Jon Shore writes about the Boston Municipal Research Bureau:
“The goal of Boston Municipal Research Bureau Samuel Tyler is to dummy down the Boston Public Schools. The “bold reform” that Samuel Tyler is always talking about is closing and consolidating schools, warehousing children and hiring unqualified, uncertified TFA “corps members” and TNTP “fellows.” These people would never be hired in the tony Massachusetts suburbs of Weston, Wellesley, or Holliston, where Samuel Tyler lives, so why would he entertain hiring them here to educate vulnerable children in Boston Public Schools?
“Boston Municipal Research Bureau Sam Tyler represents the large businesses and institutions that depend on a low wage, no benefit, service sector workforce to maintain their status quo! In Boston, the accommodation and food service industry provides the largest number of jobs and pays the lowest wages.
“Someone needs to make all those beds and Latte’s down in the waterfront and the ugly truth is members of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau are targeting urban youth in Boston for those jobs. That’s their back-up plan as ICE continues to arrest and remove undocumented workers from the state. You have to consider this with ICE being able to snatch undocumented people, currently filling many of those service sector jobs, at roadblocks as they did a few weeks ago in New Hampshire! Three of those detained were Boston Public School students.”
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Trump’s police state has work to do. The checkpoint system is really another version of building the wall.
I am reminded of the East and West Berlin checkpoints and wall.
I hope there are enough sane people in Congress and in the judiciary system to make a sane immigration policy. Trump seems to like the Soviet-style system of enforcement.
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Remember, Dump is IN LOVE with Putin, his money-man.
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So glad you posted Jon’s dissection of the BMRB and its on-going attack on public education in the city of Boston. Jon tirelessly refutes lies about our schools with his responses in the media. If there’s an editorial or a column in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald or other outlet, we can count on Jon’s voice of reason weighing in with some truth telling.
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Sara Stevenson, librarian in Austin, fact checks the Wall Street Journal whenever they attack public schools.
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Gosh, is Diane Ravitch insulting one of your colleagues? Or is this your agency, Matthew? I donât know what this is about, but I think this might be your agencyâs new name. Jan Resseger http://janresseger.wordpress.com/ “That all citizens will be given an equal start through a sound education is one of the most basic, promised rights of our democracy. Our chronic refusal as a nation to guarantee that right for all children…. is rooted in a kind of moral blindness, or at least a failure of moral imagination…. It is a failure which threatens our future as a nation of citizens called to a common purpose… tied to one another by a common bond.” âSenator Paul Wellstone, March 31, 2000
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