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Bilingual education to return

State legislators repeal narrow language teaching model

By KAREN MORALES

Bilingual instruction came one step closer to making a return in Massachusetts last week, with the House voting near-unanimously to support An Act Relative to Language Opportunity for Our Kids (LOOK), a bill that would allow instructors to teach English language learners in their native tongues.

The House vote, opposed by just one member of that body, followed a unanimous vote in the Senate.

Once it receives the governor’s signature — or the Legislature overrides his veto — the bill will remove the current mandate requiring schools to use Sheltered English Immersion as the only learning model and will grant schools greater flexibility in using alternative models based on the needs of students.

School districts will be able to choose to continue the current SEI programming or implement alternative instructional programs that meet the legislation’s requirements: a program must be a research-based best practice, contain subject matter content, (such as history or science) and include

an English language component.

The bill also requires the creation of Parental Advisory Councils in districts with high ELL populations (at least 5 percent of a student population). Parent Advisory Councils will comprise volunteer parents and guardians of ELL who will inform school districts and assist in the planning, development and review of schools’ programs.

“It will empower parents and educators to make the most effective educational decisions, based on each student’s individual needs,” said Senator Sonia ChangDíaz, co-chair of the LOOK bill conference committee and Senate chair of the Joint Committee on Education. “And it includes safeguards to ensure English learners don’t fall between the cracks or languish in ineffective programs.”

The legislation requires schools to track the academic performance of English learners and directs the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop guidelines and benchmarks to better track the learning progress of students.

The LOOK bill also will establish

See LOOK BILL, page 18

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BPS officials have made changes at Greater Egleston High School while the school’s headmaster is suspended with pay.

BPS makes changes at alternative high school Board chair says district made unilateral decisions

By YAWU MILLER

Nearly two months after Boston Public Schools officials canceled the enrollment of 104 students from Greater Egleston High School, many remain off the school’s rolls and the department has yet to give an explanation for the action.

Enrollment has declined at the school this year, observers say, as the interim headmaster appointed by BPS in October has instituted changes to the school’s curriculum and instruction that have substantially altered the

school’s ability to meet its mission — to educate students who are unable to work within the time constraints of a traditional high school.

Specifically, students are now required to be in school five days a week and the school’s internship program has been suspended.

Previously, students were able to blend in-classroom instruction with online courses, allowing them flexibility in their work and childcare schedules.

The changes were instituted after BPS officials removed Headmaster Julie Coles, who was placed on paid leave in September. BPS

officials have not given an explanation for why Coles was removed, but said they have launched an investigation into enrollment issues at the school.

The changes that substantially altered the way the school educates students came without warning, says Greater Egleston High School Board Chairman Anshul Jain.

“Students, parents and families have a right to know whether the model of school they applied to will still exist,” he said. “For a student to come to a school

See EGLESTON, page 9

Chinatown wants control of parcel Community requests lease from BPDA

By KAREN MORALES

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Suzanne Lee, co-chair of CCLT, translates for a community meeting at Josiah Quincy School.

Members of the Boston Chinatown Resident Association and the Chinatown Community Land Trust are appealing to the Boston Planning and Development Agency to take back control of a public land parcel in their neighborhood. The city-owned land, named Parcel R-1, has been leased to Tufts Shared Services for

decades, with the current lease expiring at the end of this year.

“Chinatown is in a severe housing crisis and land is so scarce,” said Lydia Lowe, director of CCLT. “Every parcel of public land is so precious and should be focused on the community’s needs.”

Community leaders and residents want to take over the lease for parcel R-1, which sits between Hudson and Tyler streets and is now a parking lot for Tufts Medical

Center, and use the land as a potential site for affordable housing, recreation and educational space.

Last Wednesday evening, the CRA and the CCLT held a public meeting at the Josiah Quincy School to showcase their plan for the parcel and receive feedback from neighborhood residents.

BPDA officials were invited to the meeting, but did not attend.

Lowe said the community organizations are hoping to meet with the BPDA in December.

See CHINATOWN, page 6

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UMass staff suffer consequences of school budget deficit

Union leaders urge the administration to reverse job cuts and develop new plan

By KAREN MORALES

Staff union leaders at UMass Boston are preparing to challenge the school’s administration and board of trustees after dozens of employees were laid off as a way to address a budget deficit.

Ongoing campus construction and renovations have contributed to UMass Boston’s multi-million dollar debt. It is estimated the layoffs will save the school $1.8 million, according to Barry Mills, UMass Boston interim chancellor.

Over the past year, staff, faculty and students have argued that there are solutions available to reduce the debt other than job cuts and tuition increases.

“It’s unconscionable that they are punishing people who have nothing to do with fiscal issues of the past,” said Tom Goodkind, president of the UMass Boston Professional Staff Union.

The root of the problem

“The staffing reduction decisions that have been made were driven by the financial and operational challenges that our campus faces,” said Vice Chancellor for Human Resources Marie H. Bowen in a statement to the UMass Boston community. “We regret the effect that this process will have on the lives of our valued colleagues, and we are grateful to

them for their many contributions to the University.”

But Goodkind said the school’s financial problems are rooted in the administration’s mishandling of the budget process for rebuilding the campus, “due to faulty construction of the 1970s.”

According to Goodkind, 43 employees were laid off last Wednesday and Thursday and “we think there are more rounds to come,” he said. At least 33 of those employees were union members.

The dismissed staff worked in a wide range of departments from maintenance and security to health services and facilities. Some had even worked with the school for more than 30 years.

Janelle Quarles, president of the UMass Boston Classified Staff Union, said that the school already suffers from understaffing. Her union started with 500 classified staff, and now there are fewer than 300 members.

“With the enrollment numbers growing over the years and the new buildings going up, we can’t even keep up with the workload,” she said.

The two staff unions are asking UMass Boston president Marty Meehan and the trustees to reverse their decision, halt the layoffs and use a small portion of the UMass central reserves to stabilize the budget, according to a press release from the UMass Professional

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UMass Boston Campus Center Staff Union.

The unions urge the administration to develop a long-term plan that addresses revenue and expenses while acknowledging the absolute necessity of repairing the school’s physical infrastructure.

Employee advocates plan to further their argument at a board of trustees meeting after the Thanksgiving holiday where union leaders, members, and students will gather and speak on how the staff cuts have affected their lives

and the way the school operates.

Goodkind thinks it’s time for the school to dip into its central reserves.

“It’s a huge rainy day fund,” he said, “and it’s pouring at UMass Boston right now.”

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Up next for Dudley plan: a design workshop

By SANDRA LARSON

Since February 2016, Dudley Square has been the focus of one of the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s community planning initiatives, joining similar efforts in Jamaica Plain/Roxbury and South Boston (Dorchester Avenue).

For the Dudley planning process, 17 public events have been held so far, including open houses, walking tours and workshops covering transportation, economic and workforce development, housing and climate readiness.

The next meeting — and the last for the 2017 calendar year — will be an urban design workshop on Monday, Nov. 27 from 5:30–8 at Central Boston Elder Services.

Meeting format

BPDA Senior Planner Courtney Sharpe told the Banner that the design workshop will begin with an open house format, during which community members can browse displays that recap the planning process so far and show various urban design concepts relevant to Dudley Square development. Following that will be small-group “table exercises” in which attendees will look at potential development scenarios.

The focus of the evening will mainly be on several vacant lots along Washington Street: the Blair Lot; 2147 Washington St. (across from the Blair Lot, next to Haley House); and Parcel 8 at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Washington Street.

Discussions will cover what buildings might look like if they are to hold office space, housing, retail or other uses.

“It’s really thinking about the form of the building, and how people react to different options of size,” said Lara Mérida, BPDA’s deputy director for community planning.

Mérida and Sharpe said planning for Dudley Square continues to be focused on adding housing in a mix of one-third affordable for low-income households, onethird affordable for middle-income and one-third market rate.

“We want to increase the population to help area businesses thrive, but to ensure that everyone has opportunity, no matter what their income,” Mérida said.

Plan continues despite criticism

The PLAN: Dudley Square process is intended to allow community stakeholders and the BPDA to revisit the visions and goals of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan and Dudley Vision and to “think strategically about the types of uses, public realm, and scale of development that are best suited for the future of the area,” according to the BPDA’s description of the plan.

Incorporating community feedback, at the end of the planning process the BPDA aims to introduce an updated roadmap and Requests for Proposal for the development of Dudley Square’s publicly-owned and vacant privately-owned land parcels. Zoning changes could be a part of a new plan, though BPDA planners said zoning changes would be more likely related to dimensions than to different uses altogether.

City Councilor Tito Jackson has voiced skepticism of the PLAN: Dudley process, both before and during his recent mayoral campaign. Early in the process, in spring 2016, he called for a halt to the plan, saying the plan was launched without community approval and without regard to his efforts to establish a coordinated vision for the area by restarting the Roxbury Neighborhood Council and launching a community-led Reclaim Roxbury initiative. Last fall, Jackson questioned the lack of a Roxbury housing study and asserted that

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The BPDA’s Dudley initiative focuses on vacant land parcels “development is what drives planning in Roxbury, rather than actual planning driving development.”

At that time, Mérida told the Banner that the Dudley Square community had seemed especially concerned about jobs, and thus PLAN Dudley had focused on workforce and economic development — though housing was part of the conversation.

PLAN: Dudley Square workshops have continued to occur on a roughly monthly basis throughout 2016 and 2017.

Jackson’s office did not respond before press time to requests for comment.

BPDA planners expect completion of the PLAN: Dudley process sometime in 2018, though they declined to project a hardand-fast finish date, calling it an

always-iterative process.

“These parcels have been in conversation since the ’90s,” Merida said. “There’s always been the idea that these would bring wealth generation and bring some activity to Dudley Square past closing time, and a mix of jobs and many different uses — retail and also commercial and office. We’re still hearing that throughout this process. Since Feb. 2016, we’ve been thinking through whether there are updates we want to see in the 2004 plan. So it’s about continuing the thoughts on wealth generation as laid out in the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan, and also discussions about housing.”

Seeking Dudley photos

On a lighter note, BPDA planners are seeking photos from the

community that reflect positive aspects and experiences of the Dudley Square area for possible inclusion in PLAN: Dudley Square documents and RFPs. If you have old or new Dudley Square images that “make you smile,” you can submit them (up to three at a time) as email attachments to Courtney.Sharpe@ Boston.gov.

IF YOU GO What: Dudley design workshop Where: Monday, Nov. 27, 5:30–8 p.m.

When: 2315 Washington St., Dudley Square,

Roxbury

ON THE WEB Dudley Square http://www.bostonplans. org/planning/planning-initiatives/plan-dudleysquare

Public Meeting

UPHAM’S CORNER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30

543 COLUMBIA ROAD

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Strand Theatre Dorchester, MA 02125

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: What is the future of the Strand Theatre as an anchor of the Upham’s Corner Arts & Innovation District? Please join us for a community open house followed by a discussion. Light refreshments will be provided.

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The Blair Lot on Washington Street in Dudley Square is one of the properties that will be discussed in the Nov. 27 design workshop for PLAN: Dudley Square.

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Harmful blowback from white supremacy Since the election of Donald Trump, the concept of white supremacy has been often in the news. Some people think of it simply as a synonym for bigotry, but that considers only the harmful effects to racial minorities.

Often ignored is the damaging impact on whites.

Much of world history is about the conflicts between different ethnic groups. The development of Christianity was supposed to alleviate the hostility and violence between tribes.

Churchgoers remember with pathos the biblical story of the Good Samaritan who aided the stranger wounded by thieves on the road. The Samaritan had taken to heart the Christian injunction to “love thy neighbor as thy self.”

Unfortunately, human society developed with those outside one’s tribe being recognized only as aliens. They are the “others” for whom the rest of us have little compassion or concern.

The spirit of the Good Samaritan has not taken hold. And what is worse, American society is so competitive that people want to feel assured that they have higher status than others.

About half of the immigrants from Europe to America in colonial times came as indentured servants. By the time their terms of service were completed, many were replaced by slaves from Africa. For many former Europeans, this was the first time they were not at the absolute bottom of the social register. Undoubtedly, this was a step up that they did not want to relinquish.

This situation served the Founding Fathers. Among the 57 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 41 owned slaves. Their early political battle in the republic was to maintain support for the practice of slavery. Sen. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, one of the leaders of the Confederacy and the Civil War, preached that all white men were brothers. There were only two classes, he asserted in a speech in 1849, blacks and whites, and

the whites “… the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class …”

From the birth of the nation, the concept of white supremacy was established to justify the inhumanity of slavery. Committed slavers like Calhoun even asserted that slavery was beneficial to blacks. But abolition won and the Civil Rights Movement outlawed racial discrimination in employment, education and places of public accommodation as well as denial of the right to vote. Nonetheless, white privilege continues to provide opportunities for some whites.

As more blacks have access to better education, the foundation for the concept of white supremacy has dissolved. What is left is the mere delusion of superior white competence.

It is now nothing more than a device for the oligarchs to destroy interracial political solidarity. It is well and good for the super-rich to view other whites as brothers, just as Sen. Calhoun inferred, but their brotherhood does not put bread on the table for many white families.

The time for whites to fantasize about the white supremacy is long gone, and no effort will be able to resurrect it. The more significant issue is the common interests beyond race that affect everyone’s economic status. The privileged who deny everyone affordable health care and a livable minimum wage, among other interests, insist that out of white solidarity, white American citizens should support policies that are detrimental even to their own interests.

An estimated 76.9 percent of the U.S. population is white. In order to be in the top 5 percent tax bracket, the household income must be $214,462 or greater. According to the Tax Foundation, about 6,829,286 tax returns were filed recently for that bracket.

With a white population of 248.5 million, it appears that white supremacy is not financially rewarding for most people. Do the math.

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The House tax bill’s a gift to companies that offshore profits and jobs

What in your life are you thankful for?

By GARY KALMAN As the country begins to digest the revelations in the new offshore tax haven leak known as the “Paradise Papers,” it’s important to not lose sight of the fact that the Congressional tax plan is out along with promises that it will end the gaming that has allowed multinational firms to shift trillions in profits offshore. Supposedly, the plan is to bring past profits and jobs back to the U.S. and prevent the offshoring in the future.

A closer look at the text of the bill suggests that the reality does not match the rhetoric.

Let’s start with the past profits. U.S. companies have approximately $2.6 trillion booked offshore on which they owe $752 billion in unpaid taxes. The House bill offers these companies a one-time deal to tax those profits at discounted rates of 12 percent for profits held in cash and 5 percent for other types of invested profits — that’s well below the current 35 percent rate, the rate in place at the time they earned the profits. In fact, that is a tax break of more than $500 billion on what they owe.

There is no economic case for discounted tax rates on profits already earned. In theory, lowering tax rates will incentivize future behavior. In this instance, the money is already earned. There is no loss of jobs or investment incentives by requiring companies to pay what they already owe before moving to a new system.

Drilling down further, findings from a 2011 U.S. Senate investigation indicate that there will be less benefit than advertised from the “return” of the profits to the U.S. The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that half the money booked offshore was simply routed through tax havens but reinvested in U.S. stocks, bonds, and real estate.

We would be bringing much of the money “back” from Manhattan.

The public benefit of a repatriation effort is derived from the revenue generated by the amounts companies pay toward what they owe in deferred taxes. That money could be used for rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure or meeting other public needs. A tax holiday that forgives hundreds of billions in corporate taxes, undermines the public benefit and rewards the companies that dodged taxes for all those prior years.

Going forward, gimmicks in the tax bill will give new incentives to move jobs offshore. One provision aimed at closing the offshore loopholes was recently gutted and other provisions leave several loopholes in place for favored special interests.

Currently, U.S. companies and individuals owe taxes on earnings wherever they are made – in Des Moines or Dublin. The new bill changes that longstanding parity so that companies will only owe taxes on profits they book in the U.S. or, in extraordinary circumstances, pay a lower tax on profits of offshore subsidiaries. It is safe to say that many offshore profits will go untaxed.

Under the original version of the bill, companies that moved some U.S. profits to offshore subsidiaries would have paid some taxes on those profits — that was good. But a recent amendment to the tax bill allows for deductions and other accounting games that nullify any benefit.

The bill sponsors say they are ridding the tax code of loopholes but, according to the text of the bill, oil, gas, and mining companies are exempt from even the 10 percent tax on extraordinary profits.

They get a free pass. Banks and financial services are exempt as well.

Apple, perhaps the most well-known and largest tax dodger, would get a free pass on its tax avoidance practices in Ireland and additionally be incentivized to move operations offshore.

In addition to complicating the tax code and incentivizing offshoring, the impact of these changes will further disadvantage small businesses and wholly domestic companies. Main street businesses do not — cannot — offshore their profits and play the games. Large businesses have built-in advantages such as bulk purchasing discounts and cheaper access to capital. They are inherent in a free market, and small business owners knew about those when they made the decision to open a business. But when government puts its thumb on the scale of big over small, that is an unfair advantage and one we should not accept.

All of this raises some basic questions: Why are we favoring foreign profits over domestic profits? And why are we incentivizing companies to move operations offshore?

The reality of the House tax bill does match the rhetoric used in selling it. We should reject this bill and work to close the offshore loopholes, stop the gaming, and ensure a fair and level playing field.

Gary Kalman, is the Executive Director at The FACT Coalition, a non-partisan alliance of more than 100 state, national, and international organizations working toward a fair tax system.

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During college, Morales took on internships at local Boston publications such as Boston magazine and Boston Common magazine.

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Chinatown continued from page 1

According to Lowe, Tufts pays the BPDA around $175,000 a year for the parcel lease, which the BPDA then takes and applies to their operating budget.

“Tufts makes parking revenue on R-1 and five other different sites where they have parking,” said Lowe.

At Wednesday’s public meeting, Lowe noted that because Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center are nonprofits, they don’t have to pay property taxes. Instead, they participate in the PILOT program, or Payment in Lieu of Taxes, in which nonprofits in Boston choose the amount and type of contribution to give to the city. The majority of nonprofit institutions pay significantly less than the minimum contribution the city requests.

Lowe presented the plan for Parcel R-1 at the community meeting, with Chinese translation by Suzanne Lee, co-chair of CCLT. “Because the process [of building something on parcel R-1] will take several years, instead of extending the lease to Tufts we can control the income and put our foot in the door,” Lowe said.

The CCLT doesn’t intend to call on Tufts to stop parking on R-1 on Dec. 31, but “we want to continue to let Tufts employees park there, while we pay the lease and collect the parking revenue to use as an affordable housing subsidy fund,” Lowe said.

“It’s a reasonable solution for the community, and gives Tufts time to make a plan to consolidate their parking, given that they own other lots,” she added.

The CCLT partnered with two area graduate students to put together a feasibility study on how to best execute their plan and create a sustainable source of income for a community anti-displacement fund.

Alex Bob, a city planning student at MIT and Alex Rawding, an urban planning student at Harvard, found that 48.6 percent of Chinatown households make less than $50,000 per year, drawing on 2015 estimates by the U.S. Census American Community Survey.

The students also found that 60 percent of Chinatown residents spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing, which, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, is a cost burden.

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ROXBURY STRATEGIC MASTER PLAN OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM

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Boston Water and Sewer Commission, Training Room Boston, MA 02119

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee (RSMPOC) was developed to oversee projects that fall under the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan. Since last year’s launch of PLAN: Dudley Square the RSMPOC meetings also include progress reports on the initiative. All meetings are open to the public and community input is desired. RSMPOC meetings are held in the evening the first Monday of the month. PLAN: Dudley Square workshops are typically every third Monday of the month, location varies.

Please come join your neighbors and the City of Boston to help shape the future of the neighborhood!

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Suzanne Lee, co-chair of CCLT, translates for a community meeting at Josiah Quincy School. residents,” said Bob. New so-called affordable units are unattainable, as well. Using income ranges from the 2011–2015 U.S. Census American Community Survey, and rent prices of affordable apartment units at One Greenway, Bob and Rawding learned that up to $6,156 would be needed annually to subsidize a three-bedroom unit the apartment tower offers.

Bob and Rawding calculated that with 77 parking spaces in R-1, for which Tufts employees pay $270 per month per space, the

CCLT would make a minimum of a $20,000 profit annually if they were to collect parking revenue, pay the lease and pay the cost of operating the lot.

Lowe said that unless the BPDA lowers its lease rate for parcel R-1, $20,000 wouldn’t be enough to subsidize apartments for residents, “but it could still be a significant amount to create a small anti-displacement fund.”

Longtime Chinatown resident Angela Soo Hoo attended last week’s community meeting,

pitching in her thoughts and ideas for the public parcel. She is concerned for the future of the neighborhood because she wants to one day raise her family where she grew up. “I would like to see an indoor recreational space for the winter time,” she said. “And more three-bedroom housing.”

Many former Chinatown residents she once knew have moved out to places like Quincy or Malden to accommodate their growing families. Said Soo Hoo, “There’s lack of space in Chinatown.”

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The House takes further steps to reform criminal justice system Despite changes in House bill, Senate legislators are eager to compromise

By KAREN MORALES

The Massachusetts House passed its own version of a criminal justice reform bill last week, which has entered into a house-senate conference committee to reconcile differences with the Senate bill. The House version includes decreased larceny theft thresholds, CORI reform and juvenile expungement reform, but left out justice reinvestment and some mandatory minimum repeals.

Advocates and legislators weighed in on the bill’s chances and timeline for passage.

“The negotiation could last for months,” said Lew Finfer, co-director of Massachusetts Communities Action Network. “They can go in whichever direction, or come up with something in between the two bills.”

Rep. Russell Holmes said, “I thought it went well for the priorities of the Black and Latino Caucus and the Progressive Caucus.”

Holmes added, “We’re hoping we can have it stay closer to the House bill to get something across the finish line. We need bipartisan support to override a possible veto from the governor.”

“It’s a compromise that we can work with,” said Calvin Feliciano, political director for SEIU

509. “Anything less than what the House put out would be a big problem.”

Key Differences

Among the differences between the two bills is the felony theft threshold on larceny. The Senate bill raised it from $250 to $1,500. The House bill only raised it to $1,000. “It hasn’t been raised in 30 years and at $250, we were the third-lowest in the U.S.,” said Finfer.

In the original Senate bill, a Justice Reinvestment Act was proposed which would redirect savings from expected reduced prison costs towards a job training and anti-recidivism fund.

The House did not pass this act.

Raising the age of juvenile court jurisdiction from 18 to 19 passed in the Senate, but did not pass in the House.

The Senate bill repeals more mandatory minimum sentences on drug charges than the House does.

The Senate repealed mandatory minimums on: class A, B and C drug distribution, including second or subsequent offenses, and drug distribution within school zones. It also raised the threshold for trafficking cocaine and crack from 18 grams to 99 grams.

The House repealed mandatory minimums only on class A, B

and C drug distributions and any second or subsequent offenses.

It did not raise the trafficking threshold for cocaine and crack.

Both versions of the bill passed the same CORI reforms, such as: allowing those with sealed records to say they have no record to qualify for housing and professional licenses; reducing the wait time to seal a conviction from 10 years to seven years for a felony and from five years to three years

for a misdemeanor; and allowing a conviction for resisting arrest to be sealed.

“Resisting arrest can be nonviolent, it can be mouthing off, giving police a wrong look or sometimes you can get thrown in anyway,” said Finfer. “It made no sense that you can get a CORI sealed for a violent crime, but can’t for a resisting arrest charge, which isn’t violent.”

Juvenile expungement passed

in both bills, meaning certain criminal records for young adults ages 18–21 can be sealed after three years for misdemeanors, and seven years for felonies.

“More is needed, but these bills take important steps forward,” said Finfer.

Representative Holmes said, “I believe the House bill is better, in that we have attempted to balance criminal justice reforms with public safety.”

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This year’s Heroes were IBM Watson Health (to be accepted by Dusty Majumdar, PhD, chief marketing officer); Pierantonio Russo, MD, FCPP, FAAP, vice president of health services, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and lecturer, population medicine, Harvard School of Public Health; and Richard Rakowski, CEO, Medically Home Group.

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AKA Day at City Hall The Psi Omega Chapter (Boston Graduate Chapter) of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. held AKA Day at City Hall to expose, engage, educate and empower its membership of college-trained professional women to Take A.C.T.I.O.N. in municipal governance. A week after the 2017 municipal election, on Nov. 15, a delegation of Psi Omega Chapter members met with several Boston City Councilors and executive administrators to explore the topics of elections, municipal governance, education, and women’s advancement. (l-r): Psi Omega members Ashley Brown (AKA Day on City Hall Chair), Darlene Hall, DiOnetta Jones Crayton, President Chenita Daughtry (seated), Marilyn Marion, and Alisa Drayton (AKA Day on City Hall Vice Chair).

City officials pictured include Megan A. Costello, Executive Director for the Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement, At-Large Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, Chelsey Cartwright, City Councilor Tito Jackson, and At-Large City Councilor and City Council President, Michelle Wu.

and find it completely divergent from the school they were in two months ago — how can you plan for the future?”

A governance issue

Greater Egleston is a pilot school, but changes instituted by the district or interim headmaster Stephanie Sibley were not approved by its board.

“In the pilot school system, governing boards must review and evaluate any proposed changes,” Jain said. “No changes were ever brought before our board.”

Jain said he raised the governance issue with BPS Superintendent Tommy Chang in October and received assurances the board would be consulted. Yet Sibley has continued to make changes at the school without consulting him, Jain said.

BPS spokesman Dan O’Brien said in a written statement that the department would work with the Greater Egleston board.

“BPS looks forward to working with the Greater Egleston governing board on issues pertaining to the school. Because there is an ongoing internal investigation into recent practices at Greater Egleston High School, BPS is limited in what information the district can provide publicly at this time,” the statement reads.

O’Brien says students were unenrolled in September and were asked to re-enroll because the department was not sure they were eligible to attend.

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Center to ensure that they were eligible to attend Greater Egleston and were following necessary requirements to obtain a degree,” he said in an email to the Banner.

O’Brien also indicated that Greater Egleston is working with BPS to restructure its suspended internship program.

A wider issue?

Greater Egleston is one of three alternative schools serving older students that have undergone upheaval in recent months. In August, students at Dorchester Academy were encouraged to transfer from the school after BPS officials laid off three administrators at the school, which serves students in danger of

dropping out.

Last week, officials at alternative school Boston Adult Technical Academy were told that students who are turning 22 this school year would be counseled to complete their high school education in programs outside of BPS. “Our goal is to graduate the students who enrolled here,” said a teacher at BATA, who spoke to the Banner on the condition of anonymity. “We don’t want to just drop them in the middle of their education process.”

BPS officials rescinded that directive last Wednesday, the teacher said.

Under BPS guidelines adopted in September of 2015, students

unable to obtain a diploma before their 22nd birthday are to be referred to over-age alternative education programs. But schools such as Greater Egleston and BATA were established to work with students who are in danger of not obtaining a diploma, including students who have already turned 22.

The sudden enforcement of the new guideline this year caught teachers and administrators at alternative schools by surprise.

“We’re still trying to get the district to put something in writing,” the BATA teacher said. “It’s not clear why that hasn’t happened,” he said. “We have never once received a communication about changes to the curriculum, schedule or

mission of the school. Everything we have learned, we have learned because other people have told us.”

Jain says the city should ensure that students enrolled at Greater Egleston and other alternative schools be given every opportunity to graduate, even after their 22nd birthday. That goal, he says, is aligned with the mission of Greater Egleston.

“The city of Boston has the bandwidth to offer incentives to newcomers,” he said, referencing the tax incentive package city and state officials offered General Electric. “I’ve never understood why the city of Boston is under such intense pressure to cut expenses in its schools.”

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The business of food Entrepreneurship program grads share their creations and pitches

By SANDRA LARSON

High above the evening bustle of Fan Pier in the Seaport District last Wednesday, Paulette Ngachoko of Hapi African Gourmet stood behind a table pouring creamy peanut sauce into tiny cups for sampling with rice or bread. A native of Cameroon who came to the U.S. 20 years ago, Ngachoko aims to introduce “ready-to-eat African-style food” here by bottling this traditional Cameroonian sauce — made from her mother’s recipe — and selling it to restaurants, institutions and stores.

At another table, Rory Forde offered samples of pumpkin bread, chocolate-coated cheesecake squares and several varieties of flaky-crust pie. Born and raised in Roxbury, the 33-year-old says he has been baking for friends and family for 15 years, and now aims to turn his passion into a business. With a plan to sell at area farmers markets and seek a storefront space, Forde hopes to locate Rory’s Pie Shop & Bakery somewhere in Dorchester, Mattapan or Roslindale.

“There aren’t a lot of pie shops in Boston,” Forde said. “I’m looking to showcase a homemade style.”

Ngachoko and Forde are part of a small group of aspiring food business entrepreneurs who have just completed Food Biz 101, a 12week program co-organized by the food business incubator CommonWealth Kitchen and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice.

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First piloted in Fall 2016, Food Biz 101 is an accelerator specially designed to address the nuts and bolts of starting a food-related business.

Classes cover recipe scaling, cost of goods, labeling regulations, licensing and permitting as well as business practices such as public relations, marketing and entity formation.

While starting a business from scratch is challenging in any sector, food businesses bring some unique challenges with their typically low profit margins and complex permitting, sales and distribution systems.

And for people who lack easy access to funding sources and networks of business contacts, the climb to success can be especially steep.

But once the entry hurdles are overcome, food businesses can offer owners a personally satisfying path to wealth-building and bring job opportunities to local communities.

“They’re powerful engines for closing the opportunity gap,” said Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice. His organization’s Economic Justice Project works to help people in low-income communities develop sustainable businesses

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Participants in the Food Biz 101 pitch competition offered samples of their products. (above) Rory Forde displays miniature versions of his signature pies. (left) Paulette Ngachoko prepares portions of her Cameroonian peanut sauce.

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In fact, the age group that is into Black Friday the most is millennials. Sixty percent of people between the ages of 18 and 34 say they are excited about shopping on Black Friday, according to a recent Flipp survey conducted by Ipsos.

Clearly, shopping great sales is as hot as ever with this younger generation.

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Check out the store before Black Friday. Check the store websites for “Store Maps” the days leading up to Black Friday, so that you can find where the doorbuster deals will be in-store and plan your route.

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Maybe you were late. Perhaps you couldn’t think of an impressive example of how collaborative you are. Or, maybe things really took a turn for the worse and you accidentally bad-mouthed a previous employer.

Regardless of the specific circumstances, your job interview was a total disaster. So, what’s next?

1 Press pause

For many of us, when we’ve just bombed an interview, we start obsessing over all of the things we screwed up and could’ve done better. Then, we start to brainstorm how we can fix it. Do we ask for a second chance? Send an email explaining we were just nervous?

But, chances are good that you’re blowing things way out

of proportion. So, take a deep breath and think about how the interview actually went. Share the highlights (or, in this case, the blooper reel) with a friend or another unbiased person to get their perspective on your interview experience.

Taking a moment to reflect will allow you the opportunity to calm down, get a more realistic grasp on how things went, and think strategically before following up.

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Regardless of how you felt the interview went, you should still send a note to show you appreciate the interviewer’s time and consideration. Doing so will present you as the kind, courteous and gracious professional you are.

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For this latest round of Food Biz 101, which began in August, 40 people applied and 15 were accepted, a cohort that was 90 percent people of color and 60 percent women. Ultimately, 11 enrolled in the program, and on Nov. 15, nine graduates were on hand to display their products — from Mexican mole sauce to Sicilian arancini to alcohol-infused popcorn — and deliver their two-minute pitch before an audience and a panel of judges.

In addition to Ngachoko and Forde, those pitching were Kenya Madry of Scrumptious Food Truck; April Teixeira of Corny Bread Company; Margarita Carreto of Mr. Tamole, Vincent Li of Eatable Popcorn, Joe Spagnuolo of Cini’s; and Faith Taylor of Confections by faith.

Kamaal Jarrett of Hillside Harvest was not at the event, but gave his pitch via video.

The judges asked questions to determine how carefully the would-be entrepreneurs had thought about what their upfront costs would be, how much they would have to sell to stay afloat and what they would have to do to scale up from a farmer’s market table to getting their product onto the shelves of major grocery stores.

Some of the speakers couldn’t hide their nervousness, while others spoke with aplomb, but all showed pride in their culinary creations and a passion to be in the business of sharing their food traditions or inventions with the wider world.

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Dorchester kitchen facility.

Tied for second place were Mr. Tamole, a mother-son tamale and mole venture pitched by Mexican-born Margarita Carreto, and Eatable Popcorn, the snack Vincent Li developed by combining two of his favorite things: popcorn and whiskey.

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Art Breathes Life Grove Hall art program fosters street art projects

By CELINA COLBY

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d Gaskin, executive director of Greater Grove Hall Main Streets, is actively fostering public art projects as a way to promote economic development in the area. As a result of more than $70,000 in grant funding, Grove Hall is regularly producing murals, walking tours, streetlight banners and creative paint projects.

“I was surprised by the PaintBox program,” says Gaskin. “Cars were literally stopping on Blue Hill Avenue to tell the artists how much they liked the project.” Run by the Boston Art Commission, the PaintBox program works with the Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Sparc! ArtMobile

program to paint utility boxes, transforming them from purely functional items to works of art. Grove Hall boasts utility boxes painted with portraits of Prince, Michelle Obama and Muhammad Ali. Muralists, too, are being commissioned to enrich the visual culture of the neighborhood. Rob Gibbs, who goes by artist name “Problak,” painted “Breathe Life,” an enormous portrait of a black toddler blowing sparks into a fantasy landscape. “My mural is a blend of Afrofuturism, hip-hop and graffiti,” says Gibbs. A Roxbury native and current Dorchester resident, Gibbs wanted to create a positive depiction of his home. “It’s a reflection of

the people that live here,” he says.

“Breathe Life,” located at 324 Blue Hill Avenue, certainly is a stunning reflection of the Boston spirit. New Englanders are known for their fortitude, and the little boy in the mural blows into his toy house with all the verve that Bostonians bring to everything, even their art.

The Blue Hill Avenue CVS a few blocks away hosts a rotating window display of local artists as an additional part of the Grove Hall artistic development.

Earlier this year, Gaskin organized a 90-minute guided architecture tour in Grove Hall for Boston Art Week. It was Greater Grove Hall Main Streets’ first time participating. In 2018, he hopes to offer an art tour and a black history tour as well. His group is also working on a fundraising effort for an app that points out historical sites throughout the neighborhood and provides facts about them.

Though economic development through increased tourism is the primary motive for the artwork, Gaskin says improving quality of life for residents is essential as well. The arts program supports local artists of color by providing them with a platform that reaches a much broader audience than museum walls or gallery shows.

Gibbs hopes the street art will show both visitors and locals how much Grove Hall has to offer. “They say a picture’s worth a thousand words,” he says. “I just want to leave the book open.”

The “Breathe Life” mural at 324 Blue Hill Ave. is by Rob Gibbs, who goes by the artist name Problak.

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Artist focuses on urban renewal in Chicago

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

Since the 1960s, artists have been moving beyond galleries and museums to create works not confined by walls — from land art projects that extend across deserts to large-scale installations that envelop viewers in entire environments. Artist Theaster Gates expands his repertoire to encompass urban renewal, through an ongoing endeavor to rebuild blighted sections of the South Side community in his hometown, Chicago.

A sculptor, installation and performance artist, preacher and leader of his own gospel-rooted band, the Black Monks of Mississippi, Gates studied urban planning and ceramics at Iowa State University and earned a master’s degree in fine arts and religious studies from the University of Cape Town, in South Africa.

Now director of the Arts + Public Life initiative at the University of Chicago, Gates also runs a nonprofit, the Rebuild Foundation, which has gutted more than 30 condemned buildings in the South Side and turned them into affordable artist live/work spaces and a community art center, the Stony Island Arts Bank.

Located 10 blocks south of the planned site of the Barack Obama Presidential Library, the art center is the repository of the Edward Williams Collection of 6,000 blackface caricatures — tchotchkes, figurines, ads for axle grease and kitchen goods, children’s books, toys and other pop culture objects Williams has collected since the 1970s to remove them from circulation. Williams, a retired bank executive raised in the South Side, donated the

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Huntington Theatre Co. brings Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’ into 21st century ON THE WEB

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

The Huntington Theatre Company is presenting an exuberant and stylish production of “Tartuffe,” a 17th-century farce

by Molière, one of France’s greatest dramatists. On stage through Dec. 10 at the Avenue of the Arts/ Huntington Avenue Theatre in Boston, the production turns this tale of a wily con artist posing as a holy man into a buoyant contemporary comedy.

The Huntington’s artistic director, Peter DuBois, directed the production and its superb staging, with sets by Alexander Dodge, costumes by Anita Yavich, lighting

by Christopher Akerlind and choreography by Daniel Pelzig.

A brief prelude gives a taste of what is to come in a series of strobe-light-rapid snapshots of the hypocrite Tartuffe at work coddling his mark, Orgon, the hapless man of wealth who adopts the fawning imposter as his guru.

In one, for example, Tartuffe inhales Orgon’s shoe as if it were a fragrant bouquet before placing it on his foot.

The play then opens onto a still life of Orgon’s family, assembled like so many marionettes in the vast living room of his modern high-rise dwelling, with a soaring floor-to-ceiling view of the sky (a feature that comes in handy later in the show). They pose against

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Melissa Miller stars as Elmire and Brett Gelman stars as Tartuffe in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of the Molière play. a backdrop of ivory gauze punctuated by the vivid blue, fuchsia, red and tie-dye hues of their costumes, all speckled with rhinestones — a visual cue to the folly of the wearer.

But they are not still for long.

Cracking her cane like a whip, Orgon’s mother, Madame Pernelle, attired in black like Tartuffe and Orgon, berates her daughterin-law Elmire, Elmire’s brother Cleante, her grandson Damis and granddaughter Mariane for refusing to submit to Tartuffe, whom they all recognize as a fraud. As she strides across the stage in a rhinestone-studded sheath, Paula Plum’s imperious matriarch

bestows insults and occasional beatings on her relatives, including the hotheaded Damis (Matthew Bretschneider), whose cellphone, his only weapon, is over the course of the show dunked, scorched, and thrown by his grandmother, his father and later, Tartuffe.

Sarah Oakes Muirhead as Mariane, in a frilly red confection with matching beribboned heels, and Gabriel Brown as her suitor Valère, long and slender in a lizard green suit, make a pair of airheaded lovers.

The production is faithful to the timeless tricks of the trade employed by Molière in the original three centuries ago, including

several the playwright absorbed early in his career, while traveling with a comedy troupe and meeting up with roving commedia dell’arte companies from Italy. He adopted their stereotyped stock characters to caricature social types and the use of physical comedy to tell a story and change speeches on the spot to avoid censorship.

But Molière failed to evade censors in 1664 when he first staged this scathing satire of wealthy fools and sanctimonious power-seekers. Only after a fiveyear blackout was he able to stage the play again, this time with a new ending flattering to his patron, King Louis XIV. Another feature of the Huntington production is its use of a translation by Ranjit Bolt acclaimed for retaining the rhyming verse in the original. But Molière wrote 12 beats per line, and Bolt’s snappy eight-beat lines are not always entirely audible in worddense, high-speed speeches.

But the abundance of visual comedy makes up for these occasional lapses. Characters climb over each other, topple, leap, grasp and tumble with ease to express their emotions.

The only semi-stationary figure is Orgon, played by Frank Wood, who won a Tony for his role in “August: Osage County” on Broadway. His Orgon is robotic as he speaks his lines, as if hypnotized by his guru.

Praising Tartuffe as the medium of his newfound enlightenment, Orgon says, “…now I can see it’s all illusion, even love/ That’s one disease he’s cured me of: Yes, I could see my family die/ And not so much as blink an eye.”

Only three characters interact with Tartuffe as cool-headed equals: the outspoken Dorine, endowed by Jane Pfitsch with down-to-earth spunk; Orgon’s wife Elmire, performed by a superb Melissa Miller (who played the maid in “Tartuffe” on Broadway); and her brother, Cléante, played with élan by Matthew J. Harris, recipient of a 2016 Elliot Norton Award for his role as the younger of two rival brothers in the Huntington production of “Topdog/Underdog.”

This trio is sequin-free: Elmire wears a tomato red, body-hugging dress; her brother is attired in a blue leisure suit; and Dorine runs the household in a no-nonsense tailored outfit.

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Wellesley College stage production reinforces age-old truths about work

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The Wellesley Repertory Theatre at Wellesley College wrapped up an all-female production of “Working” by Studs Terkel, adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso. Based on Terkel’s 1974 book of interviews with Americans about their jobs, the musical reveals that though titles

may change, the attitude towards working remains the same.

The students of Wellesley Rep performed their roles dynamically and expertly, though there is a special irony in watching college students sing about the disillusionments of the working world.

Only one of the performers is a theatre major; the others’ fields of study range from linguistics to computer science. The script was

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adapted at the end to accommodate interviews the students conducted with workers at Wellesley College. They weren’t always positive, and they drove home a more local perspective.

The first production of the musical was performed in 1977, and since then the play has undergone revisions to make it more relevant. In 2010, Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote two new songs for the musical. The jobs of newspaper boy and valet were removed. Interestingly, so was the position of migrant worker, although immigrant labor is still a relevant topic.

Of course, technology moves quickly and many of the jobs and stories feel outdated even just seven years after being updated.

Now the gig economy runs America, and though Miranda added a song called “Delivery” about a food delivery person, it doesn’t quite line up with Uber drivers, YouTube influencers and social media strategists.

Despite the older jobs, the production still conveys the toxic working culture of the United States. Very few of the interviews-turned-songs expressed any real joy about working. Many of the characters said they work to live, but would so much rather not. The culminating number, “Something to Point To,” expresses

collection to the center.

Gates, the son of a roofer, runs a tight ecosystem within the art world’s top tier. He fetches up to $750,000 for sculptures and wall-mounted works that he fashions out of scrap materials salvaged from his neighborhood.

He turns collectors of his works into backers of his community revival project. Profits from sales of his art support his studio and the Rebuild Foundation, which trains and employs a local workforce in demolition, masonry and other construction trades.

In 2017 alone, Gates has had two major shows: the ironically titled “The Minor Arts,” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and “But To Be A Poor Race,” at Regen Projects in Los Angeles. The latter drew its title from “The Souls of Black Folk,” a classic study by sociologist W. E. B. DuBois, whose maps of black ownership patterns in urban neighborhoods Gates echoes in his abstract paintings.

Photographs of Williams Collection objects were integral to a recent performance by Gates at the Harvard Art Museums that was billed as a “poetic sermon.”

Taking the role of a shape-shifting griot, a traditional African community historian and storyteller, Gates delivered a 50-minute a cappella vocal and visual performance that had the surging energy and emotional range of an Archie Shepp saxophone solo.

Gates entered the packed lecture hall wearing a short-sleeved red tunic and a red backpack, which he kept on through most of

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The cast of “Working.” the idea that everyone should have something tangible to show what their working life has meant.

But how many people do?

In a post-show talk-back, the song “Just a Housewife” ruled the conversation. The song says that stay-at-home moms are judged for not working, even though their jobs are difficult. Juliette Bellacosa, the singer, commented that students at Wellesley, which is still a women’s college, are trained to take over the world professionally, which can make domestic work inaccurately look less valuable. The topic spurred a discussion on the priorities of the performance. With his cleanshaven head and black-framed spectacles, he had a monkish appearance, and the robust body of a man who works on his feet rather than at a desk. He began by moving two whiteboards together as he started singing, then walked over to a lectern. His hands gripped the lectern as he lowered and raised his body with the pitch of his voice, which varied between vibrato and baritone and at times compressed into a deep growl.

Varied vocals

Not unlike a jazz musician, Gates injected elements of surprise with pauses, repetitions and a bit of vocal scat, accenting or dropping syllables from the words of familiar songs. Accompanying his vocals with stretches of percussive breathing and tapping hands and feet, he launched a medley from an American songbook of the 1950s, starting with the national anthem, then moving to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “God Bless America” and a host of other familiar hymns and pop songs.

As Gates sang, he projected photographs from the Williams Collection on a large screen. First up was a whites-only sign for a pool, dated March 1921. Mingling with images of grotesque blackface caricatures were photographs of traditional African masks and portraits of elegant black families by photographer Roy DeCarava (1919-2009).

Accompanying a poster of “Porgy and Bess,” Gates sang a lilting refrain from that musical, and moved from riffs of “Ain’t Gonna Study War No Mo,” “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” and “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” to the inevitable

contemporary feminism.

Though many of the songs are upbeat and many of the performers wore smiles, the underlying tone of the show is somber. The job market has changed, but America still celebrates working to the bone, no matter how unrewarding it may be. During the talk-back an audience member said, “We always toe that line between being human and achieving.”

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currentseason “Chicago,” which he sang with a rare smile before rendering “O Holy Night” as a keening improvisation.

To the melody of a venerable hymn, he sang, “This race that I have, the world didn’t give it to me/ This hate that I have, I got it honestly.”

As if consumed with rage, Gates mimicked the body language and diction of an old-school gospel preacher and spouted sounds that weren’t quite words.

He then stepped away from the lectern, took off his pack, leapt up the hall’s steep stairs and went out the door. But the show was not quite over. He came back, bounded down the stairs and concluded his performance by thanking the audience.

Next, Gates sat down for a Q&A session with Sarah Lewis, assistant professor of African Studies and the history of art and architecture at Harvard, whose class he had visited earlier that day. Affable and energetic, Gates responded to questions from Lewis and the audience by miming the didactic role of a teacher. Commenting that his mission was about “creating black space” and “nation building,” he stepped to the white boards, wrote the words “alchemy” and “value making” and gave a concise discourse on countering neighborhood gentrification and deterioration by owning property, an act he described as “investing in value” and choosing to be “from somewhere.”

“I’m not an American,” said Gates, “I’m a Dorchesterian,” referring to his address on South Dorchester Ave. in Chicago. He exhorted the audience to “own your stuff, buy land.” The starting point, said Gates, “is to first identify the thing you believe in.”

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Here are five of the most useful, and beautiful, methods of garnishing virtually any entree, according to www.chefseanbone.com: A sprig of rosemary or mint: A great option for meat dishes, soups or anything where you need a little green.

Sliced lemon or lime: A classic method that is often overlooked.

Dried chilies: A perfect visual compliment to any southwestern meal.

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f you’ve ever tried to peel 15 tiny slivers of garlic just to get enough for a proper meal, and had the wispy wrappers stuck to your stinky garlic-juice fingers, then you know the frustration of softneck garlic.

But do you know the pleasure of a clove that peels so easily that the whole thing comes off in one piece?

A single clove that peels in five seconds and has to be cut in half to fit in most garlic presses?

That, friends, is hardneck garlic.

Hardneck cloves radiate around a central stalk like slices of pie, while softneck bulbs are lumpier, with a central stalk that is shriveled like a belly button. All you have to do is press your thumb into the middle of a bulb and you will know what you are dealing with.

One typically has to pay more for hardneck, but it’s worth every penny.

The first time I saw Romanian Red, in a basket in the back of a pickup truck in the Pacific Northwest, I bought 30 pounds for $150. That was 15 years ago and one of the best investments I’ve ever made. To this day, Romanian Red is the kind of garlic you want to work with in the kitchen, ergo the kind you want to plant.

The man who sold me that life-changing garlic stash, David Ronniger, passed away last summer.

Until our paths first crossed at the Tonasket Barter Faire, I had been growing a not-bad Spanish Rosa.

But since meeting the Romanian Red I have not looked back. All of

my garlic-growing friends have switched as well, growing out seed that I’d gifted them.

Once, to win a softneck versus hardneck debate with my farmer friend Patty Fialkowitz, I gave her a bag of Romanian Red. Years went by.

I moved away. I moved back to find Patty’s husband Bob is now growing 600 pounds of Romanian Red, all from the seed I gave her to make my point. Bob was even selling Romanian Red to Ronniger, who ended up selling more Romanian Red than he could grow. Now that David is gone, Bob has extra, if anybody wants any.

(Fialkyfarm@gmail.com) Online, the going rate for Romanian Red seed is about $25 a pound, but I’m pretty sure the stuff available at your local farmers market, including Bob’s, runs quite a bit less, and you can plant it just the same. There is nothing special about so-called “seed garlic.” Or Romanian Red, for that matter. There are many good varieties out there, and the most important thing, other than it be a hardneck, is that it grows well in your area. If you pick up some locally grown garlic at your farmers market and treat it right, you can assume it will resemble what you bought.

Break the bulbs into cloves and plant them, scab side down, with the tip an inch below the surface, about 6 to 10 inches apart.

Mulch it through the winter if you live in a cold climate, and don’t ever let it dry out until harvest time.

You’ll want to try hardneck

Garlic Seafood Sauce Here’s a recipe for a garlicky Thai sauce called nam jim, which basically means “dipping sauce for seafood.”

In addition to being great for that, it also gives a saltwater flair to non-seafood dishes thanks to a copious amount of fish sauce.

There are as many recipes for nam jim as there are Thai kitchens. My recipe comes from Pornthip Rodgers, who runs Pagoda Chinese and Thai food in Missoula, Montana. n 1 6 miniscule garlic cloves, painstakingly peeled (she used softneck garlic, in other words); or, preferably, a clove or two of a decent stock

n Small bunch of cilantro n 1-2 Thai-style chiles, to taste n 2 limes, quartered and ready to squeeze, for about ½ cup juice n ¼ cup fish sauce n ¹⁄³ cup sugar (or to taste) n 2 Tablespoons chicken soup powder (optional; she uses this as a replacement for MSG) n Salt, to taste Start by blending the cilantro, garlic and chiles along with sugar, soup powder and lime juice into a coarse slurry. Adjust ingredients to ensure there is too much of everything, then add too much fish sauce.

Ari LeVaux writes a syndicated weekly food column that’s appeared in more than 50 newspapers in 25 states. Ari can be reached at flash@flashinthepan.net.

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The Legislature has taken an important step forward in recognizing that students’ cultural and language identities are assets and not deficits to their education.”

continued from page 1 a state Seal of Biliteracy, awarded by participating school districts to students who achieve a high level of proficiency in English as a second language. Massachusetts will be the the 29th state to adopt a state Seal of Biliteracy.

“The Legislature has taken an important step forward in recognizing that students’ cultural and language identities are assets and not deficits to their education,” said Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang, in a statement released after the bill’s passage.

“This bill provides school districts with greater flexibility to implement English learner programs that best meet the needs of their students,” said Massachusetts

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Tartuffe

continued from page 15 garb and twin Moroccan fez hats, the two descend the staircase in unison, spinning Tibetan prayer wheels and murmuring a chant.

Brett Gelman’s Tartuffe is worth the wait. A longtime member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, an improvisational comedy troupe in New York City, Gelman is a voracious presence in every scene. At first sight, with his black beard and long black overcoat, Gelman’s Tartuffe

Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni. “It removes the one-size-fits-all restrictions that have limited most districts to offering just one kind of instruction — Sheltered English Immersion.”

The 2002 SEI mandate was the result of an initiative proposed by Ron Unz, a California businessman and anti-bilingual-education crusader.

In 2016, the dropout rate for

ELL students statewide was 6.6 percent, the highest rate of any subgroup of students and three times higher than the rate for all students.

Additionally, only 64 percent of ELL students graduated from high school, compared to 87 percent of all Massachusetts students.

Chang-Díaz said that English immersion may work for some students, but for others the system failed. “We shouldn’t keep doing

could be a stand-in for Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof,” with a dose of Rasputin, the monk who a century later arguably brought down the Russian Empire. But Gelman’s Tartuffe is no ascetic. He is a robust, well-fed cleric who brings lusty energy to his winner-take-all strategy. Orgon readily hands over property titles to his guru and just as eagerly offers Tartuffe his daughter’s hand in marriage.

Meanwhile, Tartuffe pursues the women of the house — both Elmire and her daughter — and spars with his most vigorous foes, Damis and Dorine.

Miller’s Elmire is smart, sexy and self-possessed, and in one of the best scenes in the show, she stages a reverse seduction, with Orgon hidden under a table, to prove that Tartuffe is not a holy man but rather a lecher on the make.

Orgon takes his time, but he finally emerges to confront Tartuffe.

Orgon and his family reunite and join forces to oust the hypocrite, but they are no match for his wiles. It’s only when Tartuffe overplays his hand that his luck runs out, and, stylish from start to finish, this production lets him meets his fate with a spectacular finale.

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And the following Filed Sub-Bids: Miscellaneous and Ornamental Iron; Waterproofing, Dampproofing and Caulking; Roofing and Flashing; Acoustical Tile; Painting; Fire Protection; HVAC E.C.C: $5,820,038 This project is scheduled for 530 calendar days to substantial completion.

Scope: Relocation of the existing Data Center in the Massachusetts State House within the existing Storage area adjacent to current location in the sub-basement also known as the “Coal Pocket”.

A Pre-Bid meeting will be held on November 30, 2017 @ 10:00 AM. Enter the State House at the Ashburton Park entry. All are required to check through security and proceed immediately to the right, where a DCAMM representative will meet the prospective bidders.

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To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown The Complaint is on file at 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 are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Debra A Smith, 105 Hammond St. Boston, MA 02120-2014 your answer, if any, on or before 01/11/2018. 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.

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CITATION G.L. c. 210, § 6 To Keyetta Cook Of Parts Unknown and Carl Sisson Of Parts Unknown any unnamed or unknown parent and persons interested in a petition for the adoption of said child and to the Department of Children and Families of said Commonwealth.

A petion has been presented to said court by Barlinda Annette Cook of Boston, MA requesting for leave to adopt said child and that the name of the child be changed to Victoria Delores Goodwin-Cook.

If you object to this adoption you are entitled to the appointment of an attorney if you are an indigent person.

An indigent person is defined by SJC Rule 3:10. The definition includes but is not limited to persons receiving TAFDC, EACDC, poverty related veteran’s benefits, Medicaid, and SSI. The Court will determine if you are indigent.

Contact an Assistant Judicial Case Manager or Adoption Clerk of the Court on or before the date listed below to obtain the necessary forms.

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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.

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In Boston, BPS is already taking steps towards fostering bilingual education. The district launched a Haitian-Creole and English dual-language program for pre-K students at the Mattapan Early Elementary School, the first program of its kind in the nation, and offers dual-language English and Spanish programs in some schools as well.

“We live in a global community and we must be able to adapt to the changing needs of our communities in a thoughtful and constructive way,” said Senate President Stan Rosenberg. “This bill achieves that purpose.”

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Since the year 2000, the number of ELL students in Massachusetts has doubled to over 90,000 students, or 9.5 percent of the student population. Last year, 90 percent of school districts had at least one ELL student and 19 percent of districts had 100 or more ELLs. The number of job postings in Massachusetts seeking bilingual candidates increased from 5,600 in 2010 to 14,500 in 2015, according to a 2016 study by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, “The State of Languages in the

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To Keyetta Cook Of Parts Unknown and The Unknown Father Of Parts Unknown any unnamed or unknown parent and persons interested in a petition for the adoption of said child and to the Department of Children and Families of said Commonwealth.

A petion has been presented to said court by Barlinda Annette Cook of Boston, MA requesting for leave to adopt said child and that the name of the child be changed to Terrance Isiah Goodwin-Cook.

If you object to this adoption you are entitled to the appointment of an attorney if you are an indigent person.

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Contact an Assistant Judicial Case Manager or Adoption Clerk of the Court on or before the date listed below to obtain the necessary forms.

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 01/18/2018.

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Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Sandra Yvonne Goodman Date of Death: 10/04/2015 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed

by Whitfield Goodman of Hyde Park, 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 Whitfield Goodman of Hyde Park, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve 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 12/22/2017. 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.

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Income limits 1P - $54,750 2P - $62,550 3P - $70,350 4P - $78,150 5P - $84,550 Info mtg 12/13/17 Lottery 1/25/18 both 7pm, Town Hall, 26 Evergreen.

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978-758-0197 kriscosta@laassoc.com

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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70% AMI

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$1,630

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WITNESS, HON. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court.

Date: November 10, 2017

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*Preference for persons with mobility impairment 1- (1br PBV-BHA unit) 1- (2br 60% AMI unit) *Rents are based upon adjusted gross income. Section 8 available through the Boston Housing Authority (BHA).

To apply, households should contact the BHA, 52 Chauncy Street, Boston, MA 02111 ** Gross Rent includes utility allowance with tenant payment for heat, hot water, and electricity.

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.

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