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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Students -
Parents - Teachers - Staff – Community</span></font></b> <font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br></span></font><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Let
your voice be heard</span></font></b><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="5"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;"><br><br>Wednesday
– March 24 – 5:00 pm</span></font></b> <b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="5"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;"><br>Boston School Committee<br>26 Court St.,
Boston</span></font></b> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><br>Tell
the Boston
School
Committee:</span></font></b></p>
<ul type="disc"><li style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Full Funding for
Boston Public Schools!</span></font></b>
</li><li style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">NO Budget
Cuts!</span></font></b>
</li><li style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">NO
Layoffs!</span></font></b>
</li><li style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">NO School
Closings!</span></font></b>
</li><li style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Stop Union
Busting!</span></font></b>
</li><li style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Stop the
Resegregation of Boston Schools!</span></font></b>
</li><li style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">$$$ for Education
NOT for War & Wall St.!</span></font></b>
</li><li style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Equal Quality
Public Education is a Right!</span></font></b> </li></ul>
<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></font></p><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">On March 24th the Boston School
Committee is scheduled to vote on additional budget cuts, layoffs, cuts in
transportation, and school closings for the Boston Public Schools. Every year
we are told that there is no money available for public education and every year
the youth of Boston continue to be shortchanged by a school
system that is severely under-funded & under-resourced! The proposed budget
will cut the budget, force layoffs, cut transportation, reduce custodial staff,
defer maintenance, and cause school closings. </span></font></p>
<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></font></p><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Money for public education is
available. The government has spent trillions to bail out the banks, Wall St. and the
auto industry. Trillions more go to the Pentagon and the wars in
Iraq, Afghanistan, & Pakistan. The state gives away
millions in tax breaks to the wealthy & corporations. Recent legislation
will accelerate the privatization of public education by increasing the number
of publicly funded privately owned charter schools. Equal quality public
education is a right and must be fully funded!</span></font></p>
<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></font></p><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Regardless of the outcome of the
March 24th vote, we will continue the struggle for equal quality education when
the City Council meets to approve the BPS budget.</span></font></p>
<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><br></span></font></b></p><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Join with
students, parents, members of the Boston Teachers
Union, Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Custodians Union, Coalition for Equal <br></span></font></b></p><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Quality Education, and other
community organizations and individuals. </span></font></b><b><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;"></span></font></b></p>
<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><br></span></font></b></p><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Join
the fight to save Public Education</span></font></b><font color="maroon" size="4"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt;"></span></font></p>
<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><br></span></font></b></p><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: maroon; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Come
to the next Coalition for Equal Quality Education meeting</span></font></b><font color="maroon" size="4"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14pt;"></span></font></p>
<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><br></span></font></b></p><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">Tuesday, March 30
- 6:30 pm</span></font></b><br><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">English</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> High
School</span></font><br><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">144</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> McBride Street, Jamaica</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Plain</span></font></p>
<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></font></p><p style="" class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Coalition for Equal Quality
Education<br>EqualQualityEducation.org<br><a title="blocked::mailto:EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com" href="mailto:EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com">EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com</a></span></font></p></div></div></div></div>