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By YAWU MILLER

As the statewide battle over charter school expansion heats up, a local battle is brewing between Mayor Martin Walsh and a group of parent organizers who are alleging the city plans to transfer Boston Public Schools buildings to charter schools.

The local dispute centers around a Sept. 29 meeting Walsh had with the Boston parent group Quality Education for Every Student. Organizers say Walsh told them the BPS would reduce the number of school buildings it operates from the current 126 to 90.

The allegation comes at a time when charters are seeking to expand in Boston, potentially taking funds away from the BPS. “I never said that,” Walsh told the Banner when questioned about the conversation.

Walsh notes that the school department is undertaking an audit of its facilities to determine the needs of the city’s students and the

school buildings that serve them.

“It’s too early yet to talk about it,” he said of school closings. “When you talk about closing schools, you don’t close schools unless you have an operational plan. I don’t want to speculate about what’s going to happen. We could be merging schools. We could be looking at a redesign of high schools and building new schools.”

QUEST member Kevin Murray says he remembers clearly that Walsh told the group the department would pare their buildings down to 90.

“I think he realized he’d made a mistake,” Murray said. “People looked at him like he misspoke.

People asked him questions, but there was no further clarification.”

Structural deficit

Whether or not Walsh cited 90 schools, there has long been talk of merging and consolidating schools, as the cost of salaries, benefits, transportation and operations

See SCHOOLS, page 8

Mayor Martin J. Walsh speaks with Ed Gaskin, Executive Director of Grove Hall Mainstreets (second from left), while touring the area with members of the community. See story on page 7.

Rox residents plan for more say in development Call to gather info, identify voices and look to past

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

One-hundred and fifty residents gathered at Roxbury Community College last week to identify how they and other community members can take charge of the development projects shaping their neighborhood. At the “Roxbury Planning for Roxbury Residents” meeting last Thursday, attendees looked for ways to increase awareness of upcoming

construction projects and ensure community members have a say in the development process. They also brainstormed first steps that can be taken within the next two to three months.

“If we don’t have a cohesive plan, we will be acted upon rather than the actors,” said City Councilor Tito Jackson, co-convener of the meeting. “This is about what is happening in our community, not necessarily for us, but to us.”

Attendees broke into groups to

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Fenway fights to keep affordability City faces risk of economic segregation

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

In the latest manifestation of Boston’s housing crisis, residents and activists marched last week from Clearway St. to Berklee College of Music’s building on 1140 Boylston St. to protest what they say could be the loss of the last non-subsidized affordable housing in the Fenway neighborhood.

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Marchers protest push-out from Clearway St. as students take leases.

“The Fenway is again at a crisis point,” said a press release issued

by Right to the City Boston.

“Apartments on Clearway Street were some of the last lower-cost units left.”

No new affordable units have been built in the Fenway/Back Bay area in the past decade, said Richard Giordano director of community organizing for Fenway Community Development Corporation.

Earlier this year, approximately 100 long-term residents either were not given the option to renew their leases or, in the case of at-will tenants, received a 30-day notice, said

members of Fenway CDC and other protestors.

The units were then leased to Berklee College of Music students for rents of $1,000 more per month.

Protestors also decried an agreement between the college and the property owners and managers to reserve space and facilitate leases for the students.

Previously, Berklee administration sought to take out its own lease on the units, a request the city rejected. Activists charge the new arrangement achieves the same effect by turning many of the rooms into dorms.

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Support high for millionaires’ tax 2018 vote Raise Up MA, Great Schools MA & others file signatures in bid to get on state ballot

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Raise Up Massachusetts’s petition to put a millionaires’ tax to state vote garnered an unprecedented level of support.

Various organizations seeking to place their causes on the 2016 state ballot — or, in the case of Raise Up Massachusetts, the 2018 ballot — turned in petition signatures last week. Among the handful of measures making the first cut — a minimum of 64,750 signatures — was Raise Up Massachusetts’s proposed state constitutional amendment, which would increase the tax rate on income earned over $1 million and use the revenue to fund public transportation and education The organization’s petition swept in with more than twice the requirement, at 157,000 signatures.

“It’s my understanding that this petition has gathered the most signatures ever for a ballot,” said Maria Elena Letona, executive director of Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts, part of the Raise Up Massachusetts coalition.

Should the rest of the referendum entry process go as smoothly, organizers say the level of support bodes well for voter passage of the measure in 2018.

“150,000 signatures. That’s a big bloc of votes in a statewide election. That’s more than Charlie Baker won by,” said Harris Gruman, director of the SEIU State Council.

Staff of Raise Up Massachusetts’ member organizations and volunteers collected the signatures. The coalition did not hire any outside signature gatherers, he said.

Wide support base

Several members of Raise Up Massachusetts said signature numbers demonstrate a powerful base that is bolstered by its diversity. Supporters of the millionaires’ tax come from across the state and represent a wide range of people.

“I highly doubt the governor will be on board with this,” said Calvin Feliciano, deputy political director of SEIU 509. “We’re hoping the counter to that is that we are so grassroots-oriented, so spread out.”

The coalition supporting the tax includes members of faith groups, community organizations, labor unions and even some millionaires, said Feliciano and Gruman. The many organizations constituting Raise Up Massachusetts have been able to draw on their infrastructure and volunteers while organizing in different communities.

“No one who doesn’t make $10 million a year is against this and

even some who make that much are for it because they know what it means,” Feliciano said.

Some of the staunchest support comes from urban and liberal demographics.

“It does poll better with youth, people of color, all progressive constituencies and urban constituencies. Boston is very strong for it,” said Gruman.

Resources raised

Raise Up Massachusetts raised approximately $300,000 for its campaign to put the millionaires’ tax to vote, said Gruman, who estimated 20 percent of that was contributions by millionaires.

Most, he said, came from unions and organizations. In-kind contributions — non-cash assistance and resources such as office space, staff time and photocopying — amounted to approximately $500,000. No cash equivalent was assessed for volunteer time.

Ballot advantage

Expectations are high for a strong voter turnout, and Feliciano said a vote is the ideal way to bring the tax initiative to implementation.

Past efforts to work through the legislature to change Massachusetts’s tax system have failed, largely due to the power of lobbyists or lack of political will on the

part of officials, Feliciano said.

Bringing the issue referendum may sidestep these hurdles.

“Lobbyists tear it to shreds, radio hosts tear it to shreds,” he said. “Things we can’t do because there is no political will for them, we can bring to the people.”

Challenges to come

Reaching the required signature count is just the first step in getting the millionaires’ tax onto the 2018 ballot.

Officials will check signatures for validity — including legibility and enough county representation.

With such a surplus of signatures, it is almost certain the petition will pass. Before the measure goes to referendum, 25 percent of legislators have to approve it in a Joint Session of the Legislature in 2016 and again in either 2017 or 2018.

A risk, Gruman said, is that the legislature could quietly kill the measure simply by not holding a session to review it. While this kind of political maneuver is illegal, it has been used in the past with no reprimand from the courts, he said.

“One thing we have to do is convince the legislature to hold this vote and get as many people as possible to vote for it. That’s a big focus for next few months,” Gruman said.

The level of public support and visibility of the measure will make it more difficulty to bury than if the petition had squeaked by with the minimum amount of signatures, he said. Also promising: Senate President Stan Rosenberg has voiced support for the measure appearing on the ballot, Gruman said.

Another major campaign effort: to educate voters on the nuances of what the millionaires’ tax means, including how supporters believe it will benefit individuals’ lives and why they believe it will not have negative side effects. The goal is to offset misunderstandings or opponents’ potential arguments, Gruman said. They plan to conduct door-to-door outreach, as well as discussing the issue at community and worksite meetings. “[The measure] gets very strong support. The question is really, ‘What demographic might we lose because of advertising campaigns against [the tax]?” Gruman said.

“The suburban white vote might be turned off, but right now they’re supportive.”

Even with the measure’s current popularity, money is a major challenge. The opposition may include millionaires willing to put millions into the fight, Feliciano said.

Other measures

The petition to put lifting the cap on charter schools onto the 2016 ballot secured 73,000 signatures.

The campaigns work has been undertaken by approximately 20,000 supporters, of which hundreds are volunteers according to Eileen O’Connor, spokesperson for Great Schools Massachusetts.

In both popular support and funding, Great Schools Massachusetts is prepared to campaign for ballot victory, O’Connor said, with polls showing two-thirds of state residents support the charter cap lift. An August 2014 Boston Globe poll recorded only 43 percent of state residents supported a cap raise, with 47 percent opposed.

“If necessary, we are confident that we will be able to match dollar for dollar the extremely well-funded opposition,” O’Connor said. She did not respond to questions about how much funding or human capital the lift-thecap campaign has or how many paid signature gathers were hired.

The movement hopes the Legislature will act to lift the cap, without the matter going to referendum, said O’Connor.

Opponents of lifting the cap charge that the petition’s signatures reflect money, not popular support.

“Anyone can come in with tons of money and hire people to collect signatures. That’s what they did,” said Russ Davis, executive director of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, a member of the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance.

MEJA members fear that sympathetic members of the Legislature — Davis said many state Senators support keeping the cap — will try to minimize potential losses by crafting a compromise that would allow a small increase in the number of charter schools instead of risking losing the cap entirely, should the ballot vote not go in their favor.

But the current educational system already represents a compromise, said Davis, and his side expects to be able to secure victory by raising support through grassroots outreach.

“We won’t be buying a bunch of ads. We’ll be talking to tens of thousands of people in the community.”

Other petitions whose supporters say they reached enough signatures: putting minimums and limits Partners H on insurance reimbursement payments to hospitals, ending the use APPRO of Common Core educational standards, preventing cruelty to farm animals, allowing a slots parlor at Revere and legalizing, taxing and regulating marijuana.

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Tufts Univ. acquires Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter’s papers

By CAITLIN YOSHIKO KANDIL

The personal papers of the late boxing legend Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who spent 19 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of triple murder, are now available to the public at Tufts University.

The archives, which Carter signed over to the university before his death in 2014, contain photographs, correspondence, notes, court documents and other artifacts, ranging from his time in prison to his release and work as an advocate for the wrongfully convicted.

“Students and faculty at Tufts are excited about issues about people who are wrongfully convicted and mass incarceration,” said Dan Santamaria, director of digital collections and archives at Tufts, “and when you look at Rubin Carter’s papers, you get to see the personal side of those issues.”

Carter, who was the subject of the 1999 film “The Hurricane,” starring Denzel Washington, became a professional boxer in 1961, and was soon ranked one of the top ten middleweight fighters in the world.

In 1966, Carter and his friend John Artis were arrested in New Jersey and charged with three murders. Despite inconsistencies in the evidence and witness testimony, Carter and Artis were convicted the following year, and sentenced to life in prison.

Several years later, after two key witnesses recanted their statements, the New Jersey Supreme Court overturned the convictions and ordered a new trial — but Carter and Artis were again found guilty.

Justice on trial

During his time in prison, Carter published his autobiography, “The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472,” published in 1975, and gained the

support of figures such as Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan, who wrote the song, “Hurricane.”

In 1985, after spending nearly two decades in prison, the U.S. District Court in Newark overturned the second conviction on the grounds that prosecutors withheld evidence. “The extensive record clearly demonstrates that petitioner’s convictions were predicated upon an appeal to racism rather than reason, and concealment rather than disclosure,” wrote Judge Haddon Lee Sarokin.

Carter, who was 48 years old, was set free the next day.

Following his release, Carter became a criminal justice reform advocate and executive director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted.

“The prison system affects everybody, not just people of color,” he told the Banner in a 2011 interview. “It affects everybody: the violence, the humiliation, the degradation, spending long periods in hate. It destroys families, it destroys mental health, it destroys self-respect. It destroys everything it touches. Prison is the only system that’s really democratic in this country. It gets hold of anybody and everybody.”

“I know how difficult it is to get anybody to listen to the voices of those who have been wrongfully convicted,” Carter went on. “Most people think that nobody’s wrongfully convicted because they believe in the system. They believe in the courts, they believe in the judges, they believe in the police, they believe in the jury system. So it takes a monumental effort to overcome that burden.”

Santamaria said the archives offer an “un-sanitized, behind-thescenes” view of Carter that isn’t available from his books or public lectures.

One of his favorite items in the collection is a laminated copy of the writ of habeas corpus that released Carter from prison 30 years

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ago. “We weren’t initially sure why it was laminated,” said Santamaria.

“But John Artis told us the story of how Carter would carry this laminated copy around with him and whip it out very dramatically at opportune moments.”

Another important part of the archive, Santamaria said, are the letters Carter received from children and other wrongfully

convicted men and women all over the world. “When you read the individual letters, you can see his impact on individual people, and when you take it on the whole, the boxes of letters, you can see his broader impact,” he said.

Kendra Field, interim director for the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts, agreed, saying that the letters show the personal side of mass incarceration—and not just for Carter, but for all those who wrote seeking his guidance.

Field already has students from the Africana and History departments engaging with the archive,

and said that the Center is planning to designate one of its annual Gerald Gill fellowships to the legacy of Carter and Artis.

“We anticipate rich student and faculty research emerging on the life and writings of Rubin Carter,” she said.

But Santamaria stressed that the archive is not just for Tufts students and faculty — the materials are open to the public.

“We’re happy to help anyone that’s interested,” said Santamaria. “Anyone who’s interested can come and explore and try to make connections to their own lives and what’s going on today.”

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The growth of politics of confusion A fundamental principle of democracy is that citizens will vote out of office those politicians who fail to serve their interests.

Over the years, conservatives have claimed that African Americans do not adhere to that principle but are captives of the Democratic Party. Now that whites with low incomes are becoming Republicans, the party of the well-to-do, there is considerable speculation about their motivations.

In considering this new Republican political phenomenon, it is specious to maintain the myth that black voters are insensitive to public issues but have become Democrats out of a political herd mentality. In the presidential election of 1960, an estimated one-third of black citizens voted for Richard Nixon. Only four years later when Sen. Barry Goldwater, an ardent opponent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, became the Republican candidate, blacks left the Republican Party in droves.

Only six percent of blacks voted for Goldwater. It is generally agreed that this black political rebellion resulted from Republican opposition to the Civil Rights Act. The black vote for Republican candidates for president has not substantially recovered since then. Some analysts nonetheless assert now that the black presidential vote actually is racially inspired. How then do we explain the 92 percent black vote in the presidential election for Al Gore in 2000? At the time there was not the slightest intimation that a black family would occupy the White House in eight years. Obama’s black vote was only four points higher than Gore’s at 96 percent in 2008.

Now that conservatives and liberals are engaged in continual combat over issues of importance to blacks — an increase of the minimum wage, Medicaid expansion and racial wealth disparity — there have been fewer serious assertions that African Americans are not better represented by Democrats. The issue now is why poor and working-class whites believe that Republicans have their interests at heart.

The number of whites living in poverty in America is almost twice the number of destitute blacks — 19.0 million to 10.3 million. Also, the stagnation in wages since 1975 has stranded millions of whites below the middle class. The standard of living for many whites has declined while the wealth of the affluent has grown. How could such economic disparity induce working class whites to unite with the party that opposes many safety net issues?

A recent New York Times article opines that blue states are turning red because the truly poor fail to vote and low-income workers are so offended by the abuse of welfare and Medicaid that they prefer to be represented by the party that would eliminate entitlements. It is unlikely that black voters would ever embrace that point of view. Life in America has been so challenging for blacks that there is a cultural sympathy for those who have failed to thrive.

Especially now with the unexpected emergence of Donald Trump as a leading Republican candidate for president, sociologists and political analysts will have a field day trying to unravel the intricacies of the political psyche of white Americans.

“Now that Trump is my role model, I ought to join his party.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A broader perspective In the Banner on Dec. 3, the Roving Camera question (Why do you think racism exists?) answered by six people of color. An article of this nature, it keeps people thinking it’s a black problem.

Racism does not discriminate against race, color or creed!

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fire reminds me of the important role he has played in his 30 years on the council. Councilor Yancey has pushed the Flynn, Menino and Walsh administrations to do better when it comes to hiring African Americans and other minorities in Boston. In case you missed it, Boston is a city that has a history of deep divisions. Jobs in City Hall were not always open to people who aren’t white.

As much as we as a people have had to go through to open the doors to city jobs, there’s more work to be done, as the councilor says. We should be earning the same salaries

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as our white brothers and sisters in city government. There should be no departments without at least some people of color working in significant roles. But as Councilor Yancey points out, things are pretty uneven from one department to the next. And the police and fire departments are going from bad to worse.

Now that Yancey is leaving us, we need someone else to take up the mantle for us. These issues are too important to fall through the cracks.

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The underside of America’s exceptionalism

Why do you think blacks don’t vote Republican?

By LEE A. DANIELS

The horrific killing sprees at the Planned Parenthood office in Colorado Springs, Colorado and in San Bernardino, California underscore the fact that there’s a poisonous spirit gouging deep trenches in the surface of American society now. It has many causes and shows itself in numerous ways. But it’s most shocking manifestation — these mass shootings — has a double edge to it.

The first is how “routine” mass shootings have become. Experts debate whether the number of mass shootings per year — defined by congressional researchers and other experts as incidents in which at least four people are shot — have increased in recent years. But we do know that since January, there have been at least 354 such incidents. The first sentence of a New York Times article exploring that fact began with these words: “More than one a day.”

The second “edge” is how politicized the reaction to them has become — as exemplified by the response of Democratic and Republican politicians to the two latest shocking incidents.

Immediately after both attacks, Democratic politicians, led by President Obama, along with expressing sadness and sympathy for the victims and their families, called on Congress to enact gun-control legislation that balances the rights of individuals to own guns with the need to reduce the current, largely indiscriminate access to them.

“We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world,” Obama said, “and there’s some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently, common-sense gun safety laws, stronger background checks.”

The Republican response, however, was starkly different. When Robert L. Dear, Jr., a white Christian conservative, attacked the Planned Parenthood office on Nov. 27, killing three people, including a police officer, and wounding nine others, Republicans in general and the GOP candidates in particular limited their remarks to muted, generalized expressions of sympathy for the victims.

They said nothing about Dear’s religious background or the phrase police officials said he muttered when captured — “no more baby parts” ­— which unmistakably indicated hostility to Planned Parenthood’s support of women’s right to abortion. And they declared the violent language they use to describe those who help women seeking abortions isn’t responsible for the murderous attacks on Planned Parenthood offices, abortion clinics and abortion clinic staff.

In sharp contrast, the Dec. 2 San Bernardino mass shooting provoked the GOP presidential candidates to full-throated war cries against the President and homegrown “radical Islamic terrorism,” in Donald Trump’s words. Texas Senator Ted Cruz thundered that the San Bernardino attack proved the US needs “a war-time president.”

Carly Fiorina immediately declared its perpetrators’ Arabic backgrounds proved it was “a homegrown terrorist attack.”

In other words, the two mass shootings underscored what has long been apparent: that gun-rights absolutists, from the National Rifle Association to the GOP candidates and elected officials, are willing to tolerate mass shootings of Americans — as long as they’re perpetrated by mentally-unstable whites or whites whose views on gun ownership and other political and social issues seem to match their own. For all their talk of sending their “hearts” and “prayers” to the victims’ families, they’re unmoved by the murder of innocents unless they can make political hay from the profile of the killers.

That horrible reality is stark evidence of the underside of society’s cherished notion of “American exceptionalism” — the boast that America is the most freedom-loving, peace-loving, generous and welcoming nation, etc., etc. in human history.

There was always a lot of fluff and outright hypocrisy to that notion, especially when one contrasted it to the “exceptionalism” with which the white majority treated Americans of color and the way it acted when it felt under stress. Indeed, even a cursory scan of American history shows how much American society has always struggled to live up to its ideals.

That struggle is the American experience now.

There’s no way out of our current awful predicament provoked by a political party whose true campaign strategy is rooted in the underside of American exceptionalism — in empty boasts, outright lies and language — except to defeat it at the ballot box.

That’s the only way the exceptionalism Americans like to think is the stuff this country is made of can have a chance to show itself.

Lee A. Daniels’ collection of columns, “Race Forward: Facing America’s Racial Divide in 2014,” is available at www.amazon.com.

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ANDRÉ ALEXANDER André Alexander has joined the Boston public media producer WGBH as vice president for Finance and Chief Financial Officer.

Alexander comes to WGBH with two decades of executive experience with national and international nonprofit organizations, including Special Olympics International, the Corporation for Enterprise Development and the Jane Goodall Institute.

“André has broad experience and a deep understanding of nonprofit organizations,” said WGBH COO Ben Godley.

“We look forward to the insight he will bring to advancing our mission and adding depth to our financial operations.”

During his tenure at Special Olympics, Alexander implemented new financial and accounting processes across the organization’s 170 worldwide offices. As CFO at the Jane Goodall Institute he revamped the operational infrastructure to ensure regulatory compliance. And as chief financial and operating officer at the Corporation for Enterprise Development, Alexander helped set the strategic direction for the organization, which advances policies related to expanding economic opportunity.

“As an avid consumer and supporter of public media I am thrilled to be joining WGBH, the leader in the industry, and to be part of such a highly successful team,” Alexander said.

Alexander holds a master of business administration from The George Washington University, a master of accountancy from American University, and a bachelor of arts from the University of Virginia. He also is a certified public accountant.

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Low demand for charters among low-income Researchers examine school selection, reforms and effects

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Despite the fanfare, there is surprisingly low demand in Boston for charter schools among the populations that may benefit from them most, said one researcher at an education reform conference on Monday.

Presenters at “Leveraging Research and Policy to Improve K-12 Education in Massachusetts” examined factors behind school selection choice and shared reform lessons learned over the years.

The conference was held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and organized by the FRB Boston and the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative.

Who chooses charters?

Surprisingly few of Boston students apply to charter middle schools, noted Christopher Walters, assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkley. Walters also is a research associate at the MIT SEII and faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

He examined four cohorts of fourth-grade students between 2006-2009 and their later grade 6-8 MCAS scores.

Approximately 18 percent of

the students applied to charter middle schools, and only 5 percent applied to more than one, Walters said. About 12 percent were offered seats, and 11 percent ended up enrolling.

“Overall, the demand for charter schools is surprisingly weak in Boston,” he said.

The demand for charters has increased some in recent years.

Thirty-three percent of Boston’s rising grade 6 students applied to charters for SY2012-2013, according to Parag Pathak, professor of economics at MIT, co-director of NBER and founding co-director of MIT’s School of Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative

High effect, low demand

The benefits of a charter school environment were the greatest for poorer and struggling students, Walters said.

Students with below average test scores and students who were eligible for subsidized lunch experienced the most dramatic increase in test performance, he found.

These also were the students who were least likely to submit enrollment applications.

“Higher-achieving, less-disadvantaged students have the strongest preferences for charter schools, but charters are most effective for poor students and those with low previous achievement,”

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Parag Pathak, founding co-director of MIT’s School of Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, spoke on school enrollment at an education conference co-organized by MIT SEII. he wrote in a 2012 paper.

Boston is considering implementing a unified enrollment system, in which students apply to charter and district schools through the same process. Such a system could bring more of the most affected demographics into charter schools, Walters said.

Contrary to the application trend were black students, who, Walters said, were disproportionately likely to apply and had strong academic gains.

Distance matters

Test scores may not be the only factor driving school selection.

A major influencer in charter applications seemed to be location, said Walters. Students who lived closer to charter schools were significantly more likely to seek enrollment.

“Students who live furthest apply about half as often as students who live close. The implication is if a charter opens on my doorstep, I’m more likely to apply.”

This may suggest that if the cap on charter schools is raised, applications will rise as well.

Also surprising: Boston families do not put as many tier 1 and tier 2 schools on their school enrollment application as they could, Pathak noted. Tier 1 and 2 schools are those regarded

by the Boston Public Schools system as highest performing, based on MCAS performance and improvement.

“Many families could have ranked a tier 1 or tier 2 school but chose not to,” Pathak said. He added that this raises the question of whether parents find these schools too far away or do not feel the tier ranking is relevant.

“The demand for schools is complex,” cautioned Rahn Dorsey, Boston’s chief of education. Many drivers of parental choices may not be easily visible to researchers, he said.

Dorsey noted that factors such as the schools’ offerings of art programs and services, political opinions on charter versus district schools, start time, school climate and reputation in the community may contribute to application choices.

School improvement steps

A presenter pointed out that there are a variety of fixes that schools — charter or district — could implement to narrow achievement gaps.

Roland Fryer Jr., professor of economics at Harvard University and director of the Education Innovation Laboratory, said that educational research from the past decade — including 200 field studies and his own research

— identified several interventions that carry significant effects.

Among these were a higher level of feedback provided to teachers, use of data to adjust the pace and scope of instruction, increased instruction time — especially longer school years — and high expectations of the students.

Also effective: tutoring offered to small groups of students four or more days a week.

School characteristics like class size, per pupil expenditure and whether or not teachers have advanced degrees were not useful predictors for a school’s effectiveness, Fryer said.

Drawing on his reform experience with 20 of the lowest performing schools in Houston, Texas, Fryer said results included improvements on math and reading “comparable to reported impacts of attending high-performing charter schools.”

However, there are barriers to disseminating to other schools the strategies that were so effective in Houston. Chief among them, he said, is administrators’ fear of pushback and loss of popularity if they enact major changes.

“It’s not that [administrators] don’t know what needs to be done,” he said. “It’s getting [the changes] through politically that seems to be very difficult.”

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Mayor tours Grove Hall business district Neighborhood district struggles to find right mix of businesses to attract more shoppers

By YAWU MILLER

Grove Hall Main Streets Director Ed Gaskin led Mayor Martin Walsh and city officials on a tour of the commercial district last week, underscoring the opportunities and challenges facing businesses and shoppers in the area.

The tour was part of Walsh’s Holidays on Main Street effort, in which he is challenging Bostonians to make five purchases in neighborhood business districts this holiday season. In Grove Hall, Walsh visited stores and bought several pairs of socks at the Blue Hill Avenue clothing retailer Porta Classic.

As the mayor walked the

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Clearway squeeze-out

Two-bedroom apartments on Clearway St went for $2,060$2,600 a month in 2014, Giordano said, referring to a sampling of ten rental listings.

In comparison, entering students moved in four to a two-bedroom unit for rents of $900 per person, netting a total $3,600 per unit rent, according Leah Camhi, executive director of Fenway CDC, and Louvere Walker, board president of Fenway CDC. Those who were still offered a chance to renew leases may be affected as well.

With two-bedrooms fetching high rents from students, rents likely will rise on the larger units, said John, a resident who lives a few streets away on Hemenway St and asked to be identified only by his first name.

Additionally, Giordano predicted that once other landlords see these high apartment prices, they will seek to cash in as well.

“It brings up the floor everywhere else, and the next landowner does the same thing. They’ll say ‘Why should I rent to [these] people when I can get $1,600 more a month by putting students in the place?’”

The costs of displacement

As housing prices soar across the city, low- and moderate-income

district, Gaskin filled him in on the status of businesses in the district.

One challenge is that the average per-capita income of people living around Grove Hall — $24,000 — limits their spending power. Accordingly, many of the area’s businesses are the same discount retailers found in other nearby business districts, making it difficult to draw in new customers.

Gaskin said Grove Hall would benefit from a greater diversity of businesses.

“Typically, you’ll see a Payless Shoe store in Mattapan, in Dudley and Codman Square,” he said. “I’d rather see something else here.”

As it stands, the area has several barber shops and hair salons,

bodegas and fast food joints.

Gaskin said the challenge is to persuade landlords to market vacant shops to new and different businesses.

“Right now, when there’s a ‘for lease’ sign, it’s a free-for-all,” he said. “We have to do better at finding the businesses we want and recruiting them to come in.”

Currently, the area has just one sit-down restaurant, Flames, which serves Jamaican food.

Gaskin says the area would benefit from businesses that would capture some of the auto traffic that passes through – 20,000 to 40,000 cars a day. A cobbler or tailor, for instance, or a computer repair shop would do that.

“Part of it is, how do we make Grove Hall more of a destination for people from outside the community?” Gaskin said.

As the head of the Main Streets district, Gaskin’s job is to support the local businesses while also working to ensure the overall economic health of the district. Touring the district with Walsh and other city officials gave Gaskin the opportunity to highlight the district’s needs and tout its successes.

Stopping in at Mattapan’s Finest, a barber shop and hair salon, Gaskin described how the barbers and hair dressers give free haircuts and school supplies to local children on the first day of school.

“All the barbers volunteer their time,” he said.

Gaskin says there currently are opportunities to change the business mix. The district has an 18 percent vacancy rate, and many retail spaces are currently being

residents struggle to afford rents in the neighborhoods they grew up in. There are 35,000 Bostonians spending more than half their income in rent, according to a Right to the City press release. From 2006 to 2013, the number of people in this situation rose by six percent, reported New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and Capital One. Not only is keeping up with rent payments difficult, but once displaced, a resident may be challenged to find any place in the city that they can afford. In 2013, the median rent paid by tenants who moved into a unit within the last five years was 70 percent higher than the median rent paid by tenants who had lived in the same unit for five or more years, according to the Furman Center/Capital One report.

“This suggests that renters who have lived in place for a while will likely struggle to find a similarly affordable unit if they have to move,” the report states.

In some cases, residents displaced from Clearway are living an hour away, but still commuting to the same local jobs, John said.

“Now you will have the people who work in the stores here not able to live here,” he said.

become home only to the wealthy, while current residents are forced out, Giordano said.

“If the prices keep doing what they’re doing, they’re only going to have wealthy elites living in downtown.”

Under the current housing boom, prices have been rising on existing units and many newly-constructed buildings cater to the wealthy.

Lower-income people may be pushed out of much of the city and the economic and social resources it offers, said Mark Liu, program operations director for the Chinese

Progressive Association.

“Fenway, like Chinatown, is a high-opportunity district. It’s in the middle of a lot of job opportunities and transportation,” Liu said.

“We want to make sure poor people have the right to live where they need and want and that it’s not just based on cycles of where’s trendy at the time.”

Last week’s marchers included members of several neighborhoods, including Chinatown, who are concerned about diminishing affordability in their communities.

Economic segregation

Affordability activists said Boston risks becoming economically segregated.

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The city is helping the Grove Hall Main Streets district strategize on how to diversify business with market research, including a “leakage report,” an assessment of how much of the community’s spending goes outside of the Grove Hall area.

In addition, the city has made sidewalk improvements, with new curb cuts to improve handicap accessibility. Walsh noted the rough pavement on Blue Hill Avenue, where utility companies have been working on gas and electricity.

“We have more to do here,” Walsh said. “After all the construction is done on the streets, they need to be resurfaced.”

Walsh also said the Department of Neighborhood Development will be seeking developers for vacant lots in the area.

“We’re looking at housing and economic development,” he said.

Giordano said that successfully maintaining the housing at Clearway — protestors ask that students leave once their leases end and no new students enter — would help similar fights in other neighborhoods.

“If we’re successful, then that’s going to help all the neighborhoods in the city to reverse some of this trend. This could mean that we stop institutional expansion in the form of universities,” he said.

“It will make it harder for institutions to bulk-refer students to a landlord, especially if the landlord has existing tenants.”

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continued from page 1 continue to outpace increases in school funding. The department’s structural deficit already has led to yearly school closings and an end to yellow bus service for seventh and eighth graders.

Last year, former interim school superintendent John McDonough told reporters that school districts across the country comparable in size to Boston’s population of 57,000 students have on average 72 school buildings, according to an analysis undertaken by the department.

There has been no public discussion of closing schools, other than the announcements of two or three planned closures that occur each year amid talk of rising costs and inadequate revenue.

The facilities master planning process — expected to be completed next year — will examine what it will take to modernize the buildings in the BPS system and include a demographic study to determine whether and where student populations are likely to increase.

“We may have to look at different grade configuration and feeder patterns,” said Education Chief Rahn Dorsey. “Some of these things may need to change. We don’t know.”

Ultimately, Walsh says, the BPS school buildings may need upwards of $1 billion in renovations. Most Boston school buildings were built before World War II. Many have potentially expensive delayed maintenance issues like leaking roofs.

Boston Compact

Adding fuel to the controversy is the work of the Boston Compact, an organization funded by

the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, that coordinates planning and promotes sharing of resources between district, charter and parochial schools. Blogger Mary Lewis-Pierce posted the July 2015 agenda of a meeting the group convened at City Hall.

One agenda item called on Boston-based charter and Catholic schools to conduct a parallel facilities planning process and create draft templates for “cross-sector leases and co-locations.”

QUEST members worry that district school buildings could be transferred to charter schools.

“The concern is that there’s a plan to move the system in a direction that’s more friendly to charters and move charters into BPS buildings,” Murray said. “It’s the logical next step for charters if they’re going to expand in Boston.”

Enchanted Trolley Tour Mayor Martin J. Walsh marked the 20th year of the city’s Enchanted Trolley Tour, shown here in Brighton, during which the mayor lights holiday trees throughout Boston while bringing presents and holiday spirit to children across the city.

Pushback

City Councilor Tito Jackson said the school department’s facilities plan should not benefit schools that are not owned and managed by the district.

“The underlying issue is that this comprehensive facilities plan is for the Boston Public Schools,” he said. “It’s being paid for by the city of Boston. It should not be used to explore anything other than the needs of Boston Public School students.”

Because charters draw their per-pupil funding from the school districts in which they operate, Boston charter schools are in a zero-sum game with BPS schools.

For each student who enrolls in a charter school, the district loses the equivalent of its average per-pupil allocation for that student. Although the state is required to partially reimburse the

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district for the loss of funds, the legislature has never allocated adequate funds to do so.

Unified enrollment

In addition to coordinating the use of school buildings, the Boston Compact also is exploring a unified enrollment system, whereby parents would fill out one application that would give them the choice of attending either district-run or charter schools. Under that scenario, charters would be required to increase services for special needs students and English language learners, two populations that are currently underrepresented in most charter schools.

Implementing the plan would

mesh charter schools, which allow students from anywhere inside or outside the district where they are located to enroll, with the BPS neighborhood-based assignment policy, which factors in a student’s proximity to nearby schools. Allowing charter schools to give neighborhood preference would require a change to state law.

The proposed unified enrollment plan received significant pushback during the last two of a series of public meetings the Boston Compact held to solicit community feedback.

“Every parent who spoke, whether charter or BPS, said, ‘What on earth is this? We don’t need this,’” said Heshan Berents

Weeramuni, a parent activist with QUEST. “If charters want this, what’s stopping them from creating a one-stop application for themselves?” he questioned.

Whether BPS adopts unified enrollment or decreases the number of school buildings in its inventory, parents will be involved in the decision, Walsh said.

“Whenever the School Committee or the school department makes a decision, it’s got to be in the best interests of the students and the best interests of moving our district forward,” he said. “Parents absolutely will be at the table and absolutely will have a voice in that. There’s no question about it.”

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Financial Literacy Task Force Chair Barbara Anthony, former Undersecretary of Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and a senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and Pioneer Institute, spoke on Dec. 3 at the Massachusetts State House while Treasurer Deborah Goldberg looked on. Anthony’s task force released the “Report on Financial Literacy in Massachusetts.”

A lack of financial literacy State lags in teaching students to manage their money

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A recently released report about the financial literacy of Massachusetts residents highlighted that the state is behind in helping educate children, students and adults in ways to better manage money and understand the effects of economic decisions. With a particular focus on the state’s lower-income and underserved communities, the report also detailed a number of ways to make things better and help all state’s residents become financially savvy.

“Financial literacy to me is one of the essential skill bases that every individual in this state can benefit from. I believe not creating access to these kind of skills actually impedes being able to be successful and thrive,” said Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, who has led efforts to create a state Financial Literacy Task Force and “Report on Financial Literacy in Massachusetts,” which was released on Dec. 3. “It is our role to make sure that people have the financial skills they need to get ahead in this challenging world.”

While Massachusetts isn’t the only state working on this, surprisingly the Commonwealth is one of only 12 states that does not require financial literacy in schools, for example, and the task force report admits that its education efforts have received a failing grade to this point.

Goldberg pointed out that the seven months of task force work

AT A GLANCE Other notable recommendations of the Financial Literacy Task Force and “Report on Financial Literacy in Massachusetts” include: n Provide K-12 educators with more financial education teacher training and professional development so they can more effectively teach financial literacy; also, develop a way to measure personal finance decision-making in students in order to assess financial literacy needs. n Establish a College Financial Readiness Advisory Group, provide more information on how to finance and save for college and improve access to college financial aid information and loan forgiveness program options. leading up to the release of the financial literacy report is the first step in fixing this problem by starting at the bottom to strengthen the state’s economic future with “a blueprint for economic security and financial stability that creates opportunity for everyone throughout the Commonwealth.”

Admittedly this is easier said than done, but to the report’s credit it does contain some serious details and recommendations about the first steps.

Existing programs

One of the first overall report recommendations is to organize, connect and build on the various financial education activities already in place in the state to make them more efficient and more accessible. The gist is that there are plenty of good programs already happening but not enough people are taking advantage of them.

This led to the second main recommendation that the state needs to promote a financial education awareness campaign to connect

n C reate state partnerships with organizations to expand basic financial education in budgeting, banking, use of credit and consumer education with a focus on low-to-moderate income residents. nW ork with the Office of Refugees and Immigrants to help it provide more reliable financial education, resources and services. n P romote financial education for women to improve their economic standing with a focus on wage equality and the tools needed for financial success.

people with the support available and increase the recognition that financial literacy is something that can help improve economic situations.

One of the most interesting recommendations from the report was the need to educate state leaders and politicians, as well as create policy for programming within the Office of Economic Empowerment, that recognizes that there is a family dynamic to financial literacy.

The financial literacy task force, which was made up of more than 30 members from organizations, schools and companies throughout the state, examined financial literacy in three areas and age groups: K-12, college and adult.

The task force quickly determined that too often such target areas neglected that while a young student or head of the household might be the focus for a financial education program they do not exist in a vacuum. Parents’ thoughts on money matters can impact their children, just as a spouse could influence financial decisions. The

aim must be to educate in the context of the role a target audience has in the family dynamic.

“Financial education is a family issue. We are not islands by ourselves. The family unit is also an economic unit and it is very touched by issues of finance and economics,” said Financial Literacy Task Force Chair Barbara Anthony, former Undersecretary of Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and a senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and Pioneer Institute. “This idea of incorporating the family dynamic is paramount to all the recommendations we are making.”

The last overall recommendation was to work closely with legislative affairs to monitor and push for legislation supporting financial literacy.

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Left, John Chapman, Undersecretary of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, speaks at the release of the “Report on Financial Literacy in Massachusetts” on Dec. 3 at the Massachusetts State House. Right, Treasurer Deborah Goldberg.

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programs and support to help people become more financially savvy, but it is another thing to pay for it with already tapped state budgets. For this reason, the task force was ordered to not just suggest ways to make things better but also begin work toward finding ways to pay for doing so. This means a strong tie with state political leaders and legislative efforts to put some of the recommendations the report makes into practice.

To this end, the financial literacy task force is backed by a number of legislators and state officials.

John Chapman, Undersecretary of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, is part of the

task force and he said he will work to make sure the state commits financial resources to the important financial literacy efforts outlined in the task force report.

“I am hopeful that these frameworks and principles and recommendations that have been developed in the report will not only raise awareness in the deficiencies in financial literacy but systematically make readily accessible effective programs and curriculums available across the Commonwealth. It is important because it’s all of our futures,” Chapman said.

Early intervention

State Rep. Hannah Kane, R-Shrewsbury, who was part of the task force’s K-12 subcommittee, pledged her efforts to get financial literacy education started with young students.

“Our best opportunity to influence a bright financial future for the next generation is to start simple and to start early. To begin assembling the building blocks of financial literacy at a young age, so that students can progress in their understanding of financial concepts by providing information and tools just in time. In other words, before the students will be required to make complex and oftentimes life-altering financial decisions,” said Kane.

The task force also includes state Senator Michael Moore, R-Millbury and state Rep. Lori Ehrlich, D-Marblehead.

All told the “Report on Financial Literacy in Massachusetts” makes 18 specific recommendations across the K-12, college and adult categories to improve financial literacy through the state.

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Serving those who have served our nation New resource center opens doors for student veterans

By BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans’ Services, Francisco Ureña, was on-hand to celebrate the Grand Opening of the new Veteran Resource Center at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (BFIT). “I congratulate you on behalf of Governor Baker and the 365,000 veterans that call Massachusetts home. Make sure that veterans and families of veterans know about the great work that happens here and how they too can succeed,” said Ureña to student veterans, faculty and staff. “Thank you for starting the Student Veterans of America chapter here at this great school and finding that next path of success for all of our veterans.”

Since 2008, Student Veterans of America (SVA) has helped those returning from military service obtain the resources, support and advocacy needed to achieve success in higher education. BFIT was recently recognized as a student chapter of the SVA and has quickly built the capacity to support the growing number of student veterans at the college. Thanks to a grant from SVA in partnership with The Home Depot Foundation, the center will serve as a private

designated space for student veterans to congregate, study, host meetings, and access veteran-related resources.

This month, BFIT was officially named a 2016 Military Friendly® School “for exhibiting leading practices in recruiting and supporting post-military students.” The nonprofit college has served students pursuing careers in technology since 1908, and has a long history of providing hands-on education programs for U.S. veterans. Today, student veterans are eligible for funding through the Post-9/11 GI Bill and receive other financial incentives that cover the costs for tuition, books, and living expenses. The college is also recognized as a Yellow Ribbon college, which enables the college to make additional funds available for veterans pursuing a college education without an additional charge to their GI Bill entitlement.

“Members of the armed services understand what it means to participate in something that is bigger than the individual. They set aside their personal goals and needs to bring

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BFIT President Anthony Benoit, Student Veterans of America President Ryan Hadfield and Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans’ Services Francisco Ureña officially open the Veteran Resource Center. “Places like student veteran centers, and organizations like Student Veterans of America are fostering that camaraderie while they were in service, and continuing that while they’re in the field of education,” Ureña said.

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WHY BFIT IS A GREAT FIT FOR VETERANS The non-profit college has served students pursuing careers in technology since 1908, and has a long history of providing hands-on education programs for U.S. veterans.

n V eterans use their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits to pay for tuition, fees, books and tools. n Y ellow Ribbon certified, enabling the college to make additional funds available for veterans’ college education that is not covered in their Post-9/11 GI benefits

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Left, Jhony Martinez, Latino Student Veteran, U.S. Marines Corps, served 4 years in active duty and did two tours to Afghanistan.

As an infantry rifleman and point person, I served as the eyes and ears for my squad. Currently pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree in Automotive Management from Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. While going to school, he works at National Tire and Brake. He has his sights on being a district manager, overseeing sales and marketing at a dealership or automotive parts company.

Center, BFIT was recently designated as a Military Friendly School “for exhibiting leading practices in recruiting and supporting post-military students.” Right, Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans’ Services Francisco Ureña was on-hand to celebrate Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology’s Grand Opening of its Veteran Resource Center.

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continued from page 12 about a higher aim and a greater good,” said BFIT President Anthony Benoit. “We are very honored to have you among us and delighted that you brought this to fruition.”

The hands-on degree programs and affordable tuition make a BFIT education a cost-effective pathway to a high-paying career for U.S. veterans returning from service. With a growing number of service members returning to civilian life, the college is committed to increasing the support systems at the college for veterans, ensuring that veterans have access to the resources

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The military prepared me to be a leader. This program is also teaching me to be a leader.

It definitely feels like home and it gave me an opportunity to save money for my future.”

— Jhony Martinez

they need to succeed, and building a sense of community at the college.

Current BFIT student veterans like Jhony Martinez have thrived at the college. Martinez served 4 years in active duty and did two tours to Afghanistan. As an infantry rifleman and point person, he served as the eyes and ears for his squad. While pursuing his Bachelor’s Degree in Automotive Management, he is

working part-time in the automotive industry. He has his sights on being a district manager, overseeing sales and marketing at a dealership or automotive parts company. “The military prepared me to be a leader.

This program is also teaching me to be a leader,” Martinez said. “It definitely feels like home and it gave me an opportunity to save money for my future.”

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Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer University of Missouri System The University of Missouri System (UM System) seeks a visionary leader to serve as the first Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer (CDO) to counsel the President of the UM System and General Officers on matters of diversity, equity, inclusion, workplace, culture and climate.

The successful candidate for this position will be a collaborative convener and thought leader who can align and integrate a wide range of new and existing system initiatives into a cohesive platform of services. These services will foster a more inclusive diverse community and help the System’s members extend the values of diversity and equality broadly through teaching, research, and service. The CDO will be responsible for providing a vision and an integrated program of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts to enhance the University of Missouri’s mission and goals. The successful candidate will have relevant experience in the academic community, either in faculty or administration, or from work experiences that demonstrate understanding of issues inherent to diversity, equity and inclusion within a large complex institutional setting.

The CDO reports directly to the President of the University of Missouri System. The CDO will serve as an advisor, bridge builder, strategic leader and partner, enabling leaders across the system to identify and execute initiatives to effect lasting institutional changes. This individual will convene all campus diversity officers in collaborative projects to ensure the entire institution can achieve inclusion in many facets. Among several responsibilities, the CDO will oversee a task force appointed by the President to develop short-and long-term strategy plan and metrics for the UM System on diversity, equity and inclusion. The CDO will also launch a diversity, equity and inclusion leadership training and development education program.

The University of Missouri System is being assisted in the search by the executive search firm Isaacson, Miller. Review of application will start immediately and continue until the position is filled. All inquiries, applications, and nominations, which will remain confidential, should be submitted to:

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Partnership for Community Health provides grants to community health centers throughout Massachusetts Group consists of Partners HealthCare, Neighborhood Health Plan, and The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

By PARTNERS HEALTHCARE

Community health centers are busy places and provide an anchor in many communities, as they provide care to their patients in a number of ways. Health centers are also familiar with challenges that their patients face and are always working to develop new and innovative ways to provide better care. That’s why Partners HealthCare and Neighborhood Health Plan in partnership with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (the Mass League), developed the Partnership for Community Health to encourage and support these kinds of innovations.

Most recently, the Partnership for Community Health awarded $6 million in Excellence and Innovation grants for community health centers statewide. Each of the twelve grant recipients have interesting projects that aim to address a particular need in their community. The MGH health centers received a grant of $540,000 that will be used to develop new and more effective ways to assist its patients experiencing chronic

opioid abuse in Charlestown, Chelsea, Revere and Everett. The MGH Charlestown team gathered at the health center along with the other grant recipients and other special guests including: Mayor Martin J. Walsh, James Hunt, Jr. of the Mass League, Peter Slavin, MD of Massachusetts General Hospital, David Segal of Neighborhood Health Plan, Matthew Fishman of Partners HealthCare, and other health care leaders to celebrate these new, innovative initiatives. “The people of Boston deserve the right to access affordable, quality health care,” says Mayor Martin J. Walsh.

“The Partnership for Community Health initiative creates positive to change that helps ensure that access is available to all.”

The MGH Charlestown grant will help support ongoing efforts to identify at risk patients, track those patients over time, and improve care for patients on chronic opioid therapy. MGH Charlestown is hard at work to identify new approaches to address the opioid crisis that affects so many Massachusetts families and communities. “This grant is important to MGH Charlestown, but also to surrounding communities struggling similar issues,” says

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Sarah Wakeman, MD, Medical Director for Substance Use Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital. “It also enables us to deliver the best care possible, as we are always striving to improve our treatment methods.”

Twelve community health centers were selected to receive the Excellence and Innovation grants.

Other recipients of the grants included: Bowdoin Street Health Center, Caring Health Center, Codman Square Health Center, Community Health Center of Cape Cod, the Dimock Center, DotHouse Health, Mattapan Community Health Center, and others throughout the state. Additional examples of new, innovative health center initiatives supported by the grant are: developing care coordination call centers that make reminder calls to patients, developing teams of “quality navigators” to help patients engage in activities to prevent cancer and hypertension, working to create a telehealth initiative to support patients dealing with chronic health conditions, and many more.

Since the Partnership for Community Health launched in 2012, the Partnership has committed over $16 million in funding to

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Dr. Peter Slavin, left, joins Mayor Martin Walsh along with healthcare leaders at the Charlestown Health Center to present a grant to help combat opioid abuse. community health centers. With these grants, community health centers reduce barriers to access, promote health equity, and provide care for patients in their communities. “Massachusetts Health Centers are a source of creativity and innovation and help shape the health care environment,” says James W. Hunt, Jr., President and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers.

“The Partnership for Community Health gives health centers the tools and resources they need to continue to improve advanced primary care.”

The Partnership for Community Health is important not only for the improvement of care, but also for the continuing growth of health centers and their staff.

“Community Health Centers are an essential part of the health care ecosystem,” said MGH President Peter Slavin, MD. “Health centers enable us to better understand and meet the needs of our local communities. This grant initiative will foster new clinical innovations across Massachusetts – patients everywhere will benefit from the programs developed and the lessons we learn.”

To making a diFFerence.

We’re helping a new generation of caregivers get the skills and support they need to succeed.

When Darnell Kuykendall graduated from college in 2006, he couldn’t know that the economy was headed into a tailspin. So Darnell rode out the recession in a series of jobs that paid the bills, but didn’t make full use of his education or the leadership skills he developed as captain of both his track and football teams at Bridgewater-Raynham High.

Fast forward to 2011, when Darnell applied to the Partners in Career and Workforce Development (PCWD) program. PCWD is full-time training program supported by Massachusetts General Hospital that gives participants an introduction to entry-level careers in health care, while preparing them to find, apply for, and secure positions within the Partners system of hospitals.

For Darnell, the program has led to an important role — helping to manage the MGH Operating Room MRI Suite, one of the most advanced imaging facilities in the country. It’s a career with a future. One that matters — to Darnell and to the patients he serves every day. And it’s one more example of how we’re investing in tomorrow’s workforce today.

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FILM REVIEW

‘Youth’ defies definition Caine and Keitel co-star as aging BFFs in surreal meditation on mortality

By KAM WILLIAMS

The Kuumba Singers of Harvard College.

PHOTO: DAWN COLQUITT-ANDERSON

‘Praise His Name’ Kuumba Singers of Harvard College give annual Christmas Concert

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

P

erforming at Harvard University’s Memorial Church last Friday night, the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College got down to their urgent business right away.

The choir began its 45th Annual S. Allen Counter Christmas Concert, entitled “Praise His Name” with a brief and searing speech. Jalem Towler ‘15 stepped up to the microphone and, invoking victims of gun violence and terrorist acts from Sandy Hook to Charleston, Paris and San Bernardino, exhorted the slain and their loved ones to “Rest in peace and power.”

“This is a public service announcement,” Towler proclaimed, “do not be afraid.” Quoting Bible passages that assert the kinship of all humanity as creatures of God, he concluded, “So we will praise Him. Praise His Name!”

Then the 72-member choir let loose with a commanding delivery of “Anthem of Praise,” a contemporary gospel composition

by Richard Smallwood.

In their two-hour concert, the Kuumba Singers demonstrated that when it comes to suffering — and resilience — black culture and praise traditions are second to none in their power to elevate, heal and set things right.

Inviting all to take part, Kuumba Singers Director Sheldon K. X. Reid told the capacity audience of almost 1,000 at the first of two concerts last weekend, “Please don’t hold back.”

Dedicated to Dr. S. Allen Counter, Jr., director of the Harvard Foundation and an abiding supporter of the Kuumba Singers, the concert is free to all, an annual event that Reid described as “our gift to the community.”

The choir did not hold back, performing a program that engaged all of the senses,

from spoken word and song to dance.

Demonstrating the black church tradition of oratory as well as music, in between songs, members of the chorus recited original poems and sermons that made the messages of suffering and redemption immediate and personal, here and now.

Lyrical joy

Lauren Fields ‘14 read her poem “I am Tired,” a psalm-like lament that concluded, “I will not be tired for long.” Marcus Granderson ‘18 acknowledged the endurance of suffering as well as resilience in his poem, “Hallelujah Anyhow.” In “Rain,” Ryan Boyland ‘17 voiced devastating grief over the death of a beloved teacher and concluded, “Sometimes even angels cry.”

Complementing these intimate testimonials was the communal give-and-take of the entire ensemble, whose members, primarily black Harvard undergraduates, also represented more than one generation and race.

Starting with Towler’s prelude, these orations were the spine of the program and song was its mainstay. The choir sang 15 traditional and contemporary spirituals that included two hymns in the African

languages of Yoruba and Igbo. Selections varied in tempo and tone, moving from tenderness to thunder and from yearning laments to surging propulsive passages — often within the same song.

Orchestrating the choir’s deep bass lines, tight harmonies and driving percussive power, arrangements varied from creating a tidal force of voices raised in unison to the complex layering of diverse, intertwined vocalizations —both the pride of the gospel tradition.

Accompanying the choir was a 16-piece band with brass, woodwinds, guitars, keyboards, drums and bass.

Not just a celebration in sound, the concert also provided inspiring spectacle, from the entrance procession of the singers down the central aisle of the grand church singing, swaying and clapping, to their attire — black gowns with sienna-toned stoles of kente cloth.

Gestures matter in stage performance, and among the subtle but telling ways that the Kuumba Choir presents itself is its decorum of modesty and mutual support. For example, after delivering an impassioned solo, a singer would without fanfare return to the ensemble and once there, receive a warm embrace.

Reid introduced a guest soloist, local educator and musician Genithia Hogges.

A small woman with a giant voice, Hogges sang the old hymn “Give Me Jesus” to an arrangement by Hall Johnson (1888-1970).

Backed by spare piano accompaniment, Hogges began with a tender solo that filled the hushed church and then, joined by the full chorus, her voice soared to the hymn’s rousing finale.

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Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) has chosen to withdraw from the limelight after a storybook career as a celebrated composer and conductor. He’s presently being pampered with mud baths and massages at a scenic spa nestled in the Swiss Alps where he’s vacationing with his daughter Lena (Rachel Weisz) and his best friend, filmmaker Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel).

Despite being well into his 70s, Mick is working on the script for his next movie with the help of a quintet of young collaborators. For these purposes, it is good to know that Mick’s son Julian (Ed Stoppard) is married to Lena, who has just been dumped for a British pop singer (Paloma Faith) herself.

While in the midst of dividing his days between reminiscing with his BFF and soothing his emotionally-distant daughter’s fragile psyche, Fred gets a surprising request to come out of retirement by an emissary (Alex Macqueen) of the Royal Family. Queen Elizabeth II is offering knighthood in exchange for playing his most popular piece, “Simple Songs,” at Prince Philip’s impending birthday concert.

However, Fred summons up the strength to decline the command performance coming with an honorary title attached. That’s because he already has shed any attachment to his public persona in favor of meditating on his mortality and giving Lena the quality time she was denied as a child. After all, she still hasn’t forgiven him for focusing so selfishly on classical music during her formative years.

Thus unfolds “Youth,” a surreal mix of heartfelt introspection and escapist fantasy reminiscent of Federico Fellini. The movie was written and directed by Fellini’s fellow paisan, Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty”), who is not shy about juxtaposing a variety of jarring images certain to leave a lasting impression, even if you’re not quite sure what to make of the visually captivating menagerie.

Caine and Keitel enjoy their best outings in ages, albeit in service of an inscrutable adventure that deliberately does its darndest to defy definition.

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Dashon Burton, Jeanine De Bique break down barriers to classical music

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

“What we have to do in every form of art is really break down the barriers in classical or operatic.

In the end, it’s just music and we want everyone to be just as excited about it. I really do believe that by my going to a school and showing children or even college students what it means to be a musician — how this art form is still thriving — I believe by leading through example is the best way to get people excited about classical music,” says classical singer Dashon Burton by phone to the Banner.

The Bronx native began singing at the age of 13 in his school’s choir at the suggestion of a friend.

His friend told him that the choir needed more bass. “I had no clue what he was talking about but he said that ‘it would be a lot of fun and I would get to spend some time with some friends.’ I decided to give it a go.”

By the time he was a senior in high school, Burton knew he would be singing professionally.

Soon after, he began studying at Case Western Reserve University and later ended up graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2005. Since then, Burton has worked with numerous artists and ensembles from across the U.S. as well as across

the globe, including Cameroon, Canada, Italy, and Germany.

He is a founding member of the 2013 Grammy Award-winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth. A soloist who works year round, Burton also teaches. “I go around the country and will stop into high schools or colleges. I really want to foster the next generation of people to really appreciate this music.”

In 2014, the bass-baritone singer performed for the first time with Boston Baroque in Handel’s “Messiah.” He returns for a second year on Friday and Saturday as a guest soloist with the nationally-renowned orchestra. Under the direction of Martin Pearlman, the Boston Baroque presents its 34th annual performance of Handel’s “Messiah” at The New England Conservatory of Music’s Jordan Hall.

Universal appeal

Burton is excited to be back performing the musical composition once again. “The story is such a universal one. It has nothing to do with your religion or what you believe,” says the singer. “It’s a wonderful testament to humanity.

People really respond so well and it’s such a thrilling piece.”

Composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, the “Messiah” originally was written to commemorate Easter. It premiered in April 1742 in Dublin, Ireland

IF YOU GO Boston Baroque presents Handel’s Messiah on Friday, December 11 and Saturday,

December 12 at 7:30 PM at NEC’s Jordan Hall, located at 30 Gainsborough Street in Boston.

NEC’s Jordan Hall is wheelchair accessible.

Tickets: $30 - $90; www.bostonbaroque.org or by calling: 617-987-8600. Discounted tickets are available beginning at 6:00 PM on the day of the concert at the box office: student tickets are $10.00, for those under 30 years old, tickets are $30.00 and senior tickets are $20.00. and is now part of the holiday season where the composition is performed universally around the world by choirs and orchestras alike.

Another guest soloist scheduled to perform with Boston Baroque this weekend is soprano Jeanine De Bique, who is making her debut with the famed orchestra. Speaking by phone from Barbados over the Thanksgiving holiday, De Bique also feels that Handel’s “Messiah” is special.

“It’s the one piece that a community knows even if they don’t know opera or classical music well, everybody knows the chorus.

And, so I think it’s one piece that brings the community together.

It’s such a sacred time of the year regardless if you’re one denomination or not, the music itself is so global,” says the singer.

The Trinidad and Tobago-born

PHOTO COURTESY OF BOSTON BAROQUE

Bass-baritone and Grammy winner Dashon Burton performs for a second year in Boston Baroque’s Handel’s “Messiah.” soprano, who has been singing since she was a child, earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees and professional studies certificate at the Manhattan School of Music. Surrounded by music and dance growing up, she was always involved in the choir and was always encouraged to enter

local competitions. It was a natural progression for De Bique to pursue her education studies in music, and eventually becoming a classically-trained singer.

De Bique has performed as Adele in the operetta “Die

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Fledermaus,” in the title role in Handel’s “Semele,” as Lauretta in Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi,” and in Leonard Bernstein’s one-act opera “Trouble in Tahiti.” During her 2013-2014 season, she debuted as Juliette in “Romeo et Juliette” with the St. Petersburg Opera Company in Florida, and as Clara in “Porgy and Bess” with the Royal Danish Opera House in Copenhagen.

Deep strokes from a large drum accented the rendering of a Nigerian Christmas carol, “Betelehemu,” by Babatunde Olatunji (19272003) and Wendell Whalum (1931-1987), longtime director of the Morehouse College Glee Club. Wearing kente cloth tunics and black leggings, eight singers took to the aisle, dancing with ferocious energy as the chorus sang, ululated and clapped in an exuberant, multisensory ode to joy.

“Mary Did You Know?” as arranged by Reid, became a lovely a capella performance that combined a bit of scat with stretchedout, elongated words, the better to ponder the wonder in the hymn’s sweet and simple conversation with Mary. Another complex a capella delight was the choir’s rendition of “Silent Night,” in an arrangement by contemporary vocal group Pentatonix.

Drawing from a repertoire of sacred music that spans centuries, the program included such familiar hymns as “O Come All Ye Faithful” and Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.

The concert was a thrilling demonstration of the power within the time-tested form of gospel music to encompass and sanctify the full spectrum of human experience—including grief, anger and joy.

Following the intermission, the chorus returned clapping and swaying to the irresistible groove of “Stranger” by Donald Lawrence, whose North Carolina-based Tri-City Singers made the song a big hit, with its portrait of Jesus as a man in a small town who heals the sick and multiplies loaves and fishes to feed all. As they took their places on the platform, they kept dancing, zigzagging back and forth and clapping to the beat in wild elation.

In a program that mingled the old and the new, the Kuumba Singers concluded their concert with an a capella song of benediction.

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Youth focus

Like Burton, De Bique is a big proponent of exposing children to classical music. Over the Thanksgiving holiday she brought down the World Doctors Orchestra to perform and collaborate with the youth orchestra in Barbados.

Through the organization the children met performers from Germany, Italy, England and the United States.

The singer, who didn’t experience her first opera until the age of 21, says “what I love about the youth orchestra they’re performing not straight up classical music but they’re performing “Harry Potter,” “Lord of the Rings,” 007, the soundtracks with orchestra. It’s such a fantastic way of getting the kids to be involved in what’s happening now, but the music of those particular movies are orchestrated classically first before anything else.”

De Bique realizes that there is a stigma associated with classical music. It’s often perceived as “high end, untouchable, unreachable, and foreign.” However to De Bique, classical music is simply music. “I don’t make a differentiation on that. It was something that I learned,” she says.

And so for her, the opportunity for the children to be exposed to classical music outweighs any challenges she may face. De Bique’s hopes for the children in working with the World Doctors Orchestra are for them “to ask questions, to have one-on-one time, for them to understand music, of how to play, and to fall in love with that.”

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continued from page 1 such as the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan and neighborhood council, as well as identify other community voices, gather information on development projects in the area, organize committees and further spread the word.

Ceasar McDowell, a professor of the practice of community development at MIT, co-convened the meeting with Jackson. Students from McDowell’s class as well as RCC will assist with the process.

Pressing deadlines

Jackson emphasized the need for urgency. “There are individuals planning for the neighborhoods and parcels we’re talking about right now,” he said.

Imagine Boston 2030, the citywide planning initiative, is scheduled to draft strategic and physical visions this spring and Roxbury’s vacant parcels are likely to draw further attention. Roxbury has 352 undeveloped parcels of land and two-thirds of Boston’s undeveloped land lies in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, Jackson said. But the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee’s project review powers only extend to nine of these parcels.

One voice

A critical step to having power is being able to present a unified front, Jackson said.

To achieve this, community members must agree on goals and standards for projects, such as the desired level of affordability for housing and what community benefits should entail. With a set of

They suggested reviewing and updating the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan and reinstating a modified Roxbury Neighborhood Council.

Neighborhood Councils have the power to review projects and weigh in on them before the Boston Redevelopment Authority gives approval.

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3 4 BANNER PHOTO “Time and time again we say, SUDOKU Moderate SUDOKU Bruce Bickerstaff shared ideas at the “Roxbury Planning for Roxbury Residents” meeting at Roxbury Community College last week. ‘You’re going 1 7 6 5 9 8 2 4 3 1 2 7to3 do 8 6 this, 9 4 5this, this 8 in 7the6RFP’ 95 and 29 never 5 8 3 9 2 4 7 5 6 1 4 16 7it 2 38 1 4happens,” 3 2 5 2 5 4 1 3 6 7 8 9 8 9 3 4 5 1 2 6 7 said Rodney Singleton, Roxbury their neighborhood priorities and desires established, residents, who might rent for six happening4 in 1 9 3 42 3 74 9 56 7 61 5 88 2 9 1 8 5 3 6 7 2 6 4 5 2 8 7 6 9 1 3 4 6 5 9 8 1 4 3 7 2 known how to insert 4 resident. residents will better be able to eval- months then move on, should get and have not 5 2 37 1 68 2 83 5 94 9 76 1 7 6 3 4 1 2 8 9 5 8 1 to get uate incoming developers’ plans the same percentage of represen- themselves 6 4in 2 the 9 7 5process 3 1 8 4 7 1 5 2 3 6 8 9 8 1 5forward 3 3 1 5 6 8 4 9 2 7 3 8 25 6 74 9 47 2 61 7 9 tation as those who have lived and voices heard before projects are too 9 Moving and present their own criteria.

9 8 7 3 2 1 4 5 6 9 6 2 1 7 8 5 3 4 5 2As 7a next 6 3step, 4 attendees 1 9 8 pro- 3 8 far along to stop, attendees said.

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

Docket No. SU15C0495CA

WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: November 24, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

In the matter of Judith Chatelain of Mattapan, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

SUFFOLK ss.

A petition has been presented by Judith Chatelain requesting that Judith Chatelain be allowed to change her name as follows: Mina Dormevil IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 12/24/2015.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: November 18, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU15P2889GD

A petition has been presented to said Court for license to sell - private sale - private - certain real estate of deceased. - and that the petitioner may become the purchaser of said real estate.

If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 24th day of December, 2015, the return day of this citation.

Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 24th day of November, 2015.

Felix D. Arroyo, Register.

In the matter of Henderson Copeland Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Brigham & Women’s Hospital of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Henderson Copeland is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Kelly Coffield of West Roxbury, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 12/24/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

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BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

DATE

TIME

WRA-4134

Supply and Delivery of Soda Ash to the Clinton Wastewater Treatment Plant

12/22/15

2:00 p.m.

WRA-4137

Purchase of One New 15ft.

Backhoe Loader and One 17ft. Backhoe: Loader (per Specifications)

12/22/15

2:00 p.m.

WRA-4136

Purchase of Insulation Blankets on 8” and 12” Varec Flame Arrestors (or Equal)

12/23/15

10:00 a.m.

WRA-4121

Waterproof Floor Coating Deer Island Treatment Plant

12/23/15

2:00 p.m.

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INVITATION FOR BIDS MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY The Medford Housing Authority, (MHA) the awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from General Contractors for the Willis Avenue Warehouse Column Repair and Installation of Support Beam and 4,000 lb. Hoist, in accordance with the documents prepared by MHA with stamped engineering and assembly drawings provided by CBI Consulting, Inc. The project consists of bracing, removal and reinstallation of a steel column.

The work also includes the furnishing and installation of a support beam mounted on two existing columns and a rolling 4,000 lb. remotely operated hoist and electrical tie-in for the hoist.

The work is estimated to cost:

$19,500.00

Bids are subject to M.G.L.c.149 §44A-J and to minimum wage rates as

REAL ESTATE Affordable Homeownership Concord, MA Millstone Concord Condominium 1888 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742

A senior/disabled/ handicapped community

One 3-Bedroom Condominium Home - $182,000 Information Session: Wed. 1/21/16, 7 pm Concord Town House –22 Monument Sq. Concord, MA Applications accepted through 2/25/16, 1 pm Lottery: 3/9/16 at 7 pm

Property Manager

Application and Lottery Information: Housing@Sudbury.Ma.US 278 Old Sudbury Road, Sudbury, MA 01776, 978-639-3373

Program Restrictions Apply.

Income Limit 80% Boston AMI and Asset Limits Use and Resale Restrictions Apply

Call Sandy Miller,

#888-691-4301

General Bids will be received until 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, January 5, 2016, at 121 Riverside Avenue, Medford, MA, and publically opened.

General Bids must be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five percent (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates), and made payable to the Medford Housing Authority.

Bid forms and contract documents are available for pick-up at 121 Riverside Avenue, Medford, MA, or can be downloaded from the MHA website: www. medfordhousing.org at the Contractor tab. Addenda will only be shown on this website. Mailed bids should be provided in two (2) envelopes with the inner envelope containing the bid and clearly marked: Bid for Willis Warehouse Column Repair and Hoist Installation. Contact Bernie Kirstein for questions at bkirstein@medfordhousing.org or ph: 781-396-7200 x140.

Pre-Bid Conference/Site Visit: Willis Avenue Site, 84 Exchange Ave., Medford, MA – 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 29, 2015 The work to be performed under this contract is subject to the requirements of Section 3 of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. 1701u). For Section 3 contract questions only, please contact Barbara Fleming at 781-396-7200 x108.

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following:

Senior Living At It’s Best

0 BR units = $1,027/mo 1 BR units = $1,101/mo All utilities included.

required by M.G.L. c.149 §§26 to 27H inclusive.

INVITATION TO BID

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT CASE NO. SU12P0733EA

To all persons interested in the estate of Louis C. Young late of Boston, in said County, deceased testate.

To all persons interested in a petition described:

SUFFOLK Division

LEGAL

REAL ESTATE

Eagle Brook Village in Wrentham Affordable Housing Lottery www.s-e-b.com Six 4BR Single Family Homes for $235,300 Nine 3BR Single Family Homes for $202,500 Ten 2BR Age-Restricted Single Family Homes for $194,600 This is a lottery for the 25 affordable Single Family Homes being built at Eagle Brook Village. These 25 homes will be sold at affordable prices to households with incomes at or below 80% of the area median income.

The first affordable homes will be ready in late 2015.

All affordable homes have master bedrooms with walk-in closet, Harvey double-hung Low-E Insulated Glass windows, laundry closet/room (washers and dryers not included), garage parking for one car, an unfinished basement, tile in bathrooms, laundry room/closet, kitchen and mudroom, and carpeting in the bedrooms and living room. The 3BR and 4BR homes have two zones and the 2BR age-restricted units have one zone of forced hot-air heating and central air conditioning.

Maximum Household Income Limits: $48,800 (1 person), $55,800 (2 people), $62,750 (3 people), $69,700 (4 people) $75,300 (5 people), $80,900 (6 people), $86,450 (7 people), $92,050 (8 people) The Maximum Household Asset Limit for the 3BR and 4BR homes is $75,000. The Maximum Household Asset Limits for the 2BR AGE-RESTRICTED HOMES is $275,000 (which includes equity in a dwelling to be sold).

At least one household member must be age 55 or older to qualify for a 2BR (Age-Restricted) home.

For more information on the Development, the Units or the Lottery and Application Process or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, please visit: www.s-e-b.com/lottery or call 617.782.6900x2.

A Public Info Session will be on Jan 13th, 2016 at 6 pm in the Sweatt Meeting Room in Fiske Public Library (110 Randall Road, Wrentham). The lottery will be on February 23rd, 2016 at the same location.

Applications and Required Income Documentation must be delivered, not postmarked, by 2 pm on February 2nd, 2016 Applications and Info Packets also available in the Fiske Public Library (110 Randall Road, Wrentham) Hours: Tu-Th 10-8, F 10-5, Sa 10-4

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REAL ESTATE

SALE

REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE OF REAL ESTATE UNDER GLM 183A:6

REAL ESTATE

By virtue of a Judgment and Order of the Suffolk Superior Court (Docket No. 06-2487) in favor of Melvin B. Miller and John E. Miller, Trustees of the Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust against John Patterson establishing a lien pursuant to GLM 183A:6 on the real estate known as Unit 111-1, Unit 111-2, Unit 111-3 of the Townsend Terrace Condominium for the purpose of satisfying such lien, the real estate will be sold at Public Auction at 11 o’clock AM on the 28th day of January, A.D. 2016 at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department-Civil Process Division located at 132 Portland Street, Boston, MA 02114. The premises are to be sold are more particularly described as follows:

111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium, a Condominium, hereinafter called the “Condominium” established by Master Deed dated June 5, 1990, and recorded on August 9, 1990, in the Suffolk County Registry of District of the Land Court as document number 467822 hereinafter called the “Master Deed.”

The post office address of the Condominium is 111 Townsend Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 02108. The land is described in said Master Deed. This Deed, and the Subject Condominium Unit, and the Condominium, are subject to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A, (“Condominiums”)

Description: the Condominium Unit known as Condominium Unit Number 111-1, hereinafter called the “Subject Unit”, in the Condominium, known as the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium, a Condominium, hereinafter called the “Condominium “ established by Master Deed dated June 5, 1990, and recorded on August 9, 1990, in the Suffolk County Registry of District of the Land Court as document number 467822 hereinafter called the “Master Deed.”

The post office address of the Condominium is 111 Townsend Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 02108. The land is described in said Master Deed. This Deed, and the Subject Condominium Unit, and the Condominium, are subject to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A, (“Condominiums”) The Subject Unit is shown on the Master Plans of the Condominium filed simultaneously with the Master Deed in Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, and the verified statement of a registered architect in the form required by Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 183A, Section 8 and 9, is affixed to said Master Plans.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed together with: 1. an undivided 10% percent interest in the common areas and facilities of the Condominium described in the Master Deed appertaining to the Subject Unit; and 2. an easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Subject Unit, on the adjoining units or on the common areas and facilities existing as a result of construction of the Building, or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas and facilities or any part thereof done pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 3. an easement to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the other units and serving the Subject Unit.

The Subject Unit is shown on the Master Plans of the Condominium filed simultaneously with the Master Deed in Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, and the verified statement of a registered architect in the form required by Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 183A, Section 8 and 9, is affixed to said Master Plans.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed together with: 1. an undivided 13% percent interest in the common areas and facilities of the Condominium described in the Master Deed appertaining to the Subject Unit; and 2. an easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Subject Unit on the adjoining units or on the common areas and facilities existing as a result of construction of the Building, or which may come into existence hereinafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas and facilities or any part thereof done pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 3. an easement to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the other units and serving the Subject Unit.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed subject to: 1. Easement in favor of the adjoining units and in favor of the common areas and facilities for the continuance of all encroachments of the adjoining units or common areas and facilities on the Subject Unit, existing as a result of construction of the Building; or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed subject to: 1. Easements in favor of the adjoining units and in favor of the common areas and facilities for the continuance of all encroachments of the adjoining units or common areas and facilities on the Subject Unit, existing as a result of construction of the Building; or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 2. an easement in favor of the Owners of other units to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the Subject Unit and serving the other units; and 3. the provisions of the Master Deed and Master Plans of the Condominium recorded simultaneously with and as part of the Master Deed; and the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113, Townsend Terrace Trust and, the By-Laws and Rules and Regulations thereto (which Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust, By-Laws and Rules and Regulations, dated June 5, 1990, are filed in the Suffolk County Registry District of the Land Court as Document 467823, as the same may be amended from time to time by instruments recorded with said Deeds, which provisions, together with any amendments thereto, shall constitute covenants running with the land and shall bind any person having at any time interest or estate in the Subject Unit, his family, tenants, servants, visitors and occupants, as though such provisions were recited and stipulated at length herein; and 4. easements, rights, obligations, provisions, agreements, restrictions, building line limitation, zoning regulations, public utility and telephone easements, easements in favor of the Declarant of the Master Deed, and all other matters set forth or referred to in the Master Deed; and 5. the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A (“Condominiums”).

2. an easement in favor of the Owners of other units to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the Subject Unit and serving the other units; and 3. the provisions of the Master Deed and Master Plans of the Condominium recorded simultaneously with and as part of the Master Deed, and the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Trust and the By-Laws and Rules and Regulations thereto (which Declaration of Trust of the 111-1 13 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust, By-Laws and Rules and Regulations, dated June 5, 1990, are filed in the Suffolk County Registry District of the Land Court as Document 467823, as the same may be amended from time to time by instruments recorded with said Deeds, which provisions, together with any amendments thereto, shall constitute covenants running with the land and shall bind any person having at any time interest or estate in the Subject Unit, his family, tenants, servants, visitors and occupants, as though such provisions were recited and stipulated at length herein; and 4. easements, rights, obligations; provisions, agreements, restrictions, building line limitation, zoning regulations, public utility and telephone easements, easements in favor of the Declarant of the Master Deed, and all other matters set forth or referred to in the Master Deed; and 5. the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A (“Condominiums”).

For title reference, see Certificate of Title #C272-2.

The Subject Unit shall not be used or maintained in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Master Deed, or of this Unit Deed, or the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust and the By-Laws and rules and regulations thereto, as the same may from time to time be amended. the Condominium Unit known as Condominium Unit Number 111-3, hereinafter called the “Subject Unit”, in the Condominium, known as the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium, a Condominium, hereinafter called the “Condominium” established by Master Deed dated June 5, 1990, and recorded on August 9, 1990, in the Suffolk County Registry of District of the Land Court as document number 467822 hereinafter called, the “Master Deed.”

For title reference, see Certificate of Title #C272-1.

The Subject Unit shall not be used or maintained in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Master Deed, or of this Unit Deed, or the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust and the By-Laws and rules and regulations thereto, as the same may from time to time be amended. the Condominium Unit known as Condominium Unit Number 111-2, hereinafter called the “Subject Unit”, in the Condominium, known as the

The post office address of the Condominium is 111 Townsend Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 02108. The land is described in said Master Deed. This Deed, and the Subject Condominium Unit, and the Condominium, are subject to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A, (“Condominiums”) The Subject Unit is shown on the Master Plans of the Condominium filed simultaneously with the Master Deed in Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, and the verified statement of a registered architect in the form

required by Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 183A, Section 8 and 9, is affixed to said Master Plans.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed together with: 1. an undivided 27% percent interest in the common areas and facilities of the Condominium described in the Master Deed appertaining to the Subject Unit; and 2. an easement for the continuance of all encroachments by the Subject Unit on the adjoining units or on the common areas and facilities existing as a result of construction of the Building, or which may come into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas and facilities or any part thereof done pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 3. an easement to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the other units and serving the Subject Unit.

The Subject Unit is hereby conveyed subject to: 1. Easements in favor of the adjoining units and in favor of the common areas and facilities for the continuance of all encroachments of the adjoining units or common areas and facilities on the Subject Unit, existing as a result of construction of the Building; or which may come , into existence hereafter as a result of: (1) setting of the building, or (2) condemnation or eminent domain proceedings, or (3) alteration or repair of the common areas pursuant to the provisions of the Master Deed as the same may be from time to time amended, or the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust as the same may be from time to time amended, or (4) repair or restoration of the Building or any Unit therein after damage by fire or other casualty; and 2. an easement in favor of the Owners of other units to use all pipes, wires, flues, ducts, conduits, plumbing lines and other portions of the common areas and facilities located in the Subject Unit and serving the other units; and 3. the provisions of the Master Deed and Master Plans of the Condominium recorded simultaneously with and as part of the Master Deed, and the provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Trust and the By-Laws and Rules and Regulations thereto (which Declaration of Trust of the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust, By-Laws and Rules and Regulations, dated June 5, 1990, are filed in the Suffolk County Registry District of the Land Court as Document 467823, as the same may be amended from time to time by Instruments recorded with said Deeds, which provisions, together with any amendments thereto, shall constitute covenants running with the land and shall bind any person having at any time Interest or estate in the Subject Unit, his family, tenants, servants, visitors and occupants, as though such provisions ware recited and stipulated at length herein; and 4. easements, rights, obligations, provisions, agreements, restrictions, building line limitation, zoning regulations, public utility and telephone easements, easements in favor of the Declarant of the Master Deed, and all other matters set forth or referred to in the Master Deed; and 5. the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 183A (“Condominium “).

For title reference, see Certificate of Title #C272-3.

The Subject Unit shall not be used or maintained in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Master Deed, or of this Unit Deed, or the 111-113 Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust and the By-Laws and rules and regulations thereto, as the same may from time to time be amended.

TERMS OF SALE: Bidders must have positive identification and a $600.00 deposit in the form of a bank check (treasurer’s, cashier’s, or certified) to qualify to bid. No personal or business checks will be accepted. The check should be made payable to the Suffolk County Sheriffs Department - Civil Process OR Bidder’s Name (this meaning that both the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and the bidder’s name should appear on the check, connected by the word OR). Bidder shall have seventy-two (72) hours or the next business day from the time of sale to complete the transaction.

Units will be sold as a single package, not individually. Other terms to be announced at the sale.

Melvin B. Miller and John E. Miller, Trustees of the Townsend Terrace Condominium Trust: Lienholder(s) 2015 Michelle Renchkovsky Deputy Sheriff NOTICE REGARDING ON-SITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS You are hereby notified that Massachusetts Regulations (Title 5 Regulations) require an inspection of onsite sewage disposal systems when there is a transfer of title to real estate. Any purchaser or transferee of real estate served by an on-site sewage disposal system is obligated to inspect, and if necessary, to upgrade a system in accordance with the provisions of Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR). You are hereby referred to 310 CMR 15.300-15.305 for time periods to do so and other requirements.

The office of the Deputy Sheriff has no information about whether the real estate in question is served by an on-site sewage disposal system.

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WINTER VALLEY

RESIDENCES FOR THE ELDERLY, INC. Winter Valley Residences for the Elderly, Inc., a 160-unit complex financed by HUD for those 62 and older or physically disabled, is now accepting applications.

Winter Valley Residences has studios, one and two bedroom and barrier free units. They are owned and managed by Milton Residences for the Elderly, Inc., 600 Canton Avenue, Milton, MA 02186

Contact: Sharon Williams, Manager

617-698-3005

HELP WANTED

Custodian Maloney Properties, Inc. is seeking candidates for a part-time Custodian opening in Jamaica Plain. Work hours are Monday to Friday at 20 hours per week. Responsibilities include daily cleaning of the buildings and grounds, trash removal, and snow removal. The Custodian will also assist with maintenance duties as needed. Cleaning and basic maintenance experience is required. Must be able to participate in emergency on-call service rotation and snow removal. Excellent communication skills and a strong customer service philosophy, required. Bilingual in English/Spanish is required. Apply online via: www.maloneyproperties.com. EOE

HELP WANTED

Newton Public Schools

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As one of the country’s premier school systems, Newton offers you the chance to work with top level educators in a school system that doesn’t just promote diversity, but actually lives it. We have opportunities for all different skill levels and talents to join us.

MATTER

Elementary Principal High School Principal Preschool Director SPED Aides

Behavior Therapists Long Term Substitutes Teachers Aides Lunch Monitors

To find out more and apply: www.newton.k12.ma.us

Connect with us on Facebook and LinkedIn An Equal Opportunity Employer Committed To Diversity

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HELP WANTED Are you seeking flexible part time hours?

Do you love working with children?

Do you want a career that changes lives?

Join Massachusetts’ leading ABA provider! We are seeking passionate and energetic candidates to work one-on-one with children to help improve social communication and play skills.

• Associate Degree equivalent (60 college credits) • 1 year of experience working with children, preferred • Must have personal vehicle to travel to clients We offer competitive rates, an excellent benefit package and 401K with company contribution.

Apply online at www.beaconservices.org Beacon ABA Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Senior Regional Land Use Planner

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Job placement assistance provided.

FREE TRAINING FOR THOSE THAT QUALIFY HS diploma or GED required.

Free YMCA membership for you and your family while enrolled in YMCA Training, Inc.

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) is a regional planning agency serving the people who live and work in Metropolitan Boston and we are seeking a Senior Regional Land Use Planner. This individual will work on a variety of projects, including, but not limited to, undertaking local visioning and land use planning, assisting in housing and economic development planning, and open space planning and/or writing bylaws or ordinances. Duties include: Assist municipalities to develop and implement plans and strategies; Research and prepare reports, studies, testimony, and presentations; Advise various levels of government on policies and best practices; Organize workshops and educational events for the public; Make public presentations and facilitate public discussions.

Qualifications include: BA in urban/regional planning, public policy/ management, urban design/architecture or closely related field and at least 10 years of relevant job experience, or a MA plus 6 years of relevant professional experience. Expertise in one or more of the following is required: Federal, state and local land use policy issues, laws, and regulations; current best planning practices related to master planning; Land use, economic development, open space and housing planning. MA and AICP Certification are preferred. Experience in undertaking or preparing of master plans, housing/economic development analyses or land use plans at the local and regional level; and urban design skills are a plus.

The starting salary ranges from $60,000 to $70,000 per year commensurate with experience. MAPC employees receive an excellent state employee benefits package. To apply and for more details go to: www.mapc.org AND APPLY AT LINK SHOWN THERE. Please attach a cover letter and resume. A review of applications will begin immediately.

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the USA. MAPC is an EOE/AA employer. MAPC takes pride in the diversity of its workforce and encourages all qualified persons to apply. Posted 12-2-15.

Barbara Wooten, Manager of HR.

Call 617-542-1800 and refer to Health Insurance Training when you call

RELOCATION REPRESENTATIVE Cruz Management Company Company seeks to hire a

highly-motivated, optimistic individual with 1-3 years property management or real estate experience to join our Housing Relocation Division immediately.

The successful candidate has excellent interpersonal, communication and organization skills, is customer service oriented, works well as part of a team conducting meetings, interviews and completing paperwork with residents. Maintains a professional respectful demeanor, adhering to strict confidentiality policies in execution of all job activities with clients, staff contract vendors, resident groups, co-workers, etc.

Experience desired in conducting recertification, processing application, rent collections, and apartment inspections. Working knowledge of federal state and local housing laws A+. Excellent Microsoft Word and Excel skills. Available to work flexible hours. Must have a valid driver’s license and own transportation.

Bilingual candidates encouraged to apply.

At The Cruz Companies, we offer a competitive salary and great benefits package.

Interested candidates are invited to submit a resume and cover letter to: success@cruzcompanies.com STRICTLY NO TELEPHONE CALLS, MAIL OR FAX INQUIRIES!

Work That Makes a Difference Evergreen Center, a world-class human services organization serving students with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities, is seeking:

Residential Supervisors (Mon – Fri: 1pm - 9pm) Bachelor's Degree in Special Education and two (2) years of experience, required.

Lead Instructors (Mon – Fri: 7am - 3pm) Bachelor's Degree and two (2) years of experience, required.

Instructors (Full Time: 1st, 2nd or 3rd Shifts)

Bachelor's Degree, required and one (1) year or experience, preferred.

Assistant Instructors (Full Time: 1st, 2nd or 3rd Shifts) Bachelor's Degree, required and one (1) year or experience, preferred.

We offer competitive rates, an excellent benefit package and 403B with company contribution.

JOIN OUR TEAM:

Apply online at www.evergreenctr.org Evergreen Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Criterion Child Enrichment, a private non-profit corporation that specializes in developmentally appropriate programs and services for young children and their families, is seeking:

Speech Language Pathologists Occupational Therapists Physical Therapists Developmental Specialist Pediatric Registered Nurses Social Workers Psychologists Full Time, Part Time and Fee-for-Service positions are available at our Early Intervention Programs throughout Massachusetts.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree with two (2) years of experience and a current MA license, required.

Salary/Benefits: We offer competitive rates, an excellent benefit package and 403B with company contribution.

JOIN OUR TEAM: Apply online at www.criterionchild.com.

Criterion Child Enrichment is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

www.criterionchild.com

Zoning/Planning Board Clerk (Full Time 35 Hours per week)

The Town of Easton is accepting applications for a qualified individual to fill the position of full time Zoning/Planning Board Clerk for the Department of Planning & Community Development. The Clerk has frequent contact with the general public as well as applicants to the Zoning Board of Appeals and Planning & Zoning Board including builders, lawyers, consultants and engineers. The Clerk provides support to the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Planning & Community Development Department. Candidates must have a high school diploma, and additional course work, in bookkeeping, business, law or a related field; three years responsible experience in secretarial work; and experience in dealing with the public, preferably in a municipal setting. Experience with zoning/ planning & zoning permitting or any equivalent combination of education and experience is strongly preferred.

Essential functions include attendance at evening meetings three to four times per month and transcribing minutes; organization of digital and paper files; use of Microsoft Office software and web applications; review of applications for completeness and accuracy; drafting correspondence, board decisions, legal notices, documents and forms. General knowledge of Town Zoning Bylaws, Massachusetts General Laws Pertaining to Zoning, Open Meeting Law Rules & Regulations and familiarity with town government preferred but not necessary. This is a union position and the rate of pay is $23.155 per hour.

Required applications can be downloaded at www.easton.ma.us under the “Residents” tab and then “Employment Opportunities”. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume and job application to Town Administrator David Colton, 136 Elm Street, Easton, MA 02356 no later than December 23, 2015.

The Town of Easton is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

FREEZE FRAME BLACK BOSTON 2015: TIME FOR INCLUSION BLACK ECONOMIC MANIFESTO November 4, 2015 close to 700 Black Bostonians met at Prince Hall Grand Lodge in response to a call from a coalition of Black leaders and reached a broad based consensus to make Boston an inclusive economy. The powerful and provocative presentation, entitled Freeze Frame Black Boston 2015: Time for an Inclusive Economy, makes the data-driven compelling case for drastic, innovative change in the way business is done. This document represents a major first step in this movement. The rationale is clear:

Black average assets $700

White average assets $256,000

n Total assets in Boston: Whites - $256,500 vs. Blacks - $700 n Boston homeownership: Whites - 68% vs. Black - 32% (21% in Roxbury) n Boston is the third worse city for income inequality behind only Atlanta and San Francisco n Boston unemployment: Whites - 6% vs. Black - 13% (20%-25% for Black males 18-44) n Boston Bachelor’s degree: Whites - 63% vs. Blacks - 17% More than $50 billion in public spending was spent in Boston in the last decade. Yet Blacks in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan (“RDM”) are faring worse in every measured statistical indicator than at any time since the mid-seventies. There are fewer Black businesses in Boston today than twenty years ago.

An estimated 36,000 of the 150,437 Black residents are under/unemployed. A disproportionate share of the dollars spent in these three key neighborhoods went to building affordable housing. Key to our plan is building people!

commit and work toward the goal of an inclusive economy. A new and focused agenda on Black economic development and accountability for those responsible for its achievement are a moral and economic imperative and long overdue. To accomplish this plan, Black business and community leaders have formed the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (www.becma.org) to serve as the formal advocacy and organizing arm and the Inclusive Economy PAC to support candidates who support this Black economic agenda.

Real Black economic development will require both immediate and long term community action, broad based leadership, accountability and new and creative strategies. The community spoke loudly on November 4th. Boston’s Black community is in economic crisis. Freeze Frame Black Boston 2015: Time for An Inclusive Economy presents important next steps and the time to marshal the will and resources to change this paradigm is now! We know what Boston can do when this city galvanizes around an issue deemed important. Boston Strong is about to become BosWe are calling on the governor, mayor, private and public sector leaders, and spiritual leaders to ton Stronger!

A collaborative, comprehensive effort focused on the five (5) Massachusetts growth areas - education, health, technology, food service and financial services - offer a practical course to reduce Black unemployment by 5,000 residents annually over the next seven years. This effort should include both hiring residents in these sectors and expanding opportunities from anchor institutions in those sectors for Black businesses, which hire a disproportionate number of Black workers.

For more information on next steps and to join, volunteer and take action, visit our website (www.becma.org) today!

The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts urges all to ‘Buy Black’ this holiday season.