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How would you rate Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s performance
in improving Boston’s public school system?

The Boston Public Schools should serve as a model for other schools throughout the country for innovative and forward-thinking educational success and strategies. Sadly, the City of Boston has failed.

 Arnesse Brown
Program Director
Hyde Park
I'd give him an F. The mayor is not addressing the core issues facing the educational system. The policies are sugar-coating the real issues that need to be addressed to improve the school system.
 Agustin De La Gente
Educator
Jamaica Plain
Twofold: He brought in the school superintendent, but needs to expand METCO.
 John A. Lewis
Small Business Owner
Mattapan
I wouldn’t give him a high grade for education. I’m not in favor of the redistricting plan, and there’s not enough [support] with the budget cuts. The combination of a redistricting plan that would reduce resources equals poor education for our children.
 Ron Hobson
Teacher
Boston
I think there have been some baby steps, but I’d like to see more structural change. I’d like to see more pilot and charter schools. I’m high on the new superintendent, Carol Johnson, and I’m grateful for her focus on lowering the high school dropout rate.
 Joyce Ferriabough
Media and Political Strategist
Roxbury
To me, we’re reverting back to the pre-desegregation days. Education is not the priority for the students who are enrolled in the Boston Public Schools until the school system remembers that we can’t have a functioning school system [in which] equity and learning do not exist. We have to get past the haves and the have-nots.
 Hattie McKinnis
Retired Educator
Formerly from Boston