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PETITION: Keep Corporate Education Reformers out of Boston Public Schools

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Keep Corporate Education Reformers out of Boston Public Schools

Education Reform has defunded Boston Public Schools by $973,500.00 per BPS school. Corporate education reformers have no place on the - Boston Public Schools - superintendents' cabinet. We ask that Dr. Makeeba McCreary be immediately removed from the position of Chief of Staff.


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Dear Dr. Chang, Since you’re new here in Boston, you might not be aware of the animosity that placing Dr. McCreary as as your Chief of Staff will create with Boston families that send their children to Boston Public Schools. I question who referred her to you, and how she made it through the vetting process. Personally, I could not be more disappointed and find her appointment disrespectful to those of us invested in the Boston Public Schools. I’m sure Dr. McCreary was aware of the controversy her appointment would cause to your administration but she accepted the position anyway. Very telling. FES tiptoed into Boston last spring on the eve of the Massachusetts Senate vote to raise the charter school cap. They were arrogant enough to think that “lifting the charter school cap” was a done deal until they were met by real, unpaid, grassroots BPS parents who explained and provided documentation, which proved to our State Senators the negative impact that charter schools were having on traditional public schools in Boston and statewide. Our wise Massachusetts State Legislators listened and overwhelming voted, 26 to 13, not to raise the charter school cap. Undaunted, in November, Families for Excellent Schools bused hundreds of charter school kids and teachers, on school time, to Faneuil Hall to stand in the rain and cold for hours and used them to rally for charters! When questioned about using school time and students for the rally, Massachusetts Charter Schools Association, Marc Keenan, rationalized it by saying charter students spend more hours in school. Like some how that made it ok to use these students to promote FES! Personally, I'd love to know who paid for all those buses and T-shirts, and between you and me, don’t you think that money would have been better spent on taking the children on a real field trip? As FES Senior Advisor for Strategy and Engagement what was Dr. McCreary role, if any, in that rally? Will Boston Public School children and teachers be used like this when the district wants to push out some unwanted or unpopular initiative? What was Dr. McCreary’s role in the paid “advertorials” printed in our local papers promoting Families for Excellent Schools? I’d really like to know, but what I would really like is for Dr. McCreary to find another job in an organization more suited to her values.

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Some information about Families for Excellent Schools in Mass. public education and Boston Schools.

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