‘The Boston Teachers Union says hundreds of positions are on the chopping block in Boston Public Schools with the current proposed budget.
“105 special education paraprofessionals eliminated, 142 multilingual educational positions, support staff at 41 schools, and a workforce that is more than 70 percent black and Latino will bear a disproportionate share of the impact,” said Erik Berg, president of the Boston Teachers Union.
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“We just celebrated the highest graduation rate in BPS history, that’s 400 additional students who received their diploma and now is not the time to cut back, now is the time to continue to invest in our young people and in our schools,” said Berg.
The Boston School Committee will be voting on its proposed $1.7 billion budget Wednesday night, and then it’ll head back to city council for a final vote.’