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From YouTube: Visit to Brighton High School
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, School Committee Chair Jeri Robinson and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, hold a press availability during their visit to Brighton High School.
A
High
school
before
I
turn
things
over
to
the
mayor
and
the
superintendent,
I
just
want
to
thank
both
of
them
for
their
incredible
support
of
brighton
high
school
and
the
comprehensive
high
schools
throughout
boston
through
through
the
superintendent's
work.
The
last
three
years,
brighton
high
school
has
been
able
to
expand
significantly
what
we're
offering
to
our
students,
advanced
classes,
pathway,
programs
and
health
careers,
business
and
entrepreneurship,
and
we've
been
able
to
expand
our
language
offerings.
A
We're
offering
spanish
and
arabic
to
our
student
body
as
well
as
our
arts
electives
we're
a
school
whose
enrollment
has
grown
significantly.
In
the
past
year,
our
enrollment
were
over
100
students.
More
than
was
projected
so
we're
seeing
increase
in
engagement,
increase
in
rigor
increase
in
opportunities,
and
it's
really
what
students
at
every
comprehensive
high
school
every
high
school
in
the
city
should
have,
and
so
I'm
deeply
grateful
to
the
superintendent
for
her
unwavering
support
of
high
schools.
Her
unwavering
support
of
brighton
high
school,
as
well
as
the
mayor
as
a
city
councilor
incredible
support.
A
B
Thanks
everybody
for
being
here
and
thank
you
principal
bot,
for
your
incredible
leadership,
we're
just
so
excited,
what's
happening
here
at
brighton,
high
school.
On
my
hashtag
in
my
twitter,
I
say
brighton
rising
as
we
can,
as
you
just
heard,
from
principalbot.
They
have
instituted
a
lot
of
the
career
and
college
ready
standards
here
for
the
mass
core.
They've
also
implemented
career
programming,
around
entrepreneurship
and
biomedical
science
with
the
hospital
just
across
the
street.
B
Great
opportunities
to
extend
partnerships
so
excited
about
brighton
and
what
principal
bot
and
his
team
have
been
able
to
do
here
and
the
incredible
dedicated
educators
that
are
here
within
these
buildings
after
this
really
difficult
pandemic,
just
getting
it
done,
showing
up
for
our
kids
each
and
every
day.
Just
amazing.
B
The
custodial
staff,
the
food
nutrition
staff,
all
of
the
staff
in
here
from
the
nurse
to
our
head
secretary-
they
are
getting
it
done
each
and
every
day
for
our
kids-
and
I
just
I
wanted
you
all
to
see
it
and
to
speak
about
it
because
brighton
is
on
the
rise.
Thank
you.
It's
part
of
our
our
high
school
redesign
and
the
work
that
we're
doing
across
all
of
the
city
schools.
B
C
Okay,
thank
you
all,
I'm
so
glad
to
see
you
all
this
morning
and,
as
the
superintendent
said,
we're
very
happy
to
be
here
at
brighton,
high
school.
As
you
know,
from
just
a
school
committee
meeting
to
a
couple
of
weeks
ago,
we've
started
the
high
school
redesign
process
and
throughout
this
transition
this
work
will
continue.
C
Getting
it
right
for
all
of
our
students
is
the
work
of
the
district,
and
we
cannot
stop
now
so
as
we
get
ready
to
go
into
the
search,
we'll
be
able
to
tell
you
more
about
our
plans
after
we've
at
our
next
school
committee
meeting,
which
is
february
15th.
So
we
look
forward
to
beginning
this
process
and
sharing
all
of
that
with
you
at
that
time.
So.
D
D
Cassellius
observed
that
when
you
walk
through
the
main
hallway,
there's
a
tiger
right
up
right
on
top
for
to
mark
the
brighton
bengals,
and
so
in
this
year
of
the
tiger,
this
will
be
a
year
for
brighton
rising,
as
well
as
all
of
our
high
schools,
and
to
continue
building
on
the
progress
that
I'm
so
grateful
to
the
superintendent
and
the
school
committee
and
all
of
our
school
leaders
and
community
members
for
bringing
forward.
We
had
the
chance
to
spend
some
time
with
students
upstairs
in
the
business
classroom.
D
Most
of
the
students
I
spoke
to
were
juniors,
were
they
all
juniors
or
okay,
a
junior
classroom
focus
on
entrepreneurship.
Just
every
time
you
set
foot
in
one
of
our
schools.
It's
it's
inspiring
to
see
just
what
our
young
people
are
doing,
just
how
excited
they
are
for
careers
ahead
for
the
ideas
they
have.
We
heard
I
I
heard
dreams
for
a
restaurant
that
would
serve
dominican
food
as
a
business
that
would
come
out
of
the
class.
D
I
heard
dreams
for
building
bigger,
bigger
businesses
in
boston,
and
we
know
that
the
supports
that
the
district
has
provided
continue
to
make
that
possible
every
day,
and
so
I
am
so
grateful
to
superintendent
cassellius
for
her
steadfast
leadership.
Her
grace
her
courage,
her
unwavering
commitment
to
equity
for
our
young
people.
E
B
Nothing's
pushing
me
out
the
door,
I'm
still
here
for
five
months,
rolling
up
my
sleeves.
Getting
this
work
done
each
and
every
day
and
just
excited
about
the
work
that
we've
been
able
to
accomplish.
Brighton
is
a
great
example
of
the
high
school
work,
with
the
passage
of
the
mass
core
and
the
wonderful
work
that
we've
been
able
to
do
instituting
social
workers
and
family
liaisons
and
counselors
and
psychologists
in
our
our
schools.
B
E
D
You
could
speak
to
any
school
leader
who's
been
in
the
district
for
a
while.
You
could
speak
to
so
many
of
our
families,
who
have
been
so
eager
to
dig
in
and
and
to
keep
moving
forward
in
the
district,
and
it
always
is
part
of
the
conversation
that
boston
has
the
potential
and
continues
to
move
towards
that
potential.
D
But
stability
is
is
a
challenge,
and
so
you
know
we
have
had
some
incredible
incredible
wins
under
the
leadership
of
superintendent
cassellius
and
over
the
last
few
years
we
are
a
city
that
continues
to
be
surrounded
by
resources
and
a
place
where
our
educational
system
will
be
on
track
to
be
that
that
leading
school
district
connecting
every
every
one
of
our
young
people
with
opportunity-
and
so
I
know
changes
are
always
tough.
We
are
under
going
through
a
lot
of
change
across
the
city
right
now,
we're
underway
with
our
police.
Commissioner
search.
D
We
are
continuing
to
build
out
our
cabinet
in
city
hall,
we're
hiring
for
four
positions
around
chief
of
planning
to
oversee
the
planning
and
development
process
and
reforms
that
are
needed
there.
Chief
for
the
green
new
deal,
a
chief
information
officer
chief
of
human
services,
and
so
you
know
in
this
moment
there
is
a
lot
of
urgency
of
what
we
need
to
get
done,
but
so
much
opportunity
to
continue.
Building
on
the
foundation
that
we've
seen
happen
over
the
last
few
years.
D
You
know
I
won't
I
I
I
won't
speak
for
the
superintendent
or
other
superintendents.
This
is
an
incredible
district.
This
is
an
incredible
place
to
build
a
career
to
connect
with
our
young
people,
and
I'm
determined
that
we
will
continue
building
on
the
strong
partnerships
that
we
have
across
the
city
to
put
our
young
people
firmly
at
the
center
of
the
vision
for
where
boston's
headed.
D
And
so
this
is
not
about
creating
the
expectation
that
any
amazing
individual
is
going
to
be
able
to
step
in
and
and
save
the
world.
We
all
have
to
make
changes
together.
That's
the
ethos
that
superintendent
casselius
has
really
created.
I
believe
that
is
a
huge
part
of
her
legacy,
is
truly
opening
up
community
engagement
and
bringing
in
our
families
to
be
firmly
part
of
decision-making
processes,
and
that's
what
we'll
continue
to
do.
D
D
Our
school
committee
chair
here
I
mean,
for
my
part,
we
are
ready
and
are
starting
from
a
very
strong
place,
to
launch
this
transition
process.
The
school
committee
is
leading
that
process.
They
are
the
the
governing
body
that
sets
the
terms
of
that
search,
and
I
will
be
here
to
support
and
help
as
wherever
I
can.
B
C
We
have
made
significant
strides
and
getting
schools
to
move
to
a
new
place.
We
want
to
continue
those
things.
You
know
my
hope
will
be
that
we
will
be
talking
with
the
mayor,
we'll
be
talking
with
the
community,
we'll
be
looking
at
where
we
are
now
and
together.
We
will
decide
how
we
move
forward
together.
So
it's
too
soon
to
say
that
at
this
point
in
time,
as
I
said
earlier,
the
school
committee
will
have
its
first
meeting
on
february
15th.
C
D
We
have
continued
to
see
trends
in
the
right
direction.
The
reporting
that
happens
on
a
weekly
basis
shows
that
our
city-wide
community
positivity
rate
is
now
a
little
over
seven
percent.
Seven
point
four
percent.
I
believe
so
it's
been
coming
down
quickly
and
we
continue
to
monitor
those
metrics
very
closely.
D
We
are
looking
at
three
key
metrics,
which
are
icu
capacity,
hospitalizations
covet
hospitalization,
daily,
covet
hospitalizations
and
community
positivity
rate,
and
so
as
we
have
followed
that
data
and
continued
to
put
in
place
policies
that
will
look
to
boost
vaccination
and
look
to
ensure
that
we're
keeping
everyone
safe.
We're
also
looking
to
follow
that
data,
as
it
is
trending
in
the
right
direction,
and
so
the
boston
public
health
commission
has
set
three
key
thresholds
for
those
metrics
and,
as
those
metrics
change,
we're
looking
to
adjust
our
policies
as.
D
D
One
very
big
gap
that
we
are
monitoring
very
closely
and
looking
to
make
some
changes
on
is
our
disparities
in
terms
of
the
pediatric
vaccination
rate,
and
so
dr
ojikutu
and
the
boston
public
health
commission
are
planning
a
whole
series
of
events
and
neighborhood
level
community
level
outreach
so
that
over
february
school
vacation
there
will
be
a
big
big
focus
on
pediatric
vaccinations
as
well.
Is
there
a
number.
E
D
Once
we
are
under
all
three
of
those
thresholds,
we
intend
to
lift
the
business
proof
of
vaccination
requirement
as
it
stands
right
now.
We
are
already
under
that
threshold
for
icu
capacity.
We
are
at
seven
percent,
seven
point
four,
so
a
little
above
that
for
the
community
positivity
and
we're
at,
I
think,
387
daily
hospitalizations.
As
of
as
of
this
week.
One
note,
though,
because
I
can
already
see
everyone
going
to
the
website
and
checking
the
dashboards.
D
There
are
a
couple
different
positivity
rates
that
are
reported
at
this
at
the
boston,
public
health
commission's
dashboard,
so
just
to
be
clear,
we're
we're
referring
to
the
community
positivity
rate,
as
opposed
to
one.
That's
called
the
all
boston
positivity
rate
that
one
includes
large
swaths
of
surveillance
testing,
which
our
colleges
and
universities
conduct
they
test
every
single
student
and
faculty
member
on
a
regular
basis.
So
the
numbers
are
a
little
bit
different
of
an
average
compared
to
the
the
general
population.
So
we're
looking
at
the
community
positivity
rate
numbers.
E
E
E
B
We're
going
to
continue
to
look
at
the
deci
guidance
around
mass
mandates,
as
well
as
the
city
of
boston,
working
in
close
contact
with
dr
ojukutu
at
every
step
and
dr
saramar
sanchez.
Who
is
our
covert
response
clinician
at
the
district
right
now,
we
are
we're
holding
with
our
current
policies
that
we
have
at
this
time.