<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div>PUBLIC FORUM AND ORGANIZING SESSION<br>STOP THE ATTACKS ON BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS!<br><br> SATURDAY, FEB. 19 AT 1PM<br> 33 Harrison Ave., 5th floor<br> MBTA: Orange & Silver lines to Chinatown<br><br>The time is now to organize and fight back against the assault on public education. <br><br>Last year hundreds of students, parents and faculty turned out at meetings of the Boston School Committee to protest the decision to close seventeen schools throughout the city, mostly in Black and Latino communities.<br><br>The School Committee has alleged a $63 million budget shortfall for next year and has proposed additional cutbacks and closures, including launching a "student assignment" program that would cut bus transportation and further
segregate an already racially divided school district. <br><br>||<br>|| TAKE ACTION: Sign the petition against the school closures and the<br>|| re-segregation of Boston schools.<br>||<br><span>|| <a target="_blank" href="http://www.answercoalition.org/boston/events/education-forum-feb-12-1.html">http://www.answercoalition.org/boston/events/education-forum-feb-12-1.html</a></span><br>||<br><br>The Committee will vote on the 2012 budget on March 23.<br><br>Join us for a public forum featuring guest speakers, discussion and an organizing session.<br><br>* Sandra McIntosh (Co-chair of the Coalition for Equal, Quality Education; Work for Quality, Fight for Equity)<br>* Sasha De La Cruz (Senior at the Social Justice; student organizer with El Movimiento)<br>* Agustin De La Gente (Teacher, member of Voices of Liberation)<br><br>For more information, contact boston@answercoalition.org or 857-334-5084.<br><br>Forward this email:<br><span><a
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