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Lack of jobs strikes city unequally Left out: Blacks, Latinos youth and less-educated By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
A new report from the city Office of Workforce Development and the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Research Division shines further light on those struggling to make a living in the midst of the city’s economic boom. Boston’s unemployment rate, 4.3 percent, remains below state and national levels. Those left out of the labor market disproportionately are black, Latino, young or with low levels of education, according to the “Boston’s Workforce: An Assessment of Labor Market Outcomes and Opportunities” report. Many still suffering from unemployment also are concentrated in certain neighborhoods. According to the report, Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and East Boston are home to census tracts with some of the highest levels of unemployment, with rates soaring up to one-and-a-half to three times the citywide average.
A major determinant in acquiring quality jobs in Boston: education level. Unemployment rates are twice the citywide average for residents without high school degrees. The same four neighborhoods in which high unemployment rates were concentrated also showed high concentrations of residents whose education attainments were high school degrees or lower. In some parts of Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and East Boston, more than 80 percent of adults over 25 years old have no more than a high school degree. And among those in the city with less than high school degrees, blacks, Latinos and Asians are disproportionately represented, the report found.
See UNEMPLOYMENT, page 20
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Children, parents protest new BPS budget proposal Fears for elementary, special education needs By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
The latest Boston Public Schools budget proposal provoked outcry from parents, students and teachers, many of whom expressed fears that the plan will harm the education of young children and students with special needs. Several teachers told the Banner at a rally last week that the school system is hard-pressed to absorb
any funding reductions. Elementary school children joined parents, teachers and older students at a School Committee budget hearing last week to speak in opposition to funding reductions. The open session for public testimony lasted nearly four hours. Advocates followed this up with a St. Patrick’s Day rally the next day, gathering teachers, parents and students ranging from elementary through high school
to demonstrate outside City Hall. When the protestors brought their cause inside, they eventually secured the presence of Mayor Martin Walsh, who stepped out of meetings for approximately 40 minutes to hear concerns and answer questions. “We feel like it’s a desperate time,” said Chris Hoeh, one of the St. Patrick’s Day rally organizers,
See BPS BUDGET, page 6
BRA JP/Rox plan raises questions Infrastructure seen lacking in planning area By SANDRA LARSON
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At a March 5 community workshop for the JP/Rox planning process, a crowd of community members gathered at a breakout station to discuss Egleston Square development scenarios.
On Saturday morning, March 5, the Boston Redevelopment Authority hosted the fifth community workshops for a yearlong effort examining potential development and rezoning for a swath of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury that includes Jackson Square, Egleston Square, Stony Brook, Green Street and Forest Hills. “Plan JP/Rox” kicked off last summer and is expected to wrap
up with recommendations in May and rezoning decisions over the summer. It is one of several new planning and potential rezoning efforts under Mayor Martin Walsh and BRA Director Brian Golden. A similar process is underway for South Boston’s Dorchester Avenue between the Broadway and Andrew MBTA stations. A Dudley Square visioning process is just beginning this spring, and a plan for the Glover’s Corner section of Dorchester will start soon. The focus on these areas comes
as the city seeks to add the 53,000 new housing units Boston is projected to need by 2030 to accommodate growth. The JP/Rox and South Boston plan areas have significant portions of land currently zoned for industrial uses that might be rezoned to permit higher density mixed-use or residential development. For years, as the JP area has emerged as a hot real estate market and the target of a surge of developer interest, local residents and elected officials have called for a comprehensive area plan. Without
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they were speaking. I’ve found these have been so useful to me, that if I can help somebody further their career or propel their career then it’s worth it for me. If the only person that is benefitting from your learning is you, then what’s the point?
Morgan Stanley executive shares secrets to success By COLLETTE GREENSTEIN
Named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America,” Carla Harris has been blazing trails for more than 30 years. The financial powerhouse is the vice chairman of Wealth Management and senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley. In 2013, Harris was appointed by President Obama to chair the National Business Women’s Council, a panel that advises the president and Congress on economic issues important to women business owners. Harris is also an accomplished author of two books, “Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet” and “Strategize to Win: The New Way to Start Out, Step Up, or Start Over in Your Career” and a renowned gospel singer who has performed five sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall in New York City. But, she may be best known on the lecture circuit as a motivational speaker who distills her words of wisdom known as “Carla’s Pearls” — culled from her years navigating Wall Street. Harris will present the opening keynote address at this year’s sold out Simmons Leadership Conference on Tuesday, March 29 at the Seaport World Trade Center.
In a recent phone conversation, Harris spoke about the origins of “her pearls,” moving past one’s fear, and one of the biggest lessons she’s learned working on Wall Street.
At what point in your career did you develop “The Pearls”? How did that all come about? Carla Harris: I acquired the pearls very early on in my career. In fact, I gave my first speech around “the pearls” in February of 1990 out at the University of Michigan, and I was only a third year associate. I wasn’t even a full three years but I had already acquired a couple of the pearls, and a lot of the pearls were acquired, really, by making mistakes. Something didn’t work out and then you reflect on it and then you say ‘Aw, that’s what I should have done.’ And of course the way life is it will send you that event again just to see if you’ve learned something. Of course when I found myself in that situation again, then I would apply the learning so that I could make sure that I had gotten the lesson life came to teach me again. I could confirm that the pearls worked. That’s why I can look at people so confidently and say ‘use the pearls. They work.’ Because they’ve been tried and tested in all kinds of environments: very intense, dynamic, competitive environments
You’ve been on Wall Street for nearly 30 years. What’s been one of the biggest lessons that you’ve learned being there and that you’d like to pass on to the next generation?
across all economic cycles, and they still work.
You talk about fear and that it has no place in our success equation. How do we get past that fear or remove that fear from preventing us from doing what we really want to do? CH: The way that you remove the fear is that you ask yourself ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’ And, then get yourself comfortable with the worst outcome. Then you know it’s all upside from there. Let’s say you’re going to try to do something risky at work and you say ‘Wow, but the outcome could be I could get fired.’ Chances are it’s probably not going to have that kind of repercussion but let’s say that it did. Then the thought process ‘OK, if I got fired because I tried this thing,’ I would have learned something from my try and I know how to do it better the next time it comes around. And then you say to yourself, ‘I got this job. I will be able to get another one.’ Clearly, this is not the only one there, and I’m not suggesting that you take risks like that, but in the bigger scheme of things, and you know at the end of the day, you will be able to get another one. Then you can say, ‘That’s not my outcome that I want, but that happens.’ And at the end of the day, I’ll be okay so I’m going to go for it. That’s kind of how
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Carla Harris, vice chairman of Global Wealth Management and senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley, and one of the keynote speakers at the 2016 Simmons Leadership Conference on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. I get past those fears as I say ‘worst that can happen? What is it? Can you live with that?’ If the answer is ‘yes,’ then I move forward.
You’ll be speaking at the Simmons Leadership Conference later this month. Why is it important for you to continue to speak at these events, to be a mentor, and to give back? CH: Because these pearls, these lessons, I wish I had when I started my career. People were not as forthcoming in talking about what their challenges had been, and certainly not what their strategies had been, or certainly were at that time when
CH: That your destiny really is in your control and it’s about not giving away your power. That’s a really big lesson. I realized how easily we give away our power by taking on things that other people say about us or feeling insecure because someone makes a comment here or there. You have to remember that if you have got to the seat that you’ve got to, then you deserve to get to that seat. Nobody gave you anything. You were that smart. You were that good with respect to your execution skills. You belong in that role. So, how dare you question whether or not ‘well, did they make a recording mistake? Should I be in this room? Oh, maybe they’ll find out that maybe I shouldn’t be here and they’ll kick me out of the room.’ That’s negative talk that we give ourselves sometimes that frankly impair your ability to move forward. The big lesson is, know you have the power and own that power, and don’t give it away so easily.
City officials march in St. Patrick’s Day Parade
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Gov. Charlie Baker, City Councilor Michael Flaherty and Mayor Martin Walsh march in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston.
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State Senate candidates speak at Chinatown forum Affordable housing, immigrant issues take center stage in coalition-run forum By SANDRA LARSON
A new coalition of Boston Asian-American organizations hosted a forum March 16 to introduce candidates in the First Suffolk and Middlesex State Senate race to a Chinatown audience. Less than a month remains before the April 12 primary election that will determine which one of seven Democratic hopefuls will advance to the May 8 special election necessitated by the recent resignation of Sen. Anthony Petruccelli. The district covers a diverse set of towns and neighborhoods, including part of Cambridge, East Boston, Revere and Winthrop, the North End, Beacon Hill, Bay Village and Chinatown. Chinatown is new to the district, having moved from the First Suffolk district represented by Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz in the state’s 2011 redistricting plan. Last week’s forum at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School was organized by the Asian and Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network, known as APIs CAN! Co-sponsors included the Asian Community Development Corporation, the Chinatown Resident Association, the Chinese Progressive Association, MassVOTE and South Cove Community Health Center. Simultaneous translation was offered in Mandarin and Cantonese, and many attendees used it. Suzanne Lee, former Quincy School principal, two-time city council candidate and longtime Chinatown community leader mingled with residents and organizers outside the auditorium before the forum. Lee said she’d be listening for how accessible candidates will be to Chinatown constituents. “If they’re going to represent our voice, I want to know how they’re going to connect with voters,” she said.
Six candidates show
Participating candidates were Joseph Boncore; Lydia Edwards;
Diana Hwang; Jay Livingstone; Steven Morabito; and Paul Rogers. A seventh candidate, former Revere Mayor Dan Rizzo, was not present. The moderator was Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass-Boston. In their self-introductions and in response to a question on addressing language barriers for immigrant residents accessing government services, several candidates brought up their own immigrant ties. Livingstone, currently a state representative for the 8th Suffolk District covering Beacon Hill, Back Bay, West End and parts of Cambridge, said he is the grandson of immigrants and that he has worked on legislation to increase cultural competence in the health care system. Edwards emphasized her work as a Greater Boston Legal Services attorney representing immigrant workers, many of whom do not speak English and face difficulties in the court system. She said if elected, she would support additional funding for English Language Learner programs in schools. Boncore, an attorney and chair of Winthrop Housing Authority, said he sees immigrants daily and would seek increased funding for interpretation services and incentives for police and firefighters to take language classes. Morabito, a Revere city councilor, is the son of Italian immigrants and has served constituents who speak Khmer, Vietnamese and Arabic. Rogers, an East Boston small business owner, said he was both the son and husband of non-native English speakers. Hwang spoke of her parents, who emigrated from Taiwan 30 years ago and often felt isolated in the U.S., and of her experience starting a political leadership organization for Asian American women. “Every issue is an immigrant issue,” said Hwang. “It’s not just about language access, and the
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First Suffolk and Middlesex District Senate seat candidates Lydia Edwards, Joseph Boncore, Paul Rogers, Diana Hwang, Jay Livingstone and Steven Morabito share the stage at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School. daily struggle when we don’t speak the language, but about cultural competency, so when we go get our health care or talk about personal issues like domestic violence, there are people who understand the cultural implications.”
Affordable housing
The rapidly shrinking supply of affordable housing in Chinatown is clearly a pressing issue, and was the topic of a pair of related questions. Candidates were asked what they would do to keep tenants in their homes in the face of evictions by private landlords and expiring subsidies in some affordable developments such as nearby Quincy Towers. The second housing question cited “market rents soaring to over $3,000/month and the displacement of long-time residents, many of whom earn less than $20,000 per year,” and asked the candidates what they would do create a larger supply of affordable housing in Chinatown. Fe w s p e c i f i c s o l u t i o n s emerged, though all candidates expressed concern for Chinatown’s housing plight. Livingstone, who currently sits on the Joint Committee for Housing,
said he has been “standing up to developers” in his three years in the legislature. He supports several housing-related bills, including one that allows condemned properties to be turned over to trade union apprentice programs to renovate into affordable housing. He said he has made sure that required affordable units are built onsite in new residential developments in his district. Edwards would push grassroots control of development plans and “pathways to ownership,” including incentives for landlords to sell units to tenants. Edwards and Hwang both mentioned community land trusts, and Hwang said she supports “just cause” eviction protections to curb displacement of renters. Edwards and Hwang both mentioned their support for the proposed Fair Share Amendment or “millionaire tax” that would increase taxes on income over $1 million in order to fund education and transportation, with Edwards noting that she worked to collect signatures for the amendment.
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to the community issues and had little room to differentiate themselves, though Livingstone was able to cite work he has done already as a lawmaker, and Hwang delivered some words in Chinese and cited her experience in mentoring Asian American women. The audience expressed no notable positive or negative reactions during the session. After the forum, Angie Liou, acting executive director of the Asian Community Development Corporation, said she was pleased with the turnout, which she estimated at nearly 200 people. She said the co-sponsoring organizations helped formulate questions to highlight issues of vital importance to Chinatown. “In Chinatown, housing is a burning issue,” Liou said. “There are certain things the city can do, but the state also has great influence over housing policy. Not only in providing funding for building and preserving affordable housing, but also having control over state-owned excess land that they could put towards helping solve the housing crisis.” The winner of the April 12 Democratic primary will face Republican Donald Willyard in the final election on May 10.
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A myth unveiled Prominent Republicans are astounded by the phenomenal success of Donald Trump in his quest to become the candidate of their party in the next presidential election. An outsider and a political polyglot, Trump has breached numerous rules of Republican orthodoxy, yet his success in the primaries remains strong. The surprise of Republican leaders at Trump’s support suggests that they are out of touch with their party constituents. Political pundits are now trying to provide a coherent reason for Trump’s extraordinary success, but they have so far been unwilling to state the apparent. Perhaps that is because many of Trump’s constituents see him as a president who supports their racially-hostile opinions. A recent report from the Pew Research Centers provides evidence for that opinion. The major media are unlikely to claim that Trump’s campaign is a political haven for bigots. According to Pew research, about 80 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are white, and about 57 percent of them are whites who never attended college or did not obtain a degree if they attended college. In the Pew survey, non-college Republicans indicated much greater hostility to blacks and Latinos. When asked whether “immigrants burden the country by taking jobs, housing, health care,” 62 percent of non-college-educated whites agreed, compared with 42 percent of white Republicans who were college graduates. When asked whether “increasing racial, ethnic diversity makes U.S. a better place to live,” 65 percent of white college Republicans agreed, compared with only 48 percent of those white Republicans with no college degree. Polls indicate that a disproportionate share of whites with limited education are Trump supporters. Trump’s acceptance of an endorsement from a Ku Klux Klan leader and support of violence against black protesters at his rallies send a strong message of his antipathy to black issues. Thoughtful Americans should do what they can to ameliorate racial hostility. However, one
commentator actually exacerbated the problem by ratifying the unconscionable attitudes of Trump’s throng. He asserts that the anger of Trump supporters results from political correctness, and then claims that political correctness is “the biggest issue facing America today.” He then defines political correctness as “invasive leftism or thought-police liberalism or metastasized progressivism.” Nowhere does the writer describe political correctness as the courtesy owed to those with whom we disagree. Nowhere does he chastise angry Trump supporters for their unbridled hostility against others. A more perceptive analyst might have concluded that undereducated and financially-stressed Trump supporters might be angry because the American Dream has failed them. Many low-income white Americans believe the blame for their failures should lie with immigrants and blacks. Now comes Donald Trump who promises “to make America great again,” and restore the affluent status to which they are entitled. Poor whites have been deceived for generations in this country by the affluent upper class. John C. Calhoun a Civil War senator from South Carolina stated the case clearly in a U.S. Senate speech in 1849: With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black; and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals… Clearly, like immigrants, blacks are the “others.” As Bernie Sanders asserts, “The game is rigged.” Unfortunately, poor and ill-educated whites have been tricked into believing that blacks and immigrants have destroyed America, but they have failed to notice that their upperclass brothers are the top 1 percent who have prospered. So far the major media have not disclosed the big lie.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Puerto Rican activists call on Federal Reserve The Alliance’s analysis of Puerto Rico’s finances absolves the Island’s governor of any responsibility for the present crisis. As someone who advocated for the Island with congressional leaders and private sector leaders, my pals and former colleagues in the Alliance failed to mention that:
n Governor Padilla supports Puerto Rico’s unequal status as an unincorporated territory of the U.S. with voting representation in Congress. Puerto Rico must become a state or a sovereign nation. Inequality in Congress has led to mismanagement in San Juan. n Congress is rightly skeptical of the financial data provided by Governor Padilla. The governor has yet to
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By LEE A. DANIELS Donald Trump’s election victories in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries, along with GOP senators re-stating their refusal to even consider President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court dramatically illuminate what that ugly phrase — “political correctness run amok” — really means. For more than two decades, those words have been hurled at acts or policies or even just suggestions deemed too sympathetic to this or that outsider group. My own stripped-down definition of the phrase is this: We’re being too kind to the (fill in the blank). Let’s keep on making them feel as if they don’t belong. Last week’s events show the Republican Party is the true practitioner of political correctness, and that the wreck the GOP has become since Trump began his run for the presidency is the result of the GOP’s own corrosive dynamic of political correctness run amok. The rigid, reactionary and amoral code of conduct it established within its ranks is a powerful example of the damage an unthinking, unquestioning obedience to a particular ideology can do. In fact, that rigidity produced its spectacular failures to defeat such major Obama initiatives as Obamacare and the Iran Nuclear Deal. Nor, of course, did the GOP make good on now-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s notorious 2010 boast that the GOP would make Obama a one-term president. And it backed the disastrous — for it and the nation as a whole — Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority handed up in 2010. Those three developments led directly to the presidential primary rampage of Trump, who now threatens the GOP with “riots” at its convention if he’s blocked from the nomination. One can be justly furious at Trump’s boundless amorality, and still realize it’s not much different from what’s been the GOP’s standard operating procedure during the Obama Presidency. That posture has now produced the GOP’s ridiculous claim that Obama should neglect his presidential responsibility to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice. Of course, Obama ignored that desperate demand, pointedly announcing his nominee, Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, at a Rose Garden ceremony the day after Trump’s Super Tuesday victories made his position atop the wreckage of the GOP that much stronger. The juxtaposition of those two events underscore that American society is well on its way this year to a moment of extraordinary political drama. In that regard, it’s worth citing three comments that taken together frame how it got here and what’s at stake. The first comes from, “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks,” the 2012 book by two veteran scholars of American politics, Thomas E. Mann and Norman Ornstein. They wrote: “The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the [nation’s] inherited social and economic regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.” The second is from words written last week by Rich Lowry, editor of the staunchly conservative National Review magazine: “Trump’s iteration of the Republican Party won’t have a bleeding heart;” he stated, “it will be out for blood. ... personal abuse — and threats — will be its calling card. It will care less about policy than attitude and shibboleths. Electorally, it will repel minorities and hope to run up the score with whites. It won’t have an open hand on immigration but will talk of mass deportation. It won’t care about human rights, and in fact will be happy to violate them — or threaten to — as the national interest and a desire for vengeance dictate.” Finally, these are words President Obama spoke in declaring Judge Garland is his nominee for the Supreme Court: “At a time when our politics are so polarized ... this is precisely the time when we should play it straight, and treat the process of appointing a Supreme Court justice with the seriousness and care it deserves. ... [If not] The reputation of the Supreme Court will inevitably suffer. Faith in our justice system will inevitably suffer. Our democracy will ultimately suffer as well. I have fulfilled my constitutional duty. Now it’s time for the Senate to do theirs. Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should a senator.”
Lee A. Daniels is writing a book on the Obama Years and the 2016 presidential election.
A spiritual revelation/revolution. It has to come from the soul.
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I think we need to have a conversation about racism and white supremacy and hold ourselves and elected officials accountable.
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A lot more communication. We have wrong perspectives on each other.
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GABRIELLE FARRELL Mayor Martin Walsh and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang today announced the appointment of Gabrielle Farrell as deputy chief of staff of Communications for Boston Public Schools. In this position, Farrell will drive many of Boston Public Schools’ key initiatives as they pertain to a proactive internal and external communications strategy. In her role as deputy chief of staff of Communications, Farrell will oversee many of Boston Public Schools’ key functions and initiatives as they pertain to communications strategy. Farrell is currently associate press secretary to Walsh. She joined the Walsh administration in March 2014 as the mayor’s press assistant. Previously, Farrell served at Project Bread, which stewards The Walk for Hunger, handling communications and external affairs. “Working directly with Mayor
Walsh these past two years has been nothing short of incredible,” said Farrell. “I extend my gratitude to the mayor for his work and dedication to the students of Boston and granting me this honor and opportunity to give back and serve my community.” In 2008, Farrell was awarded the prestigious Posse Foundation Scholarship, a national full-scholarship, merit-based program, which received support from President Barack Obama, who donated a portion of his Nobel Peace Prize award to the foundation in 2010. She is also a graduate Harvard University’s Crimson Summer Academy, which taps local high-achieving, economically disadvantaged students, from Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, to study at Harvard for six weeks each summer. A native of Mattapan, Farrell has a longstanding passion for Boston’s public education system and Boston youth.
Farrell graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2012 and earned a bachelor’s degree in both French and Political Science and is currently working to attain her master’s of science degree in Communications from Northeastern University. Farrell currently resides in Dorchester and is expected to begin on March 28, 2016.
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who said he wanted to see change before the School Committee budget vote on March 23.
Tough vote
Wednesday’s School Committee vote regards the new budget proposal. This latest budget shields high schools from the majority of the expected cuts, not by adding money, but instead by taking $6 million from new initiatives and additional funds from other areas, such as the city’s five early education centers. An affirmative vote means passing on to the mayor and City Council a budget that puts on hold many initiatives described as “critical to closing the opportunity and achievement gap,” according to the BPS fiscal year ‘17 budget proposal document. Voting it down means sending on the February proposal that slashed high school funding, according to Dan O’Brien, BPS press secretary. A spark of hope: Some, such as school Superintendent Tommy Chang, expressed expectations that new funding will come from state and federal sources, allowing items to be reinstated into the finical plan. According to Chang, the new budget in part reflects timing needs: providing money to high schools now enables initial hiring for next year’s teachers, before top picks are snatched up by other schools. Hiring early is especially important in securing a diverse teaching staff, he said. “We know that money now means more for our schools than it would be in June, so we immediately
refunded the cuts that were made for high schools,” Chang said.
Early education centers
Administrators at early education centers were initially informed that the EECs would lose $1.6 million, sparking fears from parents that schools would lose their Surround Care Programs, which extend the day from 7:30 a.m. to 4:35 p.m. Several parents complained that they had been informed last minute about the cuts. Kevin Braga, co-chair of the school site council at Haynes EEC, and his K1 son Austin, attended the School Committee hearing. According to the school’s 20142015 Report on Teaching and Learning, more than 84 percent of students at the school are low-income. Many parents are reliant on Surround Care, Braga said. “There are people who can’t afford to find afterschool care. Many parents told us they’d have to quit their jobs,” he said, to look after their children if the program ended. For one parent, the extra program hours meant she had time to go back to school herself After being informed of the cuts, EEC school leaders rallied quickly to plan how to absorb reductions, working right up through the day of the committee meeting, according to a letter. O’Brien said the cut was reduced from $1.6 million to $900,000 and that while it is not yet clear what effect the reduction will have, Surround Care hours will be maintained and the programming will remain similar.
Special education
Several parents at the St. Patrick’s Day rally spoke of the
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Rally co-organizer Malikka Williams spoke with Mayor Martin Walsh. Her son, Malik Closs (center), is a student with special needs at JP Manning Elementary School. education funding will be increased class sizes. However, Chang emphasized that even these larger class sizes will remain small, staying below state recommendations.
library for the first time in years, she said. Cuts may prevent that. Leaf Elhai, teacher at the Fenway High School said the school has been under-funded for years and lacks important supports. The school cannot afford a Absorbing losses, needed bilingual student support seeking funds This year’s budget reductions counselor or to have a nurse stay are the final straw after years past noon, she said. “That’s not OK,” Elhai said of being under-resourced, said Neema Avashia, grade 8 civics about the nurse, noting that there teacher at the John W. McCor- is little recourse for children who get sick in the afternoon. “That’s mack Middle School. “The assumption is, this is the not safe.” At the budget hearing, Excel first loss,” she told the Banner at the St. Patrick’s Day rally, “but High School student Edward Tapia actually it’s the biggest of many Everyone will objected to a plan that shifted cuts that have happened over time. We to lower grades instead of infusing receive a weren’t at full capacity in the first more money. special take-a- “Our peers at middle and elemenplace. Now we’re losing more.” way for their tary schools are facing huge cuts,” Among the effects: The school family! administration had intended to Tapia said. “Those students will be bring on a librarian this year, al- coming to high school too, and they lowing them to re-establish a need the resources necessary for success. This shouldn’t be about sparing some and hurting others.” Some, like City Councilor Tito Jackson, say the money is there. Speaking at the rally, Jackson said that the city took in an extra $95 million in real estate taxes this year and could fill BPS’ funding gap: “That money is in the coffers of the city,” he said. Meanwhile, Mayor Walsh told ~ A Landmark Learning Event demonstrators that even if revenue is rising, so are personnel costs in areas such as school and police de~A Landmark Learning Event Come learn about the nutritional benefits of brain-healthy smoothies and partments. The city spends signifiprotein-packed snacks that are perfect for seniors and people on the go. Come learn about the nutri�onal benets of brain‐healthy cantly on BPS, allotting 40 percent We’ll demonstrate how you can transform left overs into delicious smoothies and protein‐packed snacks that are perfect for of its budget to schools, and school power-packed snacks. Come taste samples, learn and receive recipes! seniors and people on the go. We’ll demonstrate how you can costs are growing at unsustainable transform le� overs into delicious power‐packed snacks. levels, he said. Everyone will receive a special take-away for their family! Come taste samples, learn and receive recipes! “We’ll work to make sure we Wednesday, March 30th, 4:30pm continue to fund our Boston Wednesday, March 30th, 4:30pm public schools,” Walsh told proLandmark atat Longwood Landmark Longwood testors, adding as well, “The costs Space — Please RSVP Spaceisislimited limited—Please RSVPtoto of the schools … is growing out of Alison at at 617-975-0110 Alison 617-975-0110 control in some areas. The school Alison.Vogel@LandmarkSeniorLiving.com Alison. Vogel@LandmarkSeniorLiving.com department has to put that under Parker Hill MAMA 63 Parker HillAve., Ave.,Boston, Boston, www.LandmarkSeniorLiving.com www.LandmarkSeniorLiving.com control.”
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Fourth graders are getting unequal educations, says Chang By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
School Superintendent Tommy Chang gave a keynote address at The Boston Foundation last week reflecting on the aspirational goals noted in his 100-Day Plan. Discussion focused on targeting educational inequity, evident at early ages and which, if not tackled, only increases as time goes on. Joining Chang was a panel of education notables including Rahn Dorsey, Boston’s chief of education; Audrey Jackson, 2016 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year; John Connolly, executive director of nonprofit 1647 and former city council Committee on Education chair; Liliana Mickle, special assistant to the vice provost of Academic Support Services and Undergraduate Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston; and Beliza Moriarty, parent of four children enrolled in BPS schools or playgroups, representing the parent voice. The 100-Day Plan initiatives were in part inspired by an information gathering series that included approximately 40 listenand-learn events, Chang said, and will serve as a starting point for the district’s three-year strategic plan. Among the key initiatives Chang advocates is expanded access to rigorous coursework in fourth grade. Currently, some — but not all — schools offer Advanced Work Classes in grades 4-6, and children have to perform well on a test in third grade to get in. Access to better educational preparation can mean a better shot at getting into an exam school, and
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a better shot at getting into college, some panelists said. Liliana Mickle, who was director of UMass Boston’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions for 13 years, said lack of access to rigorous coursework can leave some students unprepared for the college or university majors they desire. “As a higher education institution, we really need to think about preparation happening the classroom, because it impacts the opportunities
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MA Teacher of the Year Audrey Jackson, Chief of Education Rahn Dorsey and Executive Director of 1647 John Connolly spoke on the panel. students have way beyond the district,” Mickle said. “At the higher education level, it prevents some students from programs they have aspired to be in for years.”
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Outside the classroom, socioecoAnother troubling effect is that nomic divides and opportunity gaps children often are aware that their can influence a student’s chance at placement reflects assessments of being admitted into the advanced their potential, some said. work course program. When one of Jackson’s non-adA student’s access to AWC de- vance work course students went The other side of the hall Only 10 percent of fourth pends both on access to a school on to Boston Latin School, she through sixth graders are enrolled that offers it and on performing well told Jackson that she knew it was in Advanced Work Classes, while enough on a one-time standardized unexpected for her, as a non-AWC the rest have a more general edu- test, administered during the first student, to have that achievement cation, according to Chang. And month of school. And the test, said and opportunity. “[She noted] how she has felt the difference is stark, both in cur- Audrey Jackson, grade 5 teacher at the Joseph P. Manning Elementary she’s going against the grain, riculum and who is represented. “You walk into one fourth School, can shape your whole edu- going from a non-advanced work class and working her way up pergrade class and there’s a certain cational future. “That’s a humongous pressure to sistently until she got access to that type of curriculum, a certain school,” Jackson said. type of demographic of student,” put on little shoulders,” she said. The testing-in system may exChang said, “And you walk across the hall to another classroom and acerbate existing gaps in access to Budgeting for the future it looks very different. And it’s cut resources, Jackson said. She noted Systemic biases are evident from very along racial and socioeco- that those students who perform early care through post-secondary, well on a test at the start of the Rahn Dorsey said. Addressing this nomic lines.” The majority of students in school year are likely to be those involves steps such as expanded AWC are white and Asian males, who “had enriching summers, ex- access to high-quality prekindergaraccording to research Chang pre- cellent programming across the ten seats and encouraging outside of sented. Under-represented are city, had assistances with transpor- classroom education opportunities black, Hispanic, special education tation or resources — so even if their as well, he said. and ELL students. Thirty-seven parent can’t drive them to a class, Here, too, the budget question percent of BPS’s students are people they know can.” looms. The latest plan for Boston Once students are divided black, but comprise only 22 perPublic School’s budgets spare high Partners Human Research Committee cent of students in AWC. Mean- among AWC and not, students may schools much of the funding reducEffective Date$6 while, whites are 13 percent of stay divided. Chang said that during APPROVAL tions by, in part, instead taking BPS enrollment and 27 percent of listening sessions, he was told that million from planned initiatives, in8/11/2015 fourth graders often feel segregated cluding introducing an “Excellence AWC enrollment. In terms of the course quality: from their peers once put into AWC, for All Pilot” that would expand rig“It’s orange juice for some, orange but later on, AWC students felt part orous coursework to more fourth of a close-knit community. drink for others,” Chang said. grade students this fall, with intention of bringing such coursework to all BPS fourth through sixth graders over the next few years. Help Us Learn More About Sleep! Another initiative would put $4 million toward increasing the offering of K1 seats. Under current budIf you are: gets, the “Excellence for All Pilot” will 55-70 years old be put on hold and the preschool exNon smoker pansion initiative will be reduced by Healthy and taking no medication $1 million. Chang told reporters that he is opYou may be eligible for a 37-day sleep research timistic that more funding will come study at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. There will from the state and/or federal government, thus allowing rigor expansion be a 4-6 week screening period. Must be willing programs to be initiated this fall. to spend 37 consecutive days and nights in our
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Residents can use online mapping tool to comment on city planning The Imagine Boston 2030 team has turned to Cambridge tech
startup coUrbanize to provide a digital mapping tool to broaden the ways residents can share ideas on city planning. With the tool, residents can respond online to questions posted by Imagine Boston, such as “Where are there opportunities to enhance and grow Boston?” through placing virtual pins on map locations with their feedback attached. Residents sign up with their real names. Comments include requests for more storm drains at an intersection that the commenter said often floods, better transit access to Roxbury’s Bolling Building, public art to improve the appearance of certain underpasses, improvements to the lighting and amenities at a park and safer bike ways. The Imagine Boston team will organize comments and questions and draft a strategic plan.
Walsh announces more than $28m to support affordable housing in Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced $28 million in funding awards to support the creation of affordable housing throughout Boston. The funding, which will preserve or produce 837 housing units, comes from $21 million of federal and local resources awarded through the Department of Neighborhood Development and $7 million of Linkage funds, awarded through Boston’s Neighborhood Housing Trust. “We are committed to creating a Boston where everyone who wants to live here, can afford to,” said Mayor Walsh. “I thank our local, state and federal partners for these housing investments that create good jobs and fuel our economy.” The new funding will leverage more than $323 million dollars of public and private investment in the neighborhoods, and will
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help to create an estimated 500 construction jobs. These developments will also create 125 units for homeless or extremely low-income families. In the interest of using resources for projects that meet the goals of the Mayor’s housing plan, the Requests for Proposals for these funds outlined specific criteria by which projects were evaluated. These criteria included: n Affordable housing developments that utilize City owned land. n Developments with costs below the per unit limits, and do not rely on constrained resources (i.e. 9 percent credits), so that the project may move into development and construction more quickly. n Affordable housing developments that provide units that serve the disabled community, vulnerable or special needs populations, elders, veterans, artists, or aging-out youth. n Acquisition of unrestricted housing developments in order to stabilize tenancies and provide long-term affordability for a mix of incomes. n Developments that are at high risk of losing their affordability within five years. With the awarding of these funds, the Walsh Administration has now made more than $66 million in affordable housing available since Mayor Walsh took office. Following is a complete list of the developments that have received funding awards: Chinatown: Boylston Street Rehabilitation St. Francis House and the Planning Office for Urban Affairs are proposing to redevelop 48 Boylston Street in downtown Boston into affordable housing that that will create 46 units, of which 26 units will be set-aside for homeless and extremely low income individuals.
Quincy Towers Beacon Communities is proposing an acquisition rehabilitation project that will preserve in perpetuity 100 percent of the affordability for this 161-unit elderly housing development in Chinatown. The RAP contract is scheduled to expire in June of 2017 and the Section 236 mortgage will mature in March of 2019. Dorchester: Wayne at Schuyler Cruz Development is proposing the refinance and renovation of the 74-unit expiring-use project located at seven different properties in Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan. 1392 Dorchester St. & 17-21Faulkner Viet AID is proposing to provide critical repairs and façade improvements in order to preserve these 18 units of affordable housing. Jamaica Plain: General Heath SquareApartments Back of the Hill NDC and Jamaica Plain NDC have partnered to create a 47 unit transit-oriented development on underutilized land that is currently owned by the City of Boston. The developer was tentatively designated by the City after receiving the support of the community. Parcel U The Community Builders are proposing to create 76 units of housing in this transit-oriented development. The development will include 38 affordable units with four units set aside for homeless households. Mattapan: Cote Village Caribbean Integration Community Development, AFL-CIO and Planning Office for Urban Affairs have partnered to create a 76 unit mixed-use development, located on City-owned land that has been vacant for several years. The development will include
one large building and four townhouse-style dwellings. Olmsted Green Mixed Income Rental Lena New Boston is proposing to create a 100-unit, mixed-income rental development in 24 townhouse buildings on the former Mattapan State Hospital site. The developer is working with the Department of Mental Health to set aside units to provide housing for their clients. Roxbury: Washington Westminster House Elizabeth Stone House will create a 29-unit development serving at-risk and formerly homeless families with children. Madison Melnea Cass Apartments Madison Park Development Corporation, the Boston Housing Authority, and Preservation for Affordable Housing have joined together to create this 76 unit development. This development is also part of the innovative redevelopment of the Whittier Street public housing development. Whittier Street Apartments, Phase I Preservation for Affordable Housing, the Boston Housing Authority, and Madison Park Development Corporation will together create an 88-unit mixeduse development. This development is the first phase of an innovative redevelopment of the Whittier Street public housing development. South Boston: O’Connor Way South Boston NDC and Caritas Communities have partnered to create a 46-unit elderly housing development in South Boston on land owned by the Boston Housing Authority. The developer has been tentatively designated by the BHA after receiving community support for the development.
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a plan that sets standards for such factors as allowed uses, affordability and building heights and setbacks, each developer may seek variances from zoning restrictions and then proceed through an individual community meeting and approval process that can feel to residents as if it’s starting from scratch each time. The BRA process has involved an unprecedented degree of community participation and inter-agency cooperation, by many accounts, yet has left some JP/Rox community members, including those on the appointed advisory group for the plan, feeling nervous and not fully heard or empowered. Worries abound, from loss of JP’s neighborhood character, to lack of affordability and displacement of existing residents, to a feeling of the processed being rushed or not fully thought out. Egleston Square resident Deborah Grace, 66, attending her first JP/Rox meeting, said she came in with a number of concerns, chief among them how to maintain the neighborhood’s ethnic mix and not displace people. “I want it to look like it looks now,” she said, “in terms of bodegas and community relationships.” Dan Thomas, an architect and advisory group member, echoing thoughts expressed by several others, said he is concerned about infrastructure to support added population in JP. “What’s going to happen with mass transit, with traffic and utilities and parking?” he said. “It’s putting the cart before the horse. It’s my experience that developers
that’s not affordable for real people in Egleston Square — which means you’re pushing out existing residents. I live there. I’m from there. I want to stay there. We keep building housing at luxury rates, as if people are making luxury money. You’re actively encouraging undermining a neighborhood.” A BRA staffer wrote notes on flip chart paper, while Mercurio worked to address the barrage of comments, which also covered traffic issues and concerns about local hiring for construction jobs.
BRA PLANNING INITIATIVE WEBSITES: n Plan: JP/Rox - http://bit.ly/1NkcGg6 n JP/Rox development scenarios as of March 5 - http://bit.ly/1RhC9UL n Plan: South Boston Dorchester Ave -
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Stepping away from the crowd, Sommer told the Banner she currently rents in Egleston Square, having returned to her home PHOTO: SANDRA LARSON Danielle Sommer, shown with her 3-year-old son, attended a March 5 community neighborhood after college and workshop for the BRA’s JP/Rox planning process. She is concerned about rising hous- started a family here. She said she feels pushed out by rising rents, ing prices pushing out longtime Jamaica Plain residents. despite the city’s seeming goal of rather than later, the development said, is that 30 percent of all newly encouraging young professionals that’s already starting to happen created housing in the JP/Rox area like her to stay in Boston. could be informed by the new will be deed-restricted affordable. “I feel the city has a vision of what One strategy for achieving this it wants,” she said, “but it doesn’t plan. goal is “density bonuses,” allow- really match what our reality is.” Still, some worry. “I personally believe that the ing developers to build taller or Shiggs told the Banner in a teleprocess seems rushed,” said Alvin denser housing development in phone interview that he felt the Shiggs, an Egleston Square res- exchange for a higher set-aside of BRA’s outreach effort to “ordinary ident who serves on the Plan JP/ affordable units. folk” has been weak. Rox advisory group. “With the “A few public notices here and large meetings, you have only Hold that thought there, but they weren’t consistently two hours to try to tackle a fairly The hour-long presentation was in English and Spanish and in the complicated process, and the next dense with facts and figures, and Spanish media outlets,” he said. month you’re tackling other topics. some attendees expected a general “The public community meetThere isn’t much chance for feed- Q & A session, but comments and ings have been attended largely back once the meeting is over. questions were taken instead in six by professional folks, some planThey do put it on the web, but I breakout stations, where BRA staff ners, developers, real estate folks, don’t know if they get much re- members addressed small groups. activists — a lot of white, middle sponse to that.” Five breakout sessions focused on class folks. They’ve had very good The BRA’s presentation and scenarios for particular areas — input. [There’s been] a lot of talk slide show included a presenta- Jackson Square, Egleston Square, of affordable housing, transportion by Devin Quirk of the city’s Stony Brook, Green Street and tation, mixed-use, helping small Department of Neighborhood De- Forest Hills — and one focused on businesses. However, those meetvelopment. A proposed goal, he affordable housing goals for the ings have been devoid of ordinary low-income immigrant folks who plan as a whole. In the Egleston Square session, live in the Egleston area.” Mercurio said that her team questions and comments flew as people glimpsed the development has responded to requests for feascenarios posted on the wall. Some tures to make meetings accessible decried building numbers and to a wider range of people, includheights, arguing that six stories is ing locating meetings in different parts of the plan area and at too tall for Egleston Square. Tim Reardon, a Jamaica Plain different time slots (for instance, resident and member of the Eg- Saturday morning instead of only Beautiful, maintenance-free apartment homes leston Square Neighborhood As- evenings), offering a table for chilare available now at Linden Ponds. sociation’s housing committee, dren’s activities and providing offered a counter to anti-height Spanish translation. At the March The Brighton 5 workshop, a Spanish interpreter arguments. Large one bedroom “I think height proposed here was there, but had no takers. Onehebedroom, one bath Shiggs admits to being cynical. is appropriate,” interjected. “So “It appears that this process is many people want to move to JP. They won’t go away if we don’t very friendly in favor of developers. build housing. They’ll drive up the What is the community benefit? rents in these triple-deckers already The fact that they can make maxihere. I think we need to build high, mum money and move on, leaving to accommodate the demand that’s our community in a different place coming whether we want it or not.” ... is unsettling.” As for the oft-repeated asserDanielle Sommer, 33, listened Living Area tion that increasing supply will closely to the discussion while 12’0” x 17’4” combat rising prices, Shiggs had keeping one eye on her children, Emergency Call Alarms 5-year-old Amora and 3-year-old this to offer: Cable Television Connections Bedroom “They say you build more and Attis, as they played at an activity 11’11” x 12’10” Telephone Connections the prices come down, eventually. table nearby. “Affordability joke,” Sommer But it’ll be a very different commuDW is aDishwasher said. “A one-bedroom for $1,400, nity when the prices come down.” Thomas and other community group members have added up the numbers. With 2500-plus existing households in the plan area, plus a projected 3,100 to 3,700 new units, plus 800 to 1,000 units already in the development pipeline (but not noted in the BRA’s JP/Rox materials), they see a jump from 2,500 units to more than 7,000 — a 180 percent increase. The BRA’s Mercurio said that it’s not likely that all developments in the scenarios will happen, and also indicated that city agencies taking into account infrastructure impacts. City Councilor Matt O’Malley, whose district includes the JP/Rox plan area, expressed cautious trust in this assertion. “This [infrastructure] part is less noticeable and it’s very important,” O’Malley said. “I’m sure the BRA is taking it into account, but it’s worth repeating because it [involves] different entities that the BRA doesn’t control.” Regarding concerns about time frame, BRA representative John Dalzell countered that if the comprehensive plan is finished sooner
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Keep-the-cap campaign kicks off By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Opponents of a 2016 ballot measure that would lift the charter cap kicked-off a more formal effort last week, with the launch of the Campaign to Save Our Public Schools. They appeared on the state house steps with a series of speeches given by Juan Cofield, president of the New England Area Conference of the NAACP and chair of the ballot committee; Lisa Guisbond, executive director of Citizens for Public Schools; and Marléna Rose, coordinator for the Boston Education Justice Alliance. The campaign to keep the cap is in the early stages of organization, while the one to expand charter schools has attained visibility over past months with promotion effort such as rallies and a recent TV spot.
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Proponents of charter school expansion present charters as engines of opportunity and parent choice, as well as an escape route for children faced with district schools that are low-performing. Those who wish to keep the cap note that charter schools can be established over objections of the surrounding community, and charge that charters drain money from public schools while wielding discipline to push out low-performing or hard-to-educate children. The result, they say, is that only district schools serve all students, but are forced to do so with fewer and fewer resources. Thus far, charter expansion proponents to have better success spreading their message. Governor Charlie Baker is among the supporters, bringing visibility to the cause. Great Schools Massachusetts, a coalition advocating for state charter expansion, has generated attention for months with their professionally produced lift-the-cap rallies, charter facts website and media outreach through several public relation firms, including Keyser Public Strategies, Archipelago Strategies Group, O’Neill and Associates and Slowey/ McManus Communications. The Campaign to Save Our Public Schools a latecomer to the field and not yet at the point of major media ads. Several SOPS members said next steps will focus on door-to-door outreach and conversations with voters to get their message out and fight perceptions already instilled by charter advocates. BEJA coordinator Marléna Rose said an important aspect of outreach is that it brings to light how, in some cases, people’s poor experiences with charter schools reflect a systemic issue. For instance, Rose said that when her daughter attended a charter, she was subjected to frequent and seeming-unwarranted discipline and Rose received multiple calls home a day, to the point that it felt like harassment. Rose assumed it was just her family’s isolated experience, until she spoke with other parents who had similar experiences. Learning this made Rose see such practices as endemic to the charter system; it is one reason she opposes charter expansion and believes other parents will as well. SOPS members said that over the next two months, the campaign is mobilizing hundreds of volunteers, both newcomers to the campaign and those from member organizations, to do community outreach across the state. Volunteers include parents, teachers, civil rights organizations and grassroots organizations focused
on issues of equality and fairness, Cofield said. “Our coalition of community partners is looking forward to engaging in a conversation with voters in every neighborhood in Massachusetts on the importance of public schools that serve all students equally,” said SOPS spokesperson Steve Crawford. “We are confident that our grass roots campaign will defeat the charter expansion ballot question.” Crawford is the founder of Crawford Strategies public relations firm and has done extensive work for public employee unions.
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SOPS supporter Russ Davis said the campaign cannot match the funding of their competition, which includes Families for Excellent Schools, a New-York based nonprofit founded mainly by Wall Street investors. FES is a driving force behind the pro-charter Great Schools Massachusetts coalition and seems able to draw on significant financial resources: In April 2015, FES received donations of $1 million each from two current and former hedge fund managers, according to the New York Daily News. The charter expansion campaign is prepared to spend up to $18 million on the ballot question alone, said Eileen O’Connor, spokesperson for Great Schools Massachusetts. SOPS did not give a figure for their funds. Expectations are that they would turn to the teacher’s union for support. In February, leadership in the Massachusetts Teachers Association considered committing $9.6 million to the campaign to fight the lift, but ultimately decided to postpone such funding decisions, according to the Boston Herald. SOPS members present their campaign as a community-grown, broad-based movement that stands in contrast to big money charter proponents. “We won’t win this with money. We’ll win this with grassroots organizing and volunteers,” Russ Davis said. “No matter how much money the teachers unions or whomever puts into this, the people we’re up against are billionaire hedge fund owners where money is no limit.”
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Communities of color and suburban communities are likely messaging targets. Proponents of charter expansion often assert that children of color are key beneficiaries of charter schools. Recently, Great Schools Massachusetts announced that 80 members of Latino communities across the state — including business and nonprofit leaders, legislators, city councilors, and school committee members — joined their coalition in calling for a cap lift. “Communities of color have been led to believe that this is good for the community,” SOPS Chair Juan Cofield told the Banner. “That is absolutely not true because 90 percent of the kids [those not enrolled in charters] are being treated as second-quality kids.” Charter schools serve few students while drawing money from the public schools that serve the rest, he said. SOPS members said it also is important to connect with voters who have few or no charter schools in their communities. Such individuals may have little knowledge of charter schools outside of what the pro-expansion side tells them, they said. “A lot of progressives in suburban communities have been led to believe they are doing kids of color
a favor by supporting charters,” Cofield said. “Some communities are not affected by charter schools,” said Tom Gosnell president of American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts. “They don’t know the issues,” but they still vote on them, he added. One city behind SOPS: Worcester. City Councilor Khyristian King said at the kick-off that the council wishes to make clear to the state legislature that they oppose charter expansion.
Personal touch
Jay Cincotti is co-founder of Cence Cincotti Strategies, a firm that provides strategic consulting on government relations and public affairs. The dispute over the charter cap could easily feel like an abstract debate between the teachers’ union (keep the cap) and education reformists (expand charters), he said. The pro-charter expansion side has managed to overcome this and bring their cause to personal, community level, through showcasing individual parents talking about why they want the charter cap lifted. The St. Patrick’s Day ad featured an African American woman saying that her children had unequal educational opportunities because one had received a seat in a charter school and two were on waiting lists. The keep-the-cap side faces one barrier: Some of the arguments the teachers’ union and others who oppose charter expansions have put forth — such as the reimbursement system that fails to fully compensate district schools when funds follow students to charters — can feel
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Juan Cofield, chair of the Save our Public Schools ballot committee, spoke at the campaign launch at the steps of the state house. distant because they take a significant level of education on the issue to unpack and understand, he said. One way the pro-cap side could bring the personal touch is by featuring the voices of individual teachers explaining what a charter expansion would mean for students in their classrooms, Cincotti said. SOPS’ kick-off Marléna Rose giving voice to her experience as a parent. Also at the event: Franklin kindergarten teacher Donna Grady, who described the effect that funding lost to charters is having on her school. “[The anti-charter side] could utilize that state-wide network of teachers to talk in a personal sense to say, ‘Their schools aren’t good for your education because this is what’s going to affect your kids in the classroom and this is what’s affecting me in the classroom,’” Cincotti said. “That way it’s not the mom who’s looking out for her kids versus the teachers’ union, it’s the mom looking out for her kids versus the teacher looking out for your kids.”
Cincotti also cautioned that talking to individual residents is unlikely to generate a good return on investment. Although TV ads are expensive, they are a very effective way for getting a message in front of voters, he said. The pro-charter side has already taken that step, running a TV ad during many of the breaks during the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day breakfast, he noted.
Ballot box or State House?
While SOPS is gearing up for the ballot fight, Great Schools Massachusetts spokesperson Eileen O’Connor said the pro-charter expansion campaign is currently focusing on state legislative action. Such a move would mean compromising but, noted Cincotti, it would also spare the coalition the expense of running a campaign. “Our focus right now is on legislatiive action in support of thousands of families seeking equal access to quality public schools in their communities,” O’Connor said.
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How Small Businesses Are Using Marketing Analytics:
By MARTIN DESMARAIS
Increased access to Big Data has impacted small businesses in many ways, but when it comes to marketing analytics it has thrown the door wide open. Marketing gurus generally think this is a good thing and enthusiasm for using analytics to shape marketing strategy has skyrocketed — though voices of reason caution against headlong flight into complete reliance and the costs that come with it. According to the February CMO Survey, which measures marketing industry trends, companies are currently spending just under 7 percent of their marketing budgets on marketing analytics, but expect this to rise to more than 11 percent in the next three years. This also comes in conjunction with a trend that sees marketing budgets becoming a bigger part of companies’ overall budgets, currently about 12 percent on average, up from 8 percent five years ago. The big ones — IBM, SAS and Google to name a few — have all jumped into marketing analytics and offer services for both big and small businesses alike, but there also are numerous startups that offer services that can fit specific niche markets or smaller budgets. These companies include Nanigans, Resonate and Viralheat. Put into practice, marketing analytics help small business in a number of ways, including maximizing online marketing, keeping better track of customer sentiment and buying patterns, as well as providing a more effective way to figure out what marketing strategies work the best. They also are changing the role of marketing within companies. David Edelman, a principal with McKinsey & Company in Boston, says that the rise of marketing analytics has caused more of an emphasis on customer experience than in the past when the main focus was getting products out into the market, promoting them and steering customers to buying products. “Now we are seeing more focus on the broader customer experience — thinking about the whole end-to-end journey of what the brand is presenting to the customer,” Edelman said. One of the reasons for this is that marketing analytics have shown that keeping customers engaged with a brand is more valuable than just focusing on that one purchase, because brand loyalty will lead to more purchases in the future. This has pushed the role of marketing up the business priority ladder. “Marketing is taking on a way more expansive role than just getting messaging out the door or just narrowly managing advertising. They are really stepping forward and saying ‘How can we drive growth?’
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David Edelman, a principal with McKinsey & Company in Boston, says the increased use of marketing analytics is changing the role of marketing within businesses.
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Marketing is taking on a way more expansive role than just getting messaging out the door or just narrowly managing advertising. They are really stepping forward and saying ‘how can we drive growth?’” — David Edelman
They are looking at the top line. They are looking across all the different ways to engage customers, and they are trying to mobilize across a broader range of functions than they controlled before to get a growth agenda going,” Edelman said.
Tracking data use
National small business support organization, SCORE, which works very closely with the U.S. Small Business Administration, recently released its own report on how small businesses are using marketing analytics to track business growth and increase opportunities. The intent was to show how and why small businesses are using marketing analytics. The data SCORE collected highlighted: Small businesses that use marketing analytics show increased profits and marketing return on investment. Their top three priorities include: n 73 percent: To find new customers n 67 percent: To retain existing customers n 65 percent: To improve the current customer experience Just over half of small business owners believe that marketing analytics are critical and use the following types of analytics: n 83 percent: Email
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marketing reports n 64 percent: Website analytics n 52 percent: Social media analytics The most commonly used metrics to track and measure the efficacy of their marketing efforts are: n 52 percent: Email clicks, response and conversion rates n 51 percent: Website page views, time on site/page and registrations n 42 percent: Volume, quality and origin of web traffic However, it is also interesting to note that the SCORE report also found that only 45 percent of small businesses track marketing analytics. Those that don’t cited the following reasons for not doing so: n 42 percent: Time restraints n 28 percent: Lack of knowledge n 22 percent: Prohibitive costs Like Edelman, fellow McKinsey executive Matt Ariker, chief operating officer of the company’s Consumer Marketing Analytics Center, has been vocal about the impact of marketing data on current practices. Ariker and other marketing analysts worry about the kind of pattern that the SCORE report highlights in finding that close to half of the business that use marketing analytics don’t even track the impact. While the positives of using marketing analytics abound, it still breaks
down to two important questions: Does marketing analytics improve profits or return on investment? And are companies using marketing analytics effectively? Ariker voices a word to the wise about marketing analytics strategies by cautioning against what he calls a “peanut butter” approach — spreading the data around to change all aspects of marketing strategy. According to Ariker, this often results in a poorly-defined strategy of how to use marketing analytics throughout the company, lack of focus on what works the best and how to apply that successfully to company practices. His best bet is to use analytics for one or two marketing activities at first, and expand from there. He suggests the best way to choose where to start is to focus on areas that have the highest expected impact, the time necessary to develop and put changes in place and fit in with current business strategy. It is also important to consider potential impact on customer perception, the internal capabilities to handle marketing strategy changes and the potential obstacles to using analytics successfully. Ultimately, he concludes that marketing analytics can have a big impact on a company’s growth, but if owners and executives cannot figure out how to use them effectively for their business they can end up being just another expense eating into the bottom line with little pay off at the end.
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Goapele first came onto the music scene in 2001 with her first self-released album “Closer” which made it onto Billboard’s Top R&B and Hip-Hop album charts. Since then, she has released four albums including her 2014 project “Strong As Glass,” which featured collaborations with Eric Benet and Snoop Dogg. The Oakland, Calif., native, who grew up in a culturally diverse household, was also influenced by the political activism of her parents — a South African father and a New York-born Israeli Jewish mother. As a result, her songs often represents a wide
array of sounds ranging from the music of Nina Simone, Al Green, Prince, Björk and Bob Marley to her contemporaries A Tribe Called Quest and Kendrick Lamar. With lyrics often taken from her poetry, her overall vision in writing her music is to “have a positive impact on the world culturally,” and “to hopefully help people feel inspired and empowered,” says the artist. “I try to write from a personal perspective and hope that the emotion transfers through the music and people feel something, and feel like transforming their own lives.” The Banner recently caught up with
IF YOU GO RISE presents Goapele in the Calderwood Hall of the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Thursday, March 31 at 7p.m. Tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults: $27; Seniors, $24; Members, $17; Students and children, $12; and youth age seven and under are not admitted. For information or to purchase tickets, visit www. gardnermuseum.org or call 617.278.5156. Goapele by phone where she discussed her music, fashion, and what she hopes to accomplish in the coming year.
How did attending Berklee inform your music? Goapele: Before I went to Berklee, I was most comfortable singing acapella and making my own version of an Aretha Franklin song over a Dr. Dre beat. I wasn’t really working with musicians. I didn’t really have the language to work with musicians. I really kind of went with the intention of learning to write music and working
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Alvin Ailey performs at Wang Theatre Dance troupe offers new and traditional works By SUSAN SACCOCCIA
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater came to Boston last week, performing an array of traditional and new works in five shows at Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre. Presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston, the company has visited Boston almost annually since 1968. These visits include sessions with the city’s young dancers. Lawrence native Belen Pereyra, now in her fifth season with the company, joined colleagues to lead master classes at her alma mater, Boston Arts Academy, and at several other local schools. Saturday night, the company performed three Boston premieres, each a showcase of its power to turn historic human events into exalting works of dance. “Exodus” (2015), by acclaimed hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris, adds a new chapter to Alvin Ailey’s 1960 masterpiece, “Revelations,” a celebration of African American faith and tenacity. Harris evokes suffering and spiritual transcendence in the lingo of a next-generation vein of dance, hip-hop. Sampling music by various artists, with costumes by Jon Taylor and lighting by James Clotfelter, “Exodus” renders a journey toward liberation. Its 16 dancers begin in the urgent, angular language of street dance. Set to gospel and house music along with spoken word, the work blends the bravura twists and turns of b-boying, popping and locking with pelvis-powered, sinuous West African movements. Rising from the floor like fuzzyhaired zombies and outfitted in street garb — caps, baggy pants and sneakers — the dancers take action, arms and legs extending, hands clapping, and bodies propelled by rapid, intricate footwork. Jeroboam Bozeman enters this assembly as an electrifying presence. Tall, barechested and wearing flowing white pants, he makes long, commanding moves across the floor. Soon the entire corps is transformed, attired
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Lisa Dwan performs trilogy of plays by Beckett By SUSAN SACCOCCIA
At the Emerson/Paramount Mainstage in Boston last week, ArtsEmerson presented “Not I/ Footfalls/Rockaby,” a trilogy of three short plays by Samuel Beckett. This celebrated production envelops the audience into the same darkness that engulfs each play’s character, a lone woman performed by consummate actress and Beckett interpreter Lisa Dwan. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is renowned for his 1953 tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot,” in which two tramps spar with each other as they pass their time awaiting deliverance of some sort. Its portrayal of human existence at its most basic is leavened by a bit of music hall humor. Taking Beckett’s minimalism to a new level, this production by German director Walter Asmus, a long-time collaborator of Beckett, casts the theater in utter blackout. Although three-minute pauses separate each short play, the production never ceases during its 60minute duration. Its silent blackouts are part of the theater experience, bringing the audience into the same utter darkness that engulfs the figure on stage. Even the exit signs were turned off (the Boston Police installed infrared security cameras in case of emergency). Several audience members took
up the offer to be ushered out, following a procedure as prescribed as Beckett’s ritual-like stage directions: They were told to call out the word “usher” to summon a staff member who led them out. Scattered throughout the audience, their voices were like lone cries. Aside from Kwan’s voice and the sound of her movements, the only other audible elements were recorded sounds of winds and chiming bells, and the low rumble of Green Line trains underfoot. First presented in 2014 at the Royal Court Theatre, this staging is faithful to Beckett’s detailed directions. Its lighting, designed by James Jarncombe, is no less important than the words of the play, changing with the rhythms of each character’s voice and bodily movements. Beckett also specifies the costumes, an ethereal period dress for one role and for another, a black gown with sequins. But the sole visible element in the first play, “Not I” (1972), is Dwan’s lipstick-red mouth and active tongue, which pierces this darkness like a tiny, flaming planet. Delivering a heroic performance throughout this short, wrenching work, Dwan voices a rapid succession of monosyllabic words and gibberish with the agility of a scat singer. Melodic at times, her voice also utters the shrieks, rasps, squeals and moments of raw laughter in the Beckett script,
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lanes, in the ditches, besides the hedgerows.” In “Footfalls” (1975), Dwan is a ghostly figure in a floor-length Victorian dress. She strides across the stage while carrying on a dialogue with the voice of an unseen, bed-ridden mother. With the rhythmic repetition of a metronome, she
takes nine paces back and forth in a line of light, as she speaks, and, in one eerie moment, lip-syncs the mother’s words. Dwan reappears seated in a rocking chair for “Rockaby” (1980). Unseen by others, she
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continued from page 14 with musicians and finding my sound, and also getting to learn about the music business. I went to Berklee and stayed for about a year and a half and I felt like I got a lot of that. I felt like it was time to get out in the world and start using what I knew.
You have this wonderful innate sense of fashion. Is this another area that you’re interested in or does it come naturally with the territory as an artist? Goapele: When I was a kid I played dress up. It’s kind of fun that as an adult I get to do that. I’ve always loved fashion. I love visual arts and it just feels like such a visual way to express yourself. Fashion has always been something that’s been interesting for me. I’m definitely trying to break more into that world as I am in the film world.
Are you hoping to start off in television or film? Goapele: I got to do something in the film “Sparkle” a couple
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Where do you see yourself in the next year especially as an independent artist with a variety of interests? Goapele: I haven’t gotten to do as much internationally as I’ve wanted to. I’m hoping to do some more music in South Africa. I would like to get back to Europe and tour and have distribution. That’s definitely something in the near future that I’m hoping that goes on. I’m hoping to do more collaboration and to expand musically. Also, I feel like there’s more stuff around advocacy that I’d like to do, like women’s health. I feel like there’s an organic slope to it. There’s a lot of passions that I’ve had for a long time. woman’s reflections on a life of loneliness. Here and there, she punctuates her rhythmic, lullaby-like dirge with an abrupt shout, crying “More!” Her chanting and rocking gradually slow down until she becomes still and then slumps over.
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in white tunics, elevated and unified in spirit. Reckoning with suffering of another era is “No Longer Silent” (2007), choreographed by company artistic director Robert Battle for a concert honoring composers whose works were banned by the Nazis. An ensemble of 18 dancers move in highly synchronized patterns to a 1925 symphonic composition by Erwin Schulhoff (18941942), a Czech Jew who died in a concentration camp. Schulhoff ’s score, entitled “Ogelala” (Op. 53, “Ballettmysterium”), combines jarring brass passages, metronome-like percussion and momentary touches of jazz. Nicole Pearce’s stark lighting and Mimi Lien’s spare set — a stage-spanning metal bar and a rack of harsh spotlights — heighten the tension of the work’s riveting stage pictures. Wearing black jumpsuits designed by Fritz Masten, the dancers interlock in lines, circles and rectangles. Some formations suggest soldiers in lockstep. Others evoke the confinement of prisoners. Although the dancers’ faces are often in shadow, white patches on their costumes, when struck by light, move like disembodied specks. Backlit, dancers standing still appear like pillars. In the final scene, the clockwork patterns give way. The evening closed with “Open Door” (2015), by Ronald K.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in “Exodus,” by Rennie Harris. Brown. A euphoric mingling of West African and Cuban dance and music traditions, the work was inspired by the renewed relationship between the U.S. and its neighbor 90 miles away. Saturday night, as the dancers performed this piece before a Boston audience, President Obama was launching his historic trip to Cuba, the first presidential visit since 1928. The making of the work as well as its Boston premiere has coincided with historic events. In December 2014, Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra were performing in Havana as Obama and President Raul Castro announced their agreement to normalize relations between their two countries. The son of Havana-born musician Chico O’Farrill and heir to his big band, O’Farrill decided to record the performance. Last August, as the U.S. opened its
embassy in Cuba, he released the album, entitled “Cuba: The Conversation Continues.” In December, the company debuted “Open Door,” a work for 10 dancers to selections from O’Farrill’s recording. Al Crawford enveloped the dancers in sunny lighting and Keiko Voltaire cloaked the five women, each a regal beauty, in diaphanous dresses displaying the colors of tropical birds. Jacqueline Green and Yannick Lebrun began the piece to a slow, lyrical jazz piano solo. As the music gained big band textures, adding drums, flute, and brass, the men and women danced in pairs and as an ensemble, meshing strong West-African pelvic thrusts with swirling, fast mambo moves. The women often led the way, summoning their male partners and when paired, dancing as equals with bold kinetic sorcery. It ended too soon.
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Queen of tarts Lemon Mousse Cheesecake tastes like springtime BY THE EDITORS OF RELISH MAGAZINE
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ooking for a perfect dessert for your Easter dinner? Try this Lemon Mousse Cheesecake. It’s super-creamy and a bit tart and, topped with slices of fresh lemon, so very pretty. The filling is on the light side, due to the beaten egg whites that are folded into the batter. When baking the cake, be sure to use a water bath (bain marie) to temper the heat, help create a soft, creamy filling, and prevent the top from cracking. Without the water bath, the filling will be firmer — more like traditional cheesecake. If the top happens to crack, despite your best efforts, just pile on fresh lemon slices in the form of a flower. No one will be the wiser, and you’ll have created a dessert that’s as lovely as it is tasty.
Lemon Mousse Cheesecake For the crust:
n 5 tablespoons melted butter n 4 0 vanilla wafers, crushed, or 8 graham crackers, crushed (about 1 1/2 cups) n¼ cup sugar
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n 2 4 ounces cream cheese n 1 1⁄3 cups sugar, divided n 1 ⁄3 cup all-purpose flour n 4 eggs, separated n 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon rind n¾ cup lemon juice (about 4 lemons) Preheat oven to 325F. Wrap aluminum foil around the outside bottom of a 10-inch springform pan. To prepare crust, combine all ingredients. Stir well
and press into pan. Combine cream cheese and 1 cup sugar; beat until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add flour, egg yolks, lemon rind and juice; beat until smooth. Beat egg whites, with clean beaters, until soft peaks form. Add remaining 1⁄3 cup sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Fold into lemon batter. Pour batter into crust. Place pan in a large baking pan. Add water to baking pan to a depth of 1 inch. Bake about 55 minutes, until cake is set but still jiggly in the center. Cover and chill at least 4 hours. To decorate, ring the top of the cake along the outside edge with thin half-moon slices of fresh lemon. Work around the cake in concentric circles, overlapping the slices to form a flower shape. Serves 20
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THE DISH ON ... “Lucky Rice: Stories and Recipes from Night Markets, Feasts, and Family Tables” by Danielle Chang Chang is the founder of the Lucky Rice festival, which brings night markets, grand feasts and dumpling-making sessions to America’s biggest cities. In her new book, she feeds our obsession for innovative Asian cuisine through 100 recipes inspired by a range of cultures. Here, comfort foods marry ancient traditions with simple techniques and fresh flavors — and include a few new classics as well: chicken wings marinated in hot Sichuan seasonings, and one-hour homemade kimchi. — Clarkson Potter
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THURSDAY THE LEAGUE OF MOST INTERESTING GENTLEMEN The Shirley-Eustis House, a National Historic Landmark house museum and carriage house, is pleased to announce a special presentation to be held at Shirley Place Mansion on Thursday, March 24 at 6pm. The League of Most Interesting Gentlemen offers commentary on political and social issues of their times, and give their personal remarks regarding the intellectual spirit of the Enlightenment. As you stroll from room-to-room, you will meet and actively participate in the lives of Benjamin Franklin, President James Madison, President Thomas Jefferson and The Natural Philosopher who will be representing an engaging but “quack physician.” These characters represent a broad range of historical narratives interwoven in a unique interdisciplinary meeting of the minds that invite the audience to participate in the spirit of the Salons of the Enlightenment era. They will seek to educate and entertain you at the same time. Just be sure to ask Ben Franklin how things are going in Philadelphia! The doors will open at 5:30pm and your stroll will begin at 6pm. Following the presentation, The League of Most Interesting Gentlemen will answer any further questions and engage in conversation with the audience. Refreshments will be served. Event admission is $10 per person. Please call to reserve at 617-442-2275. The Shirley-Eustis House, built by Massachusetts Royal Governor William Shirley in 1747 and later the home of Democratic-Republican Governor William Eustis in 1819 is located on 33 Shirley Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Please call 617-442-2275, check out the website at www.shirleyeustishouse. org, or email governorshirley@gmail. com for more information on this and other programs.
FRIDAY THROUGH BARBED WIRE PRESENTS 4TH FRIDAY SERIES 7-8:30pm: Monthly prose/poetry participatory event focused on the voices of prisoners, through their writings, speaking to family, friends, youth and allies in the community about prison reality and their lives in it. Audience participation encouraged. Light refreshments. Created and directed by Arnie King. Friday, March 25, First Parish Dorchester, 10 Parish St, Dorchester MA 02125. For more info: throughbarbedwire@yahoo. com or visit www.arnoldking.org; tel. 857-492-4858. Cost: Donation.
SATURDAY FRANKLIN PARK: A ‘QUIET SEASON’ JAUNT On Saturday, March 26 at 2pm a National Park Service ranger from Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS) will be conducting a guided walk of Franklin Park entitled “Franklin Park: A ‘Quiet Season’ Jaunt.”
This 90-minute tour is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required by Thursday, March 24. To register, please email Mark_Swartz@nps. gov. Please provide the number of people in your party and contact information. The meeting place will be given out to registrants before March 26. Franklin Park is considered one of Frederick Law Olmsted’s finest design achievements and a prime example of his social ideals. Walkers on this tour will learn about Olmsted’s vision for Franklin Park as they visit the landscapes of Scarboro Pond, Schoolmaster Hill, the Country Park meadow, and a portion of the Wilderness, including the “99 Steps.” They will also stop at the location within today’s park where writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson lived as a young man. Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, lead sponsor of this walk, was the home and office of America’s premier park-maker and the designer of the Emerald Necklace park system. It is now administered by the National Park Service as one of its 409 sites around the United States. Please visit www.nps.gov/frla or call 617-5661689 weekdays to learn more about site programs and tours.
MONDAY THE RHYTHM OF OUR STORIES The Rhythm of Our Stories: Songs, Movement, Games — March 28, April 4, 18, 25, May 2, from 5:30-7:30pm at Jamaica Plain Community Center (Curtis Hall), 20 South St., Jamaica Plain. FREE workshops from Families Creating Together with award-winning teaching artist and drummer Cornell Coley who mashes up storytelling with drums and percussion — songs, movement, games. Experience stories with a live pulse and ambient sound. Find your storytelling rhythm! Presented in English, Spanish and American Sign Language (upon request). Wheelchair accessible. Child care provided. FCT is a program of Community Service Care/Tree of Life Coalition. To register and for more information call 617-522-4832 or email mfcabrera53@ gmail.com. Additional information at www. familiescreatingtogether.org.
THURSDAY “ART OF JAZZ” CINEMA SERIES Cooper Gallery Film Series — “Art of Jazz” Cinema Series: Syncopation: Short Jazz Films. Symphony in Black, 1935, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday (9:36); Rhapsody in Black and Blue, 1932, Louis Armstrong (10:00); St. Louis Blues, 1929, Bessie Smith (15:41); Cab Calloway’s Hi De Ho, 1933 (10:00); Bundle of Blues, 1933, Duke Ellington (9:00); Hoagy Carmichael, 1939, Hoagy Carmichael, Jack Teagarden (10:00); Artie Shaw’s Class in Swing, 1939, Artie Shaw (10:00); Jazz a la Cuba, 1933, Don Aspiazú (5:19); and Black and Tan Fantasy, 1929, Duke Ellington, Fredi Washington (19:00). Thursday, March 31, 12pm, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, 102 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge. Free and open to the public.
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Cooper Gallery Film Series — “Art of Jazz” Cinema Series: Syncopation — Covering a quarter-century of American “syncopated” music (ragtime, jazz, swing, blues, boogie-woogie) from prior to WWI through Prohibition, the stock market crash, the Depression, and the outbreak of WWII. Directed by William Dieterle. Thursday, March 24, 12pm, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, 102 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge. Free and open to the public.
UPCOMING YOGA FOR OLDER ADULTS AT BPL PARKER HILL Practice gentle yet energizing standing & seated (chair yoga) poses and movements to maintain strength & agility as you age. Learn deep breathing & meditation techniques to increase memory & focus and achieve emotional balance. Connect with other older adults age 50+ to cultivate a community of elders inspired to enhance their health, wellness & wisdom with yoga. These classes are free and open to the public. Saturdays, 10-11am, April 2 - May 28; there is no class on May 14. Parker Hill Branch Library, 1497 Tremont St., Roxbury (Boston’s Mission Hill); take the MBTA to Roxbury Crossing, Ruggles or Brighams Circle stations, or bus routes #39 or 66. Some on-street parking is available. To RSVP, call head librarian Katrina Morse at 617-4273820, email earthseedyogi@gmail.com, or visit earthseedyoga.com.
PICS IN THE PARKS Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department invite Boston residents to participate in the free Pics in the Parks photography workshops taking place on select Sundays in April and May from 3-4pm. Individuals of all ages and skill levels are welcome to bring their cameras and participate in these informal sessions led by a photography instructor. Participants will learn techniques for taking impressive photographs of Boston’s scenic parks as well as be given a theme to focus on each Sunday. Select photos may be chosen for an exhibit at Boston City Hall. Dates and locations are as follows: April 3 — Geneva Avenue Cliffs, 275 Geneva Ave., Dorchester; April 10 — Christopher Columbus Park Trellis, 110 Atlantic Ave., North End; April 17 — Chandler Pond (main entrance), 95 Lake Shore Dr., Brighton; April 24 — Franklin Park Bear Cages, 25 Pierpont Rd., Dorchester; May 1 — Lagoon Bridge, Boston Public Garden, 4 Charles St., Boston. For more information please visit the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at www.facebook.com/ bostonparksdepartment or www.cityofbos ton.gov/parks. Participants must bring their own equipment and can register via email by contacting mavrick.alfonso@boston.gov.
Please register before April 8. By contacting Robin at 617-543-0393 or TakeBackTheKitchen@HaleyHouse.org. The classes are funded by the Fellowes Athenaeum Trust Fund of the Boston Public library (fellowestrust@yahoo.com).
FREE COOKING DEMOS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS The Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library (65 Warren Street in Roxbury) is offering free cooking demos for seniors, taught by Chef Fulani of the Take Back the Kitchen Program at Haley House. Each class has a focus: April 12 — Cooking on a Budget, April 19 — Swap the Salt — Spice It Up, April 26 — Smart Shopping. All classes run from 1-2:30pm. Sign up for one, two or all three. Please register before April 8 because space is limited. To register, call Robin 617-543-0393 or TakeBackTheKitchen@HaleyHouse.org. The classes are funded by the Fellowes Athenaeum Trust Fund of the Boston Public library (fellowestrust@yahoo.com).
SOL Y CANTO Simmons College presents Music in the Gallery with Pan-Latin ensemble Sol y Canto, on Thursday, April 14 from 11-12:30pm, with reception to follow, at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway in Boston. The concert and reception are free and open to the public. Pioneers of Boston’s Latin scene, Sol y Canto welcomes their listeners on a journey into the world of Latin music and culture. The band, led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and bongo player Rosi Amador and her husband, New Mexican guitarist and composer Brian Amador, is backed by musicians playing a variety of instruments. Their ensemble connects audiences to the richness of Pan-Latin music through the interpretation of classic folk songs as well as their original compositions influenced
by Chilean, Venezuelan, Mexican, Cuban and other Latin musical traditions. All of these influences are woven together to create their colorful repertoire. This concert is supported by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Art and Music. Trustman Gallery hours are 10am - 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. The gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Marcia Lomedico at 617-521-2268, or visit the Trustman Art Gallery website at www.simmons.edu/ trustman and Facebook.
STARTING YOUR OWN SEEDS Hybrid or heirloom, conventional or organic, days to maturity. With so many options, selecting seeds for your garden can be a challenge. Join us as we demystify the process of choosing seeds and starting them, indoors or out. Bring extra seeds for a swap after the workshop. Space is limited. Thursday, April 14, 6pm, Uphams Corner Branch of the Boston Public Library, 500 Columbia Rd, 617-265-0139. www.bpl.org.
ONGOING MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER GALLERY SHOWS Through April 1, the Multicultural Arts Center will host “To My Mother Who Used to Tell Me Stories” and “Young Artists” in the galleries. Erica Frisk is back, this time showing her photographs from Guatemala and the women of the weaving community. Colorful photos of textiles and the faces of women and their daughters fill the walls of the Lower Gallery. Local Cambridge students also get the chance to show their artwork on real gallery walls as we invite back the CPS group to the Art Center. Galleries are FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am - 6pm. Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., East Cambridge.
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FREE FAMILY COOKING CLASSES There are free cooking demos for adults accompanied by one or two children at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library (65 Warren Street in Roxbury). The classes will be taught by Haley House Chef Rachel of the Take Back the Kitchen Program on Mondays: April 11, 18 and 25, 5:30-7pm. Families can sign up for one, two or all three.
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Roxbury Community College’s answer to the challenge of economic freedom Become the economic engine that puts our community back to work By VALERIE ROBERSON & LORITA WILLIAMS
There’s been much discussion and many questions about the changes in Roxbury and how these changes will affect the current residents. The real issue is how can residents keep their homes; work at decent paying jobs; and create, grow and sustain businesses to remain in the neighborhood. The new Roxbury Community College has a foundational role to play in this economic rebirth. In addition to providing a quality education for our students, RCC has the mandate to ensure degree and non-certificate programs reflect the directions in which business and industry are going. Under new leadership, we face the task of not just surviving but transforming the College. Given the challenges confronting us, this has not been an easy undertaking. To position residents for
success, RCC has made some significant changes. We cannot continue to be the RCC of yesterday or the RCC our parents knew. The sweat of our ancestors, our current consumer clout and our taxpayer dollars entitle us to a place at the economic table. To move to the head of that table, we must update our skills and ensure that our curriculum meets the needs of today’s businesses and entrepreneurial landscape. Positioning RCC for success, in turn, positions the community for success. These are some of the new initiatives underway at RCC that are fueling promising careers for tomorrow. n We signed a Strategic Alliance Memorandum agreement with the United States Small Business Administration; providing a bridge for those who want to start or expand their business, or link to our entrepreneurship certificate program. n In partnership with YouthBuild Boston, RCC established The Boston Assessment Trade
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Valerie Roberson Center on campus to help those ages 18-26 explore career opportunities in the construction trades, leading to a nine-week hands-on training program. n We formed a new partnership with CVS for the Pharmacy Technician certificate program which includes full employment after successfully completing their internship. n We are collaborating with Colaberry on a Business Intelligence certificate program which includes internships, job readiness and job placement. Together, we will become the
Governor Charlie Baker joined the Great Schools Massachusetts coalition, gathering leaders from across Massachusetts at Excel Academy in East Boston to urge immediate legislative action to lift the cap on public charter schools in the Commonwealth.
economic engine that puts our community back to work by establishing new corporate partnerships and internships, reconnecting with local businesses and community leaders, and meeting with our elected officials to advocate for RCC and the community. Our goal is to be that viable resource that companies and industries turn to for a highly skilled, qualified workforce and emerging entrepreneurs from within the community for collaboration, careers, and well paying jobs.
The transformation process is in high gear. We are still a work in progress, but we are well on our way. Every day we are working to restore our brand and build trust within the community. There are those who doubt that we can turn this college around, but that is the fuel which drives us forward. Join us on the journey to economic empowerment for our community.
Valerie Roberson, RCC President, Lorita Williams, RCC Vice President for Advancement & Community Engagement
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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS unemployment continued from page 1 LEGAL Meanwhile, the demand for educated workers is especially high in Boston. Nationally, 26.5 percent of jobs list bachelor’s degrees as prerequisites; in Boston, that figure shoots to 40.5 percent of jobs. Even in jobs not explicitly requiring college degrees, they seem to be an important factor in hiring. For instance, while 77 percent of Boston’s nursing jobs require only an associate’s degree, more than 80 percent of the city’s RNs hold bachelor’s degrees. This may mean that those meeting the threshold for education requirements are being passed over for applicants whose education go further. Boston’s particular education emphasis seems set to continue: Many of the new jobs being created in the city are likely to require college degrees, the report said.
It also forecast that “by 2022, 41 percent of Boston jobs are expected to require a bachelor’s degree (compared to 27 percent nationally), and 36 percent will be available to those with a high school degree or less (compared to 50 percent nationally.” Education also significantly influenced earnings ability. The vast majority — nearly 70 percent — of residents with no more than a high school degree (and who are not enrolled currently in school) earn less than $35,000 per year, according to the report. Some jobs available to those without college degrees may generate low quality of life, by offering irregular hours, few benefits, low wages and few advancement opportunities. However the report suggests that exceptions to this may be found in construction, health care and social assistance sectors.
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The high earning gap among races also is aggravated by limited connections to good job opportunities in certain communities, the report noted. This could take the form of lack of transit to good jobs and limited local job availability, as well as having social networks that provide fewer connections to jobs, which typically is the case in neighborhoods where many are unemployed. The Office of Workforce Development report comes as part of an effort to identify and meet needs for job training programs.
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Terri Lyne Carrington, three-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist and Berklee Global Jazz Institute Zildjian Chair in Performance, was recently recognized as this year’s Honorary Member at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Society for American Music during a public ceremony at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge. Left to right: Charles Garrett, President of the Society for American Music; Terri Lyne Carrington; Roger Brown, President of Berklee College of Music; and Larry Simpson, Provost of Berklee College of Music.
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Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Larry Michael McPherson Date of Death: 08/14/2015 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Alberta M. McPherson of Mattapan, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Alberta M. McPherson of Mattapan, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 04/07/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 01, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
In the Interests of Paula Hughes Of Attleboro, MA RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU16D0311DR
Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Mooltrey-Adim, Ava
vs.
Adim, Kodilinye
To the Defendant:
To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Dept. of Developmental Services of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Expand the powers of a Guardian of the Respondent.
The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for IRRETRIEVABLE BREAKDOWN.
The petition asks the court to make a determination that the powers of a Guardian and/or Conservator should be expanded, modified, or limited since the time of the appointment. The original petition is on file with the court.
An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.
You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 04/07/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.
The Complaint is on file at the Court.
You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Ava Mooltrey-Adim, 11 Frawley St. #9, Boston, MA 02115 your answer, if any, on or before 05/12/2016. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court. Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 1, 2016
Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: February 25, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
SUFFOLK ss.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT CASE NO. SU15E0133PP
To Patrick Smith of Boston in the County of Suffolk and to all other persons interested.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU16C0072CA In the matter of Yesenia Pereyra of Boston, MA
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Yesenia Pereyra requesting that Yesenia Pereyra be allowed to change her name as follows: Alexa Luzcinda Villegas
A petition has been presented to said Court by Dolores Michel of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, representing that she holds as tenant in common undivided part or share of certain land lying in Boston, in said County of Suffolk, and briefly described as follows:
IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 04/07/2016.
A certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon being at present numbered and known as 71 Norwell Street, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and described as follows:
WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 7, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
The land with the building that may exist thereon situated in that part of said Boston called Dorchester, and being lot E on a plan by Toomey-Munson & Associates, Inc. entitled “Subdivision Plan Norwell Street” dated August 17, 2004, and recorded in the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds at the end of Book 35300, numbered seventy-one (71) in the numbering of said Norwell Street, and containing four thousand nine hundred eighty-three (4,983) square feet more or less, according to said plan. Said interest is conveyed in said premises subject to and with the benefit of restrictions, easements, rights of way, and conditions of record, if any there be, insofar as the same are now in force and applicable. Setting forth that she desires that — all — the following described part — of said land may be sold at private sale for not less that $400,000.00 dollars and praying that partition may be made of all the land aforesaid according to the law, and to that end that a commissioner be appointed to make such partition and be ordered to make sale and conveyance of all, or any part of said land which the Court finds cannot be advantageously divided either at private sale or public auction, and be ordered to distribute the net proceeds thereof.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU16C0061CA
In the matter of Jace Alexander Byfield Wright of Mattapan, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Patricia Byfield requesting that Jace Alexander Byfield Wright be allowed to change his name as follows: Jace Alexander Byfield
If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 7th day of April, 2016, the return day of this citation.
IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 04/14/2016.
Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 17th day of November, 2015.
WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 2, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
Felix D. Arroyo, Register.
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Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Renee Lee Of Boston, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person
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You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 04/14/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU16P0527GD
In the interests of Jaxon Wesley Anderson of Roxbury, MA Minor
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NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.
Department of Neighborhood Development
City of Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh
WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 08, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
SUFFOLK Division
Neighborhood Homes
The Neighborhood Home Initiative (NHI) is a new program that
To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Central Boston Elder Services of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Renee Lee is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Waltham, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.
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MAXIMUM GRANT AMOUNTS
NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 03/04/2016 by Jennifer Santiago of Roxbury, MA will be held 04/13/2016 08:30 AM Motion Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114.
1 Bedroom
2 Bedroom
3, 4, and 5 Bedrooms
$80,000
$100,000
$120,000
MAXIMUM HOUSE/CONDOMINIUM AMOUNTS
Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:
Bedrooms
Sale Price
Maximum Grant
Affordable Price After Grant
1 BR Condo
$226,600
$80,000
$146,600
File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.
1 BR House
$258,700
$80,000
$178,700
2 BR Condo
$264,100
$100,000
$164,100
3.
Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.
2 BR House
$300,100
$100,000
$200,100
3 BR Condo
$308,000
$120,000
$188,000
3 BR House
$341,400
$120,000
$221,400
2.
4.
Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.
THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice. Date: March 9, 2016
Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU16P0457GD
In the interests of Timya Catherine McNeal of Mattapan, MA Minor NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.
NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 02/29/2016 by Sharitha Pope of Coconut Creek, FL and Eleazor A. Clayton of Mattapan, MA will be held 04/06/2016 10:30 AM Motion Located at Suffolk Probate Court, 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114.
2.
Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:
File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.
3.
Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.
4.
Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.
THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice. Date: March 2, 2016
Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
4 BR House
$359,600
$120,000
$239,600
5 BR House
$378,000
$120,000
$258,000
MAXIMUM ANNUAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME 1 Person
2 Person
3 Person
4 Person
5 Person
6 Person
7 Person
8 Person
9 or more
$48,800
$55,800
$62,750
$69,700
$75,300
$80,900
$86,450
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Subject to periodic change by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Net family assets may not exceed $75,000. Households interested in applying should attend one of the two informational sessions being provided. Informational sessions will be held at the following locations: Thursday, April 21, 2016, 7:00 PM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield Saturday, April 23, 2016, 10:00 AM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield A lottery will be held on Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 7:00 PM at the Marshfield Town Hall, Hearing Room # 3, to select grant recipients. Successful grant recipients are required to have at least one family member attend and complete a Homebuyer Education Workshop. For additional information or to receive an application please contact either the Marshfield Housing Authority (781-834-4333) or the Marshfield Housing Coordinator: (781-834-1051). Applications are also available outside the Town Clerk’s Office, Marshfield Town Hall. All applications must be received and date stamped by the Marshfield Housing Authority no later than 12:00 PM (Noon) on Friday, May 6, 2016. Marshfield Housing Authority 12 Tea Rock Gardens Marshfield, MA 02050 The Marshfield Housing Partnership has an obligation to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants if they or any family member has a disability. If needed, language assistance is provided at no cost to the applicant. MHOPP Funding was made possible by the Town’s adoption of the Community Preservation Act
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Employment Opportunities Early Care and Education Center: Roxbury n Lead Teacher: The Lead Teacher is to work in conjunction with the Senior Lead Teacher and Center Director to ensure high quality child care. Collaborate with other program staff to ensure smooth program operations. The Lead Teacher will share the responsibilities of educational goals, classroom activities, creation of new projects and programs, licensing requirements with the Senior Lead Teacher. *Must have an Associates (and/or enrolled in Bachelor Degree program in Early Childhood and/or Special Education) or Bachelor degree in Early Childhood Education or related fields. Lead Teacher must have Infant, Toddler or Preschool Certification with E.E.C. n Teacher: The teacher is responsible for assisting the lead teacher in the development, implementation and maintenance of the classroom curriculum and educational activities. *Associates Degree preferred in Early Childhood or related field and/or CDA certificate. Must have Infant, Toddler or Preschool Certification. n Substitute
Teachers: Teachers on call.
Behavioral Health Services – Roxbury Community Service Agency (Specialized in Black Families): This program provides support to families with young people with Severe Emotional Disturbances: Roxbury n Family Partners: Individuals who are experienced caregivers of youth with emotional challenges and are able to support and coach other families. n Intensive Care Coordinator: An individual that facilitates the Wraparound care planning process and coordinates services and natural supports for youth experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges. n In Home Therapist: Providing strength-based therapeutic relationship between a Master level clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of treating the youth’s behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote his/ her healthy functioning within the family. *Must be a master’s level (or above) with at least 3 years experience in providing outpatient Behavioral health services to youth and families. Experience managing a home-based or Wraparound program models is preferred. Must be certified in the Massachusetts CBHI CANS. n Director of Outpatient Therapy: The Outpatient Director provides clinical leadership and management of the Outpatient services(mental and substance abuse). The Outpatient Director is also part of the Behavioral Health Department Senior Management Team, which supports compliance with all delivery of services to the fiscal, ethical and legal standards of the Commonwealth and the mission and core values of CSR. The Outpatient
Director is also responsible for the clinical case review process, continuing education development and the certification and recertification needs of all of the clinical staff of CSR’s Outpatient clinic. This individual ensures a high quality of Cultural and Linguistic competence and Trauma Informed therapeutic care. In addition this individual will ensure that care is being provided by a staff of appropriately trained duly certified and licensed practitioners and ensures a safe and efficient physical environment. *Must be a master’s level(or above) clinician. Experience managing a homebased or wrap-around program is preferred. Must be licensed at the Independent practice level or eligle for licensure to support the requirements of the program. Must be certified in Massachusetts CBHI CANS. n Outpatient Mental Health Therapist: Performing assessments; formulating clinical diagnoses; providing individual, family and group counseling; collaborating with other agencies, family members and other relevant parties involved in the client’s care; providing consultation to CSR non clinical and home-based clinical staff; and participating in research/ evaluation activities to ensure the delivery of evidence-based trauma informed care and best clinical practices. *Master’s level degree is required in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or a related field with 2 years experience in providing Behavioral health services to youth, adults and families. Experience in home-based or wraparound program models is preferred. Must be certified in the Massachusetts CBHI CANS. n Recovery Coach: The Recovery Coach (RC) will provide peer recovery support services to adult /adolecent client’s with substance use disorder (SUD). Recovery Coach Services allow the coaches to meet client’s where they are both in the community and in their stage of change. This position will facilitate client access to recovery-oriented substance use disorder treatment, resources, and community recovery groups to assist the client. These services are individualized and help the clients identify their needs and plans for next steps. The RC will bridge the segregated treatment system into a more holistic care model through providing support across multiple systems and frameworks of care. In addition, the RC will maintain ongoing client support regardless of relapse and will serve as a motivator, role model, recovery guide,and encourages hope for clients with substance use disorders. n School Based Coordinator: Under the direction of the School Based Manager and in collaboration with School Staff/School Administration, the coordinator will supervise the delivery of behavior health services provided by CSR. The School Based Coordinator will act as the contact person for all school partnerships and co-supervise the School Based Pods. *Candidate must possess a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in the fields of Humans Services, Management, Business Administration, Psychology, Sociology and or other related field or 5 years experience in a related field. Masters degree is encouraged but not required. A minimum of 1-3 years of management/supervisory experience is preferred.
n Substance Abuse Counselor: The Substance Abuse Counselor will provide quality substance abuse counseling services according to the program’s established policies and procedures. The Counselor reviews referrals, conducts screening to assign to outpatient counseling services, and if deemed appropriate, conducts bio-psycho-social assessments for use in treatment planning and referrals. The Counselor will conduct individual, couples, and family counseling. Furthermore, the Counselor will also provide case consultation, in-home therapy, and group therapy. As a group therapist the Counselor will be expected to participate in the development of group content. S/he works closely with treatment providers and referring organizations to expedite the referral processes and avoid duplication. Substance Abuse Counselors are expected to accurately complete all required record keeping forms, insure that clients’ charts are complete, and keep progress notes up to date at all times. S/he works to obtain and/or maintain clinical credentials and licensure by receiving supervision and attending training opportunities.
Intensive Foster Care Program: Tewksbury n Child Specific Worker (Spanish Speaking- Tewksbury): CSR’s Intensive Foster Care Program works to place children in stable, loving, nurturing foster homes. Our goal is to find both short-term and long-term placements for at-risk children and youth with a broad range of emotional, physical and developmental special needs. Reunification with the child’s biological family is our goal. When that is not feasible, care providers and staff work together to formulate an alternate plan for permanency such as kinship care, guardianship, or adoption. *Bachelor’s level; and/ or 2-5 years of experience. Must be LCSW, LSW, LSWA, or LICSW eligible. Must have a valid driver’s license without restrictions and have reliable transportation.
Family Childcare Program – Roxbury n Social Worker: The Social Worker will work with DCF(Dept. of Children and Families)/DEEC (Dept. of Early Care and Education) to ensure quality childcare for all children. The social worker will report to Family Childcare Program Director, and will recruit qualified educators and DCF referrals. Social worker will meet contract guidelines with DCF/DEEC, and ensure that all children’s needs are met in a quality child care home. He/She will attend community meetings, and share materials with Program Director. *Masters in Social Work or related field required. Must have a valid driver’s license without restrictions and have reliable transportation.
Congregate Shelter Program – Roxbury n Case Manager: Coordinates all family support services and monitors family’s compliance to the individual’s self-sufficiency plan. Assists Participants in identifying and reducing barriers to permanent housing. Must be sensitive to the dignity and respect of program participants and staff. *BA in Human Services, Social Work or related field preferred. 1-3years of Case Management/ housing search experience preferred. Bilingual in Spanish required.
For more information regarding these listings and/or other employment opportunities, please visit our website at www.csrox.org and send your resume to Children’s Services of Roxbury, Inc. 520 Dudley St. Roxbury, MA 02119 Attn: Human Resource Department or email to cshropshire@csrox.org NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
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