
she
had
the
highest
online
attendance
in
our
school.
AL
She
put
in
numerous
hours
after
school
to
have
the
children
build
model
boats
over
zoom,
here's
my
son's
boat.
He
took
great
pride
in
building
this
boat
and
the
life
size
of
the
class
built
in
the
spring.
It's
what
kept
him
interested
in
going
to
school.
Seventy
percent
of
the
students
went
to
an
exam
school
from
her
class.
She
prepared
my
son
well
for
bla
he's
had
straight
a's
so
far
and
his
humanities
teacher
told
him
he
wrote
like
an
author
and
asked
him
what
school
he
went
to
before.
AL
But
this
is
not
only
my
experience.
As
I
said,
I've
talked
to
immigrants,
grandmothers,
raising,
grandsons
with
learning
disabilities
lifetime
roxbury
residents,
miss
turner,
made
connections
with
students
and
families
from
all
walks
of
life.
Parents
says
she
made
learning
culturally
relevant
and
didn't
make
you
feel
badly
for
asking
for
help
in
seconds.
As
a
rising
sixth
grade
parent,
it's
harrowing
to
hear
her
job
is
posted.
I
and
other
parents
are
now
considering
other
school
options.
Posting
her
job
puts
us
at
risk
of
not
having
a
sixth
grade
teacher
due
to
the
teacher
shortage.
AL
I
have
also
heard
she
was
given
a
needs
improvement
evaluation
in
two
areas
which
disqualifies
her
from
teaching
at
bps
next
year
in
the
year
when
bps
is
in
threat
of
receivership
and
is
asking
the
state
to
consider
the
impact
of
the
pandemic
and
asking
for
another
chance.
Why
are
we
not
extending
that
to
those
who
are
most
deserving?
Miss
turner
is
an
excellent
teacher
who
should
be
allowed
to
be
kept
her
job
in
bps
and
at
the
hail.
Thank
you.
BC
Good
evening
my
name
is
bonnie
mcbride
and
I
am
the
teacher
librarian
at
fenway,
high
jamaica,
plain
resident
and
a
proud,
btu
member,
I'm
here
today
to
urge
the
school
committee
to
continue
contract
negotiations
with
the
boston
teachers
union,
so
that
all
students
can
have
the
experience
that
my
students
at
fenway
do
by
having
a
certified
teacher,
librarian
and
library.
Today,
in
my
library,
we
had
sai
humanities
students
working
on
their
own
original
sociological
case
studies
on
topics
of
their
own
choosing
seniors,
completing
their
capstone
research
students
coming
in
to
find
a
book.
BC
BC
BC
Yet
now
that
she
is
leaving
will
this
plan
leave
with
her
enshrining
these
essential
roles
in
our
contract
means?
We
won't
have
to
wonder
what
happens
when
there
is
an
administration
change
in
the
central
office.
Bps
needs
to
continue
contract
negotiations
with
the
btu
so
that
we
can
give
our
students
and
educators
the
schools
they
deserve.
BC
At
a
school
committee
meeting
in
october,
we
learned
that
at
least
33
more
schools
will
have
teacher
librarians
beginning
next
year
and
since
that
time
the
library
team
was
informed
that
these
new
positions
would
be
posted.
On
march
1st,
and
yet
today,
it's
april
6th
and
no
need
new
teacher.
Librarian
positions
have
been
posted.
This
leads
us
to
wondering
if
they
actually
will
be
posted
or
when
they
finally
do,
will
it
be
too
late
and
will
the
best
candidates
have
already
committed
to
other
districts?
20
seconds
librarian
profession
is
overwhelmingly
white.
BC
BC
BD
Okay,
thank
you,
hope
everyone
out
there
as
well.
My
name
is
andy
crowe
parent
of
three
from
the
mission
hill
school
and
I'm
joining
the
course
of
advocates
for
the
school.
Please
excuse
any
incivility
of
tone
from
my
following
comments.
BD
I've
been
mad
and
sad
about
what's
been
happening
at
the
mission
hill
school
for
10
months,
and
I
continue
to
be
mad
and
sad
about
it.
My
son,
milo,
is
graduating
eighth
grade
from
mission
hill
in
a
few
months,
he's
been
there
10
of
his
14
years
of
life,
and
we
are
very
happy
with
the
education
and
overall
experience
that
he's
received
at
the
mission
hill
school.
BD
BD
BD
These
are
the
four
teachers
put
on
administrative
leave
at
the
beginning
of
the
year
and
I
like
to
say
their
names
out
loud.
Every
time
I
speak
to
bps
on
this
matter
is
they
are
a
huge
part
of
our
positive
experience
at
mission
hill
and
as
a
teacher
myself
for
25
years,
I
admire
them
for
the
passion,
commitment
and
skill
that
they
brought
to
their
work
past
tense.
BD
I
feel
deeply
for
what
has
happened
to
them
and
I
would
like
to
throw.
I
would
like
to
know
what
egregious
choices
they
made
that
prompted
their
dismissal
as
it
doesn't
match
my
experience
at
all,
I'm
sad
and
mad
that
they
can't
be
present
when
milo
graduates
and
for
all
the
other
kids
who
won't
be
able
to
benefit
from
their
talents.
BD
The
mission
hill
school
is
founded
upon
the
principle
of
democracy
and
the
process
by
bps
this
year
to
deal
with
the
school's
present
and
future
couldn't
feel
less
democratic
teachers,
students
and
parents
of
the
community
have
had
little
to
no
voice
in
the
workings
of
the
school.
It's
been
nearly
all
top
down
and
communication
has
been
poor.
BD
BD
Please,
release
the
findings
of
the
two
reports
that
you're
sitting
on
and
also
inform
the
mission
hill
community,
whether
a
there
will
continue
to
be
a
mission
hill,
school
and
b,
whether
they
will
have
their
pilot
autonomy
restored.
So
the
school
can
return
to
what
it
was.
People
need
to
know
this
information.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
AG
My
name
is
ruby
reyes
and
I'm
the
executive
director
of
the
boston
education,
justice
alliance.
As
you
all
review
and
move
forward
with
approving
the
superintendent's
search,
job
description
and
search
firm,
we
hope
you
will
seek
an
educational
leader
with
a
proven
track
record
of
success
because
of
the
unrealistically
accelerated
superintendent
search
process.
Please
do
not
settle.
The
superintendent
must
have
a
proven
organizational
and
management
skills,
skill
to
lead
and
implement
systems,
change
that
improves,
classroom
practice
and
results
for
students.
AG
AG
The
system
needs
leaders
to
fight
against
state
receivership
or
state
control,
empowerment
zones
that
would
destroy
what
little
decision
making
you
as
a
school
committee,
school
communities
and
families
have
in
their
schools.
The
dusty
review
or
audit
is
the
beginning
of
the
legal
process
for
state
receivership
or
empowerment
zones.
We
know
that
many
of
the
desperate
needs
are
in
special
education
services
and
resources.
AG
The
btu
contract,
which
was
developed
through
community
input
in
a
series
of
community
forums
with
bps
parents
and
families,
includes
important
improvements
to
special
education
programs.
Progress
towards
healthy
versions
of
inclusion
supports
for
multilingual
learners,
more
counselors
and
mental
health
supports.
Why
is
the
contract
being
overwhelmingly
rejected,
especially
on
the
heels
of
the
deci
audit,
which
highlighted
the
desperate
need
for
improvement
in
special
education
and
for
english
learner
services?
Twenty
seconds
at
our
last
school
committee
meeting,
not
a
single
person
asked
about
the
state's
impending
threats
of
receiver
chev.
AG
This
is
a
critical
time
when
the
families
and
school
communities
of
bps
need
you
to
take
swift
action
on
monday
april
11th
at
10.
Am
the
city
council
is
holding
a
hearing
to
talk
about
destiny's,
receivership
threats.
We
ask
that
you
join
mayor
wu
and
bps
families
to
fight
against
jesse's
threats
of
state
takeover.
The
district
will
not
prosper
under
state
control.
We
know
this
because
of
destiny's
broken
track
record
in
our
own
endeavor
and
up
holland
schools.
AG
AW
Good
evening,
everyone,
my
name,
is
melanie
miranda,
I'm
a
boston,
resident,
parent
and
paraprofessional
a
proud
k-verdian.
My
immigrant
parents,
provided
me
the
best
education.
They
could
and
showed
me
that
boston
is
full
of
great
opportunities,
while
excelling
through
boston
school
system.
I
knew
from
a
young
age
how
important
having
teachers
whom
you
can
relate
to
and
are
now
overstressed
with
fair
amounts
of
material
for
each
student
served
as
a
great
benefit
to
the
classroom.
AW
Having
raised
my
son
to
dps
schooling,
I
also
noticed
the
gaps
over
the
years.
It
is
imperative
that
you
all
understand
that
boston,
students
and
educators
deserve
deserve
a
strong
connection
through
a
number
of
things.
We
need
btu
contract
right
now,
one
week
without
a
contract
is
a
major
disservice,
let
alone
eight
months
without
one.
We
know
the
world
went
through
a
major
crisis
and
respect
to
everyone
in
every
field.
Yet
my
focus
now
is
to
us
teachers
and
students.
AW
We
went
through
two
extremely
difficult
years
and
we
deserve
the
proposals
that
we
will,
that
will
be
brought
to
the
forefront
and
taken
seriously
teaching
and
assisting
in
a
number
of
schools
in
and
out
of
boston.
I
noticed
the
differences
when
it
came
to
high
quality
program
services
for
special
education
staff
that
are,
without
I
stood
side
by
side
with
fellow
members
day
in
and
day
out,
trying
to
figure
out
how
we're
going
to
make
this
day
work
for
our
students
and
our
families.
AW
Although
we
can
commit
that
we
will
be
wearing
marine
hacks,
it
is
imperative
that
we
can
continue
to
receive
adequate
support
in
all
areas
and
so
that
we
can
exceed
expectations,
not
just
a
promise
to
what's
to
come,
but
an
actual
contractual
agreement.
Equal
pay
for
equal
work
is
a
priority.
It
is
unfortunate
that
we
withstand
such
inconsistencies,
and
you
hear
our
testimony
time
and
time
again
yet
and
still
here
we
are
eight
months
in
with
no
contract.
AW
What
more
will
it
take
for
you
guys
to
hear
us
loud
and
clear
and
see
our
value
in
our
position.
Being
a
single
mother
is
one
thing
but
having
to
provide
for
a
young
man
who
is
at
no
fault
toward
my
choice
of
career,
and
he
and
no
child
should
have
to
bear
witness
to
their
moms
dads
or
any
relatives
for
that
matter.
Having
to
take
up
a
second
job,
because
the
career
that
they
chose
to
make
a
difference
in
the
world
is
choosing
to
have
them
at
the
bottom
of
the
barrel.
BF
BG
V
BG
I'm
asking
you
for
that
review
and
to
act
on
our
recommendations
for
school
leadership
mission
hill
was
founded
in
1997
as
one
of
the
first
pilot
schools
in
bps
after
I
attended
a
lecture
by
deborah
meyer
and
learned
that
superintendent
paisan
invited
her
to
start
a
public
school
that
would
embrace
democratic
values,
promote
hands-on
project
based
learning,
empower
students
to
follow
their
interests
and
curiosity
and
undertake
community
service
project.
I
enrolled
my
youngest
child
transferring
him
from
another
bps
school.
BG
He
and
his
schoolmates,
including
city
councilor,
ricardo
arroyo,
thrived
under
the
tutelage
of
the
faculty
of
that
school.
As
a
pilot
school
mission,
hill
had
the
autonomy
to
devise
a
whole
school-wide
curriculum,
theme-based
approach
to
learning
and
a
curriculum
that
ran
k
through
eight.
That
studied
a
theme
one
long
ago
and
far
away,
such
as
china,
india,
egypt,
africa
and
one
close
to
home.
The
civil
war
and
boston
civil
rights
struggles
in
the
60s
and
70s
well
before
black
lives
matter.
BG
B
H
W
Evening,
charlie
kim
north
end
resident
parent
and
school
site
council
chair
at
the
horace
mann
school
for
the
deaf
and
hard
of
hearing
quick
note
april
is
deaf
history
month,
which
is
federally
recognized
tonight.
A
group
from
our
school
community
will
be
giving
public
comments.
We
ask
bps
city
councilors
and
mayor
wu.
Where
is
the
plan
for
a
permanent
home
for
our
school
community
in
2018?
W
W
A
lot
of
things
have
changed,
except
the
fact
that
the
horse
man
does
not
have
a
plan
for
a
new
permanent
home
back
in
alston,
so
who's
in
charge
of
capital
planning.
Who
should
we
talk
to
and
where's
the
transparency
and
trust
that
we
keep
hearing
about
right
now?
The
plan
for
the
temporary
swing
space
in
charlestown
is
public.
We
thank
everyone
for
their
hard
work
and
planning.
During
crazy
times
we
have
been
told
in
public
forums
by
the
school
site
council.
W
W
I
know
that
my
daughter
might
not
never
attend
the
new
permanent
building.
The
work
that
we
start
today
is
for
deaf
education
and
deaf
culture
in
boston
and
regionally.
Everyone
giving
testimony
today
and
those
who
will
testify
in
later
meetings
are
doing
this
for
the
future
students
in
the
school
community
that
we
love.
Thank
you.
BH
BH
Some
of
you
might
have
seen
recent
news
about
the
award-winning
movie
coda
that
was
filmed
in
gloucester.
I
am
also
a
coda,
a
child
of
deaf
adults.
Both
of
my
parents
are
deaf
and
I
grew
up
with
american
sign
language.
As
my
first
language,
my
father
and
my
aunt
were
both
alumni
of
horace
mann
school
for
the
deaf.
It's
truly
come
full
circle
for
me
to
be
able
to
work
as
a
teacher
at
the
very
school
my
dad
attended
and
to
be
part
of
this
incredible
transformation.
BH
As
horace
mann
became
an
asl
english
dual
language
program
and
now,
with
the
first
deaf
heads
of
school
in
its
entire
152-year
history,
horace
mann
is
making
history
with
the
innovative
work
we're
doing
in
deaf
ed
we're
becoming
a
model
school
for
deaf
and
hard
of
hearing
students
and
our
school
is
growing.
I'm
so
grateful
for
the
tremendous
progress
we've
made
these
last
few
years,
but
to
continue
that
momentum,
we
really
need
the
support
of
the
city
of
boston,
the
mayor
bps
and
the
school
committee.
BH
How
is
the
city
of
boston
and
the
school
committee
supporting
us
with
the
plans
for
our
new
building
and
bringing
us
back
to
alston
brighton?
At
the
very
least,
if
bps
can
commit
to
identifying
a
place,
we
can
call
home
after
charlestown
that
would
send
a
much
needed
message
to
the
horace
mann
school
community
that
we
are
a
valued
part
of
boston,
public
schools
and
that
you
support
us
as
an
asl
english,
dual
language
program
for
deaf
and
hard
of
hearing
students.
BH
BE
Hello,
my
name
is
mary
simmons.
BE
For
over
seven
years,
we
have
worked
to
commit
to
our
students
permanent
space,
and
we
we
are
always
told
that
it
will
be
happening
and
we've
seen
the
carter
school
already
finished
their
plans,
their
designs.
They
are
ready
to
go
into
their
permanent
home,
but
we
have
yet
to
see
the
same
thing
where's
the
support
for
us.
Where
is
our
permanent
home?
We
are
still
waiting.
BE
The
horseman
students
and
families
have
yet
to
seen
a
commitment,
because
the
community
of
boston,
the
deaf
community
in
boston,
wants
to
see
us
in
a
permanent
home.
BE
I
want
to
emphasize
to
the
new
leadership
and
the
new
superintendent
who's
who
will
be
coming
on
board
and
to
the
boston
school
committee
and
the
new
mayor
wu.
BE
Horseman
school
is
a
very
important
institution
for
the
deaf
community
in
boston
and
the
surrounding
area,
since
1867
it
has
been,
but
right
now
the
priority
for
boston
and
the
priority
for
bps
shows
that
it's
not
important.
We
have
continued
to
be
ignored
and
we've
seen
the
building
become
depre,
decrepit
and
ultimately
closed.
BE
BE
BE
AT
AG
AG
Currently,
we
are
being
asked
to
group,
sometimes
as
much
as
six
students
on
the
spectrum
during
a
one
hour
session
on
their
ieps,
each
of
the
six
students
require
an
hour
of
direct
service,
but
currently
the
district
counts,
those
six
students
being
serviced
at
the
same
time
as
only
one
hour.
Realistically,
this
means
that
each
student
is
only
receiving
about
10
minutes
of
direct
service
time.
AG
There
are
no
caps
to
how
many
children
can
be
on
our
caseloads
or
any
guidelines,
which
means
we
could
have
these
six
students
working
on
six
completely
different
programs,
which
we
are
responsible
for
taking
individual
data
for
the
results
online
and
also
logging
daily
notes
for
medicaid
case
laws
are
also
an
issue
when
it's
time
for
our
reports,
we
are
responsible
for
writing
progress
reports
at
least
three
times
a
year,
as
well
as
detailed
annual
reviews
each
year
for
every
student.
However,
we
are
given
no
time
to
write
these
reports.
AG
I
have
to
work
late
nights
and
weekends
to
make
sure
deadlines
are
met
when
it
is
brought
to
the
attention
of
our
program
directors.
We
are
told
that
this
is
why
we
are
given
the
daily
hour
of
prep
time.
This
is
the
same
prep
time
that
the
program
directors
use
to
check
in
and
the
only
time
we
have
to
prepare
for
each
student's
daily
lessons.
AG
BI
Good
evening,
I'm
glad
I
was
able
to
get
on
and
thank
you
all
for
your
attention.
My
name
is
marjorie
salvodor
and
I
live
in
roxbury.
I
have
a
daughter
who
is
currently
a
sixth
grader
at
the
hale
and
she's
been
there
since
k2.
In
the
past
few
weeks,
parents
of
the
sixth
grade
students
collected
several
dozen
comments
from
both
current
hail
students
and
those
who've
graduated
all
in
very
strong
support
of
their
teacher,
ms
turner
and
I'm
happy
that
there
were
two
parents
of
students
of
miss
turner's
who've
spoken
tonight.
BI
BI
BI
She's
enjoyed
many
activities
in
ms
turner's
class,
for
example
the
egyptian
clay
project,
in
which
students
wrote
plays
about
the
egyptians
and
created
props,
read
books,
full
of
relatable
characters
engaged
in
discussions
and
wrote
many
essays,
though
this
has
been
a
difficult
year
for
ms
turner.
She
has
managed
to
teach
a
fun,
engaging
and
rigorous
class.
BI
As
a
woman
of
color
and
first
generation
daughter
of
immigrants,
I'm
concerned
that
a
talented
black
muslim
and
roxbury
resident,
a
teacher
whose
many
identities
reflect
most
of
the
bps
student
population,
is
at
risk
of
being
removed
from
the
hail
school.
I'm
concerned
that
talented
by
poc
teachers
in
bps
are
not
being
supported
during
this
unending
global
pandemic,
which
has
dramatized
the
plight
of
the
people
and
communities
that
are
the
most
marginalized
in
this
society.
BI
K
BI
BJ
Good
evening,
good
evening,
the
member
of
the
school
committee,
my
name,
is
tywin
and
a
senior
at
cell
high
school
and
also
a
member
of
the
married
council
of
boston.
BJ
So
I
believe
that
boston,
public
school
district
should
take
the
contract
with
btu
more
seriously
to
ensure
the
eq,
incredible
and
quality
education.
For
my
fellow
friends
and
myself,
boston
is
one
of
the
richest
country.
I
mean
richard
cities
in
america
and
I'm
still
here
today
to
fight
for
more
incredible
funding
for
bbs
schools,
especially
for
non-exam
schools.
BJ
Even
more
than
that,
because
of
the
funding,
some
schools
have
10
advanced
classes
and
many
elective
classes
and
many
other
group
and
after
school
program.
On
the
other
hand,
there
are
still
schools
that
only
have
a
few
classes
which
don't
help
them
repair
for
life
after
high
school,
which
you
can
see
the
gap
at
the
high
school
between
the
students
from
sam
school
and
sam
school.
BJ
A
Miss
sullivan
and
thanks
you
to
those
of
you
who
spoke
this
evening
and
shared
your
perspectives.
Your
testimony
is
very
important
to
us.
Our
first
action
item
this
evening
is
grants
for
approval
totaling,
one
hundred
fifteen
thousand
one
hundred
seventy
four
dollars
I'll
now
open
it
up
to
the
committee
for
questions
and
comments.
AE
C
Yeah,
actually,
this
was
in
relation
to.
I
believe
it
was
the
the
second
grant
that
it's
actually,
where
yeah,
I
think,
the
second
grant,
and
it
was
along
the
lines
of
looking
at
potential
employers
for
a
or
career
pathways
and
announced.
Actually,
I
think
that
might
be
the
third
grant
there
and
I
just
wanted
to
know
if
there
was
a
sense
of
the
characteristics
that
they
were
looking
for
within
potential
employers,
because
I
think
mentorship
from
these
employers
needs
to
be
very
key
in
what
they're
offering
to
adult
learners.
AE
Good
evening,
hello,
good
evening,
dr
atkins,
I
think
I
would
bring
this
question
to
the
senior
director
of
adult
education
know
that
these
adult
learners
are
learners
in
the
community
that
are
in
the
adult
learning.
So
I
would
bring
the
question
to
her.
AE
A
Thank
you.
Is
there
a
second
second,
thank
you.
Is
there
any
discussion
or
objection
to
the
motion
hearing
none
to
solve
and
will
you
please
call
the
role
dr
elkins.
C
BG
M
D
A
Thank
you.
Our
next
action
item
is
the
selection
of
an
executive
search
firm
for
the
superintendent
of
the
boston
public
schools,
which
ms
lompero
presented
earlier
this
evening,
we'll
pause
for
a
brief
moment,
while
superintendent
consolius
logs
out
of
the
meeting,
shall
we
join
at
the
conclusion
of
this
discussion
at
this
time.
I'd
like
to
invite
ms
lepara
to
offer
any
final
comments.
Q
L
This
is
more
just
a
comment:
I'm
gonna
just
name
upfront.
I
will
abstain
from
voting
tonight,
just
given
my
professional
relationship
with
mr
garanza,
but
I
think
he
is
an
incredible
talent
and
I'm
sure
this
committee
has
done
their
due
diligence.
I
just
don't
want
the
perception
of
any
impropriety.
U
C
M
D
Though
I
have
been
advised
that
I
knew
merely
had
to
disclose
that
mr
garcia,
mr
carranza
was
a
former
chair
and
I
was
a
former
chair
as
well
and
that
we
had
served
on
a
non-profit
board
together
to
be
consistent
with
mr
cadet
hernandez.
I
will
also
abstain.
A
Thank
you.
Our
final
at
our
final
action
item
this
evening
is
the
approval
of
the
superintendent's
job
description,
which
has
been
unanimously
approved
by
the
search
committee
and
was
presented
to
the
committee
by
ms
lapera
earlier
this
evening.
At
this
time,
I'd
like
to
invite
mr
pereira
to
offer
final
comments.
Q
Community
who
has
really
worked
with
us
in
crafting
this
job
description
and
this
vision
for
us
moving
forward.
So
I
I
believe
in
what
we've
represented
on
paper
and
I'm
looking
forward
to
rolling
up
my
sleeves
as
mr
alkin
and
said
and
being
a
part
of
of
this
team
and
not
just
one
person.
A
A
K
B
S
D
A
AE
Madame
chair,
dr
evan
mccree
is
here
to
present
it
the
director
of
grants
and
external
funds
all
righty.
Thank
you.
Yes,
thank
you.
As
you
are
aware,
we
do
this
annually,
bring
this
request
to
the
committee,
because
for
fy
23
we
have
the
projected
and
proposed
grants
so
that
we
will
be
able
to
pay
salaries
and
non-personnel
items
and
because
we
have
not
received
the
approved
letters
and
also
the
budgets
for
these
grants
before
the
beginning
of
the
new
school
year.
A
A
Okay
hearing
none,
we
just
want
to
say
thank
you
and
the
committee
looks
forward
to
take
action
on
this
request
at
our
next
meeting.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
A
BK
Hi
good
evening,
yes,
we're
throwing
you
we're
changing.
BK
A
O
You
know
the
these
are
never
easy
decisions
to
make,
as
we
heard
earlier
and
there's
so
much
work
to
be
done
in
all
of
our
facilities
across
the
district.
But
the
msba
core,
revised
accelerated
projects
is
really
a
different
set
of
funding.
That
comes
from
the
state,
which
I
know
that
chief
cooter
will
explain
briefly
to
you
that
works
on
most
of
our
major
projects
in
the
school
and
then,
of
course,
we
put
forward
some
core
projects
as
well
for
new
builds
or
major
remodels
as
well.
O
So
I'll
turn
it
over
to
chief
cooter
and
just
thank
the
team
for
their
incredibly
difficult
work
of
choosing
which
project
projects
to
bring
forward
to
the
msba.
BK
Thank
you,
superintendent
and
good
evening.
Everyone.
My
name
is
nathan
cooter,
I'm
the
chief
financial
officer.
I
want
to
start
as
the
superintendent
did,
with
some
appreciation.
First
for
the
math
school
building
authority
and
their
partnership
on
school
buildings
here
in
mass
in
boston.
Excuse
me,
of
course,
we're
very
excited
to
be
opening
the
boston
arts
academy
very
soon
and
are
working
with
the
msba
on
the
carter
school
in
the
south
end
and
the
quincy
upper
school
in
chinatown.
BK
We
are
very
excited
to
be
submitting
multiple
school
building
projects
to
the
msba
this
year.
We
of
course
came
to
you
before
with
the
accelerated
repair
program.
Tonight
is
about
the
core
building
projects.
The
core
building
projects,
of
course,
are
those
that
are
new
school
builds.
So
I
have
a
brief
presentation
and
then
we'll
move
to
your
questions.
BK
As
I
alluded
to
earlier,
the
mass
school
building
authority
has
two
big
programs
for
reimbursing
school
districts
for
the
cost
of
facility
projects.
The
core
program
are
projects
covering
extensive
repairs,
renovations
or
additions
and
new
school
construction.
So,
as
part
of
this
process,
we're
going
to
be
proposing
two
new
building
to
the
msba.
BK
BK
The
msba's
core
program
requires
us
to
submit
information
to
the
district.
Excuse
me
to
the
msba
to
go
through
an
extensive
process
of
evaluation
and
partnership.
Part
of
the
msba's
role
is
to
ensure
that
districts
understand
and
can
manage
large
construction
projects
and
then
do
multiple
feasibility
studies
for
each
of
these
projects.
We
will
evaluate
major
renovations,
complete
knockdown,
rebuilds
sort
of
construction
projects
and
then
evaluate
alternative
parcels
for
new
construction.
This
is
part
of
what
we've
done
for
the
carter
school
and
the
boston
arts
academy.
In
order
to
meet
the
needs
of
students.
BK
BK
Quite
literally,
we've,
of
course
had
challenges
when
we
start
talking
about
air
quality
thinking
about
how
to
put
on
more
walls
and
doors,
to
make
it
more
secure,
we're
also
adding
a
sixth
grade,
and
so
we're
very
excited
about
being
able
to
add
a
sixth
grade
at
the
blackstone,
but
this
creates
overcrowding,
concerns
in
the
building
and
not
having
the
adequate
space
to
service
english
learners
and
students
in
special
education
programs.
This
is
a
key
feature
of
the
msba.
BK
They
want
both
the
building
condition
and
the
enrollment
to
be
able
to
support
a
new
school
building.
The
second
is
the
otis
elementary
school
in
east
boston.
The
perris
street
site
is
how
we've
been
referring
to
it
again:
overcrowding,
as
we
add
a
sixth
grade,
and
in
many
of
our
east
boston,
schools
and
the
otis,
is
a
bad
example
of
this.
BK
There's
a
lot:
there's
not
a
lot
of
intervention
space,
there's
not
a
lot
of
the
the
sort
of
non-classroom
space
that
you'd
want
to
see,
and
so
we're
excited
about
this
project
to
submit
and
be
able
to
add
a
better
cafeteria,
be
able
to
add
better
intervention,
space
for
students,
english
learners
and
special
education
students
and
those
are
the
high
quality
21st
century
learning
spaces
that
we
talk
about.
The
otis
is,
of
course,
a
great
school
one
that
has
been
very
popular,
and
so
we
are
excited
about
these
two
projects.
BK
I
know
on
the
timeline
for
this.
We
have
to
submit
an
approval
from
the
school
committee
and
the
city
council
before
we
can
formally
apply
to
the
mass
school
building
authority
and
so
we're
asking
for
your
support
in
this
application.
We
will
be
submitting
to
the
city
council,
so
this
is
now
part
of
our
public
process.
BK
We
have
already
the
accelerated
repairs
have
already
been
submitted
to
the
msba
and
our
our
deadline
for
submitting
the
core
projects.
These
two
projects
that
we're
bringing
to
you
tonight
is
april
28
2022.,
and
so
we
expect
to
hear
after
the
msba
reviews
these
proposals
over
the
summer.
We
expect
to
hear
in
late
fall
or
early
winter,
whether
or
not
the
msba
has
accepted
these
two
projects
into
their
core
building
program
and
then
we'll
be
able
to
start
the
the
work
with
the
school
communities.
BK
A
Q
Really
appreciate
this,
you
all
know
how
I
feel
about
facilities.
So
thank
you,
I'm
trying
to
understand
when
projects
go
through
the
msba,
what
the
typical
timeline
is
not
just
in
the
process
of
approval
but
like
from
start
to
finish
for
a
core
project.
How
long
would
it
actually
take
to
materialize
a
facility.
BK
That's
a
great
question
and
it
can
be
very
project
dependent,
as
you
know,
as
you
know,
from
the
quincy
upper
project.
That
was
a
long
process
because
it
took
us
a
long
time
to
identify
the
site
for
the
project.
BK
The
carter
school
has
moved
through
in
a
much
more
timely
fashion
because
it
was
settled
upon
pretty
early
on
that
they
would
be
built
on
their
current
site,
but
typically,
what
we
anticipate
for
an
msba
project
for
a
major
build
is
that
it
will
take
somewhere
between
five
and
six
years
if
we
hit
all
of
the
major
deadlines
that
that
come
with
it.
Q
BK
It's
so
the
first
starts
with
this
first
period
of
the
application
process.
So
you
know
if
we
were
for
for
any
project
we've
decided
to
move
forward
with.
We
will
be
waiting
until
january
to
hear
from
the
msba
once
they
select
us
into
the
process.
Then
we
go
through
the
the
designer
selection
and
start
to
work
with
the
community
on
the
program
study.
BK
Those
are
just
extended
timelines
and
then
each
phase
of
the
project
there
is
review
from
the
msba,
and
so
when
we
get
to
each
phase
of
of
the
project
review,
cost
they
review
design
they're
giving
feedback
as
well.
So
it's
just
another
layer
of
of
support
and
and
process.
Q
Okay,
that's
helpful
and
then
specific
to.
I
have
so
many
questions,
but
I
know
I'm
limited
on
time,
but
for
specific
to
the
blackstone.
Q
BK
BK
What
we
found
in
that
review
was,
you,
can't
add
walls
and
doors
without
upgrading,
hvac
and
electrical
systems,
and
so
the
project
became
a
lot
bigger
in
scope
and
it's
you
know,
for
those
of
us.
Who've
spent
a
lot
of
time
in
the
blackstone.
It's
not
a
well-designed
building
for
a
school.
I
mean
it's
a
it's
a
large
school
that
has,
you,
know
thriving
population,
but
it's
really
it's
it's.
It's.
It's
sort
of
a
strange
school
to
walk
through.
BK
There
are
curtains
for
walls
and
and
so
rather
than
invest
a
lot
of
money
in
a
building
that
really
wouldn't
get
us
to
the
21st
century,
new
school
building,
one
that
is,
you
know,
modern
and-
and
you
know
one
that
we
can
be
proud
of,
rather
than
sort
of
invest
in
the
smaller
project.
We
we've
decided
to
move
forward
with
a
core
project,
so
we
can
really
put
a
school
there
for
the
students
that
we
we
think
they
deserve.
BK
Yeah,
what
this
will
this
will
likely
mean
for
the
school
communities.
There
will
be
multiple
years
of
design
and
then,
when
we
move
we're
ready
for
construction,
the
school
will
enter
swing
space,
and
so
you
know,
I
think,
the
frustrating
thing
about
all
of
these
projects.
Is
they
take
so
long
to
to
complete
that
the
school
the
students
who
are
in
it,
the
families
that
are
in
the
school
now,
unfortunately
won't
benefit
from
that.
BK
But
it's
sort
of
the
nature
of
of
major
capital
projects
and
why
we're
excited
about
launching
two
projects
this
year
and
continuing
to
increase
the
pace
of
new
construction,
so
that
this
is
not
seen
as
a
sort
of
drips
and
drabs
of
our
projects
that
we're
we're
on
a
more
predictable
schedule
of
opening
new
schools.
Q
I'm
up
on
time,
but
I'm
just
this
is
a
curiosity
that
I
have
because
I
drive
around,
and
I
think
about
this
for
parcels
that
are
that
the
city
owns.
Is
there
conversations
about
where
potential
new
schools
can
go
instead
of
also
waiting
for
like
the
raising
of
a
building?
I'm
just.
BK
I'm
I'm
thinking
about
just
driving
around
the
city,
with
a
stake
and
a
flag
on
it
and
just
starting
to
put
it
on
all
empty
parcels.
No,
we
have-
and
I
I
don't
know
if
I
said
this
at
the
start,
but
I'll
be
kicking
myself.
If
I
didn't
carrie
griffin
and
the
public
facilities
department
at
the
city,
dion
irish,
the
chief
of
operations
at
the
city,
they
are,
they
are
excellent
partners
for
us
and
in
particular
they
are
adding
to
their
team.
BK
They
have
a
new
person
on
their
team
whose
role
it
is
to
help
us
think
holistically
as
a
city
about
projects
like
this
and
think
not
just
because
right
now,
it's
the
fire
department's
doing
their
their
fire
houses,
the
police
department's,
doing
their
police
stations,
we're
doing
our
schools.
When
really
we
should
be
thinking
as
you
pointing
out
holistically
about
the
city,
and
so
we've
had
some
of
those
conversations,
but
I
think
we're
in
a
better
position
now
with
the
new
administration
and
and
that
team
to
have
those
holistic
conversations.
BK
I
just
started
to
list
out
some
other
properties
in
in
roxbury
that
are
currently
being
used
by
the
city
that
I
think
we
could
have
a
better
use
for
a
school,
but
so,
if
they're,
certainly,
if
you
have
ideas,
we'd
be
open
to
exploring
them,
and
you
know
I
think
it's
going
to
take
a
city-wide
effort
for
us
to
get
the
parcels
we
need
for
our
students.
O
You
know
if,
if
it
is
accepted
by
msba
similar
to
the
carter
school,
they
will
move
out
to
a
swing
space
much
sooner
than
six
years
right
I
mean
so.
I
think
the.
BK
O
I
think
so,
but
I
think
that
there
would
be
opportunity
and
that's
why
it's
important
to
get
this
on
the
on
the
books
now,
so
we
can
identify
that
so
that
we
can
move
quickly
once
we
do
actually
get.
You
know,
get
the
approval
to
go
ahead
and
move
forward
from
msba
the
difficulty
with
the
horace
mann
school
was
we
hadn't
closed
three
middle
schools.
Now,
we've
closed
these
three
middle
schools.
O
L
BK
BK
Of
course,
the
focus
right
now
is
getting
the
swing
space
in
charlestown
ready
and
then
to
do
the
site
study
in
at
the
current
jackson,
man
site
for
us
to
evaluate
a
k-6,
the
horace
mann
school
and
the
community
center.
That's
there
making
sure
that
we
understand
those
three
current
uses
of
the
the
parcel
and
how
they
could
work
together
in
a
project.
BK
Notified
the
community
about
that
and
indicated
that
we're
still
pursuing
the
core
building
project,
but
I
think,
for
a
variety
of
reasons,
related
to
the
way
the
project
has
gone
over
the
last
few
years.
I
can
understand
why
they
are
still
nervous
about
commitments
and
in
particular
I
just
want
to
acknowledge
their.
They
were
told
when
they
moved
into
the
jackson
man
building
in
the
70s,
that
it
would
be
swing
space.
So
they
are
looking
to
see
some
public
public
commitment
around
the
new
build.
BK
That's
separate
from
just
me
saying
it
here
tonight,
and
I
should
also
note
that
the
city's
capital
budget
will
be
submitted
to
the
city
council,
which
will
include
our
the
the
fy
23
capital
commitments
next
week,
and
so
that's
when
everyone
will
see
what
is
in
the
capital
budget
for
us
and
what
projects
are
moving
forward.
N
O
It's
also
really
important
to
note
that
we,
the
city,
just,
got
its
triple
bond
rating
and
it's
gotten
its
largest
bond
cell
in
history.
I
think
it's
nearly
a
half
a
billion
dollars
in
bonds,
and
so
I
think
that
that's
encouraging
for
us-
and
hopefully
we'll
have
some
advocacy
on
the
the
mayor's
side
and
on
the
city
council
side
to
to
to
do
more
around
facilities
for
us
for
our
kids.
O
So
I'm
excited
about
that.
We
do
anticipate
coming
back
to
the
school
committee
with
some
more
recommendations
around
our
facilities
in
may,
and
you
know
we
have
been
working
with
mayor
wu.
She
has
expressed
her
similar
interest
in
ramping
up
the
city's
commitment
to
our
children
and
to
really
taking
care
of
some
of
the
crumbling
infrastructure
that
we
have
in
a
very
real
way
more
so
than
I
have
seen
in
the
three
years
I've
been
here.
O
I
see
greater
urgency
around
this
topic
now
than
when
I
first
came
here
and
our
kids
didn't
have
clean
water.
So
I
think
that
this
is.
This
is
a
absolute
bonus
to
see
school
committee
members
talking
about
this
every
meeting
and
really
keeping
the
pressure
on
to
our
city
counselors
and
our
new
mayor
around
fixing
decades
decades
long
facilities
that
need
to
be
fixed.
L
I'm
gonna
keep
the
pressure,
then
cuz.
I
have
a
few
more
questions
in
my
two
minutes,
so
one
is
just
around
the
intermediary
plan
for
blackstone,
so,
like
sort
of
what
is
our
short-term
solution
and
then
what
is
the
long-term
solution,
as
we
saw
with
horace
mann
if
a
year
from
now
we're
finding
out
that
the
core
project
is
not
approved
sort
of?
What's
the
future.
U
O
It's
it's,
our
our
hope
is
that
it
will
be
approved
and
that
will
follow
that
timeline
it'll
be
similar
to
the
horseman
where
we
wanted
to
submit.
If
it
didn't
submit,
then
now
you
submit
again
to
the
capital
project
and
hope
that
the
city
then
will
fund
it
as
a
priority
in
our
bills
that
the
city
comes.
We
will
be
able
to
announce
some
of
those
once
we
finish
really
reviewing
all
of
the
capital
plans
with
the
mayor.
O
Remember:
we've
had
three
mayors
in
the
past
three
years,
and
so
that
has
made
it
more
challenging
to
to
really
you
know,
make
make
these
kinds
of
large
commitments,
and
so
now
marwoo
has
her
four-year
term
she's
gonna,
I
know,
make
some
some
commitments
around
facilities
and
we'll
be
able
to
announce
those
very
shortly.
BK
Or
would
you
if
I
could
just
add-
and
I'm
sorry
I
know
you
you're-
on
a
timer
but
I'll,
be
brief,
two
things
about
this
project.
Well,
the
first
is
the
the
msba
has
said
to
us
that
they
know
that
we
need
to
build
elementary
schools
and
they've
been
looking
for
us
to
submit
core
traditional
elementary
school
as
part
of
the
msba
process.
So
we
think
that
this
fits
within
their
expectations,
for
what
we're
going
to
do
as
a
city-
and
it
also
is
building
condition-
is
something
that
will
elevate
a
project.
BK
The
other
thing
I
just
wanted
to
add
was
on
the
horace
mann
project
it.
It
was
a
a
project
that
was
complicated
in
the
sense
that
the
horseman
not
only
has
their
elementary
and
secondary
school
program,
but
they
also
offer
community
programs,
including
amazing
program
for
parents
who
have
infant
infants
with
hearing
loss,
and
so
that
program
doesn't
fit
neatly
within
the
msba's
project
scope,
and
so
that
was
part
of
the
reason
why
the
msba
did
not
did
not
accept
the
project
and
so
we're
much
more
optimistic
about
both
of
these
programs.
BK
Either
way,
though,
the
city
is
committed
to
moving
forward,
we
recognize
the
need
for
a
new
building
for
the
blackstone,
and
so
we're
excited
about
this
project
gaining
traction.
L
And
then
I
I
hear
that
on
course,
man,
it's
just
you
know
you
can
imagine
for
them
the
hard
part
is
it
took
a
year
to
for
them
to
find
out
that
this
was
not
the
type
of
project
that
the
msba
prefers
to
fund
and
so
they're
just
one
more
year
away
from
closer
to
to
to
a
promise
that
has
felt
sort
of
unkept
for
a
longer
amount
of
time.
The
last
question
I
have
here
is
just
around
the
otis.
Is
this
for
both
of
the
sites
or
just
the
the
one.
BK
BK
A
Thank
you,
dr
alkins.
Did
you
have
a
question.
C
No,
I
I
think
it
partially
kind
of
got
answered,
but
I
mean
I'll.
Oh
I'm
thinking
more
along
the
lines
of.
C
How
are
we
sort
of
continuing
to
make
sure
that
upgrades
are
being
made
in
parallel?
You
know
at
with
this
process
we're
we're
kind
of.
I
know
things
will
continue
to
progress.
I
hope,
but
I'm
just
thinking
of
so
what
degree
do
we
need
to
be
working
with
the
the
city
to
really
push
that
things
are
not
necessarily
that
that
families
are
not.
C
You
know,
I
don't
relegate
it
to
the
position
of
you're,
just
not
going
to
see
these
benefits
or
that
you
know
you
have
to
be
part
of
the
next
generation
of
students
that
go
into
this
to
be
able
to
see
the
benefits.
I
think
you
know
it's.
I
mean
it's
not
necessarily
the
best
position
for
for
anyone,
so
I'm
just
wondering
what
we're
doing
in
parallel
with
this
process,
to
sort
of
ensure
that
improvements
are
being
made
there,
and
I
don't
want
to
discount
any
of
the
work.
N
O
We
can
certainly
provide
that
as
well.
I
see
she's
turned
on
her
camera.
AD
So
my
dogs
pick
perfect
timing,
so
I
do
I
was
going
to
mention
that
we
do
have
several
projects
that
are
still
going
on,
despite
the
fact
that
we
are
submitting
these
students
for
msba.
It
doesn't
stop
us
from
working
on
smaller
capital
projects
and
additional
other
projects
within
the
buildings.
So
we
and
I
can
definitely
go
ahead.
I
was
trying
to
text
my
ed
for
facilities.
We
could
definitely
get
you
a
summary
of
some
of
the
work
that
is
happening
specifically
at
the
black
zone
as
well.
AD
U
Q
Robinson
appreciate
the
patience,
so
I
I
know
that
this
is
a
complicated
question,
but
I'm
just
gonna
word
vomit
and
hope
that
it
makes
sense
so
I've
been
thinking
about
enrollment
and
that
we
know
that
we've
been
seeing
some
trends
for
for
various
years
on
enrollment
decline
and
I'm
thinking
about
these
projects
so
specific
to
well
both.
Q
I
guess
it's
both
when
we're
thinking
about
putting
forth
these
projects,
we're
saying
that
there's
overcrowding
for
sixth
grade,
but
that's
currently
right
and
we
we're
not
building
for
currently
we're
building
for
eight
ten
years
from
now,
and
so
do
we
have
information
on
enrollment
projection
as
it
relates
to
these
school
communities.
Q
For
when
we're
thinking
about
like
making
this
proposal
for
these
particular
school
communities,
am
I
making
sense?
How
are
we
thinking
about
enrollment
in
choosing
school
communities,
not
current
enrollment
projected
enrollment
numbers
and
making
these
decisions.
BK
That's
a
really
great
question,
and
so
I
think
the
the
the
truth
is
that
we
need
to
be
upgrading
so
many
of
our
buildings
that
the
risk
of
us
launching
a
major
school
building
project
in
any
neighborhood
upgrading
a
building
and
then
not
needing
that
building
is,
is
a
two
decades
from
now.
BK
Probably
we
the
we
can
start
to
look
at
in
any
given
neighborhood
the
relative
demand
of
the
schools,
and
you
can
start
to
estimate
that
if
an
individ
in
a
particular
population
declined,
would
the
otis
be
the
school
that
had
declining
enrollment.
In
this
case,
the
otis
has
been
a
popular
school.
It
is
where
it's
located.
BK
East
boston
is
a
place
that
we
know
we
want
to
operate
a
school
for
a
long
time
and
because
we're
talking
about
upgrading
21st
century
spaces
that
don't
exist,
we
know
that
it's
going
to
be
able
to
help
that
school
community
not
do
things
like
esl
classrooms
under
a
stairwell
things
that
have
been
unacceptable
and
existing
in
our
buildings.
BK
In
the
case
of
the
blackstone
they've
been
a
long-standing
community,
it's
a
large
school
by
boston
standards
right
in
the
middle
of
the
south
end,
it's
a
building
that
we
know.
We
need
a
parcel,
that's
perfect
for
us
for
for
the
long
term,
so
these
are
very
low
risk
projects
and
I
think
that's
the
case
when
we
start
to
look
at
new
buildings
in
roxbury.
We
look
at
new
buildings
in
dorchester
and
matapan,
which
we've
already
announced
we're
doing.
BK
We
need
brand
new
buildings
in
every
neighborhood,
we're
not
at
risk
of
opening
a
building
that
won't
have
students
in
it.
We
may
be
talking
about
merging
multiple
school
communities
into
a
new
building,
which
we've
already
talked
about
with
the
irving
project
in
roslindale,
but
that's
that's
an
opportunity
for
people
to
get
something
new
and
be
part
of
an
exciting
new
project.
Q
That's
that's
fair
and
I
think
that
that
that
makes
sense,
my
follow-up
to
that
two
follow-ups.
Q
One
is
right:
now
I
just
got
my
notification
that
I
will
have
two
children
in
bps
next
year,
so
very
exciting
and
I've
already
accepted
that,
but
there
are
folks
who
are
accepting
their
invitations
to
schools
without
perhaps
knowing
what
the
future
of
their
school
will
be,
and
so
you
just
mentioned
the
possibility
of
mergers
in
some
communities
for
this.
For
these
two
particular
schools.
Q
BK
All
of
the
decisions,
all
of
the
things
that
will
impact
the
school
communities
for
next
school
year
have
been
vetted
by
the
school
committee
already
and
part
of
the
work.
We're
trying
to
do
is
raise
the
sort
of
any
changes
that
we're
proposing
early
enough
so
that
families
have
time
to
respond.
BK
But
you
know
we're
always.
You
know
in
a
place
where
we
are
trying
to
provide
the
community
with
as
much
information
as
we
have
when
we
have
it,
and
so
there's
there's
no
we're
not
withholding
information,
but
we
will
be
launching
community
engagement
around
other
school
changes.
You
know
likely
in
the
next
few
months
and
over
the
next
year.
You
know
it's
been
a
topic
for,
for
the
entire
budget
season
was
what.
How
are
we
going
to
respond
to
enrollment
declines.
Q
And
then
my
final
question
as
it
relates
to
these
particular
school
communities.
Has
there
been
a
community
engagement
process
like?
Are
those
school
communities
aware
that
they
are
being
proposed
for
this?
Are
they
excited?
Have
they
been
a
part
of
the
process?
What
does
that
look
like.
BK
The
and
I'm
wondering
if
indy
or
megan
may
want
to
talk
more
about
the
notification.
They've
been
notified.
That
they'll
be
part
of
the
process,
but
I
think,
to
be
honest,
these
school
building
projects
feel
very
abstract
to
families
until
they
start
to
see
things
like
the
designs
it
was.
It
was
really
when
we
started
to
show
the
designs
of
the
new
carter
school
to
the
school
community.
BK
That
excitement
really
starts
to
ramp
up
about
their
involvement,
and
so
you
know
right
now
it
feels
pretty
abstract
for
school
communities
about
a
new
school
building.
I'm
sure
that
there
will
be
some
relief,
but
still
some
frustration
about.
Q
About
the
impact
of
potentially
having
to
have
swing
space
or
what
that
could
look
like
like
there
are
implications,
even
though
they
may
not
necessarily
see
the
fruits
of
it
while
they're
in
that
building,
they
will
be
impacted
by
the
fact
that
this
is
happening.
So
that's
more
where
my
thinking
is.
O
I
think
that
ms
lapera,
the
the
issue
here,
is
like
looking
at
the
entire
district
comprehensively
making
a
recommendation
on
the
projects
that
will
be
on
the
project
plan,
then
being
able
to
go
to
the
school,
the
school
communities
and
talk
with
them.
The
normal
bps
outline
and
timeline
that
we
gave
last
year
was
that
we
would
make
major
announcements
in
may.
BL
Got
it
superintendent?
I
do
want
to
add
a
couple,
important
tools
that
I
think
we're
also
investing
in
you
know
I
think
chief
alvarez
has
shared
the
building
list.
You
know
that
we're
working
from
and
using
the
best
information
we
have,
but
her
team
is
also
leading
the
work
around
the
facilities,
condition
assessment,
and
you
know
we.
BL
We
do
have
a
lot
of
information
right
now
to
know
that
a
number
of
our
buildings
need
major
investments
and
we
need
to
engage
with
communities
on
what
the
options
might
be,
but
I
also
think
that
we're
also
investing
in
stronger
tools
that
are
going
to
better
inform
future
decisions
as
well-
and
you
know
I
know
that
folks
are
rightfully
impatient.
BL
I
think
we
all
are
including
the
superintendent
and
including
our
mayor,
and
so
that
work
is
happening
now,
and
you
know
we're
very
grateful
that
we
do
have
stability
at
the
city
side
right
now,
and
so
we're
able
to
do
this
longer
term
planning.
BK
How
behaved
we
were
nobody
started
talking?
We
all
waited
patiently.
L
L
If
a
decision
has
already
been
made-
and
I
think
just
now
connecting
this
to
a
question-
this
sort
of
connects
to
where
my
I
think
my
struggle
is
over
the
last
few
times-
we've
had
to
vote
or
talk
about
some
of
these
bigger
capital
projects.
And
I
you
know
we're
being
asked
to
vote
on
two
discrete
and
and
important
projects,
but
without
a
real
understanding
of
the
city-wide
neighborhood
by
neighborhood
enrollment
projections
and
building.
L
O
The
that's
really
good
question
and
one
that
the
chair
constantly
is
asking
about.
What's
the
comprehensive
long-term
facility
plan
we've
engaged
with
pfd
and
our
operations
team,
with
chief
alvarez
on
a
process
that
will
hopefully,
over
the
next
12
months,
provide
that
to
you
she's
already
done
a
good
laid
a
strong
foundation
with
a
building
utilization
background,
spreadsheet
dashboard
that
can
inform
some
of
this
early
work
until
we
have
the
full
updated
building
utilization
from
this
outside
vendor.
Who
is
going
to
be
working
with
us
over
the
next
12
months?
O
Hopefully
once
that
is
in
place,
that
will
then
provide
a
lot
of
information
alongside
the
racial
equity
planning
tool
in
order
to
gauge
communities
and
get
on
a
cycle
so
that
everybody
will
know
when's
their
turn.
You
know,
what's
going
to
be
done,
what
projects
are
needed
within
their
school
building
up
until
then,
we
have
kind
of
I
call
it
low
hanging
fruit
of
announcements.
We've
already
made
last
year,
work
that
we
are
still
working
on
like
the
horsemen
and
school,
like
the
three
middle
schools
that
we
closed
in
the
repurposing
of
those.
O
The
continued
continued
expansion
of
our
k-5s
to
k-6
and
our
high
schools,
you
know-
are
really
the
priority
on
on
the
list,
and
so
we're
just
needing
a
little
bit
more
time
for
the
mayor
to
completely
understand
that
as
well,
so
that
we
can
get
the
dedicated
funding
in
order
to
come
to
the
public
with
some
some
sort
of
draft
that
they
can
respond
to
over
the
next
five
months.
Prior
to
any
final
decision
being
made.
O
So
decisions
haven't
been
made,
proposals
will
have
been
made
and
those
proposals
because
they
involve
multiple
school
communities,
will
need
to
be
considered
by
not
only
that
individual
school
committee,
but
by
the
school
community,
but
by
the
school
committee
as
a
whole
and
looking
at
all
of
the
projects
and
what?
What
we?
What
we'd,
be
able
to
prioritize
with
the
funding
that
the
city
is
willing
to
allocate.
L
Okay,
thank
you
for
that,
and-
and
I
I
appreciate
it,
I
am
the
only
other
thing
I'll
ask,
and
I
think
this
is
in
almost
a
preview
of
what
I
know
is
to
come
as
we're
going
to
be
talking
about
the
broader
capital
budget
and
the
the
capital
plan
here
is.
I
think
it
would
be
helpful
in
these
conversations,
while
we
may
not
have
that
dashboard
and
the
bigger
system-wide
analysis.
Yet
I
think
it
would
be
helpful
to
understand
how
we,
how
and
why
we
are
prioritizing
these
schools
and
what
data
is
informing
that
decision.
L
I
know
that
it
feels
like
low-hanging
fruit,
but
I
think
if
you
ask
a
lot
of
families
across
the
city,
they
feel
like
their
school
is
low-hanging
fruit,
and
so
we
are
making
choices
and
those
are
informed
by
by
data
and
a
careful
analysis,
and
I
think
it
would
be
helpful
for
us
to
know
what
that
is.
Even
in
its
current
structure,
I
think
it
would
be
helpful
for
the
general
public
and
I
think,
as
we're
looking
at
a
broader
portfolio
of
capital
improvements
from
msba
funding
to
the
upcoming
capital
plan.
BL
Mr
carter
hernandez,
I
think
that
is
excellent
in
terms
of
preparing
us
for
the
presentation
that
we'll
be
bringing
in
may
and
june,
because
that's
exactly
the
kind
of
conversation
that
we're
going
to
have
and
chief
alvarez
and
her
team
have
done
a
phenomenal
job
really
for
the
districts.
You
know
first
time
in
our
history
having
a
comprehensive
list
of
at
least
understanding
the
baseline,
using
30
different
measures
of
of
you
know
things
like
boilers
and
roofs,
and
all
of
that
which
is
just
a
snapshot
in
time.
BL
So
it's
the
beginning
of
that
process,
and
it's
also
why
her
team
has
led
the
really
important
work
to
do
the
facilities
condition
assessment,
which
she's
much
more
eloquent
as
describing
than
I
am.
I
will
butcher
it
if
I
try,
but
it
you
know
it's
something
that
all
large
urban
districts
do
and
and
boston
hasn't
yet
and
that's
where
we're
really
falling
behind.
So
that's
the
work
that
we're
doing
right
now
to
be
able
to
bring
something
forward
in
may
and
june.
AD
I
just
want
to
add-
and
I
believe
that
ms
lapera
mentioned
this
a
couple
of
weeks
ago
regarding
the
the
fca
and
we
are,
the
vendor-
is
coming
to
the
side
to
the
boston
within
the
next
week
or
so
on.
To
start
the
work
and
the
facilities
condition
assessment,
so
we
are
actively
making
sure
that
we
have
something
that
you
can
look
at
is
it
will
be
public
and
it
will
be
in
a
website
that
can
be
looked
at
by
anyone
and
make
sure
that
you
know
exactly.
A
D
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
So
mr
kuda
just
help
me
out
on
the
otis.
This
is
the
property
that
the
city
bought
a
couple
of
years
ago.
When
it
became
available.
There
was
at
the
time
a
closed
school
building
on
it.
I
forget,
if
it
was
charter
or
parochial,
is
the
building
still
there
or
is
it
a
vacant
lot
now
I
have
not
been
by
it
in
a
couple
of
years.
To
be
honest
with
you.
D
Okay,
so
the
building
was
knocked
down,
but
that's
an
example
of
the
city
actually
noticing
the
availability
of
a
building
and-
and
so
the
city
purchased
it
a
few
years
ago,
with
the
express
intent
of
it's
an
opportunity
to
allow
the
otis
to
be
expanded.
As
I
recall,
okay-
and
I
also
I'm
actually
appreciative
the
blackstone
was-
is
involved.
D
You
know
we
have
kind
of
three
sets
of
buildings
in
the
city
right,
those
that
were
built
before
world
war
ii
that
are
old,
that
are
small,
that
are
actually
solid,
as
can
be,
but
are
not
allowing
us
to
have
21st
opportunities,
so
not
allowing
us
to
have
gymnasiums
and
auditoriums
and
art
classes
and
nurses,
buildings
and
so
on
and
so
forth.
Then
we
have
those
that
were
built
in
the
60s
and
early
70s
that
are
big
they're
fairly
voluminous.
D
Many
of
them
were
built
at
this
open
concept.
It
could
be
the
harvard
kent,
it
could
be
the
old
agassi.
You
know
where
the
margarita
munez
is
now
it
could
be.
The
jackson
man
we
had
to
close
the
west
roxbury
school
building,
which
we
had
to
close
the
blackstone
is,
is
the
same
model,
so
I'm
glad
we're
actually
getting
ahead
of
the
game
there,
because
we
did
not
at
the
west
roxbury
complex
and
at
the
jackson,
man
and
they
deteriorated
so
bad.
We
actually
had
to
close
them.
D
So
it's
unfortunate
that
these
buildings
that
were
built
in
the
70s
both
are
not
really
functional
right
now
and
have
more
problems
than
the
buildings
built
pre-world
war
ii.
I
think-
and
so
I'm
glad
we're
tackling
that.
I
think
I
agree
with
my
colleagues.
D
So
the
dearborn
was
the
first
one
that
was
built
in
years
after
you
know,
there's
a
huge
gap
between
orchard
gardens
and
the
dearborn,
and
then
we
have
the
dearborn
and
boston
arts
academy
is
about
to
come
online
and
boy.
That's
been
probably
an
eight-year
project
trying
to
figure
out
were
they
going
to
share
it
with
fenway
or
not
and
then
finally
get
it
built
and
the
carter
school
is
in
the
pipeline.
D
D
They're,
seeing
huge
cost
increases
because
of
what's
going
on
in
the
general
world
right
now,
so
cost
for
steel
and
construction
materials
and
all
that
is
going
up
and
it's
affecting
that
project
and
will
affect
other
projects
as
well,
because
the
msba
caps
what
they
pay
so
the
rest
we
gotta
go
back
to
the
city
and
say:
okay,
the
cost
just
rolls
5
million.
We
need
the
city
to
pick
up,
that
5
million,
etc.
D
History
has
proven
in
other
cities
that,
when
you
build
new
parents
want
to
be
there,
because
the
students
of
this
children
are
getting
all
the
amenities
that
we
know
and
needed
for
our
students
to
survive
in
school.
Not
survive
thrive.
Excuse
me
in
school,
so
we
need
to
see
the
master
plan
and
what
are
the
goals
all
across
the
city?
I
think
that
will
allow
people
to
buy
in
more
versus
thinking
of
well.
D
How
did
they
get
the
project
and
we
didn't,
and
that
is
clearly
you
know
something
we
will
hear,
but
I'm
delighted
that
we're
trying
to
even
as
we're
working
on
a
master
plan
of
the
city
we're
trying
to
feed
that
pipeline
with
msba
and
keep
putting
new
projects
in
year
after
year,
because
for
a
number
of
years
we
did
not
do
that,
and
so
we
missed
a
gap
of
years
of
getting
the
msbae
to
approve,
because
why
shouldn't
the
msba
approving
one
to
two
projects
per
year
for
the
city
of
austin,
considering
how
many
schools
we
have
versus
you
know
the
one-off
in
other
parts
of
the
state.
D
A
Just
checking
for
any
last
questions
comments
I
just
have
one
and
again,
probably
in
our
next
phase,
we'll
be
able
to
answer
questions
like
this.
You
know
a
school
that
we've
often
heard
mentioned
around
the
needs
for
a
new
plan
has
been
the
mckinley
schools
programs.
Where
do
they
fit
into
this
as
we're
going
through
this
next
iteration.
O
A
O
Yeah
you
will.
You
will
hear
some
of
the
names
that
we've
repeatedly
heard,
where
there's
major
major
upgrades
needed
at
those
schools
either
for
program
or
you
know
just
for
building
so
you'll,
see
that
okay
well,
thank
you.
A
little
bit
longer.
You've
got
to
wait
just.
A
All
righty
thank
you
and
the
committee
looks
forward
to
taking
action
on
these
proposals
at
our
next
meeting.
Our
final
report
is
the
renewal
of
the
trans
deb
transportation
contract.
At
this
time.
I'd
like
to
invite
director
of
transportation
deliverance
stanislaus
to
please
present
her
report.
First
I'll
invite
the
superintendent
to
give
opening
remarks
well,.
O
This
one
should
be
fairly
easy.
Madam
chair
transdev
has
been
our
transportation
partner
and
they
manage
our
bus
driver
employees
in
our
yards,
in
collaboration
with
our
fantastic
director,
della
verne
stanislaus
and
her
team,
and
this
is
kind
of
you
know.
Our
only
opportunity
is
to
move
forward
with
them
so
that
we
can
secure
transportation
for
next
year,
and
then
I
think
you
know
this
is
their
last
year
for
a
one-year
renewal.
I
believe
in
the
current
contract,
so
we'll
have
to
issue
another
rfp.
O
So
I'll
turn
it
over
to
ms
stanislaus
to
provide
you
further
information
around
this
contract.
BM
BM
BM
Despite
ongoing
challenges
such
as
colvit
and
the
national
driver,
shortage
bpsdot
is
recommending
renewing
the
existing
transdev
contract
based
on
performance
improvement
achieved
by
transdev
during
this
school
year
and
last
school
year.
At
present,
we
have
completed
80
percent
of
a
new
ifb
to
select
a
vendor
to
manage
our
yellow
bus
operations.
BM
BM
As
shown
on
this
slide,
our
team
has
significantly
improved
our
bus
on
time
performance.
Despite
the
current
driver
shortage
regarding
on-time
performance.
Our
progress
this
school
year
has
been
largely
driven
by
monthly
performance
reviews,
with
transdev
focus
on
identifying
areas
for
improvement
and
developing
and
executing
data-informed
action
plans.
A
Thank
you
I'll
now
open
it
up
to
the
committee
for
questions.
P
Thank
you,
madam
chair
appreciate
this
information.
Q
Q
While
we
put
out
a
new
well,
we
put
out
a
new
request
for
bids
potentially
for
a
new
operator
after
next
school
year.
Is
that
correct.
BM
Just
quick
clarification,
so
we
bps
entered
into
a
contract
with
transdev
in
july
of
2013,
so
the
contract
was
for
five
years
with
five
renewal
options.
So
this
is
so
where
we're
in
the
fourth
renewal
option
at
present
and
we're
requesting
the
final
renewal
option
for
the.
Q
Q
I
know
that
this
hasn't
been
just
unique
to
this
year,
because
I
know
I've
experienced
it
myself
as
a
parent
with
some
of
the
challenges
that
we
see,
especially
towards
the
beginning
of
the
school
year
and
then
in
the
fall
again
when
there's
like
the
rebidding
process,
and
so
I'm
just
and
clearly,
there's
been
improvement.
Q
Right,
like
you
see
like
as
the
year
goes
on,
you
see
that
there's
improvement
on
the
bus
on
time
performance,
but
I'm
wondering
what
do
you
all
see
as
the
some
of
the
pain
points
for
getting
us
to
that
on-time
performance
immediately
starting
in
the
school
year?
And
what
are
some
of
those
pain
points
that
are
within
the
district's
control
and
what
are
just
a
part
of
you
know
the
other
end
of
of
the
bargain.
BM
That's
a
good
question:
we're
working
through
a
few
different
things:
that's
like
within
our
control
as
a
transportation
team.
So
one
of
the
things
that
we
implemented
as
stated
on
this
slide,
is
the
monthly
performance
reviews.
So
we
have
audited,
we
had
transfer
audit
the
entire
operations
and
we
found
109
functional
areas
of
improvement
and
so
far
has
been
able
to
like
work
through
66
of
those
functional
areas
internally
in
transportation.
BM
BM
Also,
there
are
some
constraints
that
we're
also
working
through
through
contract
negotiations
with
our
unions
at
the
moment.
So
those
are
just
a
few
things
that
we're
kind
of
like
working
through
to
ensure
that
we
improve
our
on-time
performance
going
forward.
O
Things
as
well,
like
start
times,
walk
zones,
charter,
school
transportation,
special
education,
transportation
to
students
outside
of
the
district.
O
That
also
complicate
our
transportation
services,
and
those
are
the
more
complex
pieces
that
I
wanted
to
take
up
with
the
transportation
working
group
that
I
had
put
on
hold
because
of
the
bus
driver
negotiations
as
not
to
irritate
that
process.
O
O
It
is
extremely
difficult
to
reach
agreement
with
this
union
at
this
point
and
we
are
working
and
have
been
working
to
reach
agreement
on
the
operational
changes
that
we
need,
particularly
around
driver
attendance
as
we
seek
to
find
agreement
and
make
the
job
very
competitive
with
other
jobs
across
the
commonwealth
as
well,
because
the
labor
shortage
has
been
a
challenge
and
will
continue
to
be
a
challenge
into
the
future.
O
And
so
it's
really
urgent
for
us
to
settle
this
contract
and
have
that
put
is
put
put
down
so
that
we
can
make
sure
that
we're
able
to
have
transportation
this
summer
and
this
fall
and
have
a
driver
for
every
single
one
of
our
buses.
L
It
gets
better,
but
it
starts
off
really
rocky
and
it
can
sometimes
feel
really
unreliable,
particularly
for
some
of
the
most
vulnerable
students
like
our
young
people
with
disabilities
and
at
the
same
time
we
sort
of
have
our
hands
tied
behind
our
back
right,
because
this
is
not
the
time
to
change
vendors.
L
We
are
not
in
a
position
of
power
to
be
able
to
handle
this
sort
of
turbulence,
given
the
pandemic,
that's
the
national
staffing
shortage
and,
of
course,
the
departure
of
the
superintendent,
but
I
do
think
what
probably
is
coming
up
at
least
what's
coming
up
for
me
are
like
things
that
we
want
to
be
thinking
about
for
the
rfb
in
the
future
and
also
you
know
a
sort
of
perfect
world
contract
negotiation
with
with
the
union.
L
So
I'm
just
I'm
saying
sort
of
this
is
less
question
more
just
sort
of
like
naming.
The
fact
is
where
I'm
gonna
move
into
a
process
where
I'm
voting.
Yes,.
AO
L
Where
I'm
also
voting
yes
on
something
that
I
know
hasn't
actually
been
that
great
for
so
many
of
our
families
and
it's
complicated
and
I'm
sure
everyone
in
bps
is
feeling
that
way,
who's
bringing
that
forward.
Today,
though,.
O
L
O
Think
I
need
to
be
clear,
though,
that
it's
not
our
contractor,
necessarily
we've
deleverne
and
her
team.
Alongside
you
know,
pat
brophy,
when
he
was
there
at
pfd,
had
really
helped
us
work
on
our
operational
effectiveness
with
transdev
and
they
had
a
full
turnover
from
ceo,
their
general
manager,
their
their
yard
managers,
and
they
have
been
working
and
are
good,
have
been
good
partners
with
us.
It
is
a
challenging.
O
O
I
would
say
that
it
is
our
contracts
that
need
to
be
settled
and
it
is
the
harder
decision
that
the
school
committee
is
going
to
have
to
make
around
the
start
times
and
pressuring
the
state
around
charter,
school
transportation
and
also
looking
at
our
assignment
system
within
bill
pps.
Those
three
things
highly
contribute
to
our
our
on-time
performance.
That's
why
I'm
saying
this
is
so
complex,
but
I
don't
think
it's
the
trans
dev
contract
that
is
at
issue
here,
necessarily.
Certainly,
there
are
performance
reasons
and
we
work
on
those
with
them
around
managing
their
employees.
O
However,
I
don't
think
that
that's
the
biggest
thing
now
I
don't
know
delavar
and
a
few
would
disagree
and
I
welcome
disagreement,
but
you
know
for
our
decision
tonight.
I
don't
think
that
this
is
the
number
one
thing
that's
impacting
our
on-time
performance.
BM
Now
the
one
thing
that
I
want
to
name
brenda
and
just
to
everyone,
so
we
did
have
issues
with
the
contract
before
I'm
not
going
to
say
like
it
was
all
peaches
and
cream
at
all.
We
did
have
significant
issues.
There
has
been
reorgs
both
internally
at
bps
and
on
the
contractor
contractors
and
which
I've
led
a
few
different
processes.
BM
We
got
a
new
general
contract
on
the
transdev
end
and
I
think
the
audit,
the
bi-weekly
working
group
and
the
monthly
performance
reviews
for
accountability,
like
transparent
accountability,
has
led
to
like
major
like
major
like
visible
improvements.
BM
However,
I
think
the
dr
not
that
I
think
I
know
that
the
driver
shortage
this
year
has
really
impacted
a
lot
of
that
work
right,
because
a
lot
of
people
is
like
not
seeing
it
clearly
because
they're
like
we're
still
having
these
issues.
However,
at
this
where
we
are
right
now,
it's
definitely
not
the
it's,
not
the
contractor,
but
don't
get
me
wrong,
there's
still
room
for
more
improvement.
BM
L
BM
The
on-time
performance
that's
presented
on
the
slide
today
is
just
the
am
on
time
performance.
We
do
have
the
pm
on
time
performance
that
we
started
pulling.
So
we
can
share
that
information
if
needed.
O
And
we
also
started
reporting
to
the
state
on
drop
drops
as
well
in
that
on-time
performance.
So
we
have
all
that
data.
You
know
it
isn't
as
big
of
a
drop
as
you
might
expect.
I
think
it
was
a
two
percent
drop
in
routes,
but
that's
still
two
percent
of
kids,
who
would
you
know,
miss
their
miss
their
school
and
get
their
15
minutes
later
than
what
they
should,
and
so
we
watch
that
now.
O
But
I
do
believe
that
if
we
were
fully
staffed,
we
would
be
seeing
90
to
95
on
time
performance,
each
and
every
day
in
the
afternoon
and
in
the
evenings.
If
we
had
the
labor
issue
resolved,
that's
how
that's,
how
good
of
a
job
that
dell
and
her
team
has
done
with
our
partners
transdev,
I'm
very,
very,
very
proud
of
the
deep
operational
work
that
they've
done,
but
we
are
not
fully
staffed
and
as
soon
as
we
get
fully
staffed,
we
end
up
losing
them
to
other
districts
because
they
have
signing
bonuses
or
other
things.
L
Well,
I
will
make
a
plug
for
our
own
schools
here
anytime,
I'm
hearing
that
we
are
experiencing
a
stafford
shortage
somewhere.
I
think
of
an
opportunity
for
our
own
career
and
technical
programs
to
be
able
to
fill
that
shortage,
and
you
know
these
are
good.
Middle-Class
jobs
and
oftentimes
are
the
the
sort
of
the
jobs
that
break
cycles
of
poverty
for
many
families.
L
So
I
think
there
is
a
solution
here
that
we
can
have
a
conversation
about
at
another
date,
but
we
could
be
filling
filling
these
jobs
by
training
our
own
students
to
take
those
on
after
they
graduate.
BM
Yep,
I
think
that's
a
great
point
and
in
the
background,
we're
doing
some
of
that
work
like
we're
talking
to
we
started
talking
to
this,
the
director
of
the
city
fleet.
Today
I
was
at
madison
park
like
we're
like
we're.
Having
conversations,
I
I
but
I
I
definitely
agree
with
you.
Yeah.
BM
So
before
the
start
of
the
school
year,
the
drivers
have
a
week
about
a
week
to
do
dry,
runs
of
their
routes
for
the
upcoming
school
year.
Y
C
And
thank
you
for
the
the
presentation.
Mine
is
actually
just
thinking
ahead
more
long
lines.
I
I'm
very
curious
about
the
process
for
the
development
of
the
the
next
contract
and
when
that
process
starts-
and
you
know
when
you
all
are
starting
to
put
together
all
of
the
data,
that's
going
to
influence
that
description.
BM
Yep
we
are,
we
have
already
started
we're
actually
80
complete
with
the
drafting
of
the
next
ifb
and
we're
hoping
to
get
well,
not
hoping
we
have
to
get
that
out
by
late
summer
of
this
year.
O
Another
piece
just
to
be
fully
transparent
is
because
of
the
reputation
and
the
challenge
in
boston.
You
know
we
engaged
a
professional
team
to
help
us
with
that
ifp.
So
delavern
has
been
working
with
this
group
so
that
we
could
make
it
look
as
advantage.
You
know
advantageous
as
possible
to
other
bidders
because
we
anticipate
we
may
not
get
other
bidders
on
it.
That's
why
another
reason
why
it's
so
important
to
get
this
driver
contract
settled
so
that
we
can
then
have
a
successful
bid.
BM
Yes,
so
as
part
of
the
process,
the
consulting
group
that
we're
working
with
has
in
it
has
interviewed,
like
some
of
our
community
partners,
there's
still
some
conversations
that
we
have
to
have
in
order
to
complete
the
process.
So,
yes,
thank
you.
A
AR
Thank
you,
madam
chair.
You
cannot
expect
a
new
superintendent
to
hit
the
ground
running
if
there
is
not
a
strong
plan
for
the
next
academic
year.
If
you
wait
for
the
superintendent
to
arrive
due
to
bps's
timelines,
they
will
be
stuck
in
an
unworkable
plan
for
the
upcoming
year.
That
will
be
difficult
to
change.
Bps
must
hold
itself
accountable
to
create
an
academic
plan
based
on
the
results
from
past
years,
with
the
focus
on
academic
acceleration
of
students.
AR
Bps
must
also
begin
by
resolving
the
btu
contract.
Special
education
must
be
reconstructed
now.
Inclusion
must
have
appropriate
staffing,
inclusion,
facilitators,
research
and
job
and
embedded
professional
development
with
a
clear
focus
on
racial
equity.
Early
childhood
content
must
be
research-based
and
structures
for
universal
screening
interventions
as
needed
in
progress.
Monitoring
bps
must
hold
a
little,
must
build
a
literacy
infrastructure
that
includes
reading
interventionists
and
adopt
anti-racist
curriculum,
as
well
as
expand
ethnic
studies.
There
must
be
a
systematic
approach
to
emotional
wellness
rooted
in
restorative
justice,
including
targeted
supports
for
students
who
need
mental
health.
AR
Supports
madam
chair.
Thank
you
so
much
for
asking
about
the
mckinley
schools.
It
is
disappointed
disappointing
that
the
district
still
has
no
answer.
Mr
cooter,
you
go
from
a
five
million
dollar
project
to
a
new
school
plan
to
be
submitted
to
msba
that
may
take
up
to
10
years
when
there
is
unfinished
business
with
long-term,
neglected
facilities
like
mckinley
schools,
madison
park
and
finding
a
permanent
home
for
horace
mann.
You
have
no
answers
for
this.
Mr
quarter.
Notification
is
not
community
engagement
or
racial
equity.
AR
AR
Bps
must
create
an
equity
infrastructure
with
supports,
embedded
and
aligned
with
racial
equity
that
impacts
all
policies,
practices
and
procedures,
with
real
support
at
each
and
every
school,
guided
by
a
high-performing,
dynamic,
multi-ethnic
team
that
gives
voice
to
culturally
responsive
community
engagement
and
best
practices.
Will
you
do
this
work?
If
you
don't
you'll,
just
be
setting
up
the
next
superintendent
for
failure
and
we
will
continue
to
fight
you
until
we
get
the
racial
equity
and
justice
that
our
students
and
families
deserve.
Thank
you.
So
much
and
good
night
chair.
D
Madam
chairman,
I
strictly
say
I
hope
that
miss
mercer
can
give
a
college
update
at
our
next
school
committee
meeting.
I
know
it's
getting
to
be
that
time
of
year
and
you
know
on
behalf
of
all
the
college
seniors
who
have
getting
their
acceptances
and
making
their
decision
come.
May
first
look
forward
to
hearing
from
miss
mercer
what
her
plans
are.