Boston parents, advocates, and watchdogs praised the city’s tentative contract with the Boston Teachers Union for including measures that would benefit students, such as guaranteeing a full-time nurse in every school and significantly increasing the number of licensed mental health providers.
But some said those measures didn’t go far enough in meeting the social, emotional, and physical well-being of the system’s approximately 55,000 students, especially after years of budget cutting by individual schools with declining enrollments.