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Mayor Walsh Looks At His First Term Through Rose-Colored Glasses

The Marty Walsh re-election campaign is quite good at papering over the rough spots in Mayor Walsh's record. It is aspirational but often in a context where actual history or current events makes the feel-good rhetoric seem hypocritical or at least disconnected from reality.

This Spring, at school committee meetings, students testified and advocated against budgets cuts in their schools.

The Boston School Committee last week voted 5-2 to approve a controversial 2018 budget that includes $13 million in cuts to 49 schools. Their decision followed testimony from students, parents and teachers who protested the cuts.

The school committee vote capped a series of at times contentious community meetings in which students and other public education activists pressed school officials to stop cuts to already struggling schools.

“How are you going to say we need to help Level 4 schools and then take money away from them?” challenged student Luis Navarro, speaking during last week’s meeting.

Teachers held a protest in March outside the Bolling Building to ask the city for a new contract, and later, inside, testified at the School Committee meeting against school budgets cuts and for a new contract.

Here's what teachers want on Teacher Appreciation Week:

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