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BPS hires socialemotional expert Position reflects new focus on students’ non-academic skills

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Members of the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, the House and Senate Progressive Caucuses, the Women’s Caucus and the Harm Reduction and Drug Law Reform Caucus gather at the State House to push for criminal justice system reforms.

Legislators join forces on criminal justice reforms Five caucuses working on broad spectrum of bills

By YAWU MILLER As legislators and their aides filed into the Great Hall in the State House Monday, criminal justice reform advocates stood behind tables with information packets about their respective legislative initiatives — ending mandator y driver’s license

suspensions, ending solitary confinement, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences.

In an unprecedented collaboration, members of the Black and Latino Caucus, the Women’s Caucus, the Harm Reduction and Drug Law Reform Caucus and the House and Senate Progressive caucuses came together to share information and build support for

a coordinated push to change everything from pedestrian stops to the state’s bail system.

With the Black Lives Matter movement raising awareness of police abuse at the national level and a deadly opiate crisis in cities, suburbs and towns, longstanding efforts to update the state’s

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Boston Public Schools has hired an Assistant Superintendent of Social Emotional Learning and Wellness, a new position intended to enhance offerings in non-academic skills such as collaboration, self-advocacy, anger management and conflict resolution.

The appointment of Amalio Nieves was announced to the Boston School Committee on Oct. 28. Nieves has 30 years of experience in the education field, according to BPS, and was most recently director of the Diversity, Prevention and Intervention department in the Broward County, Florida public schools, the sixth-largest U.S. school district.

“Social emotional learning is key to a student’s academic success,” said BPS Superintendent Tommy Chang, “and it needs to be incorporated into a child’s learning at a young age. Amalio Nieves has a track record of building powerful partnerships and putting into place best practices that have demonstrated tangible results.”

The new position is believed to be the first such cabinet-level

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Amalio Nieves post in a public school district in the nation.

“As a large urban school district, we’re excited that we’ll have a department focused on ensuring a strong grounding on social emotional skills and wellness, and that we have a new assistant superintendent [for it],” said Dr. Karla Estrada, BPS’s deputy superintendent of student support services, who will work closely with Nieves.

Social emotional learning — along with related phrases such as non-cognitive skills, 21st

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20 yrs later, hard to assess charters Extent of effect on education is unclear

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON Brittny Randolph, a teaching fellow at Boston Renaissance Charter School, was a kindergartener when the school opened in 1995. Her mother’s choice to enroll her and her siblings was “one of the best decisions she made for us,” said Randolph. “It definitely changed the trajectory of our lives.”

As Randolph and others now celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Massachusetts charter

schools, they do so in a polarized climate. A law suit, legislation and ballot question that call for lifting the cap on new charter schools are meeting with stiff resistance from elected officials and district school supporters.

Charters were established in Massachusetts in 1995 as a way to foster innovation in the public school system. Legislators envisioned charters working collaboratively with school districts to pioneer and implement educational best practices. By many accounts,

the fruits of charter schools’ innovation — and the academic achievements of charters in general — are unclear.

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Schools need millions more dollars, urgently Review of foundation budget released Monday

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON Massachusetts state and district governments need to pour millions of dollars more into education, and do it as swiftly as possible, declared a bipartisan commission on Monday.

The Foundation Budget Review Commission, a 21-member group representing educational, business, governmental, philanthropic and civic communities, released its report calling for major changes to how school budgets are calculated.

Costs for special education and employee healthcare are dramatically more than provided for under current budgets, said the commission. Cash-strapped schools are forced to forgo adopting teaching methods they know would better help their students and cut valuable programs like art and foreign languages. “[In Chelsea], we continue to struggle to reach every child because we don’t have the resources to meet them where they are and take them to where they need to be in the education system,” said Mary Bourque, president-elect of MA Association of School Superintendents.

The 1993 Education Reform Act established a formula for setting what is known as the

“foundation budget” — the minimum amount of funding a school needs to serve all its students sufficiently well. This was before MCAS, common core, internet in classrooms and other modern approaches, yet the formula only has been mildly adjusted in the past twenty-two years.

“The formula was made before we had educational standards set in the state,” said Paul Reville. He had advocated for establishing the original budget-calculation formula while executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education.

The majority of public school funding comes from the district and the state, meaning that if FBRC’s recommendations are enacted, they will see both the academic benefits and financial burdens.

“Perhaps nothing in this report is easy,” said chair of the FBRC, Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, “but it is critical to the wellbeing of the commonwealth.”

Formula behind the budget

The formula for setting the foundation budget estimates the cost to educate each student in school. It takes into account the number of students enrolled, as well as the kinds of needs the students have (for instance, special

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Both districts and the state allocate funds to meet the foundation budget. The state provides 17.5 percent of the foundation budget, and each district contributes based on its tax revenue, with wealthier districts paying more. If this combination does not meet the target funds, the state supplies the rest.

When a school’s administrators allocate their budgeted funds, they are legally required to prioritize funding special education and employees’ healthcare. These limitations often prevent schools from investing in other desirable categories. To balance budgets, many districts drop art and foreign languages, according to a FCBR press release.

Not only that, Bourque said that in Chelsea, the foundation budget’s provision for employee healthcare falls short by $6.7 million.

“That’s $6.7 million I must divert from educational interventions that I know that my kids need: lower class sizes, extending school day, wraparound services for social emotional and mental health,” she said.

Freeing up healthcare money

State-wide, schools’ spending on employee benefits and fixed charges exceeds the amount the foundation budget provides for by more than 140 percent, the report found. The overall gap comes to more than $2.1 billion.

To fix this, the FBRC proposed a more accurate method for budgeting the insurance costs and inflation: use the average rate from the state’s Group Insurance Commission, the agency that buys health insurance for state employees.

As the budget comes to reflect the true healthcare cost — and the state supplies a greater portion of it — the districts are free to redirect some of their money.

“Millions of dollars across the commonwealth will be freed up to spend on the kinds of things that we know schools need,” said State Representative Alice Peisch, House chair of the FBRC.

Serving ELL and special education

In many cases, English language learner and special education students are not receiving all the resources they need to succeed.

One reason cited: the state underestimated the number of students using special education services, pegging it at 15 percent, instead of 16 percent.

Additionally, more funding needs to go to educating ELL students, particularly those in high school grades, where the work to bring them up to speed is staff-intensive. Middle school ELL students currently receive $2,361 more in the budget than standard students. The commission report recommended that funding for ELL students of all grades should rise to meet this level.

Class sizes smaller than ten students per teacher were heralded as a useful tool to help students with especially high needs, such as ELL students whose educations had been interrupted or limited (as can be the case for refugees) and those at high risk of dropping out.

Re-examining low-income

The report also claimed that low-income families who live where poverty is concentrated need additional resources beyond what is allocated to families of the same income levels in different areas. Schools serving them must be adroit several educational reforms at once.

One reform approach may not be enough, and not all approaches — even those that have worked well in another district — may be effective in a given school, so it is important to try multiple.

Such remedies, which could benefit other student groups as well, include extended school days, health services that include social and emotional needs as well as physical, and extra time provided to teachers for planning and professional development, said the FBRC report.

“Many of ours students live in economic insecurity and deal with the chronic stress of poverty,” said Rebecca Cusik, fourth grade teacher and president of the Fall River Educator’s Association. “Additional services would be a huge benefit to us in meeting needs of our most vulnerable students and letting them focus on education.”

Small class sizes, she said, would be particularly valuable.

Early fixes

The commission pointed to the value of preschool in allowing

educators to meet needs early on, producing greater school performance later.

“Data are quite conclusive that there are few tools more powerful than early education both on closing the achievement gap and saving the state and local districts money on special education,” said Chang-Diaz.

Preschool’s social environment also promotes the development of interpersonal skills, said Cusik, who was not a FBRC member.

She was asked to speak after testifying at one of the commission’s public hearings.

“Preschool lets them enter school with a strong foundation on which we can build and helps them develop social skills useful to learn better and function well in school,” she said.

Keeping on track

To avoid another long lapse between reviews, the FBRC proposed regular commission meetings every few years. This was recommended in the 1993 reform law as well, but never realized.

The commission also called for more detailed, school-level data gathering and analysis in order to examine the effectiveness of practices.

Will it happen?

The cost of implementing the FBRC’s recommendations would fall on both state and district governments, and the commission recommends reforms be phased in gradually to reduce budget shock.

Extended learning time costs approximately $1,300-1,500 per student, according to Massachusetts 2020, an organization that advocates for expanded school time. Comprehensive wraparound physical, social and emotional services could be $1,300 per student, according to the Mass Budget and Policy Center.

Not all proposed changes have price estimates yet.

The state legislature will have to vote to enact these changes, as well as flesh out areas the commission said they did not have time or funding to fully address.

Chang-Diaz was optimistic about the chance of implementation, saying that 68 legislators, including ten Republicans, had supported the creation of the FBRC, which was provided for in the FY15 budget.

Chang-Diaz said the need was too high for delay.

“Let’s not wait until our schools are chronically underperforming —or our state is chronically underperforming — in order to take action,” she said.

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Committee pushes back on student housing plan Nuestra, Feldco push forward despite community opposition

By YAWU MILLER Two weeks ago members of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee grilled developers over two controversial plans: one calling for Northeastern University student housing on Parcel 3 and another calling for a new Conservatory Lab Charter School building at Bartlett Yard.

This past Monday, committee members underscored their opposition to the respective plans, with City Councilor Tito Jackson

calling for the de-designation of Feldco Development as a partner on the P3 project.

“You were brought in by the BRA and you haven’t built anything,” Jackson said. “I think you’ve overstayed your welcome.”

The Feldco Development team’s plan for Parcel 3 includes 800 units of Northeastern student housing, 300 units of market-rate housing, a 175-room hotel, a mix of retailers including a BJ’s Wholesale Club and a new museum and cultural center for the Museum of the National Center for Afro American Artists.

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Feldco made the controversial proposal during the committee’s Oct. 5 meeting, telling committee members they were considering it. Monday, Vice President Jeffrey Feldman defended the proposal, telling the committee the plan was in keeping with plans introduced by the administration of Mayor Martin Walsh to create new students housing. Jackson reacted angrily.

“At no time have I heard people in the community say ‘We want Northeastern to come across Columbus Avenue and build 800 units of student housing,’” he said.

Feldman countered that students already are moving into Boston neighborhoods, pointing to a Boston Globe article detailing an increase of students moving into East Boston. Building student housing would better enable Northeastern to manage the students, he said.

“What we’re saying is the students are coming into the neighborhood, no matter what.”

“We’re saying we don’t want student housing across Columbus Ave.,” said committee member Charlotte Nelson.

Past attempts

The student housing proposal was not the first time Northeastern dorms were considered for Roxbury. In the late 1990s, Northeastern teamed up with the Madison Park Development Corporation on a plan to build a student housing complex between Columbus Avenue and Tremont Street in Lower Roxbury, reversing a pledge the university made to the community to stay west of Columbus Avenue. That proposal drew protests from black elected officials, who ultimately filed a federal complaint against the city for approving the project.

The stakes may be higher on Parcel 3, which the museum has sought to develop over the last eight years. The project was delayed by the economic downturn in 2008 as well as the withdrawal of two prospective anchor tenants — Partners HealthCare and Mass Department of Transportation. Jackson said the parcel is too important to be given over to student housing.

“This is the second-largest parcel of vacant land we have in Roxbury,” he noted.

Bartlett Yard

Jackson also was critical of the Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation’s continued push to site a new building for the Conservatory Lab Charter School at the Bartlett Yard site, despite complaints from the project review committee — a group of neighbors appointed to voice community support or opposition to the development.

“I don’t understand the rationale of moving forward,” Jackson said, calling Nuestra “tone deaf ” to neighborhood opposition.

Nuestra Real Estate Project Development Manager Mark Matel suggested that community voice on the project would come as it goes through the BRA-mandated community review process.

“With the Article 80 process, the community will have an opportunity,” he said.

“The school is asking us to allow them to finish the community process,” added Marcia Thornhill, director of Real Estate Development. “ They understand that the school may not be approved.”

Jackson said Nuestra Comunidad is wasting the school’s time.

“It’s not okay to encourage them over the strong objections of the neighbors,” he said.

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A compelling case for an intact family unit Many black children begin life with a great disadvantage. About 72 percent are born to unwed mothers. As a result, about 91 percent of them will live in female-headed households.

There is a high incidence of poverty in that kind of household. In addition, it is believed that boys growing up without a father present suffer more developmental problems than girls.

Fifty years ago there was a social and moral stigma attached to intimate relations outside of marriage. Pregnancy was irrefutable evidence that this code had been breached. When the U.S. Department of Labor’s report on the black family published that 25 percent of black children were born out of wedlock in 1964, a rate eight times higher than for whites, black leaders protested that the purpose of publishing the data was to embarrass blacks.

Unfortunately, the black protest was so great that it became impossible to execute the real objective of the strategy. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who later became New York U.S. senator, wanted to provide family allowances to aid impoverished families rather than require the men to leave the homes. His rationale was clear. Racial discrimination had denied jobs to black men who were willing to work. Society was obligated, Moynihan asserted, to provide compensation in lieu of employment to keep the black family together.

Attitudes toward non-marital births have changed substantially during the past 50 years. Now more than half of all births in Norway, Sweden and Denmark are out of wedlock.

The rate of 67 percent in Iceland is almost equal to the present rate of black births in the U.S. But Scandinavian countries have had the foresight to provide allowances to keep the parents and the family intact.

The evidence is building that American children living in a household with a mother and no father are five times more likely than those in a nuclear family to live in poverty.

They are also five times more likely to become involved in crime and are nine times more

likely to drop out of school. And what is even more disastrous, they are 20 times more likely to land in prison.

The problem of maturing productively is significantly greater for boys from fatherless homes. The number of black women who are incarcerated is only 4.4 percent of the number of black men who are imprisoned. That is a clear indication that it is more challenging to keep young black boys on the straight and narrow. Nonetheless, there has been some opposition to programs designed for and directed to men.

In March of 1994, Minister Louis Farrakhan gave a speech at the Strand Theatre for black men. About 2,000 men came. Some women complained because they were not admitted, and one even brought a lawsuit against the Nation of Islam. There also have been protests against President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper Initiative.” Of course girls in a single parent family also have difficulties, but the problems with the boys seem to be considerably more severe.

According to an article in the New York Times, “a disadvantaged start in life harms boys more than girls,” and the results of several studies indicate that “boys react more negatively to disadvantage.” It seems that the presence of an adult male is necessary to impose discipline on the young boys.

Not surprisingly, this relationship also exists with some animal species.

In South Africa, juvenile male elephants were thinned from the herd at Kruger National Park and relocated to Pilanesberg Park. When the juvenile elephants rampaged against other animals in the park, mature bull elephants were brought in to tame the Pilanesberg herd. The mere presence of the adults served as a role model to establish a new code of conduct.

Black boys from single parent homes clearly need special attention. Their discipline and progress will benefit everyone.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Supports unified enrollment As a parent who has been through tense charter lottery nights, I support the city’s district and charter schools to create a unified enrollment system. Anything that simplifies choice for families is a good thing. And any system that ensures that all parents understand that charter schools are an option for

their children is a good thing. I don’t buy the arguments stated in your newspaper that this would somehow hurt the Boston Public Schools.

Longtime charter opponents claim that putting the charters and city schools together in the same pool — available to all children — would somehow be exclusionary. Those arguments are coming from the

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The GOP’s willing suspension of belief

What do you think of the Republican presidential candidates?

By LEE A. DANIELS

Two recent reports on very different topics in last week’s New York Times tell us a great deal about the terrible state of today’s Republican Party — if we factor in the psychological device that makes watching movies and television and reading fiction as well as science fiction so enjoyable.

One news story examines the research that scientists from the U.S. and other countries are conducting on the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. The other describes the recent appearance of some new conservative political action committees, or PACs, whose apparent primary goal is really only to enrich those who run them. Critics call them “scam PACs.” The device that unites these stories relevant to considering the GOP is human beings’ willingness to suspend disbelief. Usually, that phrase refers only to the offerings of the entertainment industry — to accepting things in the film comedy or drama or novels that we well know in real life would range from unlikely to impossible because we just want to enjoy ourselves.

But the Republican Party has been reminding us for the last seven years that a willing suspension of disbelief can, in real life, be a political weapon with very negative consequences — as illustrated by these newspaper articles.

The headline of the article on the massive island of Greenland, located largely above the Artic Circle with 80 percent of its surface covered in ice for eons, fundamentally tells the tale. “Greenland is melting away,” it declares. Scientists are documenting that the island’s ice sheet is losing billions of tons of ice per year because of global warming. The resulting release of water into the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans over the next several decades will by the end of the century help raise sea levels around the world, flooding coastal regions and cities “from New York to Bangladesh.”

But the GOP prefers its own conclusion and that of the fossil fuels industry that climate change is a fiction cooked up by the worldwide scientific community and the Democratic Party. So Republicans in Congress are trying to gut federal aid for research on the topic.

Advocates of progressive policies likely will feel a chickens-coming-home-to-roost quality about the rise of the “scam PACs.” They operate by twisting conservative voters’ anger that the GOP establishment stoked against President Obama and progressive issues into an indictment of the GOP leadership’s failure to produce the “total victory” against them as it had promised. Their e-mails to conservative voters — which deride the GOP leadership as RINOs (Republican in Name Only) — contain online petitions calling for action of some sort or other that supposedly furthers conservative movement goals, and an appeal for donations to the PAC. But what the appeals don’t say, according to the Times, is that the donations’ “ultimate beneficiaries, records suggest, are the consultants who created the campaigns rather than the causes they are promoting.” It appears that, generally speaking, less than 10 percent of the millions of dollars these PACs raise go to the politicians or the causes they claim to support.

The GOP’s head-in-the-sand approach to the necessity of slowing the world’s global warming — driven partly by the creationist beliefs of its heavily evangelical voting base and by its being the party of the fossil fuels industry — is of a piece with what makes some significant number of GOP voters susceptible to the three-card-monte schemes of those running the new conservative scam PACs. Both are partly a manifestation of a willing suspension of disbelief: On the one hand, the willingness to disbelieve the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence about the climactic danger facing humanity. And, on the other, the willingness to disbelieve that they could not and would not out-maneuver the man who rose to become the first black President of the United States.

The GOP leadership’s own willing suspension of disbelief is why, as recent polls show, conservative voters as well as the reactionaries they’ve sent to Congress are furious with them, and why Donald Trump and Ben Carson — who, having not a shred of loyalty at all to the Republican Party, are the real RINOs — are atop the polls of Republican voters. It’s because Trump and Carson have promised they really will institute that longtime goal of the conservative movement: white conservative rule.

That that fantasy still fuels the conservative imagination also indicates how desperately the GOP remains a prisoner of a willing suspension of disbelief.

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To be honest, I don’t trust them.

Bernardo Custodian Roxbury

I don’t think any of them has a political perspective that says their responsibility as a party is to move everyone forward.

Chuck Turner Organizer Roxbury

I am not going to vote Republican.

I’m paying attention to the debates.

There’s a lot of bickering, but not a lot of substance.

Eugene Darius Contractor Roxbury

I don’t think they have a platform that suits the needs of the majority of people in America. I’m not impressed with any of them.

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ARMOND MCCOY Cruz Development Corporation, an affiliate of John B. Cruz Construction, one of the largest and oldest minority-owned companies in Boston, announced Armond McCoy has joined the company as real estate project manager to further grow and enhance Cruz’s residential, commercial and mixed use project portfolio.

“We are excited to welcome Armond to the team,” said John Cruz, president and CEO of John B. Cruz Construction. “When it comes to investing in the community, our motto is ‘Cruz Cares’, and Armond certainly shares our commitment to increasing affordable housing and economic opportunities, thus improving the quality of life for all residents.”

McCoy brings a wealth of experience, having spent more than 25 years in the real estate and financial services industries. McCoy previously worked as a consultant for Cruz Corporation and has also worked for

State Street Corporation, Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation, and Bank Boston.

Throughout his career, he has been responsible for the financing and development of more than 5,600 units of housing and commercial real estate.

“I am excited to start this new chapter with Cruz Development, and look forward to working with the team to build on their generations of success in the construction and real estate development industry,” said McCoy. McCoy, a resident of Beverly with his wife Susan, was a founding member of the Beverly Affordable Housing Coalition.

A lover of music, McCoy also co-owns Beverly-based Norton Guitars, which constructs and sells high-end, custom electric guitars and basses utilizing a patented metal frame system.

McCoy holds an MBA from Northeastern University and a BA in Government from Boston University.

I’m a Democrat. I like Ben Carson, though. I like the fact that he’s not into smear campaigning. If I didn’t believe in the Democratic party, I would vote for him.

Clark Grant Contractor Roxbury

Since The Donald has taken up so much air in the room and the debates do little to inform the public, you have to do your research.

Bruce Bickerstaff Entrepreneur Roxbury

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Former St. Kevin’s Parish reborn as 80 units of affordable housing

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON St. Kevin’s Parish in Upham’s Corner, Dorchester was a treasured part of the fabric of the community until it closed in 2008. The community celebrated its reincarnation last Thursday as a new facility that will house 80 families.

“Today we stand on sacred ground that again is being used for sacred purpose,” said Right Reverend John J. Ahern, pastor of Holy Family Parish at the ceremony.

New buildings were constructed at 530 Columbia Road and 35 Bird Street. The building at 516 Columbia Road was adapted for residential use as well. Together, they provide 80 units of housing. Twenty units will be kept permanently affordable for families that were formerly homeless. The other 60 are designated for families making up to $65,000 according to the Archdiocese Office of Risk Management’s website.

The development also will include a community center with computers, a fitness center and

support services provided by St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children.

The site, known as Upham’s Crossing, is across the street from the Strand Theater and located near UMass Boston, public transit and the Main Streets district.

“To me, [Upham’s Crossing] is wonderful because it preserves the spirit of St. Kevin’s

and helps build community by giving people space to raise their families and stay in Dorchester,” said Susan Terrey assistant undersecretary of the Department of Housing and Community Development, who grew up in the neighborhood.

The Planning Office of Urban Affairs developed the property and owns and operates it. Funding came from a combination of source: approximately $6.7 million from the state, $4.7 million from the city, $19 million from Bank of America, and $2.2 million from Massachusetts Housing Partnership. In addition,

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She’s the first blackLandsmark woman Shortly after that picture of Ted being to hold the position. attacked with an American flag ran in the Boston Herald February 3, 2005: American, the Banner ran another: of the bandaged city U.S. Senate approves official vowing to stay inAlberto his job and crediting Deputy Gonzales as the first Hispanic Mayor Jeep Jones, also country’s black, with coming to his aid attorney general. when no one else did.

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Alliance established It wasn’t just the Senate turning all-white that January 30, 2006: year. Boston and New England were rocked by Coretta Scott King, the Blizzard of ’78, an American equal-opportunity show of civil rights activist and wife of Martin nature’s fury, though disproportionately affecting Luther King, Jr. dies. poorer areas of the city.

February 4, 2006: That same year, Northeastern University opened the Throughout the Muslim African American Master Program. world, Artists-in-Residency angry demonsmash windows, And black businessesstrators saw advances during the period, set fires, and burn flags, with minority interests gaining a foothold protesting cartoons that in a re-lidepict Muhammad censed Channel 7, architects Stull and in aLee quietly maknegative light. ing a mark with projects like the Harriet Tubman House, April 12, Long 2006: Bay Management and Cruz Construction and Massachusetts enacts 2006 making significant headway in real estate development. universal health coverage.would Electoral excitement Legislation reach a crescendo in the signed

by Gov. Mitt Romney 1983 mayoral race inrequires which state Rep. Mel King would all residents emerge as a leading who contender tohealth become Boston’s first can afford insurance to obtain it by black mayor. A Banner analysis showing the statistical July 1, 2007. Those who improbability of attaining that insurance goal, and its endorsecannot afford will have ment in the preliminary ofitasubsidized white candidate by sensitive to the state.

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BPD revives cadet program to stem mass retirement of black officers

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON As hundreds of police officers face retirement, the numbers of black members of the BPD will sharply decline. The current level of black officers roughly represents the city percentage, but many are aging out, and traditionally, incoming recruit classes are overwhelmingly white.

In large measure that is why the BPD has revived its cadet program, suspended in 2009 due to budgetary issues.

The cadet program features apprenticeships and seeks to pave the way for entrance into positions throughout the force.

It emphasizes recruitment of people of color.

Candidates for the program must be between ages 18-24, reside in Boston, have maintained a Boston residency for the past five years, hold a valid Massachusetts driver’s license and pass an entry exam slated for Saturday, November 14.

Minorities retire

Currently, blacks make up 22.7 percent of BPD’s total personnel, if civilian workers such as traffic supervisors are included, and Hispanics constitute 9 percent.

By comparison, Boston’s population is 24.4 percent black and 17.5 percent Hispanic or Latino, according to the United States Census Bureau.

Officers are required to retire at age 65. A workforce report released by the BPD in April estimates that 25 percent of its current force will be at or near retirement age within the next five years.

Opening the pipeline

To combat the loss of older officers and increase minority recruitment, Mayor Martin Walsh and Commissioner William Evans have reinstated the cadet program.

Normally, those interested in police roles apply by taking a civil service exam. The cadet program provides earlier access to opportunity, offering years of training and introduction to the force before an exam is scheduled.

“The cadet program will be an opportunity to greatly increase diversity on the Boston police

force,” said City Councilor Tito Jackson, “I know it will help to increase the numbers [of minorities] that are coming in, because the classes I have seen typically only have a couple folks of color.”

The two-year program is a full-time, paid apprenticeship that introduces cadets to various police roles based at headquarters, district stations and specialized units. Its substantive focus includes clerical and administrative work, data entry and traffic duty. Cadets get a feel for the job — and see if they find it a good fit — while experienced officers are able to spend more time out on the street because some tasks are delegated, such as answering phones and serving at front desks, said Lieutenant Detective Mike McCarthy, BPD director of Media Relations.

Once cadets graduate, those who wish to join the force as police officers take the civil service exam. When BPD selects new recruits, cadets get preference: One-third of each new recruit class can comprise cadets, McCarthy said.

He also noted that the program allows Commissioner Evans to increase diversity among new members of the department, where the civil service exam might be a barrier. “[The cadet program] is a great way for the BPD to increase diversity at the lower entry level ranks which is where we need it the most.” said McCarthy. “The entry level is where the commissioner has the least amount of control over whom he can and can’t hire because of the civil service [exam].”

McCarthy said the department leafleted high schools and distributed flyers to guidance counselors, as well as engaged with community mee tings, media, clergy and social media to get the word out across the city about cadet participation.

Applications for the exam were due November 1. The November 14 exam will be held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

Upcoming cadet class

Cadet program applicants must succeed a pass-fail test that

measures overall abilities in areas such as math and English, as opposed to specific police knowledge, said McCarthy.

By last Thursday, approximately 375 people had applied to take the exam, said McCarthy and about 70 percent of them were people of color. He anticipates a high pass rate.

However budget limitations mean not all qualified applicants

will be admitted and not all qualified graduates may be able to serve. The cadet program can admit only 40 people. On average, McCarthy said, funding underwrites the admission of only 40-50 recruits each year.

Racial and gender diversity also will be a factor in determining which qualified candidates are selected for the cadet program, he said. Eventually, the department will seek to admit everyone who passes the test but does not receive a seat this time around, presuming that they remain within the eligible age group.

“It’s our anticipation that we’ll

get through everybody that’s eligible provided that we can hire additional cadets after the initial 40 [then] we’ll use the candidates that are on that list,” McCarthy said.

New residency requirement

There is one major difference between this cadet program and the one under Mayor Thomas Menino: candidates now will be required to have lived in Boston for five years, rather than one.

This, McCarthy said, will better ensure the jobs actually go to residents of the communities from which they are trying to recruit.

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As employee benefits season begins, most people seemingly have their financial house in order, saying they prioritize understanding their personal finances (77 percent), having enough medical insurance (74 percent) and being on track to retire comfortably (65 percent), according to the 2015 MassMutual Employee Benefits Security Study.

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While many people assert they do just fine managing their finances, 37 percent find doing so “somewhat” or “very difficult” and 40 percent say personal financial problems are a distraction at work, according to the study. Some groups find personal finance more difficult than others, including Millennials (58 percent), parents (50 percent), Generation X (47 percent), women (44 percent) and those with annual incomes of $50,000 or less (44 percent).

Many workers would appreciate having access to online tools. Seventythree percent indicate they would be likely use such a tool if it were available free, especially if it were provided by a “trusted and respected financial services company.”

More benefit and personal finance tools are becoming available through employers and many are free, according to Sarsynski. Many employers and benefits providers are introducing new tools to help you prioritize your retirement, health care and insurance protection benefits, she says.

Tips to prioritize your benefits As workers are required to pay more or share more of the cost for their benefits, Sarsynski says, it becomes increasingly important to prioritize your benefits to fit your individual needs and budget: n Health care coverage is the most important benefit unless you are already protected by a spouse’s medical plan. n If you are married — especially if you have children — securing life insurance and disability insurance are critical to your family’s well-being. n Save as much as you can as early as you can for retirement to take advantage of the long-term benefits of See BIZ BITS, page 12

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Above, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the launch of online startup platform StartHub on Oct. 27 at the Roxbury Innovation Center along with IBM General Manager Sandy Carter, Venture Café Executive Director Kevin Wiant and Gust CEO David Rose, at podium. Below, Walsh speaks at the podium.

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StartHub provides support to Boston’s entrepreneurs

By MARTIN DESMARAIS Since he took office, Mayor Martin Walsh has pledged to make Boston a friendlier place to start a business — especially in Boston’s oft-underserved neighborhoods — and he has been busy trying to make this happen. Last week, he was back at it again, out in Roxbury to push the launch of the city’s first online startup website, StartHub. StartHub, the plans for which Walsh announced at the start of the year, is designed to support and help grow Boston’s rising startup community with one designated location to connect startup companies with investors, provide information on jobs and education, link businesses with co-working and incubator spaces throughout the city, feature news about the city’s startup sector and house a calendar for startup-related community events.

Walsh called the development of StartHub — www.starthub.org — an important tactic for Boston to help small businesses and entrepreneurs succeed and grow within the city borders.

He can be credited with lining up a strong group of partners in the effort — notably IBM, startup support organization Venture Café and funding platform Gust.

“I am excited to offer our startup community this centralized online platform and I thank all of the partners for their collaboration as

we continue to establish Boston as a hub of entrepreneurship,” Walsh said at the StartHub launch event, which was held on Oct. 27 at the Roxbury Innovation Center in the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building.

In attendance with Walsh were the city’s Chief of Economic Development John Barros, IBM General Manager Sandy Carter, Venture Café Executive Director Kevin Wiant and Gust CEO David Rose.

It is all part of a move to create more business innovation districts throughout the city. The importance of doing so can be

highlighted by the track record such districts have in sparking economic growth, as well as fostering successful startups and small businesses.

Locally grown

In the urban entrepreneur narrative this is also important because when startups stay in the communities they are from they have a better chance to connect with the local economy and the diversity of the environment can also impact the companies that are developed. Putting likeminded entrepreneurs together

and working in proximity to each other has been shown to spark the creation of businesses that don’t need to leave the area to be successful.

At the same time, though, these entrepreneurs might benefit from being connected to the larger startup community in the city and the region — and this is where Boston hopes that StartHub can come into play.

While critics might say StartHub is really just only a website, Venture Café’s Wiant cautions against underestimating the impact it can have.

Venture Café is an organization that works to connect the startup and innovation community through operating spaces and programs. In addition to running the Roxbury Innovation Center, it also operates in District Hall in Seaport and holds business innovation events in Kendall Square.

For Venture Café, success is all about bringing startups and entrepreneurs together and connecting them with the resources they need to grow.

As the reputation of StartHub grows, Wiant anticipates it becoming that first initial resource that entrepreneurs turn to.

“The primary reason why we were interested in this type of resource for the startup community is to extend that support to people who are interested in starting a business,” Wiant said. “We thought

See STARTHUB, page 12

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continued from page 11 this is a great compliment to what we do and what other organizations do in the area.”

Forging connections

Boston isn’t reinventing the wheel with an online startup platform, in fact, Wiant said the need for this is not new — and mirrors what other cities have done. Organizations like Venture Café were started in part to combat the very common complaint from small business owners and entrepreneurs that they don’t know what resources are available to help them grow their companies and they don’t know how to connect

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State Rep. Russell Holmes speaks during an announcement by Gov. Charlie Baker of modifications to the state’s decadesold supplier diversity program, including best practice innovations and updates from the public and private sectors, the first expansion of benchmarks for minority and women-owned businesses in four years, and the first-time certification of veteran, disability and LGBT-owned businesses.

“We are committed to ensuring diversity as the state engages business suppliers and contractors and are excited about this opportunity to include LGBT, disability and veteran business owners in the state’s network and procurement chain,” said Governor Baker.

with them.

StartHub can be Boston’s greatest response to this issue.

If more resources at hand ultimately convinces more entrepreneurs to launch startups the endeavor should be considered successful.

“The hope is people feel comfortable to take a risk because others are going to be there helping out,” said Wiant.

Lastly, Wiant pointed out that StartHub is in its infancy and will continue to grow and improve as more and more resources are added.

“We also look at this as not something that is done. It is something that is going to evolve over time,” he said. “This is a multiyear commitment to keep this operating.”

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continued from page 1 process to adopt those charter innovations.

Paul Hays, Chief Academic Officer of City on a Hill Charter School, said that his school’s autonomy has enabled more efficient curricular redesign to prepare for PARCC testing and a school schedule more amenable to weekly teacher planning.

“I talked to fellow administrators at district level — they’re trying to do same things we’re doing, but it takes such a long time. There are so many hoops to jump through,” said Hays.

Sharing innovation

Boston’s first charters were City on a Hill, Boston Renaissance Charter School and Neighborhood House Charter School.

Representatives of all three say their schools spark diffusion of ideas or provide assistance to other schools.

Today, City on a Hill partners with Simmons College to train and certify teachers for working in urban public schools — district or charter — throughout the city.

“We train teachers who go out and teach in other public charter and public district schools with the aim of them staying in urban public education,” Hays said.

Administrators at Boston Renaissance School noticed that students with poor vision frequently went without glasses for months.

Seeking to facilitate the process of getting glasses, they brought in a vision center, allowing students to get them on-site, said Franklin Shearer, director of Communications and Development at BCRS. “It’s something other schools have taken note of,” he said, including members of BPS who were invited to visit.

Through a recently launched School Consulting Initiative, NHCS assists schools such as Mildred Avenue K-8 in working to turnaround their ranking and improve teaching and student performance. Kate Scott, executive director of NHCS, said in 2010 school representatives shared their methods with Harbor Pilot Middle School and helped Harbor faculty and staff reexamine the school’s processes.

Subsequently, Harbor rose from Level 4 to Level 3.

NHCS actively pursues collaboration via its director of Curriculum and Instruction, whose responsibilities include sharing best practices and developing partnership with BPS. “Charters have helped us think

about longer school days and different models of education,” said city Councilor Tito Jackson.

Terence Blanchard visits Berklee

Collaboration starts to grow

From the start, charters have worked with district schools on an individual level, said Marc Kenen, founder of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association.

But these collaborations may not have been accessible or on the radar of all schools.

Ross Wilson, managing partner of Innovation for BPS, said that before the Boston Compact, he was unaware of any formal mechanism for collaboration. Wilson previously was a school principal.

He said that at that time, in order to learn about charter’s work, he applied to join an informal network of charter and district school leaders, run not by BPS or charters, but by a nonprofit.

Though networks sprung up between teachers and principals, a formal system for facilitating collaboration was missing.

“Part of what we need to do is build infrastructure for that kind of exchange,” said Rahn Dorsey, city Chief of Education. “That’s been what’s lacking historically.

That’s why you find isolated instances of collaboration.”

Boston Compact

By many accounts, the Boston Compact has been a major driver of collaboration between charters and districts. It was established in 2011 by Kevin Andrews, founding headmaster of NHCS, and Carol Johnson, former BPS superintendent.

Under the Compact, schools from different sectors might share insights and information about current or proposed programs or partner to explore an issue together, said Rachel Weinstein, Chief Collaboration Officer for the Compact. In one instance, she said, representatives from Catholic, district and charter schools came together to determine if using physical objects to demonstrate algebra problems helped improve special education students’ math performance. Participants shared school outcomes and concluded that this method helped close the achievement gap.

Learning goes both ways, with districts and charters frequently adopting ideas from each other, said Dorsey.

“It’s a two-way relationship,” he said.

Kenen said that charters have turned to districts for ideas on how to best serve students with higher needs.

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World-renowned trumpeter, composer and bandleader Terence Blanchard rehearsed with students in Berklee’s Jazz Composition Workshop ensemble on Wednesday evening. While on campus for the week as a visiting scholar, Blanchard attended classes, giving talks on topics like film scoring, jazz in film, composition and arranging. He also hosted a Facebook Q&A for students. A four-time Grammy Award-winner, Blanchard is also known for his scores for many Spike Lee films, including “Jungle Fever,” “Malcolm X,” “Inside Man” and Hurricane Katrina documentary “When the Levees Broke” and “Red Tails,” produced by George Lucas. His latest album for Blue Note Records is titled “Breathless.” (l-r) Eric Gould, chair of Berklee’s Jazz Composition Department, Terence Blanchard and Berklee student David Ling.

“District schools are helpful as charters are learning to expand the services and range of students they’re able to provide service to.

[Districts] help charters keep the hardest served kids,” he said.

Meanwhile, he said districts still gain from charter’s methods.

“Massachusetts charter schools are great at developing a one-onone tutoring program, which district schools have looked pretty closely at,” Kenen said.

Falling short in the state

Boston’s growing collaboration has not necessarily been replicated across the state. Paul Andrews, director of Professional Development and Government Services for the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, said that in most of Massachusetts, charters and districts are not collaborating, meaning the intended purpose of the charter system is not being realized. “[Information sharing] is not happening for the most part,” he said. “The original intent of [charters] was to see best practices and try to develop a coordination process. But it’s just not transpired.”

A December 2014 review of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education by State Auditor Suzanne Bump found no solid evidence of collaboration.

Her audit report said that DESE

so poorly documented the charter schools’ innovations and efforts to spread and reproduce them that it is was impossible to tell if the charter schools fulfilled their purpose.

Bump also found that DESE’s information on charter school waitlists was inaccurate and data accuracy was not verified.

“The extent to which the charter school system has provided a successful mechanism for developing and disseminating replicable innovation models is not determinable,” the audit states.

Funding complications

The state’s education funding system pits district and charters against each other for budgets, skewing conversations about charters’ impact.

Andrews said district schools also may have limited ability to adopt some of charter schools’ innovations. For instance, while charters have demonstrated the benefit of extended school days and years, lack of funding may prevent some districts from implementing this.

“There’s no question time spent learning is critical. In perfect world, one would try to give expanded learning time the same way in the public school sector.

That requires funding, which is just not there,” he said.

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also go a long way toward improving district schools.

“Orchard Gardens went from a Level 4 to level 1 school with additional funding and support from the top,” said Councilor Jackson.

“When they took funding away, that dropped. Resources being taken away are actually having an effect on public schools.”

“There should be additional collaboration,” he said, “but that the collaboration should not be a collaboration that is about taking over the public school system or putting it out of business.”

Dorsey said that the system under which per-pupil funding follows students from district schools to charters is not the case in most of the U.S. “The state funding charters and districts out of the same pool is almost unique to Massachusetts,” he commented.

While work remains to be done to ensure all students receive the resources they need, Dorsey said this is a separate issue from the value of charters’ ideas and should not disrupt the mutually beneficial collaboration between school sectors.

“We have to work on more equity solutions, but that should not short-circuit creating mutual growth and mutual accountability to provide high quality instruction for every student,” he said.

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criminal justice system seem well-positioned to move forward.

“It’s almost like the perfect storm where there’s a level of public conversation around these issues,” said Rahsaan Hall, director of the Racial Justice Program for the ACLU of Massachusetts.

And if the human costs of mass incarceration are not enough to sway policy makers, the growing costs of keeping people locked up — $50,000 a year in Massachusetts — has transformed incarceration into the third-largest item in the state budget, behind health care and education.

“Costs are a significant motivator for a broad array of elected officials,” Hall said. “But this is also a great opportunity to address some of the racial disparities that exist in the criminal justice system.”

While blacks and Latinos make up less than 20 percent of the state’s population, they make up nearly 50 percent of the state’s prison population. Blacks and Latinos are more likely to be stopped by police, more likely to be charged with a crime and more likely to be incarcerated than whites. Legislators, black, Latino and white, have been working for years on eliminating mandatory minimum sentencing, notes Rep. Jay Kaufman, chairman of the Joint Committee on Revenue and a member of the Progressive Caucus.

“It’s been incredibly frustrating that we haven’t been able to move on that,” he said. “Now even conservatives are saying we can’t afford the jail sentences people have been getting. I’m happy the political forces are aligning with the forces of justice. It’s no longer a left-wing

idea that mandatory minimums don’t work. That’s encouraging.”

Undeniably, part of the equation here and across the country is the rise in opiate-related deaths — a trend that in Massachusetts is mainly affecting whites. As the public face of addiction has whitened, policymakers’ view of drugs has evolved from a criminal problem to a public health problem.

“The cynic in me says now that it’s white middle class kids who are victims of addiction…,” Kaufman said, his voice trailing off.

The ubiquity of the opiate crisis, which has struck people from the Berkshires to Winthrop, where House Speaker Robert DeLeo lives, has meant that nearly every legislator in the House and Senate has a growing death toll in his or her district.

The crisis is forcing people from diverse backgrounds to work on a wide range of issues.

“We have mothers in Milford who are sitting around kitchen tables with mothers from Roxbury talking about sentencing alternatives,” said Andrea James, founder of Families for Justice as Healing.

James is advocating on behalf of a bill that would bar non-violent offenders who are primary caretakers of young children from serving prison sentences. James says that 85 percent of women currently incarcerated in Massachusetts are primary caretakers for children and that there are currently 14,000 children in Massachusetts who have a parent in who is incarcerated. n Other reform initiatives legislators are promoting include bills that would: n Allow judges to release prisoners who are medically incapacitated or terminally ill. n Require police departments

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State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry and state Rep. Carlos Gonzalez are among those calling for criminal justice reform. to report data on race and traffic stops and pedestrian stops. n Reduce low-level felonies like shoplifting or petty theft to misdemeanors with lower penalties. n Reform or end pre-trial bail. n Expunge CORI records for juveniles. n Appoint special prosecutors to investigate police shootings.

The measure ending automatic driver’s license suspensions has already passed in the Senate, and, with support from district attorneys and other law enforcement officials, is expected to pass in the House.

While the focus Monday was on the legislation members of

the various caucuses are backing, many legislators commented on the unprecedented degree of collaboration between caucuses that often work on similar issues but have never coordinated their efforts to the degree they are now.

“If you add up all members of all the caucuses here today, it does make up a majority of the Legislature,” said Sen. Jamie Eldridge.

Not all the bills are assured passage, however. While many of the bills would have race-neutral outcomes, some that address race issues head-on are facing pushback. Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz says police chiefs are opposed to her

bill, which would require them to report data on race and police stops. Chang-Diaz says the measure would help ensure that policing is done in a way that doesn’t discriminate against people of color.

“You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” she said. “If we’re serious that we are committed to bias-free policing, we need a way to measure that.”

Rushing said the fate of the data collection bill, which he filed a version of in the House, could be telling for the coalition of caucuses.

“The test is how supportive each caucus will be toward the others,” he said.

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By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

he Lizt Alfonso Dance Company makes its Boston debut with its production “Cuba Vibra” this Saturday and Sunday at the Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theatre.

Set to Cuban music and dance from the 1950s to present-day, 18 dancers will take over the stage performing a seamless fusion of dances, including ballet, flamenco, cha-cha, rumba, conga, salsa and more.

“Cuba Vibra” is inspired by “who we are and where we come from, an authentic and incredible mix that goes from the basis of Cuban culture up to its most elaborate fruit,” writes Lizt Alfonso via email from Cuba. “‘Cuba Vibra’ is a fusion of very strong cultures, the cultures of Africa and Spain, and many others. All of them inspire us.”

Alfonso, who began dancing at the age of four, always dreamed of running her own dance company. In 1991 at the age of 23, Alfonso’s dream became a reality when the Lizt Alfonso

Lizt Alfonso Dance Company performing “Vibra Cuba.”

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Dance Company was founded. Since then, the company has performed countless shows all across the globe, spanning from Canada, Spain, France, and Egypt to Qatar, Mexico, China, South Africa and Colombia.

The dancer, choreographer, and educator responds to the Banner’s questions about her company, the influence of Cuban culture on the world stage, and why it’s important for her to educate the next generation.

You founded your company at the age of 23, and with all women dancers. How did

that come about and was there a reason for having only women dancers?

Lizt Alfonso: Women in all spheres of life have a lot to say, but, unfortunately, we have not always been taken into account since remote times, though we have gained a lot in the battle. Then, one of my challenges was to make shows that would tell interesting stories, that would tell our points of view and that would keep the spectator glued to his seat for the approximately two hours that the show would last. And also something abstract, that we stopped being watched as beautiful women that know to move our bodies with grace to conquer a man and then go home to do our household chores and take care of our children, leaving aside our personal realization as professionals. And we succeeded! That’s why we are an all-women dance company, but without being feminists. In 2007, when I was given the opportunity to make musicals or dansicals, as Cliff Barnes describes them, then I invited male dancers to be able to

tell the story of those characters, and so they decided to stay with us and now one of my dreams is to have an all-men dance company as the one we have with women. A new challenge!

Cuba is very much on the world stage right now. As an “unofficial” ambassador for Cuba through dance, what does it mean to you to be able to show the world the beauty of Cuban culture?

LA: Cuba has always been on the world stage because its performers, whether they live in Cuba or anywhere else, are proud of where they come from and their strong and solid culture. Therefore, you will find many great Cuban stars in the dance world, such as Alicia Alonso, Carlos Acosta, José Manuel Carreño, in music, such as Celia Cruz, Chano Pozo, Chucho Valdés, in fine arts, including Wilfredo Lam, Servando Cabrera, Los carpinteros, in literature you will find José Martí, Alejo Carpentier, Leonardo

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By KAM WILLIAMS Wesley Snipes is perhaps best known for his role as Blade, the human with vampire genes based on the title character from the comic book trilogy of the same name. The veteran thespian has an impressive pedigree and a resume’ with movies which have grossed over $415 million combined at the box office.

A master in the martial arts, Wesley was born in Orlando and got his big career break in 1986 when he landed a role in opposite Goldie Hawn in “Wildcats.” He subsequently appeared in an episode of the hit TV-series “Miami Vice,” and a year later was cast by Martin Scorsese in Michael Jackson’s music video “Bad.” Larger roles quickly followed, including co-starring turns in such films as “Passenger 57,” “Demolition Man,” “Money Train,” “The Fan,” “Rising Sun,” “New Jack City,” “White Men Can’t Jump” and “To Wong

Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.” Among his additional TV credits are outings on “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd,” “America’s Dream” and “The Bernie Mac Show.”

Snipes has won a couple of NAACP Image Awards (for “New Jack City” and “America’s Dream”). And on August 21, 1998, he had his star added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Here, Snipes talks about his recurring role as Mr. Johnson on “The Player,” the new NBC drama airing Thursdays at 10 pm ET/PT. (Check local listings)

What interested you in “The Player”?

Wesley Snipes: Well, first of all, the interesting opportunity to get into the television game, and to work with some talented people behind the scenes, producers who have a track record of success, particularly in a genre that I’m attracted to. And then they sent me one of the better action scripts that I’d read in a long time in which I get to play a cool boss of bosses.

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Wesley Snipes stars in “The Player.”

Yeah, it looks like it has feature film quality action sequences.

WS: It’s a heck of an undertaking, but that’s definitely our goal. Where we may not have a lot of quantity, we at least have high quality. Some great, great plot twists. Some of the things they have planned this season are really exciting for me as a film actor.

Tell me a little about Mr. Johnson, the pit boss?

WS: He’s the kind of friend you’d love to have. He’s the guy

with the best connections, the best hook-ups, the best arrangements. He always has the box seats and the courtside seats. ...

He knows where the body’s at, but keeps his mouth shut, and can help you get rid of it, if needed.

Is there a consistent message that each episode is trying to convey?

WS: Each episode would be a stand-alone event that has some carryover from episode to episode.

The underlying message about the various characters — who they are and what their hidden agendas are — will play out over time. But the actual game, the actual wager, will stand alone from week to week.

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Padura, just to mention some very well-known names on different stages. All of us are Cuban culture ambassadors, of that GREAT authentic culture that comes out of our souls to tell the history of peoples. What I do is just to continue the tradition of sharing our culture with all.

Dance has taken you around the world, experiencing new cultures and meeting all kinds of people. Has that influenced you creatively, and if so in what way?

LA: Traveling, getting to know the world fills you with energy, expands your knowledge and feeds your spirit, thus, your creativity.

All the places we’ve been to have influenced our work, from our visit to the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, to learning about the wonderful work done in Oaxaca, Mexico, by the Alfredo Harp Helú Foundation, also sharing class with children who study dance in South Africa, or sharing a Maori ritual in New Zealand, up to experiencing the euphoria of audiences in Chicago or NYC, or to finishing one of the company’s choreographies, all that makes you grow. Thus, you get inspired to go ahead with what you do and even to try much more for you and for others.

Why is it important for you to educate children and young people?

WS: The idea of being around these individual who have $10 million a night credit lines is very exciting. Watching this show, we can all live vicariously and get a sense of what that lifestyle is like.

Have you collaborated with any of your fellow cast members before?

WS: No, this is my first time working with them.

With so many classic films being redone, is there a remake you’d like to star in?

WS: [Laughs] We had a pretty good idea of doing not exactly a remake but an evolution of “The Sting.” It would be fun to do something like that with Woody [Harrelson].

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LA: It’s important for me to teach them discipline, rigor, aims in life, patience, devotion, will force, perseverance, infinite love for the others and for what they do and, above all, to teach them that boundaries only exist in the minds of the mediocre. We have to fly, but in order to fly, you need to be prepared, to study, to receive education and to understand that any road can lead you to the site of your dreams and it’s not necessarily easy to get there, let alone, there is a straight line toward that end. But if you seriously make up your mind to do it, you get there; it becomes only one step in the endless stairway in which you will find new and higher steps.

What do you hope that the audience takes with them after seeing Cuba Vibra?

LA: I wish those who are going to see us to enjoy the show and let themselves be carried away by the history of our bodies, lives, music, dance and, above all, our soul.

And I want them to take home the joy of living, struggling, reflecting on what we can do and how we do it and, above all, the absolute capacity that you can fly without boundaries.

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‘Remember the Titans’ movie screenwriter to speak at ABCD’s Community Heroes Celebration

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN “I still want to bring great stories to the screen. I still want to bring great historical stories; great stories featuring African American icons. I still want to do that. It’s been my passion my whole life, my whole adult life,” says “Remember the Titans” award-winning screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard.

It’s been 15 years since “Remember the Titans” graced the silver screen. The film told the true story of African American high school coach Herman Boone, (portrayed by Denzel Washington), who integrated the football team at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971.

Howard will be in Boston this Friday as the featured speaker at Action for Boston Community Development’s annual event Community Heroes Celebration being held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel. The gala honors and celebrates 18 outstanding individuals who have volunteered tirelessly on behalf of ABCD’s neighborhood sites to serve low income children, families, and elders

throughout the city.

The Virginia native, who wrote the story for the 2001 biography “Ali” which starred Will Smith, is intent on bringing more “iconic stories to the screen.” He was passionate about screenwriting from the very first day he started, he told the Banner in a phone interview. “It’s all I ever wanted to do.”

Tubman adventure

Howard’s latest project is about Harriet Tubman. It’s an action adventure film called “Freedom Fire” that he’s producing with Debra Martin Chase, who executive-produced Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” starring Brandy, and produced the films “The Princess Diaries” and “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.”

Funding for “Freedom Fire” has been secured and is scheduled to begin shooting in March or April of 2016. Howard wrote the screenplay some time ago.

“Everything in life is timing,” says the writer. “I had to wait for the right time to get this off the ground because nobody thought a movie about race would make any money.”

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the Community Heroes Celebration, visit www.bostonabcd.org. writer and activist has long been vocal about race in Hollywood and the lack of diversity both in front of and behind the screen. He’s a frequent guest on HuffPost Live and a contributing writer to the Huffington Post.

Howard believes some progress has been made but he says to “not be deluded in thinking that the problem has been solved in anyway.” It hasn’t, he states. The issues have been acknowledged somewhat in what Howard describes as in “fits and starts.”

Despite the current situation in Hollywood, Howard will always have fond memories of “Remember the Titans.” It not only brought him national prominence and afforded him financial security, but more importantly, according to Howard, if he doesn’t do anything else in his life, he wants his tombstone to read that “he helped to change the conversation on race and the hearts and minds of millions of people.” And for this “he’s eternally proud,” he says.

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Bacon-Wrapped White Cheddar Jalapeno Poppers n 2 packages thick sliced Bacon, slices at room temperature and cut in half n 1 package Bob Evans White Cheddar Mashed Potatoes n package garlic herb cheese spread n 20 jalapeno peppers, halved and seeded with membranes removed n ¼ cup brown sugar n 1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper

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hen roasted, a head of garlic is transformed into a buttery, sweet purée that you can stir into soups, dips, or meat mixtures. In this recipe it takes turkey burgers from the ordinary to the sublime.

Here’s how to roast it: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Cut the top off a garlic head off so that the cloves are exposed.

Drizzle a bit of olive oil over the exposed cloves. Wrap tightly in aluminum foil. Place on a baking sheet. Roast 1 hour. Let cool 5 minutes. Remove the foil and squeeze the garlic head to release the roasted cloves. Store in a glass jar in the refrigerator up to 1 week.

Roasted Garlic Turkey Burgers n 1 pound ground turkey (a mixture of white and dark meat) n Cloves from 1 head roasted garlic, mashed n 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce n 2 teaspoons tamari or soy sauce n 1 to 2 sprigs fresh thyme, stemmed n ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper n 1 egg, beaten (use half) n ¼ cup dry bread crumbs n 2 tablespoons vegetable oil n 1 onion, thinly sliced n 4 slices Cheddar cheese n 4 ciabatta buns Place turkey in a medium bowl; add

garlic, Worcestershire, tamari, thyme and crushed red pepper. Mix well. Add half the beaten egg, discarding the rest.

Add breadcrumbs and combine well.

Form into 4 patties.

Heat oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add turkey patties and cook about 5 minutes per side, until thoroughly cooked. Place cheese on burgers while cooking the second side. Place each on a ciabatta bun.

Garnish burgers with lettuce, tomato slices and your favorite condiments.

Serves 4.

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Heat oven to 400 F. In mixing bowl, stir mashed potatoes and garlic herb cheese with rubber spatula until well incorporated.

Fill each jalapeno half with 1 teaspoon of the mixture, then wrap it in bacon; 3 half slices for large jalapenos or 2 for smaller sizes. Be sure bacon is wrapped to seal in mashed potato mixture tightly. Combine brown sugar and cayenne pepper in small mixing bowl. Sprinkle bacon with cayenne brown sugar and pat gently to make it stick. Place wrapped peppers on parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake until bacon reaches desired crispiness, about 25-35 minutes. Let peppers cool for 5 minutes before serving.

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FRIDAY THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE Hub Theatre Company of Boston will cap off its critically acclaimed third season with Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale at First Church in Boston, November 6 through November 21. This timely and topical production addresses the issue of sexual violence which has reached crisis proportions in our communities, corporations and college campuses. In this powerful, contemporary adaptation of the classic Greek myth of Tereus the focus is shifted from the doomed king to his wife Procne and her sister Philomele in a story about love, lies, and retribution. With wisdom and unexpected wit, the play illuminates the legacy of violence and loss that stems from both the silence imposed upon us by others and the silence we impose upon ourselves. The Love of the Nightingale is a thought-provoking piece of theatre that compels each of us to consider the cost of silence and the power of finding one’s voice. Hub Theatre was founded in 2012 to foster creativity among Boston’s emerging theatre artists and as a means to help break down barriers between audience and art. As such, all tickets to all shows are Pay-What-You-Can. Donations of toiletries will also be collected at each performance for local women’s shelters.

The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker, directed by Rebecca Bradshaw, presented by Hub Theatre Company of Boston, runs Friday, November 6 - Saturday, November 21 at The First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St. (corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Street), Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 5pm. All tickets to all shows are Pay-What-You-Can and may be purchased via www.hubtheatreboston. ticketleap.com. For more information please visit www.hubtheatreboston.org.

SATURDAY #LEADNOTFOLLOW: NAVIGATING IDENTITY THROUGH MEDIA AND ART Citi Performing Arts Center announced today that its Teen Leadership Council will host its first annual Youth Arts for Social Change Conference (YASCC). The conference, titled #LeadNotFollow: Navigating Identity through Media and Art, seeks to spark a transformation in the way youth think about media, art, their identities, and social change. YASCC will be held on November 7 at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library from 10am 4pm. “The mission of our Teen Leadership Council is to empower teens to recognize and embrace their potential as creative leaders and community advocates,” said Josiah A. Spaulding, Jr., President & CEO of Citi Performing Arts Center. The Youth Arts for Social Change Conference is a free program, and all teens, organizations, and programs that work with young people, and those who support youth, students, artists, and activists, are welcome to attend. Topics include Forgotten Headlines: The Stories that Go Untold; #Nofilter: Do you show the real you through social media?; and Picturing the Future: How do we use the arts and media to spread

social change? The conference will feature presentations by Hyde Square Task Force, Theater Offensive, and Urbano Project, and will include a keynote panel with Anthony Thomas of Thomas Ent, Justin Kang of City Awake, Cedric Douglas of The Up Truck, and Thato Mwosa, Artist & Award-Winning Filmmaker. The Youth Arts for Social Change Conference is sponsored in part by the Fellowes Athenaeum Fund. For more information, please visit www.citi center.org.

MONDAY NOT REALLY PRACTICAL Simmons College presents Not Really Practical, an exhibit of sculptural mixed media, from November 9 - December 14 at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway in Boston. A reception from 5-7pm will be held on Thursday, November 12. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

The gallery will be closed on November 11 and 25-27. This exhibit wittily examines objects gone awry. The artists contravene our expectations concerning utility and materials. We tend to associate certain media, such as ceramics, with practical craft. But Warren Mather and Janice Jakielski claim the media and re-purpose it for their own conceptual ends. Jakielski and Janice Redman co-opt domesticity and its association with practicality.

Apparel and utensils are intentionally rendered unusable through sculptural transformation. These strategies make us consider the homely and conversely, the frustrations these items of material culture impose. 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 617521-2268, or visit the Trustman Art Gallery website at www.simmons.edu/trustman and visit us on Facebook.

THURSDAY JOLLEY FUN, LAUGHTER YOGA CLUB November 12, Dudley Library community room, 63 Warren St., 6:30-7:30pm.

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Laughter yoga (Hasyayoga) is a practice involving prolonged voluntary laughter.

Laughter yoga is based on the belief that voluntary laughter provides the same physiological and psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter. Laughter yoga is done in groups, with eye contact and playfulness between participants. Forced laughter soon turns into real and contagious laughter (Wikipedia).

UPCOMING GEORGE CABLES, GUEST ARTIST AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY George Cables, who “belongs in the pantheon of the greatest jazz pianists” (Victor L. Schermer, All About Jazz), will be a guest artist at Harvard University, sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard’s Learning From Performers program and Harvard Jazz Bands conducted by Yosvany Terry, Visiting Senior Lecturer of Music and Direc-

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 WORKSHOP ON AFRICAN HISTORY AND ECONOMY ROUNDTABLE AND LECTURE Thursday, November 5 — Howard French, Associate Professor, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University. 2-4pm Roundtable: African Economic Development: Challenges and Prospects for the Future, Moderator: Howard French, Participants: Kola Karim (Shoreline Group), Judith Aidoo (Caswell Capital Partners Limited), Margaret McMillan (Tufts University), and Dani Rodrik (Harvard University). 4:30-6pm Lecture: Howard French: Continents in Motion: How Today’s China-Africa Encounter Came About and What It Means for the World. Co-sponsored with the Center for African Studies. Harvard Hall 201, 12 Harvard Yard, Cambridge. Free and open to the public.

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programs; ideas for these range from homework help to parenting aid sessions.

Harry Smith of Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative said such services are critical to ensure families moving in are able to remain stable and retain their housing. DSNI, along with other neighborhood associations, participated in the planning process, which also included discussions with abutters.

“For formerly homeless families it’s key to not just leave them in their apartments, but also offer them the kinds of supports that would help them be successful,” he said. “We don’t want to have situation here lots of families move in and then move out after a year.”

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“Last report we8had, 2 they [the 7 developers’ diversity hiring numbers] were significantly 2 4 higher 5 than city averages, especially for local people of color 6 hired 9 for8the jobs,” he said.

Helen Gray taught 7 third 1 grade 3

The lotteries drew people from all over the Boston area, including as far as North Shore and Housing demand Wright recalled her joy at discov- Worcester, Cheng said, though in ering she had won a slot through many cases residents have been a the site’s housing lottery. Demand part of the community.

“Many people [in the lottery] for the new units was high.

“We received over 3,500 ap- grew up in the neighborhood, plications for 80 units before we maybe grew up and moved away, had to stop accepting them,” said but were looking to come back and saw this opportunity,” Cheng Alberghini.

More than 70 percent of the said.

Smith said that the jobs of applications were for units designated as for homeless or low-in- those moving in reflected the typical jobs of people in the come, she said.

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Vivian Cheng, rental manager 8 The 2 building’s 7 6 construction 1 4 9 for Corcoran Management, said also drew many workers from the they hope to fully fill Upham’s 2local4area,5with3particular 8 9atten1 tion to hiring women and people Crossing by the end of the year.

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Christine Wright moved into the housing with her eight-yearold daughter after staying at Casa Nueva Vida homeless shelter. At the ribbon cutting, she spoke tearfully of the trials that brought her here.

“We bounced around from house to house and couch to couch,” Wright said. “I saw the ill effects on my daughter. I heard too many times her wish for her own bed, her own home.”

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continued from page 1 LEGAL century skills and grit — is garnering increasing attention across the state and nation, but the idea is not new to educators in the field.

“We’ve all, over the years, seen a rise in emphasis on mental health support for our students,” Estrada said in a telephone interview. “As we’ve studied why kids drop out and why they become disengaged with school, that has really raised the attention on not just academics, but on behavior and mental health.”

Jim Vetter, steering committee co-chair of the Social-Emotional Learning Alliance for Massachusetts, is encouraged by BPS’s increasing focus on SEL. He noted that Boston schools are already using a number of ‘evidence-based’ SEL programs, among them Open Circle, Second Step and Responsive Classroom.

Done right, Vetter said, SEL is evidence-based and consistently used, infused and modeled throughout the school day.

“Effective SEL includes structured lessons — for example, in effective problem-solving — but it doesn’t stop at a 45-minute lesson one or two times per week. It’s connected in everything that’s taught,” he said.

One of the reasons SEL discussions have ramped up lately is that a growing body of research points to its positive impact on students’ academic outcomes, well-being, college attendance, future income

For more information on social emotional learning: SEL Alliance for Massachusetts

www.sel4ma.org Transforming Education

www.transformingeducation.org Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) www.casel.org Boston Public Schools www.bostonpublic-

schools.org and reduced likelihood of criminal conviction.

A recent statewide policy forum in Boston co-hosted by the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, MassINC and Transforming Education spotlighting some of the data coming out of randomized and longitudinal studies on social emotional learning.

“We believe the research case for the importance of SEL to lifelong outcomes is so compelling, that education policy needs to move ahead now to include them,” said Chris Gabrieli, co-founder of Transforming Education, a nonprofit that translates educational research into policy and practice.

At the forum, Gabrieli and cofounder Sara Bartolino Krachman presented highlights from an upcoming report, “Ready to be Counted,” which compiled data from numerous SEL studies.

A New Zealand study that tracked children from birth to age 40 found that the likelihood of

criminal conviction in adulthood correlated strongly with self-control ability in childhood; the lowest self-control children were three times more likely to end up in the criminal justice system as adults than were children showing high self-control skills.

“I do think this suggests we get to work on understanding how to help support kids to have higher self-control in their earlier years,” Gabrieli said.

Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner, said SEL comes up nearly every time he meets with teachers or school administrators.

“It’s certainly an issue our superintendents and principals and teachers have identified as critical,” he said in videotaped remarks at the forum. “Many of you are increasingly facing a challenge of working with young people who in one way or the other are challenged, socially or behaviorally or emotionally.”

Chester sought to dispel the notion of SEL as impinging on academic time.

“Sometimes it’s framed as academics vs. social or emotional dimensions,” he said. “For me, it’s not an either/or proposition. We have to work on both of these. Children who are not available in terms of emotions, attitudes and ability to focus ... are not available to learn.”

In Boston, City Councilor-at-Large Ayanna Pressley has worked for years to push awareness of SEL’s importance. In 2012,

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LEGAL PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR INSURANCE BROKER SERVICES REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATION MBTA CONTRACT No. TROPS02 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting broker services to market, place and service its Property Insurance Program and related Property Risk Initiatives.

This contract will be State Funded. There is no Disadvantaged Business Enterprise goal associated with this project; however the Authority strongly encourages the use of certified Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises involvement as joint ventures, subcontractors/subconsultants in all of its contracts.

The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website.

Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/ This is not a request for proposal. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications.

Stephanie Pollack Mass DOT Secretary & CEO Francis A. DePaola General Manager MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02110 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date.

Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No. P90CN01, 750 KILOWATT WIND TURBINE INSTALLATION PROJECT, REMOTE TRACK LOCATION, BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS, CLASS 1 – GENERAL TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION AND PROJECT VALUE - $2,717,500, can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on December 1, 2015.

Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly.

Work consists of the installation and commissioning of a 750 Kilowatt Wind Turbine on MBTA Property at the Remote Track Location on Titicut Street in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The 750 Kilowatt wind turbine will be procured by the MBTA prior to award of this construction contract.

Bidders attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti-Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. While there is no DBE goal associated with this contract, the Authority strongly encourages the use of Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises as prime contractors, subcontractors and suppliers in all of its contracting opportunities.

Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at

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she and former City Councilor John Connolly sponsored a hearing on equitable access to social and emotional support services and curricula in BPS. Pressley emphasized that different types of stresses could affect readiness to learn for a wide spectrum of students.

“I think people have underestimated how pervasive trauma is and how it affects the whole school community,” she told the Banner. “It could be a new immigrant, it could be a child battling anxiety, a child whose parents are going through a divorce, a child who has lost someone in their school community, whether through cancer or violence.”

Pressley, Estrada and others echoed Secretary Chester in the idea that school systems needn’t and shouldn’t think of SEL vs. academic learning as a tradeoff.

“There’s no tradeoff,” Pressley said. “This should never be an ‘OR.’ It’s an ‘AND.’ It’s the foundation for everything else. Every student and every educator stands to benefit from an investment in social and emotional support.”

At Broward County Public Schools, Nieves developed and managed a number of SEL policies and initiatives, according to a biography of Nieves furnished by BPS, including multi-tiered systems of support, positive behavior intervention supports, racial equity, human relations, violence prevention, peer counseling, substance abuse prevention, LGBTQ inclusion, character education

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BPS takes a multi-tiered system of support approach, she explained. “For social emotional learning, that’s ensuring that we’re specifically teaching in a manner so that kids can use the skills. For example, in a problem-solving activity we say, ‘This is challenging, but you can persist and succeed.’

We’ll be working to become explicit in teaching these things.”

The new department also serves to ensure that those students who need more support are identified and provided services, she noted.

The Office of Social Emotional Learning and Wellness will not be a “siloed” initiative, Estrada said, but integrated into all of the academic and behavior initiatives that address aspects of social and emotional wellness.

“We’re working to determine how exactly we can roll this out. We know our schools are doing great work every day,” she said. “It’s not necessarily adding something new.”

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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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Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

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Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Jose Luis Reynoso

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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 of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c.

208, Section 1 B. The Complaint is on file at the Court.

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:

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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