“It’s important, if we are truly going to provide our children with a high-quality education, that we say as a city, ‘Every school has a library and a librarian. Every school has a nurse or a mental health clinician. Every school has a computer lab and an art studio. Every student has the opportunity to take music and a language’ — basic, low-hanging fruit,” said Tanisha Sullivan, President of the Boston Branch, NAACP, last week.
“We start with the values and then figure out how much it’s going to cost us to pay for it. Are we are we going to make sure our kids are prepared to compete in a global economy, which means helping them learn a second language? This should be the floor.”
Sullivan and JP Progressives activist Kristin Johnson had been invited to Talk of the Neighborhoods on the Boston Neighborhood Network, to speak about the Boston Coalition for Education Equity. The Coalition, with 12 member organizations so far, was formed recently out of growing frustration over the School Committee’s lack of progress in resolving major Boston Public Schools equity issues, including the budget.