Organizing for equitable admissions to Boston’s long-segregated “Exam” Schools and restoring Boston’s civil right to vote for its School Committee.
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8th grader at Boston Latin Schl wrote poem about his neighborhood for class. A white ADULT somehow took a pic of it IN SCHOOL, blasted on social WITH CHILD’S NAME to gin up white outrage. Did school defend student?NO, they apologized to the racists who doxxed him. #bospoli
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
18 Jan 2024
99K Boston voters agree:
“At its core, restoring an elected School Committee in Boston is a voting rights issue, a civil rights issue & a racial justice issue, said Lisa Green…Vetoing a measure to redress these issues puts Mayor Wu at odds with basic progressive values”
#bospoli
18 Jan 2024
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu faces criticism from progressives bostonglobe.com/2024/01/18/m… via @BostonGlobe
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
18 Jan 2024
“At its core, restoring an elected School Committee in Boston is a voting rights issue, a civil rights issue & a racial justice issue…Vetoing a measure to redress these issues puts Mayor Wu at odds with basic progressive values”
[& 79% of voters]
Lisa Green
@ELECTtheBSC
#bospoli
18 Jan 2024
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu faces criticism from progressives bostonglobe.com/2024/01/18/m… via @BostonGlobe
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
16 Jan 2024
Fitzgerald: Channels impotent rage of parents unable to influence BPS decision making due to lack of transparency & accountability.
Also Fitzgerald: “Let’s keep it that way!”
John’s the only Councilor opposed to restoring Boston’s right to elect its School Committee🤷🏻♀️
#bospoli
12 Sep 2023
REMINDER: If you’re voting in District 3 today & care about restoring Boston’s ELECTED SCHOOL COMMITTEE, here’s where candidates stand:
❌NO CHANGE (MAYORAL CONTROL)
John FitzGerald
Matt Patton
✅ELECTED
Jennifer Johnson
Joel Richards
Barry Lawton
🟨HYBRID
Ann Walsh
#bospoli
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
5 Jan 2024
Lest we forget: The people claiming they want the most “qualified” people in presidential positions think Donald Trump is the most “qualified” person to be president of the United States.
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
14 Dec 2023
This just shows you the layers of racism & sexism. Claudine Gay is a GIANT in the political science discipline. She’s published solo-author in our top journals. Of a field that’s produced countless successful administrators, she’s the best of us. Yet, her merit is questioned?
6 Dec 2023
Are you skeptical that Harvard president Claudine Gay, who is paid over $1 million per year, was not chosen based on merit, but rather on her race and gender?
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RT @CarCarll: Faux outrage over a party invite leaked via @ErinforBoston’s birther sister has infested #bospoli w/racist trolls from across…
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
1 Nov 2023
Excellent coverage of the mass resignation of BPS English Learner Task Force members by Deanna Pan of the Globe.
bostonglobe.com/2023/10/31/m…
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
1 Nov 2023
The folks on this task force are some of the most respected educators in Boston. They know their ESL instruction. If they’re saying the plan ain’t it, the plan ain’t it. schoolyardnews.com/most-engl…
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
31 Oct 2023
79% voted for an ELECTED School Committee. @MayorWu ignored them— as she ignored her own task force & scholarly consensus to make this political decision. 1/3 of BPS is English learners—could reps elected by district—on BPS only—ignore their interests as fully as Wu has? #bospoli
31 Oct 2023
English Task Force members resign to protest BPS administration decision to put children who speak little English in classes where academic instruction is only in English.
“the plans as presented will be harmful”
#bostonschools #bilingualeducation #bospoli
schoolyardnews.com/most-engl…
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
31 Oct 2023
Interesting piece, but the headline? Is it unlikely when “anti-woke” racists who typically vote Dem align w/more established “Moms for Liberty”type hate groups who vote MAGA? Blue as MA is, white backlash has never been an “unlikely” event in metro Boston.
wgbh.org/news/education-news…
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
14 Oct 2023
By far the most powerful Israeli response I have seen.
This 19 year old girl survived the horrific massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri.
This is her message to her fellow Israelis and to the world.
Watch the whole thing.
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
12 Sep 2023
REMINDER: If you’re voting in District 3 today & care about restoring Boston’s ELECTED SCHOOL COMMITTEE, here’s where candidates stand:
❌NO CHANGE (MAYORAL CONTROL)
John FitzGerald
Matt Patton
✅ELECTED
Jennifer Johnson
Joel Richards
Barry Lawton
🟨HYBRID
Ann Walsh
#bospoli
30 Aug 2023
Live in District 3 & voted for ELECTED School Committee?
City Council must approve change.
Here’s where preliminary candidates stand:
✅ELECTED
Jennifer Johnson
Joel Richards
Barry Lawton
🟨HYBRID
Ann Walsh
❌NO CHANGE (MAYORAL CONTROL)
John FitzGerald
Matt Patton
#bospoli
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
30 Aug 2023
We said #Elected & nothing less.
30 Aug 2023
Live in District 3 & voted for ELECTED School Committee?
City Council must approve change.
Here’s where preliminary candidates stand:
✅ELECTED
Jennifer Johnson
Joel Richards
Barry Lawton
🟨HYBRID
Ann Walsh
❌NO CHANGE (MAYORAL CONTROL)
John FitzGerald
Matt Patton
#bospoli
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
30 Aug 2023
Live in District 3 & voted for ELECTED School Committee?
City Council must approve change.
Here’s where preliminary candidates stand:
✅ELECTED
Jennifer Johnson
Joel Richards
Barry Lawton
🟨HYBRID
Ann Walsh
❌NO CHANGE (MAYORAL CONTROL)
John FitzGerald
Matt Patton
#bospoli
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
17 Jan 2023
Racist parents used to throw rocks—now they file lawsuits. Boston again takes center stage in white backlash against integration of public schools in US & Darragh’s demagoguery’s been so pernicious, academics use it as case study👇🏼Timely paper @FordhamULJ
ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vo…
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
17 Jan 2023
Ms. Murphy (sister of City Councilor Erin) seized opportunity as soon as interim admissions policy was approved. Same white victimhood playbook she used leading PUMApac in ‘08 (origin of birther lie). Started FB group to gin white backlash for suit, fed em Pacific Legal w/in days
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
17 Jan 2023
Why such universal opposition? This was never just about a handful of kids in Boston. Darragh Murphy connected parents w/Koch-funded Pacific Legal so their case could be part of coordinated RW civil rights attack on Affirmative Action, Voting Rights Act…
nytimes.com/2022/02/16/us/sc…
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
17 Jan 2023
Attys General from 15 States & DC filed amicus brief against Boston Parents’ racist suit. Joining countless Asian American, Black & LatinX civil rights orgs, Natl Assoc for Gifted Children, heck even Sox & Celtics have filed against this sweeping civil rights attack—cc @jimbraude
12 Sep 2022
Students in every zip code deserve equal access to public education and the benefits of diverse classrooms.
Today, I led a coalition of AGs supporting Boston Public Schools' 2021-2022 admissions plan distributing spots at top exam schools equitably between neighborhoods.
ALT Screenshot of amicus brief on red to yellow gradient background.
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
17 Jan 2023
Heard @BosPublicRadio convo on potential use of socioeconomic factors in admissions post-SCOTUS Harvard Affirmative Action decision. P Reville ignored pending Fed lawsuit on Boston Exam School admissions designed to close that door. Pernicious nat’l impact/local origin—More here:
1 Nov 2022
Context on Boston Parents shocking lawsuit & universal opposition to it, 🧵👇🏼
This was never just about exam schools. Parents engaged attys from Koch-funded Pacific Legal so their case could be part of a coordinated RW attack on Affirmative Action & the Voting Rights Act.#bospoli
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Boston Coalition for Education Equity retweeted
29 Jun 2023
After today’s vile Affirmative Action ruling at #SCOTUS, hopeful talk of race neutral admissions policies—but Darragh Murphy’s Boston Parents have a plan to kill that too. She saw oppty to pull out her ‘ol white backlash playbook at first mention of exam school reform. #bospoli
17 Jan 2023
Heard @BosPublicRadio convo on potential use of socioeconomic factors in admissions post-SCOTUS Harvard Affirmative Action decision. P Reville ignored pending Fed lawsuit on Boston Exam School admissions designed to close that door. Pernicious nat’l impact/local origin—More here:
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