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Parents, students and teachers urge Boston council to add 1% to FY27 school budget to avert staff cuts
Summary
At a March 24 Ways and Means public listening session, parents, students, teachers and the Boston Teachers Union urged the council to add roughly $48 million (1% of the city operating budget) to Boston Public Schools' FY27 budget to avoid proposed cuts to paraprofessionals, multilingual positions and librarians.
At a March 24 public listening session of the Boston City Council Committee on Ways and Means, dozens of parents, students and educators urged councilors to allocate an additional 1% of the city’s operating budget to Boston Public Schools to prevent staff reductions and program cuts.
"I respectfully ask that BPS reconsider these decisions, restore the librarian position, fund necessary playground safety improvements, and most importantly, provide a transparent, responsive budget process," said Michelle Mualim, a parent at the BTU Pilot School in Jamaica Plain.
The requests centered on staffing that school leaders and unions say is at risk. Eric Berg, president of the Boston Teachers Union, told the…
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