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Police’s latest hiring sparks state inquiry BPD bypasses 300 names, hires 15 recruits with lowest ranking By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
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Councilors Tito Jackson, Mark Ciommo and Annissa Essaibi-George questioned finance officials from the Walsh administration during Monday’s public hearing.
City councilors weigh Walsh’s new budget
Concerns remain over BPS funding, despite boost By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
As of press time, Boston city councilors are facing the prospect of starting the fiscal year without a new budget and weighing that reality against committing to the budget proposed by Mayor Martin Walsh. At a public hearing on Monday, city councilors peppered finance officials from the Walsh administration with questions over how the mayor’s resubmitted budget proposal will impact schools, the homeless and
community health centers. Councilors had cited these areas when they voted down Walsh’s initial proposal two weeks ago. Their concerns seemed largely left unsated by the $2.98 billion budget resubmission. “I cannot support a budget that doesn’t fund our students and I believe this [budget] is not responsible,” City Councilor Tito Jackson chair of the Committee on Education, said. The new budget adds $4.7
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When the Boston Police Department selected its most recent class of recruits it seemed to have skipped over hundreds of higher-ranked applicants to choose 15 from the bottom of its list. The move triggered an investigation from the state Civil Service Commission and fed ongoing concerns from several civil rights organizations over BPD practices. “The whole idea behind having the test and having a list produced in ranking order of the qualified candidates is to make the process transparent and democratic,” Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, executive direct of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice told the Banner. “[BPD] digging deep into the list to hand-select officers that it wants [is] in opposition to what the process is supposed to be. … This raises the specter of an old boys network operating and handpicking individuals instead of going through a merit-based system.”
Bottom of the list
As a matter of practice, BPD receives a list of would-be officers ranked by metrics such as test scores and veteran preferred status from which to make selections. Three hundred applicants were passed over, with 15 individuals — 28 percent of the recruit class — hired instead from among those tied for the lowest score. Letters informing the bypassed applicants on the reason
for their exclusion and recourse to appeal were significantly delayed, according to a June 9 letter from Civil Service Commission Chairman Christopher Bowman that formally opened the investigation. Fourteen of the 15 low-scoring recruits are white, a source told the Banner. The result is a 53-person recruit class that is 74 percent white.
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While Bowman’s inquiry order did not mention race, Larry Ellison, president of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers, says the incident is another example in a long trend of disparate hiring, promotion and discipline on the ever-whitening police force. “This is not the first time” something inequitable seems to have happened, Ellison said in a Banner phone interview. “I’ve been president [of MAMLEO] for the last seven and a half years and we’ve had people coming to us speaking of the same thing — saying they’re bypassed and white officers are being hired. … Now it’s getting the attention that it deserves.” The Lawyers’ Committee filed a letter on behalf of MAMLEO and Boston Society of Vulcans, requesting their inclusion in the investigation.” We have become increasingly concerned about the resurgence of unfair hiring and promotional practices that
See BPD, page 12
Gov. seeks felony rap for cop assaults Advocates: Assault charges often abused By YAWU MILLER
In the wake of the shooting death of Auburn police officer Ronald Tarantino, Gov. Charlie Baker is advancing legislation that would elevate the charge of assault and battery on a police officer to a felony, punishable by up to ten years in prison. “If someone hurts a police officer, we want to make sure they can be held accountable and that they can’t just walk out (of a courtroom),” Daniel Bennett, Baker’s
top public safety official, told the Boston Herald. But civil rights activists say the move could tip an already skewed balance of power further in favor of police officers in cases where excessive force is used. “There’s already a law that criminalizes felonious assaults,” said Rahsaan Hall, Director of the Racial Justice Program for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. “There’s no need to create new laws.” Baker’s move comes as police departments and municipal
governments across the country are grappling with charges of police misconduct, brutality and officer-involved shootings that have led to the Black Lives Matter movement and placed greater scrutiny on law enforcement. Hall, a former Suffolk County prosecutor, said it’s common knowledge among prosecutors and defense attorneys that police officers often charge people with assault and battery on an officer when they themselves have used excessive force. “There are countless people who face these charges,” he said.
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Boston Police Department’s hiring practices have long been a concern of civil rights groups.
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Caribbean extravaganza at the Bolling Building Roxbury fête is highlight of Boston’s Caribbean Heritage Month observance By YAWU MILLER
Four members of Jah Jah Drummers sit at the front of the 6th floor function hall at the Bruce Bolling Municipal building with an assemblage of African percussion instruments, dressed in various shades of red, in a nod to the national colors of their Trinidadian heritage. Lead singer Kwesi Matthew’s introduction of the band summed up the Caribbean American Heritage Committee’s Community Arts Event held last Friday. “We are African, Caribbean,” he said. “We are all mixed up. Tonight, we will play soca.” As the band launched into the Trinidadian music form, many among the crowd of 100 jumped to their feet to dance. The event, which featured musical performances, folklore and poetry, was the first of what organizers hope will be a yearly celebration of Caribbean heritage. “It’s a celebration of all things Caribbean,” says Nickey Nesbeth, one of the organizers of the event. “We’re celebrating the broad richness of the Caribbean.” While blacks have immigrated to Boston from the Caribbean since the 1800s, the city’s West Indian population was still small in 1973, when the first Caribbean
Carnival was held. “It was about 200 people,” recalls Jamaica-born Shirley Shillingford, who came to Boston in 1969. “There weren’t that many people here.” Nearly 50 years later, the event is one of the largest cultural celebrations in Boston, embraced by the black community in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan. “It’s become everybody’s thing,” Shillingford said. “What would summer be without Carnival?” Like Carnival, last week’s event gave West Indian Americans a chance to showcase the mélange of cultures from the English-speaking Caribbean. Take the Jah Jah Drummers, for instance. They’re a mostly-Trinidadian group that formed in Boston with a Jamaican-Rastafarian name that practices African drumming. “It’s African drumming,” says band leader Glen Noel. “It’s Afro-Caribbean,” explains band member Clarence Nurse. “It’s not traditional African drumming. It has a Caribbean flavor.”
African roots
Nurse explains that the Africans brought to the Caribbean during the trans-Atlantic slave trade drummed in an African style, preserving what they remembered from the mother continent, but improvising where necessary.
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The Jah Jah Drummers get audience members on the feet with a performance of Soca tunes. “ They created their own rhythms,” he said. “They weren’t able to recreate the exact rhythms.” Those hybrid rhythms have been handed down through the centuries on each island and between islands, informing the creation of Jamaican reggae, Trinidadian calypso and other island
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State calls out 5 Boston schools for disparate & excessive suspensions By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
State officials are putting a spotlight on several schools, including four Boston charter schools and one school run by Boston Public Schools, all cited for excessive or inappropriate use of long-term suspensions or expulsions. The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education identified Roxbury Prepatory Charter School, City on a Hill Charter School in Dudley Square, UP Academy Charter School of Dorchester, UP Academy Charter School of Boston and BPS’s Mary Lyon Pilot High School, along with dozens of other schools and districts across the state, as having mishandled discipline in the 20142015 school year. This includes handing down such punishment disproportionately to students of color or students with disabilities. Teams from DESE and all identified schools will come together to examine what drives those disciplinary patterns, identify alternative actions that can be taken before resorting to suspension or expulsion and discern methods for improving school climate, according to a DESE release. Data for 2015-2016 discipline rates are expected to be available by the fall.
Boston’s five
On average in the 2014-2015 school years, schools across the state disciplined 1.7 percent of students with out-of-school suspensions for offenses falling into the category of “non-drug, non-violent or non-criminal related,” according to DESE data. At UP Academy Dorchester and UP Academy Boston such discipline was given to 11.9 percent of students and 16.5 percent, respectively. At Mary Lyon Pilot High School 13.1 percent of students with such offenses were suspended out of school. Even more striking: City on a Hill handed such suspensions to 33 percent of students and Roxbury Prep to 38.6 percent. For Roxbury Prep, this represents a decrease: In the 2013-2014 school year, the school suspended out of school 42.7 percent of all students for minor offenses. Statewide, suspensions are disparate. While one percent of white students received out-ofschool suspensions in the 20142015 school year for non-violent, non-criminal, non-drug related offenses, that rose to 3.3 percent of Latino students, 3.6 percent of students with disabilities and 4.3 percent of black students. Most dramatically, Roxbury Prep delivered such sentences to 41.7 percent of black students and 55.8 percent students with disabilities, according to DESE data.
Knee jerk suspensions
For months, accounts have surfaced from Boston students and parents about schools where suspension seems to be the instinctive first response to any minor misbehavior. Khalid, then a sixth grader at UP Academy School of Boston, was suspended for tossing a can out a bus window, after a bully threatened to hurt him if he did not. “An older kid turned around and said, ‘If you don’t throw that
goddamned can off the bus, I’m going to beat the living crap of out of you’,” his mother, Rita Ben-Cherqui, told the Banner. So Khalid complied. Although a friend on the bus independently backed up Khalid’s account, teachers could not locate the bully, Ben-Cherqui said. They slapped Khalid with a three-day suspension instead. “They could conveniently never find him [the older kid]. So my son had to take the suspension,” she said. Elizabeth McIntyre, an Equal Justice Works Fellow with Greater Boston Legal Services, who represents students in school discipline disputes, has handled cases from all five cited schools. In her work she has seen children suspended for incidents such as pretending to fence with pencils or for saying they did not want to do something a teacher asked. Her clients range from ages four to nineteen. Most of them have been suspended four to eight times. The vast majority of suspensions she sees are for non-violent, non-drug related, non-criminal offenses: “Everything we would think of as talking back, essentially,” she told the Banner.
At what cost?
Even when the offense does warrant discipline, it is unlikely that being sent home will reshape behavior, McIntyre said. “Cursing at a teacher is not behavior we want to see in a classroom, but sending a student home is not going to change that behavior. If you send a student home they’re going to sit on the couch and play Minecraft all day and come back and act in the exact same way.” Another thing it can do is drive them to drop out. “I’ve had a fifth grader say he didn’t want to go to school anymore because they were just going to send him home,” McIntyre said. Tito Jackson, chair of the city council’s Committee on Education, said that having to pick a child up from school can place an untenable burden on parents. Frequent suspensions can force the parent to withdraw their child. “Many of our students come from single parent households, and multiple suspensions can mean a single parent could possibly put their job in jeopardy and often times will move their child from an institution that has these draconian zero-tolerance policies,” he told the Banner. Not only do children miss valuable class time — without necessarily learning the behavioral lesson the punishment was meant to teach — but their relationship to school and sense of whether they truly have a place in it are affected. “Kids start to label themselves as ‘problems,’ as kids where school is not going to be a thing that they’re good at,” McIntyre said. “Even with really young kids, if they don’t understand — a kindergartener or first grader does not understand the concept of suspension — it’s hard for them to be removed from their friends and their community.” In its release, DESE noted that students who receive suspensions are more likely to drop out.
Change in the wind?
DESE’s announcement indicates new focus on the issue, and some schools say they are making changes already. According to a statement provided to the Banner, BPS is prioritizing the reduction of suspension rates. Jean-Dominique Anoh, the headmaster of Mary Lyon Pilot High School, has started the process. Initial work includes doubling the number of school therapists and placing them at entrances in the morning to identify and de-escalate tension between students, creating a team of teachers who work to develop individualized intervention strategies and sending staff for training at Suffolk University’s Center for Restorative Justice. The efforts may be yielding fruit: During school year 20142015, Lyon’s out-of-school suspension rate was 17.5 percent, and suspension rate for black students was 41 percent. This includes all suspensions, not just those given for non-drug, non-violent or non-criminal related offenses. As of June 9, 2016, those rates had dropped to 10.7 percent overall and 25 percent for black students for school year 2015-2016. When asked for comment, UP Education Network President Tim Nicolette pointed to a statement by Marc Kenen, executive director of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association. Kenen said that charter
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Two UP Academy schools were cited for misuse of discipline and will be required to work with DESE and other schools to make plans for reforms. schools are implementing new restorative justice strategies and emphasizing social emotional learning to promote positive behavior and safety. The effect has been a significant reduction in overall suspension rates, he said.
Fueling the fire
High suspension rates have become a hot-button topic in the debate over charter school expansion. On the same day that DESE cited schools for excessive or inappropriate use of suspensions and expulsions, the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools’ Equity Coalition posted a statement calling for charter schools to ensure all students get a good education by acknowledging that needs differ among students and that discipline may not be the answer. The statement focused particularly on treatment of children with disabilities.
“Effective instruction includes effective behavior management that should significantly reduce the need to introduce disciplinary actions,” the statement read. A week later, a press release from Save Our Public Schools, the campaign against lifting the charter cap, highlighted the fact that four Boston charter schools appeared on DESE’s list and charged that charter schools apply severe discipline practices to push out many students before they graduate, then do not fill vacancies. “Hundreds of students … are pushed out of charter schools with harsh disciplinary policies before they reach their senior year,” the press release stated. It also referenced a study that found that the percentage of freshmen enrolled in BPS high schools who continue on to graduate is twice that of freshmen enrolled at charter high schools.
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U.S. missing the mark It is sage advice not to rest on your laurels when you have a winning mode. An unfortunate arrogance can develop from being out front. Americans have every right to be pleased with the development of this country. The United States has become the world’s wealthiest industrial nation. However, issues raised in the campaigns for president as well as other current events indicate that the nation has numerous unresolved but critical problems. The recent mass murder of patrons in a nightclub in Orlando, Fla. by an assailant armed with a semiautomatic rifle once again illustrates the consequences of Congress’ reluctance to restrict the ability of residents to obtain weapons of war. As the toll of gunshot deaths in the U.S. continues to grow, the carnage should be a source of national shame, and no cause for Americans to boast, “We are number one.” According to FBI statistics there were 8,124 gunshot deaths in the U.S. in 2014. This is the highest death rate in the industrialized world. The possibility of being gunned down in Japan is relatively equivalent to being killed by lightning in America, according to a New York Times analysis. In New Zealand, the risk of being shot is equivalent to the hazard of death from falling from a ladder. And yet conservatives insist that the Second Amendment, which was drafted when the flintlock was at the forefront of rifle technology, prevents restrictions on the sale and possession of modern weapons of war. While the battle over the Second Amendment rights has fatal consequences, the dispute over the nation’s wealth diversity determines which families can enjoy middle class status or
better. America has 41.6 percent of the world’s wealth, which is concentrated among proportionately fewer people than is the case in other industrial nations. The declining middle class in America has been a factor in gaining support for Donald Trump’s campaign for president. A major issue in Bernie Sanders’ campaign is to minimize the impact of the influence of the wealthy on the political process. Sanders has also been an advocate of programs to make higher education more affordable. The debt incurred by students acquiring a college education has climbed to $1.4 trillion, and that is a financial burden for students from families with a moderate income. America can be proud of the quality of its colleges and universities, but the status of secondary education is substandard. The Program for International Student Assessment periodically tests 15-year-old students from various countries on math, science and reading. The effectiveness of the educational systems of the various nations is then determined by the results. The U.S. is outperformed by 29 nations in math, 22 in science and 19 in reading. The top ten performing nations in order are Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Finland, Estonia, Switzerland, Netherlands and Canada. While some Americans are busy congratulating each other for being number one, the United States is losing ground in areas that matter. The country cannot solve its problems unless citizens have the perception to understand the nature of the deficiencies and commit to policies likely to resolve them. Then the U.S. will be on the road to become truly number one.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Gentrification inevitable It’s no surprise that people in Roxbury are concerned that new development will bring more gentrification to the neighborhood. Displacement is already happening, with rents double what they were ten years ago. Gentrification in Roxbury is a done deal, judging from the histories
of other gentrified neighborhoods like the South End, South Boston and Jamaica Plain – all of which surround Roxbury. And all those who say building affordable housing will stop gentrification are wrong. Look again at the South End, where housing projects are but islands of affordability in a sea of wealth. I wish
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By LEE A. DANIELS “Investigation of the 1964 Murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman” “Case Closed.” — U. S. Department of Justice So stated federal and Mississippi state officials last week in declaring at an end their long attempt to bring to justice all the men who had committed one of the most notorious crimes in modern American history — the murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Mississippi in June, 1964. Although seven men involved in the murder were convicted in 1967 of federal conspiracy charges, most of the mob of at least nineteen escaped justice. Four decades later, however, the Mississippi Attorney General’s office revived the investigation and, based on new evidence, arrested one of the latter, Edgar Ray Killen, the ringleader of the death squad, and charged him with three counts of manslaughter. In 2005 a Mississippi jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to serve 60 years in the Mississippi state prison. He is, at 91, still alive. The Justice Department decision is only the latest in its long investigation of more than a hundred suspected racist murders in the South in the postwar decades to encounter witnesses holding to past lies or refusals to cooperate, the time-driven obstacles of witnesses having died or no longer able to reliably remember what they saw and heard, and pieces of physical evidence having vanished. (Several scholars and independent investigators have said they’ve identified hundreds more cases that also deserve federal investigation.) But I suggest we adopt another perspective in considering these tragedies — these ghosts of enormous wrongs. For example, we should make a parallel declaration to that of federal and state officials about the murder of the three civil rights workers: “Investigation of the 1964 Murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman” “Case Never Closed — The Judgment of History.” What I remember most about that night — June 21, 1964, when my brother and I heard that three civil rights workers in Mississippi were missing — is our feeling of dread and certainty. Their bodies would not be found for 44 days, buried 15 feet beneath an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi. We had no special knowledge about the murder. We were just two teenagers four years into an obsessive reading of blacks’ American history, and paying obsessive attention to the civil rights movement exploding across the nation, including in Boston, where we lived. But those feelings — dread and the certainty that racial violence, especially in the South, could and would strike at any moment — were part of being a black American in those years as they had always been. Indeed, it was precisely because black Americans and their allies among other Americans were directly challenging the South’s brutal regime of racism that the prospect of violence stalked Southern civil rights forces every moment of every day. Last week’s development underscores the extraordinary and damning fact of America’s history that its white majority for so long tolerated a substantial chain of crimes against black Americans that will never be redeemed by the legal system. But, in fact, something else can be done to redeem the tragedy of the three civil rights workers, and others who perished. Scholars and other writers can continue to build on such works Taylor Branch’s magnificent trilogy about King and the Civil Rights Movement — which does describe what happened the night the men were murdered — to add new details and expand the responsibility for these crimes against humanity in the “court” of History. Further, federal and state officials’ decision should remind us of several other things that occurred after the murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. For one thing, a week after they disappeared, three hundred more volunteers from across the country arrived in Mississippi to reinforce the civil rights groups’ “Freedom Summer” project, and four hundred more came within a month. For another, within two weeks President Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Finally, throughout the South, civil rights activism continued, leading the next year to the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Ensuring that black Mississippians would have the unfettered right to vote was the primary focus of the 1964 Freedom Summer project there. In other words, the civil rights forces’ work to make America a democracy went on. It went on because its activists took to heart the words of one of the Movement’s most powerful anthems: “Keep your eyes on the prize, fight on.”
Lee A. Daniel is a keynote speaker and author whose books include “Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.” He is writing a book on the Obama years and the 2016 election. He can be reached at leedanielsjournalist@gmail.com.
He’s exposing what’s already there. America has a problem with racism.
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It’s really bad. I see him as being very racist.
Paula Akins Retired Roxbury
I think he’s having a big effect. I agree that some immigrants coming in are dangerous, but you can’t say they all are.
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He’s exposing hatred. The first black president made a lot of people. Trump lets a lot of people express how they really feel.
America was racist to begin with. He’s just saying what America thinks about us.
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I think he’s exposing the hatred that some people have. Sometimes it’s good to bring things to light, but he’s making things worse.
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NEWSBRIEFS VISIT US ONLINE FOR MORE LOCAL NEWS: WWW.BAYSTATEBANNER.COM Quincy landscaping company to pay more than $57,000 over claims it failed to pay proper overtime to employees A Quincy landscaping company has agreed to pay more than $57,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to pay proper overtime to employees, Attorney General Maura Healey announced. The AG’s Office has cited five other landscaping companies for wage and hour violations this year totaling more than $11,000. “Wage theft is prevalent in many sectors, especially among vulnerable workers,” Healey said. “Landscaping workers are seasonal employees with fluctuating schedules at multiple jobs sites, which make them more susceptible to wage theft. We will scrutinize employers who don’t play by the rules and continue our efforts to ensure workers get the wages they are owed.” In September 2015, Healey’s Fair Labor Division received complaints from two former employees alleging that Ames Landscaping Services (ALS) and its owner, Ralph E. Ames, III, did not pay employees overtime. An investigation revealed that ALS and Ames failed to pay overtime wages to 15 employees from November 15, 2013 through October 16, 2015. Through a settlement with the AG’s Office, ALS and Ames will pay $57,799 in restitution
and penalties, from which the 15 employees will receive restitution payments. The AG’s Office has cited five other landscaping companies for various wage and hour violations since January: n GTA Company, Inc. in Everett and owner Gregory T. Antonelli paid a $5,000 penalty for failure to submit certified payroll records timely to the awarding authority; n Go Green Landscape in Marblehead and owner George Davekos were cited $2,820 in restitution and penalties for non-payment of wages; n CJW Landscaping in Millis and owner Cameron Wenzel paid $1,907.20 in restitution and penalties for failure to pay proper overtime; n Granda’s Landscaping Services Corp. in Brockton and owner Carlos Granda were cited $850 in restitution and penalties for non-payment of wages and failure to furnish records for inspection; n Setter Landscaping in Granby and owner Marc R. Tremblay paid a $500 penalty for failing to furnish records for inspection. These cases were handled by Healey’s Fair Labor Division, which is responsible for enforcing the laws regulating the payment of wages, including prevailing wage, minimum wage and overtime laws. Workers who believe that their rights have been violated in their
workplace are encouraged to call the Office’s Fair Labor Hotline at (617) 727-3465. More information about the state’s wage and hour laws is also available in multiple languages at the Attorney General’s Workplace Rights website www.massworkrights.com.
Superintendent makes Strategic Plan public, welcomes community feedback Culminating over a year of research, discussion, and review of feedback from the community, Boston Public Schools (BPS) Superintendent Tommy Chang has presented the BPS Strategic Implementation Plan to the Boston School Committee. The plan builds on the district’s strengths and addresses core challenges. The public is encouraged to send feedback to superintendent@ bostonpublicschools.org. “The School Committee held community-based roundtable discussions to capture the voice of the public during the earlier stages of the plan’s development,” said School Committee Chairman Michael O’Neill. “I commend Superintendent Chang and the BPS leadership team for their hard work. It’s critical that we hear from the community again to ensure that we’re moving forward with a shared vision for our young people.” The Strategic Implementation Plan consists of five focus areas: n Implementing an inclusive,
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City of Boston will host event to offer free legal service to communities affected by U.S. Supreme Court ruling on dapa and Expanded DACA Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced a free immigration legal consultation event will be held on July 23, 2016 at Madison Park High School in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold the preliminary injunction that continues to prevent the implementation of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) and the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive actions on immigration, announced in November 2014. “I am disappointed that the preliminary injunction preventing the implementation of the executive actions on immigration known as DAPA and expanded DACA remains in place,” said
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Walsh. “Millions of families in the United States and thousands of Bostonians have been waiting too long for some form of immigration relief. My Office for Immigrant Advancement is working with community organizations to hold a clinic in July to educate affected individuals and to determine eligibility for other forms of immigration relief.” “We are disappointed that the Supreme Court’s ruling continues to prevent DAPA and expanded DACA from being implemented,” said Alejandra St. Guillen, Director of the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement. “Through our DACA/ DAPA Outreach and Education Initiative, we are coordinating with community partners to make sure that our residents are well-informed and to prevent immigration scams. We will continue to support those who are eligible for the original version of DACA announced in 2012 to submit their applications and renewals.” The free immigration legal consultation event will be held at Madison Park High School in Roxbury from 10AM to 4PM on Saturday, July 23rd. Interested individuals should call (617) 635-0008 for an appointment. Because the preliminary injunction remains in effect, applications for DAPA and expanded
DACA are not available. However, applications and renewals for the original version of DACA, announced in 2012, continue to be available. Since DAPA and expanded DACA were announced, the City of Boston under Walsh’s leadership has taken steps to offer information and resources to members of the immigrant community. In April, Walsh launched Immigrant Information Corners to provide information about resources and services available to help advance the well-being of the city’s immigrant residents. The Immigrant Information Corners are located at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square and 24 neighborhood branches. The launch of the Immigrant Information Corners is the result of a letter of agreement signed by Walsh and Leon Rodriguez, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), in June 2015 to promote citizenship in Boston by providing materials on the naturalization process, warning residents about scams, and highlighting the benefits and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. In March 2016, Walsh joined 117 mayors, county executives, and local governments, as well as the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the executive
actions on immigration in United States v. Texas, the lawsuit that led to the preliminary injunction preventing the implementation of expanded DACA and DAPA.
Mayor proposes new office to assist individuals re-entering society Mayor Martin J. Walsh proposed an Office of Returning Citizens within the City of Boston to support the 3,000 individuals who return to Boston after being released from state, federal, and county facilities each year, as well as others who were previously incarcerated. “In order to create stronger, safer communities, we must work together to give all of our residents the opportunity to reach their full potential,” said Walsh. “By giving individuals a second chance to obtain affordable housing, steady jobs, and support with family and community reunification, we can improve our re-entry outcomes, stem some of the violence on our streets and create stronger and healthier neighborhoods. I thank Sheriff Tompkins for his partnership on this important initiative.” The proposal, part of the Mayor’s Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) Budget re-submission to the City Council, will repurpose savings to make a $300,000 investment to help individuals who have taken healthy steps and
prepared themselves to move past the consequences of their past actions and coordinate the great work done by our social service and law enforce partners. This newly formed office will incorporate best practices from local, state and federal partners and include a review of similar offices in Washington DC and Philadelphia. “At the Sheriff ’s Department we consistently talk about the need for a continuum of care as folks cycle out of my facilities, and, from day one of his administration, Mayor Walsh has been a committed partner in working with us to achieve that objective,” said Sheriff Tompkins. “The creation of an office for reentry is exciting news and I applaud the mayor’s commitment to helping improve the lives of those in need.” According to The Boston Reentry Study from Harvard University, individuals reentering society need assistance accessing resources to help them find permanent housing and employment. The new Office of Returning Citizens aims to empower men and women reintegrating into their communities to reach full potential as individuals, family members and citizens of Boston. Walsh created the Office of Public Safety in 2014 with the mandate of establishing crossagency and cabinet coordination to tackle the challenging and complex problems in our neighborhoods that lead to and
perpetuate violence. Part of the work of the office has included looking at services and opportunities available for individuals that are returning home. The new office will help fill gaps that exist within local, state, federal and county efforts. Last year, the mayor announced the expansion of Boston’s successful reentry program, Operation Exit, to include opportunities in the technology industry through a partnership with Resilient Coders. Operation Exit was established by Walsh in 2014 to help at-risk residents, or those with a criminal background, by providing the knowledge and skills required for entry into an apprenticeship program. Through career readiness and occupational skills training, the intensive training program provides hands-on learning experiences with peer-to-peer mentorship to prepare participants for good careers. The City of Boston is also engaged in President Obama’s national initiative, My Brother’s Keeper, which seeks to actively engage the community to promote positive outcomes for all youth, especially Black and Latino boys and young men. In September 2014, Walsh established the MBK Boston Advisory Committee and in May 2015, released “Opportunity * Access * Equity: MBK Boston Recommendations for Action,” a collaborative action plan to increase pathways to opportunities.
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SCOTUS decision on immigration ‘not the end of the road’ No legal precedent set by court’s split decision on immigration reform By PETER SCHURMANN NEW AMERICA MEDIA
Immigrant rights advocates say the Supreme Court ruling on two programs that would have granted temporary deportation relief for millions of undocumented immigrants is a setback. But, they insist, it is not the end of the road. Shiu-Ming Cheer with the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) called the 4-4 split in the United States v. Texas ruling a “non-decision decision.” With only eight justices on the bench, she explained, the ruling sets no legal precedent and therefore leaves the door open to a number of possible scenarios. One of those is a re-hearing, said Ming, who spoke Friday during a national press call for ethnic media on the ramifications of the decision and what undocumented immigrants and their families can do going forward. The briefing was organized by New America Media and Ready California, a collaboration of legal and community-organizations working with the state’s immigrant communities. “The Department of Justice could ask for a re-hearing when a ninth justice is appointed,” said Ming, adding such things are “uncommon but not unprecedented.” She cited instances in 1954, and more recently in 2010 and 2012 when the court agreed to re-hear cases. The court’s open seat remains unfilled following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February.
Still, Ming noted the process would be lengthy, given the likelihood that a new justice would not be appointed until after the November elections, probably sometime in mid-2017. That would mean a ruling would not be forthcoming until the following year. Another possibility is that individual states file “affirmative lawsuits” outside the 5th Circuit, where the original challenge to the programs originated. In that case, Ming said, states could claim financial harm as a result of the ruling and seek to put the programs in place on a state-bystate basis. The two programs, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and an expanded version of the 2012 program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) were announced by President Obama in 2014. Some 5 million undocumented immigrants would have been protected under DAPA and expanded DACA, temporarily lifting the threat of deportation while also granting them social security numbers and work permits.
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A study by the Migration Policy Institute found that 36 percent of DAPA eligible families live below the poverty line, and that work authorization for these families would lift incomes by 10 percent. The Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of a challenge to the programs led by Texas and 25 other
states that claimed the programs were unconstitutional and represented an executive overreach by the president. The SCOTUS ruling means the Fifth Circuit decision remains in place. President Obama called the decision “heartbreaking.” Aidin Castillo is with the Immigration Legal Resource Center (ILRC), part of Ready California. “Ready California is in full gear” to get the information out about options available to immigrant families, she said. Their top message, she continued; “original DACA remains available. It is not affected.” To date some 700,000 people have benefited from the original DACA program, which is open to those who meet the following criteria: they came to the country before they turned 16, were born after June 15, 1981, and have resided in the country continuously since June 15, 2007, and who meet educational requirements or have served in the military. The expanded version would have lifted the age requirement and pushed the date of arrival forward to 2010. Ready California and other groups are working to encourage those eligible to apply for DACA. Castillo said that while Thursday’s decision may have a “chilling effect” on that effort, given the fear many have of disclosing their status — especially in this tense election season, the outcome of which could lead to a tightening of immigration law — fear is “not the number one reason” keeping people from applying. She said many potentially eligible DACA recipients either don’t have the money to apply – the application fee is $465 — or they are unclear about the requirements, specifically around
education. “It’s not just valedictorians” who can apply, explained Castillo, saying many undocumented immigrants wrongly assume DACA is only available to people in four-year programs. She said those enrolled in accredited adult learning or vocational programs can also apply, noting DACA “makes it possible to go to or stay in school.” Additional reasons to apply include the possibility of qualifying for other immigration relief programs that offer more in the way of paths to legal status and citizenship, said Castillo. Up to 14 percent of those who go in to apply for DACA, said Castillo, actually qualify for one of these other programs, which often provide more permanent protections. Castillo said up to 14 percent of DACA recipients are eligible for these other programs. Both she and Ming urged people to seek legal advice from “trusted legal service providers,” but warned of “fraudulent agents who prey on communities” in times of confusion.
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For Ju Hong, part of the National AAPI DACA Collaborative, getting DACA was “life changing,” allowing him to gain a driver license and to find work. He called the court’s decision, “incredibly disappointing.” Born in South Korea, Hong came to the United States with his mother at the age of 11 after his family experienced bankruptcy during the height of an economic recession. The UC Berkeley graduate gained attention in 2013 for heckling President Obama during a speech about the record number of
deportations carried out under his administration. Hong said of the 1.5 million undocumented Asian Pacific Islanders in the country some 500,000 would have benefited from the expanded DACA and DAPA programs. Hong echoed the other speakers in urging communities to “mobilize for the November elections,” either by registering to vote or, if they are unable, then encouraging family members and friends to do so. Gema Perez, 50, of Bakersfield, California is one of the millions of undocumented immigrants who would have benefited from DAPA. The mother of two daughters, one a U.S. citizen and the other a DACA recipient, arrived in the country in 1995. “I was very disappointed and sad,” she said in Spanish, adding she is now more afraid of being deported or seeing her husband, the family’s sole breadwinner, deported. “This is devastating for all of us.” But Perez vowed to “continue fighting,” a determination that Castillo says will help drive local activism. “In the absence of DAPA and expanded DACA,” she said, “local and state officials will have to understand the weight of what this decision means.” Pointing to the raft of laws in California that allow undocumented immigrants access to things like driver’s licenses, health care and financial aid for college, she said the state is “an example of the changes that can happen locally” and that other states can look to California as a model. “People are expressing sadness, frustration and anger” after the ruling, said Castillo. “First there is the grieving period, then resilience.”
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Attorney Howard Friedman, who specializes in civil lawsuits on behalf of victims of police brutality, false arrest and wrongful death, said the charges are part of what lawyers call the “holy trinity” of cover charges — ploys police use to deflect from their own misconduct. “If someone is injured by police, you expect them to be charged with disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest,” he said. “It’s extremely common. In some police departments, if you want to find the most aggressive officers, you look for the ones who file the most assault and battery on a police officer charges.” When suspects are arrested, police commonly charge them with a list of crimes, including disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. Prosecutors working for a district attorney then determine which charges they will seek convictions for, often dropping
select charges in exchange for a guilty plea on a lesser charge. A suspect caught with a small quantity of opiates, for example, can be charged for possession with intent to distribute in a school zone — a charge that carries a mandatory sentence — but might plead guilty to simple possession. The plea deals allow prosecutors to rack up convictions without spending time and resources on trials. Hall said elevating the charge to a felony would tip the balance against defendants in cases where police misconduct is alleged at a time when many in the state are pulling away from such sentencing guidelines. “By making it a felony, it creates an opportunity for someone to be held without bail on a dangerousness hearing,” he said. While Baker’s bill was ostensibly filed in reaction to Tarantino’s death, Hall questioned whether it would have prevented suspect Jorge Zambrano from allegedly shooting the officer. “Had this bill been the law, there’s no guarantee it would have prevented what happened,” he said.
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When patients are treated as individuals, they become engaged, active partners in their care plan and their health outcomes improve. This shift in providing customized care to patients is also being adopted by nurse educators, who are applying a similar approach that sets up nursing students for success in both the education and clinical setting. The customization of care is also a driving force behind growing trends across education: individualized instruction, experiential learning and educating for cultural humility. n Focusing on student success: Individualized instruction is an emerging trend that is designed to help students achieve greater confidence and overcome barriers to their education. Each student has their own preferred methods of learning, their own challenges and their own goals. When nurse educators care about the student’s individual success, everyone benefits. “We believe that if we take extraordinary care of our students, they will in turn take extraordinary care of the patients and families they serve,” says Dr. Richard Cowling, vice president of academic affairs at Chamberlain College of Nursing. “We call this value system, ‘Chamberlain Care.’” Through the Chamberlain Care Student Success Model, a team of Chamberlain faculty, advisors and mentors identify any barriers to the student’s success and deliver individualized academic coaching and a customized support plan to encourage and support students in reaching their goals. n Fostering active learning: To help students reach those goals, nurse educators turn to another emerging trend: active learning. A stark contrast with passive learning, watching a teacher in a classroom or learning from a textbook, nurse educators are cultivating active student participation and curiosity through direct patient care and simulated and virtual learning experiences. “Active learning experiences allow students to practice the skills they need in a safe environment,” Cowling says. “Students feel in control of their own learning because they receive real-time feedback from instructors immediately following the experience, which helps in building confidence while they actively build their clinical knowledge and skillset.” n Promoting diversity: In addition to transforming how students learn, current trends in health care influence what students learn. Today’s health care environment is becoming more complex — with a rise in chronic illness, an aging population, ever-changing technology and increasingly diverse communities. The role of the nurse is also rapidly evolving as the focus has shifted to person-centered and culturally congruent care. Students who received individualized attention and a foundation in providing person-centered, culturally congruent care enter the workforce with a deeper understanding of the needs of today’s diverse patient populations. Cultural humility is a continual process of self-reflection, self-awareness and self-critique by health care providers in order to develop and maintain mutually respectful and useful partnerships with individuals, families and communities. Rather than focusing See BIZ BITS, page 11
Business Development sec. seeks to broaden opportunity By YAWU MILLER
While the Greater Boston area has long been a hotbed of business innovation — from the biotech boom in Kendall Square to the tech start-ups growing on the Boston waterfront — it’s Nam Pham’s job to make sure the job creation is shared throughout the state. As the state’s assistant secretary of Business Development, Pham’s job is to persuade businesses to grow and retain jobs across the commonwealth, including in the struggling gateway cities. His efforts involve brokering deals with some of the largest firms in the United States, including online retail giant Amazon, whose $54 million Fall River fulfillment center is expected to create 500 new full-time and as many as 2,000 seasonal jobs. But more importantly, Pham’s efforts are focused on the engine of the Massachusetts economy: small businesses. “Eighty percent of the Massachusetts economy comprises small businesses with less than 50 employees,” Pham told the Banner. “They’re the number one driver of jobs and opportunities in Massachusetts.” Governor Charlie Baker’s administration rolls out new initiatives to help with small business development. It’s Pham’s job to make sure those initiatives are getting out to the businesses that need them the most. He also must make sure businesses are able to take advantage of the state’s opportunities. “In inner cities, in urban areas, a lot of these businesses are owned and operated by immigrants,” he says. “We have to pay attention to immigrant-owned businesses. They don’t always understand the bureaucracy you have to navigate to own a business. Part of the job of the Business Development Office is to work with those people.”
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Born in the north of Vietnam, Pham came to the United States at the age of 9. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and obtained a master’s degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has worked for Bank of America, Citizens Bank, The Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants and the Massachusetts International Trade office. In his most recent job, as executive director of the VietAid community development corporation, Pham worked closely with the local small businesses — many of them immigrant owned — that helped revitalize Dorchester Avenue over the last 30 years. Now, as a state official, he is helping the state to be more responsive to their needs.
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Eighty percent of the Massachusetts economy comprises small businesses with less than 50 employees.They’re the number one driver of jobs and opportunities in Massachusetts.” — Nam Pham
Pham’s office offers small businesses assistance in the form of loans, technical assistance and incentives to remain and grow in the state. Those incentives most often come in the form of tax breaks and credits businesses receive in exchange for the promise to create new jobs. One recent example: Woonsocket Glass Fabricators, which the Baker administration lured from across the state’s border with Rhode Island, recently opened a new plant in Whitinsville. “They were so happy with the quality of worker they had here, in seven months they doubled their workforce from 25 to 50 employees,” Pham says. Pham attributes the quality of the state’s workforce to its nation-leading education system and high percentage of immigrants. “I think, number one, we are well trained,” he said. “We have more colleges and universities per capita than any other state. And number two is the work ethic. The people here, according to the CEO of Woonsocket Glass, were much better than his old workforce. Also, I think in Massachusetts,
especially in the Boston area, we have a large population of immigrants. One out of four people in Boston is foreign-born. When you are an immigrant, you tend to be more driven to make something of yourself, to try to prove that you are worthwhile to be here.”
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The administration has helped forge other major deals in Boston and its surrounding cities and towns, with the relocation of G.E.’s corporate headquarters to Boston generating the most headlines. But the Woonsocket deal and others highlight Pham’s push to create and expand jobs outside of Route 128. With 70 percent of all business revenues in Massachusetts generated within the highway’s ten-mile radius around Boston, the Baker administration is helping facilitate growth in areas like the South Coast and Western Massachusetts, as well as in the state’s gateway cities. Lowell scored a coup recently when state officials persuaded Kronos, a firm that specializes in human resources technology, to
relocate there from neighboring Chelmsford. The firm had outgrown its headquarters and, according to Pham, was considering leaving the state. “They received offers from other states,” he said. “It would have been a big loss — 13,000 jobs that pay an average of $108,000 per job per year. And we were able to convince them to stay in Massachusetts and move to Lowell. They will also spend $35 million to fix up a building and create a minimum additional 400 jobs in the next five years, and as many as 1,000. They are hiring 400 right now.” For the many small businesses already operating in Boston, Pham points to key initiatives aimed at helping them grow. One is a renewed effort to make bidding on state contracts faster and easier. “The state on average purchases $4 billion a year in goods and services,” Pham said. “We know small businesses have to struggle to fill out all of the paperwork. So we have been able to reduce the paperwork for small businesses to be certified by two-thirds. Now there are more small businesses, more minorityand woman-owned businesses eligible to do business with the state.” Another initiative the Baker administration is advancing: streamlining the more than 2,600 regulations with which Massachusetts businesses must comply. “We hope that within several months, many of those outdated rules and regulations will be
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continued from page 1 disadvantage minority communities,” they wrote in a joint letter to the Commission Chair. Police Commissioner William Evans told the Boston Herald that the applicants were bypassed because they did not respond to enrollment offers. BPD spokesperson Lt. Detective Mike McCarthy did not respond when the Banner asked how many of the 15 are related to BPD command staff or other city officials.
Letters, opportunity delayed
In April, a list of 515 would-be officers was generated, and applicants ranked by a scoring system from one to 50. Typically top-scorers are supposed to get the first offers, and if they do not, be informed of the reason why not and how they can appeal this decision. However, during this selection cycle, that information was late in coming. According to Bowman’s letter, applicants should have been informed in December 2015 that they were being skipped over and that they could appeal. But the letters were not sent until midMarch, more than four months after conditional employment offers were given. And it seems that not all were told they could appeal: Only six people filed appeals with the Commission — a number Bowman called “unusually low” — and two of them had not received written notice from the BPD that they had this right. The letters also came two months after selected candidates enrolled in the police academy.
And now? “The December class already has been trained. They’re going on to the streets to start their patrolling duty,” Espinoza-Madrigal said.
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Vanishing officers of color
The new recruit class is 74 percent white. Only six members are black, and eight Latino. None are Asian. Meanwhile, officers of color are retiring at a much faster pace than they are being hired, Ellison said. While the BPD has showcased its reinstated cadet program as a new pipeline that will boost diversity, Ellison said the effects are limited. “We lose more than [are entering] every year,” Ellison said. “Based on attrition, we’re expected to lose over half the officers of color by 2018 that came on during the consent decree. There’s going to be a huge dip and this cadet program is not going to make any headway.” No new cadets will enter the force until five to seven years from now, he said, and only a limited number of the 38-person cadet class actually will be hired. In his view, there is no guarantee that any people of color brought in as cadets will add to overall diversity numbers. “You may get three or four [officers of color from the program],” he said. “All that’s going to do is take spots away from people of color who may have come from the regular list.”
Longtime concerns
The investigation comes on the heels of years of concerns over practices in the BPD with respect to officers of color. Last November, a federal judge ruled that the test used in 2008
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Early-morning tee-off at the 13th annual golf tournament supporting the Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN) was held at the Franklin Park Golf Course in Boston. Joining Tom Farrington (second from right), founder and president, are (l-r) former New England Patriots Roland James and Ronnie Lippett, and Boston sportscaster “Coach” Willie Maye. PHEN’s mission includes advocacy efforts to increase the overall support and resources to wage a war on prostate cancer that will eventually lead to a cure for the disease for the benefit of all men. to determine promotions to lieutenant was biased against black and Latinos and failed to predict success in the position. Ellison also said officers of color frequently receive harsher discipline than white officers for the same offenses or get screened out of selection on the basis of minor offenses such as speeding tickets dating back six or seven years.
Ongoing investigation
The Herald reported on June 21
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that BPD Commissioner William Evans and Mayor Martin Walsh said that the Civil Service Commission told the city it acted properly. “The Civil Service basically said that we’re fine,” Walsh told reporters in a video posted by the Herald. “They’re checking one more piece of it as far as when letters went out. But think civil service was pretty clear the city of Boston did nothing wrong.” Evans said that while letters should have been sent out more
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BPL concert series brings Boston together By CELINA COLBY
“8'x12'” (2009), by Hema Upadhyay (Indian, 1972-2015), features aluminum, scrap metal from cars, enamel paint, plastic, found objects, M-Seal sealant, resin and hardware. PHOTO: ANIL RAHE/KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART, NEW DELHI/ COURTESY, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
EXHIBIT ON SCALE FEATURES ARTISTS FROM SOME OF WORLD’S BIGGEST URBAN CENTERS By SUSAN SACCOCCIA
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giant fake flower slowly waves its motorized petals up and down in front of the Huntington Avenue entrance to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, welcoming visitors to an exhibition focused on scale. On view through July 17, “Megacities Asia” presents 19 works by 11 artists living in some of the world’s biggest cities — Beijing and Shanghai in China; Delhi and Mumbai in India; and Seoul in South Korea. Supersized sculptures and wallmounted installations suit the show’s theme: how artists are responding to the ruptures and changes brought about as towering buildings replace human-scale communities and green space in cities throughout the world. Over the past five decades, 30 cities have gained populations of more than 10 million, half of them in South and East Asia. This exhibition, the largest show of contemporary artists in the MFA’s history, draws upon works from artists living in these regions.
PHOTO: THE ARTIST AND PARK RYU SOOK GALLERY/ MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
“Chaosmos Mandala” (2016), by Choi Jeong Hwa (Korean), is a kinetic sculpture that includes plastic chandeliers and mylar.
Nine works occupy the museum’s largest gallery and six others are installed in sites throughout the museum. Constructed of everyday consumer objects, waste and rubble and large enough to walk in and around, some works inject a fun house atmosphere into the museum, lending a gallery the atmosphere of a carnival midway. Playful and at times poignant, the works offer a sampling of artists seldom or never before exhibited in the U.S. as well as such established art world figures as Ai Weiwei, 59, of Beijing, an activist as well as an artist who designed China’s sensational pavilion for the 2008 Olympics but also endured house arrest for his outspoken criticism of the Beijing government. Here, his “Snake Ceiling” (2009), composed of 350 backpacks, commemorates the thousands of children who died when their flimsy school collapsed in a 2008 earthquake. In the museum’s Shapiro Courtyard is his sculpture “Forever” (2003), a whirling spiral of Forever-brand bicycles. Once the vehicle of choice for many city
See MEGACITIES, page 18
At 1 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, the Boston Public Library is pulsating with music and energy. Inside the Instagram-worthy outdoor courtyard, Jessenia Moreira croons along to the tunes of jazz sextet Moody Street Sound. Polished professionals in crisp suits stop in for a listen on their lunch breaks, while families gather with young children to enjoy the free event. Listeners lounge on the steps of the courtyard, sip coffee at tables, or read on the benches around the space. This relaxed atmosphere is exactly what Rebecca Campbell, the Adults Program Librarian in charge of the concerts, was hoping for. She says, “Libraries are becoming community gathering places and art acts as the bridge connecting patrons of all ages and backgrounds.” The Courtyard Concert series is hosted in the BPL Central courtyard twice a week, once at lunchtime and once in the evening. Campbell designed the concerts to include a variety of instruments and music styles, but the performers all have local ties to Boston. Moody Street Sound hails from Lowell, where the group met during their time at the University of Massachusetts. Not only does this give library patrons a fun, free way to connect with the arts, it gives local musicians the opportunity to perform for a diverse crowd in a well-known venue. The courtyard is always a place of refuge for Bostonians, but with the concert in full swing it transforms into a European-style escape. Time slows down, even for a city of people known for impatient driving and a go-go-go mentality. Campbell says, “Libraries, in general, are perfect venues for anyone looking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city and the McKim building courtyard is simply magical.” The concert series is one of the better-known public events put on by the BPL, but they also host lectures, classes and talks on a regular
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Navigating rough waters ‘Show Boat’ is outdated, but well executed By CELINA COLBY
Fiddlehead Theatre Company makes a bold, risky move in reviving the 1927 musical classic “Show Boat” for a contemporary audience. Playing through July 3 at the Shubert Theatre, the threehour-long show is a mammoth, and at times racially negligent, endeavor. The cast is a talented group and delivers the out-of-date classic with power, precision and showmanship. Fiddlehead’s cast includes several powerhouse singers. Brian Kinnard, as Joe, belted the classic “Ol’ Man River” with just the right balance of strength and sadness. Jeremiah James, as Gaynor Ravenal, brought charm to an otherwise unlikeable character with his smooth vocals. Queenie (Lindsay
Roberts) is another cast notable, who represented a positive black, female image when she helped the ship captain bring in a crowd by being inclusive to all races. To their credit, co-directors Meg Fofonoff and Stacey Stephens did make alterations to the original script to keep from vilifying the black characters. The score alternated between vibrant numbers like “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” and ominous pieces like “Mis’ry’s Comin’ Round.” The spectrum has the ghost of a modern musical narrative, but at a longer length. Many of the songs are repeated and often do not service the plot. That said, the classic numbers have withstood the test of time, and continue to please in this revival. Adapted from a novel by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, “Show Boat” was the first musical to break away from frivolous entertainment to address more serious content in its narrative. This opened the gateway for contemporary theater. The plot deals with a messy marriage, a single mother, and racial tensions in the segregated South. Unfortunately the once-progressive
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Fiddlehead Theatre Company’s revival the 1927 musical classic “Show Boat” plays through July 3 at the Shubert Theatre. treatment of these topics comes off now as stale and politically questionable. Magnolia Hawkes, the female lead, is abandoned by her husband and raises their daughter by herself. Yet at the end of the show she welcomes him back with open arms. In the age of self-sufficiency and female empowerment, this falls flat. The stage setting did wonders for updating the content. The two-story, intricately designed showboat seamlessly morphed
the stage from the river to the bustling streets of Chicago. The audience is privy to several views of the boat throughout the show, but it never overpowers the stage, the mark of a well-designed set piece. Projection was used heavily to transform the stage. It was successful in creating otherwise hard to structure scenes like a cathedral, but was occasionally distracting. At times the set was visually striking. During a rehearsal scene a small stage is place
between two ends of the ironwork boat. A red velvet valance hangs from the ceiling and an olive chaise lounge sits underneath. The luxurious, textural look has the interior effect of a John Singer Sargent painting. “Show Boat” is not a bad musical when taken in historical context. It is longer and less subtle than many contemporary performances, but it’s a hallmark of theatrical history. Fiddlehead performed the show with precision and gusto, taking a show marked by its time and making it watchable, and even enjoyable.
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continued from page 15 basis. During the summer of 2015, the library hosted 26 concerts with a total attendance of 5,169, an attendance rate by almost 20 percent higher than 2014. Over the next two months the concert schedule includes Indian vocalist Harshitha Krishnan, Brazilian guitar player Eduardo Mercuri, and Ukrainian composer Shirhan Agabeyli, among others. Campbell fondly remembers a couple that traveled from Providence to Boston every week to listen to the Courtyard Concerts. Ultimately they moved here and still attend regularly. It’s that kind of powerful connection to the community, and the city that Campbell and the team at the BPL are trying to foster. Here, at lunchtime on a Friday, businessmen in power suits sit next to toddlers and teenagers put away their cell phones to come together and celebrate the music and culture that make Boston sing.
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Malik Yoba stars in TV One’s ‘Bad Dad Rehab’ By COLETTE GREENSTEIN
“I just love business. I love making stuff. At the end of the day it’s all storytelling,” said actor Malik Yoba, who was in town promoting TV One’s “Bad Dad Rehab” at INTX 2016: The Internet and Television Expo, which was held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center this past May. Yoba, who is also a producer, director and writer, stars in TV One’s original movie “Bad Dad Rehab,” which premieres this Sunday, July 3 at 7 p.m. ET/ PT. Written by Keronda “Kiki” McKnight, the 2015 winner of the TV One’s screenplay competition held in conjunction with the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), “Bad Dad Rehab” centers around four men — Shawn (Wesley Jonathan from “Soul Man”), Tristan (Robert R’ichard of “Cousin Skeeter”), Jared (Robert Christopher Riley from VH1’s “Hit the Floor”) and Pierre (Rick Gonzalez “Coach Carter”) — who are in denial of their poor parenting skills. After troubles with their respective baby mamas and ex-wives, the four of them attend a rehab for deadbeat dads (led by Yoba’s character “Mr. Leon”) that uses unusual methods to show each of the guys how to become dads to their kids. The multifaceted actor, who has been telling stories for more than 20 years on stage, in film and on television, first came to national prominence in the 1993 Disney film “Cool Runnings.” A year later he went on to star as Detective James ‘J.C.’ Williams opposite Michael DeLorenzo in FOX-TV’s smash hit series “New York Undercover.” The South Bronx-born actor is also an activist who has worked with engaging youth creatively since he was a teen in high school, and a long-time entrepreneur. Yoba spoke with the Banner about “Bad Dad Rehab,” his entrepreneurial spirit and the lifestyle company and innovation studio he cofounded, called iconic 32.
the numbers have always been crazy. I think SAG has said something like 98 percent of actors don’t work 98 percent of the time, something crazy like that. There are more actors than there are opportunities. I think that that’s one. Maybe it’s also just me getting older. You get an appointment for a meeting or an audition, whatever, and it used to be for a 20-something year old. Now I get like 50-60, “Don’t worry, we’re going slightly younger. This is cast as a 60-year-old man.” From an acting standpoint, although there are more opportunities in some ways it still feels like less. It’s a weird thing. I’m not always aware of everything that’s going on.
Do you feel that you’ve had to create other opportunities for yourself? There are so many actors who are producing and directing. Has that just been a natural part of who you are or did you feel that you had to do that? MY: No, I was the kid that my father said “You’ve got to focus” because I played baseball and basketball. I was on the swim team and was in a band and in the drama club and raced BMX and played hockey. I was always a multi-hyphenate when I came into the game very early on and
still tried to fight for my music. I opened a restaurant and funded a designer and started a record label. I was always interested in business — not just entertainment but business period — like floating around this expo just trying to learn stuff. I’ve always been entrepreneurial. It’s just been a natural extension of creating opportunities for myself and for other people, actually. That’s part of the joy, too.
And to give back? MY: I don’t necessarily think about it as giving back. It’s just a way I’ve always lived. You just give of yourself and create, and by doing that other people get the benefit.
MY: Well, the name iconic32 was actually the brainchild of my business partner Sergio Morales. He’s the creative director and worked in advertising and marketing. When we met at the end of 2013, I had been doing digital content. I started BET’s second web series, “Shop Talk,” which was based on a film that I created, and so I wrote it, produced it and directed it. That got me into the digital branding and
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You’ve been acting for more than 20 years. What’s different now in the acting arena from when you first started? MY: I know too much now. [Laughs.] I’ve been around too long. There’s a lot different now. Social media has changed the game. There’s certainly a lot more platforms for people to be seen. And, it also seems harder.
celebrity/social-impact space. We do experiential, so we have a big summit that we do. It’s the second year that we’re doing it — a pop culture summit that is an entrepreneurial summit. We’re bringing conscious creatives from the various pillars of pop culture, including tech and fashion and sports and music, art, to have a chance to not just inspire me but to be inspired by each other and create business opportunities. Then we do branding and strategy and consulting work. In some way, shape or form I’ve done all of those things all my life. I didn’t necessarily know that that’s what I was doing. I like making stuff. I’ve spent a lot of my time with that and I’m able to sort of filter a lot of the things that I’m into, to do that.
Tell me about iconic32. How did it all come about?
What drew you to the project “Bad Dad Rehab”? Was it being a father? Malik Yoba: I actually started a foundation to support fathers when my first child was born 18 years ago, so I’ve been doing work with fathers for a long time. The original title was “Deadbeat Dad Rehab,” which sounded a little crazy. I read the script and it was one of those things that you go, “Okay.” The title at first makes you go, “What?” It was actually pretty good. It reminded me of something I had written.
entertainment space. I wanted to create some kind of agency and when we met he had a similar idea to create an agency — although he didn’t want to call it an agency. In essence that’s what we are, but one that lived at the intersection of pop culture and social good. That spoke to me because that’s what I’ve always been about. I’ve always used my position as an actor even before I was acting. I’ve just always believed in the power of a song, the power of art to inspire people. We exist at that intersection and we do three things. We create content. Currently, we started a podcast called “The Making of an Icon,” which is an entrepreneurial podcast — a pathway for folks who inspire to be entrepreneurs, particularly in the pop culture/
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dwellers, they circle around endlessly, a tribute to a lost way of life. Organized by MFA curators Al Miner and Laura Weinstein, who profile each artist in their highly readable, 110-page catalog and introduce their subject with a fine essay, Megacities is the first large-scale U.S. show to focus on urban growth and how contemporary artists find inspiration and raw materials in the accumulated detritus of large cities. They dedicate their catalog to one of the artists in the show who died last year, Hema Upadhyay (19722015) of Mumbai. Many of the artists revel in plastics, turning mass-production products and rubble into intricately handmade and human-scale works. In their hands, the act of creating art becomes a form of human intervention within a dehumanizing environment. The seductively pulsing giant flower on the front lawn, entitled “Breathing Flower” (2016), is by Choi Jeong Hwa, 45, of Seoul, who is also responsible for the not-to-be-missed “Chaosmos Mandala” (2016), located in the museum’s Asian paintings gallery. Shimmering mylar floors and walls, tinsel chandeliers and gauzy fabrics create a magical space in which a gilded throne awaits visitors who can pose and take photos of each other. On view at Quincy Market near Faneuil Hall is another ebullient work by this artist, “Fruit Tree” (2014), a giant fruit bowl sprouting like foliage from its trunk. Embracing artifice, Choi Jeong Hwa says, “The artificial isn’t bad … it comes
together with the natural to make our world.” Aaditi Joshi, 36, of Mumbai, refashions discarded plastic bags into an object of beauty — a delicate, cloudlike web suspended from the ceiling. Taking an ironic turn with his installation, entitled “Super-Natural” (2011/2016), Han Seok Hyun, 41, of Seoul, builds a mountain landscape out of green household products. Beijing-based Yin Xiuzhen, 53, arranges bricks from demolished buildings into what resembles a Zen garden in her installation “Temperature” (2009-2010). Clinging to the stones like small plants, tufts of fabric evoke a lost human presence. Two of the most moving works are by Hema Upadhyay, who explores the experience of migration, which she knew firsthand when moving from a small city to Mumbai. “Build me a nest so I can rest” (2015) displays 300 handmade terra-cotta birds. Like messenger birds, each bears in its beak a typed quotation about a migrant’s hopes and challenges. Upadhyay’s installation entitled “8' x 12'” (2009) reproduces a typical, fullsize dwelling in Mumbai’s slum neighborhood. Evoking both an individual household and the entire city, its densely packed ceiling and walls also create a 3-D, aerial view of the entire city. With its title evoking daily domestic life in a household, “Take off your shoes and wash your hands” (2008), by Subodh Gupta of Delhi, 52, covers a wall with glinting stainless steel utensils. Arranged on 48 kitchen racks, the gleaming display turns these familial objects into a vast, monolithic grid, like the footprint of a megacity.
City of diversity: Changes coming to beloved Children’s Museum exhibit By CELINA COLBY
On a weekend afternoon the “Boston Black: A City Connects” exhibit at the Boston Children’s Museum is overflowing with inquisitive kids. Children of all ages and nationalities walk through the “street” that contains culturally authentic shops and stations representing African American heritage. “Boston Children’s Museum has a century-old tradition of celebrating diversity,” says president and CEO of the museum, Carole Charnow. The dedication to inclusion shows. A 4-year-old boy sits in the chair of a barber shop inspecting himself in the mirror while his siblings shop for groceries in the marketplace, where everything is labeled in English and Spanish, and Goya goods overwhelmingly outnumber American products. Unlike adult streets laced with prejudice and politics, this make-believe neighborhood breeds only acceptance and understanding. The “Boston Black” exhibit has been running for 12 years now, but according to Charnow big changes are coming to the popular spot. Long due for a renovation, the display will be expanded
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to include Asian, Hispanic and other cultures in addition to the African American focus. The museum is currently in the fundraising stage of the project and hopes to institute these changes over the next 18 months. The mini-community featured in the gallery hosts a plethora of interactive opportunities for its tiny visitors. A newsstand at the entrance features publications like Jet, Essence and Black Enterprise. To the right, the John J. Smith Barber Shop highlights both Boston and black history. The shop is modeled after one that was run by John J. Smith in Beacon Hill over 150 years ago. It was used as an abolitionist center and meeting place for both black and white changemakers. Next to the barbershop is a Cape Verde-inspired café where kids can learn to dance to traditional Funáná music. An
interactive map embedded into the café tables shows the location of the different islands on the West African archipelago. The grocery store is an overwhelming favorite in the exhibit, according to Charnow, but the space also includes a Carnival prep station and a hair salon with traditional African American textures and styles. The many facets of the space make it the perfect spot for a multitude of programs. Citizens Bank sponsors a “Money Matters” program that utilizes “Boston Black” to teach financial literacy. Children are given a set amount of money and can go around paying for or delivering services. The monthly event teaches children the value of money in a safe, fun environment. Boston Black has been a beloved institution, and with the impending cultural additions it will only continue to grow the dialogue about race in Boston. Charnow hopes that children will come to the museum and see parts of their own cultures and worlds in the exhibit. “This work is extremely important, with the public discourse that has become so intolerant,” she says. “We hope we can work towards community engagement, inclusion and a welcome environment for all races, ethnicities, genders and families.”
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n ½ teaspoon coarse salt n ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper 1. Combine broth and water in a large saucepan; bring to a boil. Add couscous; cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid is absorbed and couscous is al dente. Remove from heat and place into a mixing bowl. Stir in 1 tablespoon olive oil to prevent grains from sticking. Let cool. 2. Add mango, cucumber and cilantro; toss well. 3. Whisk together honey, lime juice, remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil, salt and pepper. Pour over couscous; mix well. Serves 8. — Recipe by Jen Karetnick
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continued from page 1 million in BPS funding and $300,000 for establishing a city office to support released inmates’ reentry into society, including assistance in finding housing and employment and reconnecting with family and communities. Several parents and teachers spoke during public testimony to oppose BPS funding reductions, asking the councilors who remained present to vote “no” when the time comes. If they do so, and the mayor and council do not come to an agreement over a new budget, city departments will be funded on the same level as last year, reflecting no spending increase. Few, if any, seem to expect such an eventuality.
BPS’s $4.7 million
Discussion of school funding dominated the hearing. Walsh’s original budget represented a 1.3 percent increase in BPS spending, which opponents said did not keep pace with rising costs. The resubmission incorporates an additional $4.7 million, bumping the increase to 1.8 percent. Speaking with the Banner last week, Jackson said that BPS still needs an additional $21 million to $28 million to cover the gap. The new $4.7 million largely does not replenish school-level funding cuts. Instead, 80 percent of it goes to supporting school services that are budgeted centrally, such as improvements to translation services, Katie Hammer, the city budget director said. At the hearing, Jackson read off
a list of schools whose funding gaps he says remain unaddressed. The only restored funding is to the city’s five early education and early learning centers, which now, instead of facing a collective $900,000 decrease face a $685,000 decrease, according to Jackson aide Heshan Berents-Weeramuni. Hammer said 25 percent of the EEC’s and EEL’s cuts will be restored, with funds split five ways, giving each school $43,000.
Schools balance cuts
Specific schools receive resources in two ways: The district provides them with some services, such as transportation, that it funds itself and also provides each one with an individual budget for items the school decides on, such as teacher hiring. The city allocates budgets to each school based on projected enrollment numbers and the presumed cost to educate each student’s category of needs (for instance, special education services). The school can then divide this budget as it chooses, meaning that although Walsh’s budget reduces the per-pupil amount allocated for educating students with autism, school administrators could direct the reduction to another area to keep funding level for autistic students. Hammer pointed to the role of individual schools in deciding their funds’ dispersal in response to a charge from City Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George, vice chair of the Committee on Education, that tshe current budget will cause some schools to lose their librarian. But Essaibi-George said Hammer’s distinction eludes the larger problem
of insufficient funding, as saving the librarian position could then mean losing a teacher instead.
Special education
Essaibi-George and Jackson said they are concerned that students with autism and individual education plans are underfunded and Councilor Matt O’Malley added that parents in his district worry there will be a decline in the teacher and paraprofessional-to-student ratio at the Kilmer and Manning schools. Hammer assured councilors that the city has reserved approximately $300,000 to cover any additional school-level funding needs that emerge during the fall when actual enrolment numbers become apparent. City Chief Financial Officer David Sweeney and Hammer also said that while the reductions in per-pupil allocations to children in certain special needs categories needs remain, the budget resubmission provides funds for a data system that will give parents more transparent information on their children’s special education plans. City Councilor Ayanna Pressley said that adding a new project to help SPED students while decreasing funding to other areas they need is not a true fix, and that further funds are required to achieve fully inclusionary classrooms. Multiple councilors expressed disappointment that Superintendent Tommy Chang was not present to answer questions.
The hunt for revenue
In response to questions, Sweeney said that, generally speaking,
that while some schools may experience costs rising faster than revenue, for the most part, the district believes students are provided for. “There are naturally increasing costs that are occurring and in some cases revenue is not increasing at quite the same pace, so it creates a stress on individual schools. The district believes in most cases schools are still able to provide a more than adequate education,” he said. Further school funding is likely to come through collective bargaining agreements, Sweeney said. Sweeny emphasized said the city’s funding abilities are limited due to declining state aid, heavy and growing dependency on property tax as the city’s primary revenue, and rising costs to the city from underfunded charter school reimbursements “We’re picking up the slack for all the state funding that’s being reduced,” he said. Councilor Bill Linehan said Boston’s per-pupil expenditure is a hefty figure and that the city cannot expect its current level of revenue generation to persist. For revenue, he suggested turning to improved enforcement of parking and traffic fees and fines. Linehan asked that instead of cutting staffing in these enforcement positions, vacancies be filled and additional shifts provided. In his experience, he said, traffic enforcement workers generate revenue double their cost of employment, and he cited a pilot program conducted two years ago. The city also expects it can save $10 million by improving efficiency in how it transports
children to school, Hammer said. She highlighted a new $300,000 line item in transporation data collection and analysis that was included in Walsh’s budget resubmission. Jackson expressed doubts that this goal could be achieved, saying no clear plan was presented, while City Councilor Andrea Campbell said she was excited by the potential savings.
Homelessness and health
City Councilor Josh Zakim, chair of the Committee on Housing and Community Development, said he was “disappointed, not surprised” that city-funded housing vouchers were not included in the resubmitted budget. Placing people in homes is the strongest solution to the crisis, he said, adding that he does not question the Walsh administration’s commitment to ending homelessness. Sweeney said housing is among the administration’s priorities. He pointed to investments in programs and a ten percent increase in the Department of Neighborhood Development’s budget. Pressley continued to raise concerns that community health centers are vital, but overtaxed and underfunded. Officials said that the city’s portion of the center’s financing was reduced to help free up funds that Public Health Commission invested in its Homelessness Services Bureau. Several councilors, including Campbell and Council President Michelle Wu, asked for greater transparency over future budget construction, along with earlier inclusion in the process.
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The city council’s vote on the school budget — scheduled for Wednesday this week — will be the latest development in what has been one of the most contentious budgeting processes in recent history. The year began with a picket line outside the mayor’s January State of the City address and included two student walkouts, demonstrations and packed budget hearings. Youth activism entered the picture early, when Boston Community Leadership Academy students produced videos detailing cuts necessitated by the proposed BPS budget that would eliminate their librarian, SAT prep courses and all advanced placement courses. On March 7, more than 2,000 students walked out of classes and gathered on the Boston Common and at Faneuil Hall, where Walsh and Governor Charlie Baker were holding a joint press conference. Earlier that same day, Walsh testified before a legislative committee
that he supports lifting the cap on the number of charter schools operating in Massachusetts, but said it should be done gradually with state-funded reimbursements to district schools. Outside Faneuil Hall, one student contrasted the city’s growing prosperity and declining educational funding with a sign that read “cranes in the sky/ cuts in our schools.” Many, including City Councilor Tito Jackson, questioned why the mayor proposed a $13 million increase in school funding, substantially lower than the $38 million funding increase to school funding last year, even as the city has raked in $115 million more revenue than it received in the previous fiscal year.
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Student activism remained at the forefront, with young people participating in a St. Patrick’s Day rally for school funding, crowding into school committee meetings and organizing a May walk-out, followed by a rally in front of City Hall and a packed City Council budget committee hearing during which they gave hours of
impassioned testimony. As the debate over the school budget continued, the distance between the mayor and the alliance of student and parent activists widened. Parent groups first began questioning Walsh’s vision for the schools in September, when the group Quality Education for Every Student alleged that the mayor told them BPS would reduce its footprint from the current 128 buildings to 90. Despite multiple eyewitness accounts, Walsh denied making the statement. As the city pushed forward with plans to create a unified enrollment system, through which parents could be assigned to BPS schools and independent charter schools, parent groups pushed back hard, with many activists claiming Walsh was maneuvering to allow charters to take over BPS buildings. When Walsh released his budget and highlighted plans to push forward with unified enrollment, parents pushed back hard, with a January picket outside Symphony Hall, where the mayor
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delivered his yearly address. Earlier in June, a volley of blog posts by the mayor, the city’s budget director David Sweeney and the QUEST members provided divergent interpretations of the BPS budget after Walsh upped his $13 million school funding increase by $4.7 million, which the parents say still doesn’t close $21 million of the budget gap. Parents also complain that changes in the way BPS calculates student funding have led to a $1,332 drop in per-pupil funding for autistic students and a $3,030 per-pupil drop for elementary students with emotional impairments. Those shifts in funding hurt schools with higher percentages of those populations, like Boston Community Leadership Academy, which the parents say is facing a $500,000 funding gap. “Unfortunately, no part of the Mayor’s June 13th budget supplement restores resources directly for student learning in BPS schools,” reads the letter from the Citywide Parent Council. “For this reason, the Citywide Parent
Council requests a reallocation of appropriations in the FY17 BPS budget to prevent the detrimental classroom level cuts to teaching and learning.” A BPS spokesman released the following statement in response to the Citywide Parent Council: “Boston Public Schools (BPS) is grateful for recent additional funding from the City of Boston and Mayor Martin J. Walsh for the fiscal 2017 budget. The vast majority of proposed investments are focused on work that takes place in schools, even though the funds are not directly attached to individual school budgets. BPS worked collaboratively with the City in the spring to focus available dollars on school budgets at that time, when schools needed to begin planning and hiring for next year. BPS now has the opportunity to make investments that provide direct services to students to promote long-term equity, which will allow us to free up more funding for our students in the future, and support the long-term vision for the district.”
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The Zoning Commission of the City of Boston hereby gives notice, in accordance with Chapter 665 of the Acts of 1956, as amended, that a public hearing will be held on July 13, 2016, at 9:30 AM, in Room 900, Boston City Hall, in connection with a petition for the approval of the Amended and Restated Master Plan for Planned Development Area No 94, Bartlett Place (“Restated Master Plan”), the Amended and Restated Phase 1 Development Plan (“Phase 1 Development Plan”) within Planned Development Area No. 94, and the Phase 3 Development Plan (“Phase 3 Development Plan”) within Planned Development Area No. 94, filed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following:
The Restated Master Plan and Phase 1 Development Plan amend the redevelopment program for the Phase 1 project site with minor adjustments to the dwelling unit bedroom counts, the number of parking spaces, the building height and floor area ratio. The Restated Master Plan and Phase 3 Development Plan allow for the construction of a 16 unit residential building with accessory off-street parking on an approximately 14,000 square foot parcel within Planned Development Area No. 94. Copies of the petitions, a map of the area involved and the Restated Master Plan, Phase 1 Development Plan and Phase 3 Development Plan may be viewed at the office of the Zoning Commission, Room 916, Boston City Hall, between 9 AM and 5 PM any day except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. For the Commission, Kathleen R. Pedersen Executive Secretary
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Perkin Elmer Instrument Preventative and Corrective Maintenance
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Struvite and Grit Removal Deer Island Treatment Plant
07/20/16
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Agilent Technology Instrument Preventative and Corrective Maintenance
07/20/16
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Supply and Delivery of Aqua Ammonia to the John J. Carroll Water Treatment Plant
07/21/16
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Supply and Delivery of 07/22/16 Hydrofluorosilicic Acid to the John J. Carroll Water Treatment Plant
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NIH Pipeline Sections 110 and 112, Stoneham and Wakefield
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Janitorial Services INVITATION FOR BIDS The Brookline Housing Authority is seeking sealed bids for Janitorial Services at Federal Subsidized Housing. The contract sum is estimated to be $50,000 per year. The initial contract term shall be one (1) year. Brookline Housing Authority shall have up to two (2) options to extend the contract for an additional one (1) year period for a maximum total contract period of three (3) years. The option to extend the contract shall be at the sole discretion of the Brookline Housing Authority. The location of the work is: Walnut St. Apartments at 4-24 Walnut St. and 22 High St. Sussman House at 50 Pleasant St. O’Shea House at 61 Park St. Morse Apartments at 90 Longwood Ave. Kickham Apartments at 190 Harvard St. Col. Floyd Apartments at 19-36 Foster St. and 32-40A Marion St.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE Sealed proposals submitted on a form furnished by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) and clearly identified as a bid, endorsed with the name and address of the bidder, the project and contract number, will be received at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108, no later than the date and time specified and will forthwith be publicly opened and read aloud. Sub-Bids at 12:00 Noon:
Every Filed Sub-Bidder must submit a valid Sub-Bidder Certificate of Eligibility with its bid and must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance in the category of sub-bid work for which they bid. General Bids at 2:00 PM:
Bids are subject to M.G.L. c. 30B sec. 5. HUD-Determined Maintenance Wage Rates shall apply.
Every General Bidder must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance for the category of work and for no less than the bid price plus all add alternates of this project, if applicable.
Interested contractors please contact George Lalli, Director of Maintenance, at the Brookline Housing Authority, at 617-277-2022 x312 or glalli@brook linehousing.org for a set of Contract Documents. The Project sites will be available for inspection on July 7, 2016. Bidders interested in visiting the sites shall meet at 90 Longwood Avenue, Suite #1, Brookline, MA 02446 at 10:00 a.m. MBE/WBE and Section 3 Business Concerns are encouraged to apply.
A Pre-Bid meeting will be held on Thursday, July 7, 2016 @ 10:00 AM at the site. Meet in lobby of McCormack Building. Contact Jeff Novak at 857-2041379 or Bob Gray at 857-204-1481 if you have any questions. Minimum rates of wages to be paid on the project have been determined by the Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety under the provisions of Sections 26 and 27, Chapter 149 of the General Laws. Wage rates are listed in the contract form portion of specification book. Each general bid and sub-bid proposal must be secured by an accompanying deposit of 5% of the total bid amount, including all alternates, in the form of a bid bond, in cash, a certified, treasurer’s, or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company made payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The bidding documents may be examined at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Bid Room, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108 Tel (617) 727-4003, bidroom.dcamm@state. ma.us. Paper copies may be obtained by depositing a company check, treasurer’s check, cashier’s check, bank check or money order in the sum of $50.00 payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No personal checks or cash will be accepted as deposits. Refunds will be made to those returning the documents in satisfactory condition on or before AUGUST 18, 2016 (ten business days after the opening of General Bids) otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Commonwealth. CD is available at no charge. Plans & specs may be downloaded from DCAMM’s E-Bid Room. WE DO NOT MAIL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS. Messenger and other type of pick-up and delivery services are the agents of the bidder and the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance assumes no responsibility for delivery or receipt of the documents. Bidders are encouraged to take advantage of a rotating credit plans and specifications deposit program initiated by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance to encourage the easy accessibility of documents to contractors. Carol W. Gladstone COMMISSIONER
July 21, 2016
The work to be performed under this contract is subject to the requirements of Section 3 of the HUD Act of 1968.
Sealed Bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., July 14, 2016. Bids shall be mailed or hand delivered to Brookline Housing Authority, 90 Longwood Avenue, Suite 1, Brookline, MA 02446 and received no later than the date and time specified above.
Phase 2 will include demolition of another existing classroom, kitchenette and bathroom and provide a renovated classroom, new bathroom and staff room in the existing space.
August 4, 2016
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Renovate/Expand Childrens Center – McCormack State Office Building Boston, MA And the following Filed Sub-Bids: Miscellaneous & Ornamental Iron; Resilient Floors; Plumbing; Electrical. E.C.C: $536,475.00 This project is scheduled for 120 calendar days to substantial completion. Scope: The work will consist of two (2) phases. Phase 1 will include a fit-out of a former office space, with a classroom, kitchenette and toddler bathroom.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU16C0046CA
In the matter of Marc-Alexandre P. Vixamar of Roxbury, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Marie Danielle J.B. Monestime requesting that Marc-Alexandre P. Vixamar be allowed to change his/her/their name as follows: Marc-Alexandre Peralte Monestime IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 07/28/2016. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: June 17, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
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Guardian and requesting that (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.
Docket No. SU16P1303EA
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Queshon Ivy Date of Death: 01/13/2016 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Personal Representative has been filed by Ronald Ivy of Concord, NH requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Ronald Ivy of Concord, NH be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 07/21/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.
You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 07/21/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: June 14, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Zachary Martin Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by DMH c/o Office of General Counsel of Westborough, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Zachary Martin is in need of a
Public Information Meeting Monday, July 25, 2016 Hudson Town Hall, 78 Main Street Auditorium Application Deadline August 22, 2016
MAX ALLOWABLE INCOME 80% of AMI
1 person household: 2 person household: 3 person household: 4 person household:
Units are Pet and Smoke Free
$51,150 $58,450 $65,750 $73,050
Reasonable Accommodations Available for persons with disabilities
Units distributed by lottery.
For Info and Application Availability: Pick Up: Hudson Town Hall, - Town Clerks Ofc, Public Library & Leasing Office Phone: (978) 456-8388 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com
Language/translation assistance available, at no charge, upon request.
Application available online at: www.mcohousingservices.com
AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
In the matter of Mohamed Muse Ahmed of Roxbury, MA
REOPENING WAIT LIST
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME
IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 07/21/2016.
Mishawum Park Apartments will be accepting applications for multiple affordable housing programs such as but not limited to Section 236, HOME, (HSF) and (HIF) 1, 2, and 3 bedroom family housing. Eligible applicants will be placed on an existing waiting list by lottery, not by the order in which the completed application is received. There are no units available at this time.
WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: June 20, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
Interested persons may apply in person on-site located at: Mishawum Park Apartments, 95 Dunstable St., Charlestown, MA or by downloading the application at PeabodyProperties.com or by phone 617.242.4016 (TTY 711) or 1.800.439.2370
A petition has been presented by Mohamed Muse Ahmed requesting that Mohamed Muse Ahmed be allowed to change his name as follows:
Docket No. SU16P1346GD
Matrix Hudson 1000 Matrix Way, Hudson (GPS—59 Cabot St.) OPEN HOUSE Wednesday, August 3, 2016—4:00—7:00 p.m. Saturday, August 13, 2016—10:00 am—2:00 pm
Docket No. SU16C0244CA
To all persons interested in a petition described:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
REAL ESTATE HUDSON RENTAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING 44—One ($1,217), Two ($1,446) Units (Utilities are not included)
The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.
WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: June 09, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
SUFFOLK Division
Abdullahi Farah Isse
REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE
Wollaston Manor 91 Clay Street Quincy, MA 02170
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THE CHELSEA HOUSING AUTHORITY 54 LOCKE STREET CHELSEA, MA 02150
A senior/disabled/ handicapped community
Telephone (617) 884-5617 Fax (617) 884-6552 Office Hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (M, T, TH) 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (WED) 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon (FRI)
0 BR units = $1,027/mo 1 BR units = $1,101/mo All utilities included.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AS OF July 11, 2016 THE CHA WILL OPEN THE WAITING LISTS FOR STATE FAMILY PUBLIC HOUSING
Call Sandy Miller, Property Manager
#888-691-4301
Program Restrictions Apply.
Applicants who apply and meet the lottery deadline are randomly assigned to the waiting list, applications received after the lottery deadline will be accepted, but will not be included in the lottery and will be processed as standard applicants.
You may qualify if your gross family income is less than: Total Family Size
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Income Limits
$47,450
$54,200
$61,000
$67,750
$73,200
$78,600
$84,050
$89,450
Please note that STATE FAMILY applications for the lottery will only be accepted from Monday, July 11, 2016 to Wednesday, August 10, 2016. All applications for the lottery must be received no later than 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 10, 2016. All applications received after August, 10 2016 at 12:00 p.m. will be processed as standard applicants. APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED VIA U.S. MAIL, BY HAND DELIVERY TO OUR OFFICE, AND BY FAX APPLICATIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE CHELSEA HOUSING AUTHORITY, ON THE CHA WEBSITE www.chelseaha.com OR BY MAIL BY CALLING (617) 409-5310 APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BEFORE JULY 11, 2016. Applications for the lottery are being accepted until 12 p.m. on August 10, 2016. All timely applications will be entered into a lottery to determine waiting list placement. Application date will not affect placement on the waiting list.
If you need assistance or an accommodation (for example a screen reader or sign language interpreter) to complete the forms, contact 617-409-5325. The information is available in alternate format upon request. PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, COLOR, CREED, RELIGION, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER INDENTITY, OR MARITAL STATUS.
The lottery selection will be held on Wednesday, August 15, 2016 at Noon; you do not need to be in attendance for the selection process since you will be notified of your position on the waiting list. All applicants must be determined eligible in accordance with the Department of HUD and DHCD regulations. Applicants must meet the family size requirements for a designated bedroom size unit and the income of all family members must be greater than 30% of AMI but less than the established Income Limits (as of 3/28/16)*: income limits for 50% HH# Greater than 30% AMI Less than 50% AMI of AMI. All utilities are included in the rent 1 $20,650 $34,350 2 $23,600 $39,250 and voucher holders 3 $26,550 $44,150 are welcome to apply. 4 $29,450 $49,050 5 $31,850 $53,000 6 $34,200 $56,900 *Median income levels, rents & utility allowances are subject to change based on HUD guidelines (HUD.gov). Please inquire in advance for reasonable accommodation. Info contained herein subject to change w/o notice.
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CHA anticipates that the randomization of the waiting lists will be completed by August 31, 2016, and anticipates selecting applicants on or after that date.
PLEASE COMPLETE ALL INFORMATION REQUESTED ON APPLICATION. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE PROCESSED.
Deliver in person, the completed application to the same address in accordance with these time frames: Applications will be accepted Monday, July 11 and Tuesday, July 12 at 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and ending Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 7 p.m. NOTE: Applications will not be sent or received by fax or e-mail. Please note that office hours for Mishawum Park Apartments are: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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MEDFORD HOUSING AUTHORITY The MHA seeks qualified applicants for the following openings due to a recent reorganization plan:
Director of Public Housing, Director of Leased Housing (Sec. 8) and Director of Modernization. E-mail bvivian@medfordhousing.org for complete job descriptions. Resumes accepted until 7/15/16 or until filled. Qualified Section 3 residents, minorities, women, handicapped, veterans and all others are encouraged to apply.
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PROJECT MANAGER SOUGHT Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (Dorchester Bay EDC) seeks a Project Manager to join our growing real estate development team. Dorchester Bay EDC is an established community development corporation that is at a dynamic time in the organization’s rich history. We have an active pipeline of real estate development projects, including preservation projects designed to strengthen properties in our portfolio, plus two mixed-use commercial developments in pivotal neighborhood retail areas. Dorchester Bay EDC is seeking a goal-oriented Project Manager to join our five-person real estate development team. S/he will manage the refinancing and capital improvement program for one or more of our existing developments and engage in other types of projects in the future. See www.dbedc.org for a full position profile. Submit a cover letter along with a resume to: dorchesterbayprojectmanager16@gmail.com. No phone calls or letters please. Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
This excellent opportunity is for an optimistic individual with one to three years of experience working in the property management or real estate field. Overall, this full-time position is responsible for providing fundamental support to the Property Manager for this community helping to maintain superior resident relations and successful operations. Candidates must be highly motivated and well versed in low income tax credits, federal, State and local housing laws, experienced in recertification, processing applications, rent collections, and apartment inspections. This professional has excellent interpersonal, customer service and organizational skills, works well as part of a team, and in conducting interviews and completing paperwork with residents. The candidate selected is available to work flexible hours. Proficiency and solid experience in Microsoft Excel, MS Word, required. Experience with Yardi property management software a plus. Must have a valid driver’s license and own transportation. Candidates with 2-year Associates Degree and/or professional training encouraged to apply. Offering competitive salary, commensurate with experience; attractive benefits package. Interested parties send cover-letter and resume to: propmgmtprofessional@gmail.com
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