Boston Public School Budget Cuts & The Trump Agenda

Author: Nino Brown

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— Eli Gerzon (@eligerzon) August 22, 2016

mystudentvoices:

When the resistance to Donald Trump was inaugurated on January 20th there were general calls from central organizers of the #InaugurateTheResistance demonstration to not forget the “little Trumps” in their hometowns, cities, states, and local area. For the resistance to be effective it must be everywhere and aimed at constant struggle. Without constant struggle we can hardly be said to be resisting. The struggle against the neoliberal austerity measure cuts to Boston Public Schools is part and parcel of the struggle to destroy public education. This falls in line with Trump’s political agenda of naked capitalist imperialist rule.

Locally in Boston the mayor the city “Marty” Walsh has already allowed for public school cuts to happen last year wiping out many valuable jobs and resources for mainly working class families, particularly those of the Black, Latinx, and immigrant families. After promising that “there were no cuts” people still lost their jobs, schools still lost librarians, libraries, after school programs, gym teachers, and more. This loss of personnel and funding only deepened the wound that the historically white supremacist and pro-segregationist education system has laid upon working class Black and Latinx families. The political establishment of Boston has managed to maintain a hyper segregation and fundamentally unequal education system. Despite it being touted as one of the best in the nation, Boston Public Schools still remain highly segregated economically and racially.

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