Share Your Thoughts with Us

As the Superintendent conducts the Community Engagement Tour and meets with BPS families and community members, several recurring themes about the community’s hopes for BPS have surfaced:

Academics & Student Support

• Strengthen programming such as Advanced Work Class and Excellence for All
• Increase student safety measures
• Strengthen mental and social-emotional health support
• Strengthen coursework and accelerate student academic growth

Equity, Opportunity and Access for Students

• Increase academic rigor in all schools
• Ensure more thoughtful and equitable placement of programs and academic offerings

Family, Student and Community Engagement

• Develop more accessible supports for undocumented families
• Increase transparency

Operational Effectiveness

• Improve transportation system
• Enhance facilities including playgrounds
• Create assignment pathways for early learning and early education centers           

Staff and Program Diversity & Inclusion

• Increase linguistic and racial staff diversity in schools and the central office
• Implement more special education inclusion programming

If you are unable to attend one of our community meetings, you are welcome to share your comments with BPS by emailing our Community Engagement Tour comment email inbox at CommunityTour@bostonpublicschools.org.