Coalition for Equal Quality Education

Mission Statement for the Coalition for Equal Quality Education:

"The Coalition for Equal Quality Education is dedicated to building a parent, student, teacher, community, and labor led coalition to strengthen public K-12 education throughout Massachusetts. The Coalition will accomplish this by demanding full funding and resources for public schools; organizing for the elimination of the opportunities to learn (achievement) gap; stopping the privatization of public education via charter schools; and defend the union rights of public school workers – teachers, paraprofessionals, clerical workers, bus drivers, custodians, monitors, and administrative staff. All youth have a right to an equal quality public education."

Sign the ONLINE PETITION: Tell the Mass Legislature, Gov. Patrick, Mayor Menino, Superintendent Johnson, Boston School Committee and Boston City Council: No to Charter Schools! Equal Quality Public Education for All Massachusetts School Children!

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On June 3, 2009 several hundred students, parents, teachers, staff, school bus drivers, & members of the community surrounded the Boston School Committee at their meeting, forcing Menino and the School Committee to postpone their 5-zone plan to further re-segregate the Boston Schools.

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May 14, 2009 - Community Summit
Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right!

On May 14, 2009 approximately 200 hundred parents, students, teachers, community activists, and trade unionists held a Community Summit at Roxbury Community College to discuss and organize a fightback against the attempts by Menino and the Boston School Committee to re-segregate public schools in Boston. Called by the Coalition for Equal Quality Education this Summit announced plans for a demonstration at the Boston School Committee (26 Court St.) on June 3 at 5:30 pm to demand Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right! Stop the Re-Segregation of the Boston Public School System! Excellence & Equity for all students in all schools! Funding for Programs and Staff (no layoffs)!

The Coalition for Equal Quality Education includes: Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts (BEAM); Work-4-Quality Schools; Boston Parents Organizing Network (BPON); USW L. 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers; Councilors Chuck Turner, Charles Yancey, and Sam Yoon; Minister Don Muhammad; Bail Out the People Movement; Women’s Fightback Network; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Bishop Felipe Teixeira, OFSJC; Community Change; Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST); Union of Minority Neighborhoods

For more information: EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com 617-427-8100 http://www.equalqualityeducation.org

Bay State Banner Coverage

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Students - Parents - Teachers - Staff - Community

Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right!

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Community Summit Thurs., May 14, 6–8 pm Roxbury Community College Student Center 1234 Columbus Ave., Boston Excellence & Equity for all students in all schools! Funding for Programs and Staff (no layoffs)! Come to: Receive Information Have your voice heard Hear others’ voices Help plan future actions Find out how you can participate Together We Can Win!

Coalition for Equal Quality Education – EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com 617-756-3657

Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts (BEAM); Work-4-Quality Schools; Boston Parents Organizing Network (BPON); USW L. 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers; Councilors Chuck Turner, Charles Yancey, and Sam Yoon; Minister Don Muhammad; Bail Out the People Movement; Women’s Fightback Network; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Bishop Felipe Teixeira, OFSJC; Community Change; Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST); Union of Minority Neighborhoods

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VIDEO of 5/11 Coalition for Equal Quality Education Press Conference!

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Community Summit Thurs., May 14, 6–8 pm Roxbury Community College Student Center 1234 Columbus Ave., Boston Excellence & Equity for all students in all schools! Funding for Programs and Staff (no layoffs)! Come to: Receive Information Have your voice heard Hear others’ voices Help plan future actions Find out how you can participate Together We Can Win!

Video of Powerful Students of CASH (Community Academy of Science and Health) April 20 Protest at School Committee Headquarters