Education on September 22, 2026

3:36 BECAUSE.

3:58 HERE I'M AN AT LARGE CITY

4:00 COUNCILOR AND I'M ALSO THE

4:01 CHAIR OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL

4:03 COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.

4:06 OH MY GOODNESS MY DAUGHTER'S

4:08 CALLING ME.

4:09 HOLD ON ONE SECOND.

4:52 ALL RIGHT I'M GOING TO PICK UP

4:54 WHERE I LEFT OFF.

4:56 OKAY.

4:58 UM SO FOR THE RECORD MY NAME IS

4:59 JULIA MEJIA.

5:00 I'M AN AT LARGE CITY

5:01 COUNCILOR AND THE CHAIR OF THE

5:02 BOSTON CITY COUNCIL'S COMMITTEE

5:04 ON EDUCATION.

5:04 TODAY IS SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2026

5:07 AND THE EXACT TIME IS 204.

5:10 IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER TWO

5:11 OF THE ACTS OF 2025 MODIFYING

5:14 CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS OF THE

5:15 OPEN MEETING LAW AND RELIEVING

5:17 PUBLIC BODIES OF CERTAIN

5:18 REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING THE

5:19 REQUIREMENT THAT PUBLIC BODIES

5:20 CONDUCT ITS MEETINGS IN A

5:23 PUBLIC PLACE THAT IS OPEN AND

5:25 PHYSICALLY ACCESSIBLE UH TO THE

5:27 PUBLIC.

5:28 THE CITY COUNCIL WILL BE

5:28 CONDUCTING THIS HEARING

5:30 VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM.

5:32 THIS HEARING IS BEING RECORDED

5:33 AND IT IS ALSO BEING LIVE

5:36 STREAMED@BOSTON.GOV STACHE CITY

5:40 COUNCIL TV AND BROADCAST ON

5:41 INFINITY CHANNEL EIGHT, RCN

5:43 CHANNEL 82 AND FILES 964.

5:46 WRITTEN COMMENTS MAY BE SENT TO

5:48 THE COMMITTEE EMAIL AT

5:52 SEEK.EDUCATION@BOSTON.GOV AND

5:53 IT WILL BE MADE PART OF THE

5:54 RECORD AND AVAILABLE TO ALL

5:56 COUNCILORS.

5:56 PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL BE TAKEN

5:58 AT THE END OF THIS HEARING.

6:00 INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CALLED IN

6:01 THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY HAVE

6:02 SIGNED UP AND WILL HAVE TWO

6:03 MINUTES UM TO TESTIFY IF YOU

6:05 WISH TO SIGN UP FOR PUBLIC

6:06 TESTIMONY AND HAVE NOT DONE SO

6:08 ,PLEASE EMAIL CENTRAL STAFF

6:10 LIAISON MEGAN

6:14 KAVANAUGH@BOSTON.GOV.

6:15 FOR THE ZOOM LINK AND YOUR NAME

6:16 WILL BE ADDED TO THE LIST.

6:18 TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET

6:21 0406 AND ORDER FOR A HEARING ON

6:23 THE TRANSPARENCY AND

6:24 ACCOUNTABILITY OF PRIVATE

6:26 FUNDRAISING IN OUR BOSTON

6:27 PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

6:29 THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

6:31 YOURS TRULY COUNCILOR JULIA

6:33 HERE AND WAS REFERRED TO THE

6:35 COMMITTEE ON FEBRUARY 25TH

6:38 2026.

6:39 TODAY I AM JOINED BY MY

6:43 COLLEAGUES IN ORDER OF ARRIVAL

6:44 WITH PERFECT ATTENDANCE AS

6:46 ALWAYS COUNCILOR FLYNN DISTRICT

6:47 TWO.

6:49 UM AND WE HAVE ONE LETTER

6:52 OF ABSENCE FROM COUNCILOR HAD

6:53 DISTRICT FIVE A COUNCILOR AND

6:55 RECAPPING UM SO I AM GOING TO

6:59 JUST QUICKLY START OFF WITH MY

7:01 OPENING REMARKS.

7:02 UH, AFTER MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES

7:04 UH, GO FIRST.

7:06 SO COUNCILOR UM, FLYNN, YOU NOW

7:08 HAVE THE FLOOR.

7:12 AND THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

7:14 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU,

7:16 MADAM CHAIR, FOR BRINGING THIS

7:17 FORWARD.

7:18 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

7:20 THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ABOUT TO

7:21 TESTIFY THEIR IMPORTANT WORK AS

7:24 WELL.

7:24 I'M HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT

7:26 THE SUBJECT AND WILL HOLD OFF

7:29 ON GIVING A FORMAL OPENING

7:30 STATEMENT.

7:31 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

7:34 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

7:35 UM, SO I JUST WANT TO THANK

7:37 EVERYONE FOR JOINING US TODAY

7:38 ESPECIALLY THE EXPERTS, THE

7:40 ADVOCATES AND MEMBERS OF THE

7:41 ADMINISTRATION.

7:42 AS WE KNOW, THE BUDGET HAS

7:44 INCREASED EVERY YEAR.

7:46 YET MANY SCHOOLS AND EDUCATORS

7:48 CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE GETTING

7:50 BASIC SUPPLIES IN THEIR

7:52 CLASSROOMS.

7:52 THE DISTRICT CLAIMS TO ENSURE

7:54 THAT STUDENTS HAVE EQUITABLE

7:56 ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION AND

7:59 EXPERIENCES.

8:00 AND YET WE HAVE SEEN AGAIN AND

8:02 AGAIN HOW BHP'S BUDGET DOES NOT

8:05 REFLECT THAT.

8:06 WE HAVE OUR SCHOOLS THAT

8:07 RECEIVE HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS

8:09 OF DOLLARS MORE THAN OTHER

8:12 SCHOOLS ACROSS THE STREET.

8:14 AND THIS IS NOT EQUITY.

8:16 FURTHERMORE, MANY OF THESE

8:18 SCHOOLS RECEIVE LITTLE TO NO

8:20 SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGETARY SUPPORT

8:22 AND ARE ALREADY UNDER-RESOURCED

8:24 AND HAVE HIGH NUMBER OF HIGH

8:25 NEEDS STUDENTS.

8:27 WE CANNOT CLAIM TO BE EQUITABLE

8:29 .

8:30 UM, IF IF THESE DISPARITIES IN

8:32 PRIVATE DONATIONS AND

8:33 FUNDRAISING ALONE AUTOMATICALLY

8:36 CONTRADICTS THIS, WE RECOGNIZE

8:38 THE WAY THAT THE NEW REIMAGINE

8:40 SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA HAS

8:42 TRIED TO BECOME MORE EQUITABLE.

8:43 BUT IT IS NOT PERFECT WHEN

8:46 EDUCATORS RESORT TO DONOR SHOES

8:48 OR A GO FUND ME FOR TEACHERS

8:50 AND SCHOOLS ASKING FOR SCHOOL

8:51 SUPPLIES AND KNEEPADS FOR

8:53 VOLLEYBALL TEAMS.

8:54 IT'S OBVIOUS THAT THERE'S A

8:56 SERIOUS DISCREPANCY BETWEEN

8:58 WHAT THE DISTRICT BELIEVE IS

8:59 EQUITABLE AND THE LIVED

9:01 EXPERIENCES OF OUR STUDENTS AND

9:03 EDUCATORS.

9:04 TODAY WE HOPE TO GET A BETTER

9:06 UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE

9:07 DISTRICT CONSIDERS PRIVATE

9:08 DOLLARS IN OUR SCHOOLS.

9:10 WHEN THINKING ABOUT FUNDING

9:12 SCHOOLS AND HOW WE CAN BETTER

9:13 SUPPORT OUR SCHOOLS AND

9:14 FAMILIES IN UNDER-RESOURCED

9:16 SCHOOLS.

9:17 WE ALSO MUST BE MORE

9:19 TRANSPARENT AROUND PRIVATE

9:20 FUNDING IN THE DISTRICT.

9:22 WE APPRECIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS

9:24 FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND

9:26 DONORS, BUT WE NEED TO HAVE A

9:28 BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW

9:29 THOSE FINANCES, UM, SUPPORT

9:32 EACH SCHOOL.

9:33 TODAY WE'LL HAVE THREE PANELS

9:35 IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER EXPERTS

9:37 ADVOCATES UH AND THE

9:39 ADMINISTRATION AND SINCE THERE

9:40 ARE THREE PANELS WILL ONLY HAVE

9:42 ONE ROUND OF QUESTIONS PER

9:44 PANEL.

9:44 THE HEARING WILL FINISH WITH

9:46 PUBLIC TESTIMONY SO THAT THEY

9:48 CAN RESPOND TO EVERYTHING THAT

9:50 WE HAVE HEARD TODAY.

9:51 THANK YOU TO THE ADMINISTRATION

9:52 FOR BEING HERE AND WE LOOK

9:54 FORWARD FROM HEARING FROM YOU

9:57 TODAY.

9:58 UM, AND WORKING TOGETHER

9:59 ALONGSIDE YOU AND I'LL JUST SAY

10:01 AS A GRADUATES AND AS A MOM AND

10:06 AS A ADVOCATE, UH, I THINK THIS

10:08 IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT

10:10 ISSUES WHEN WE'RE THINKING

10:11 ABOUT FUNDING UM, BECAUSE THERE

10:14 IS THIS MENTALITY OF THE HAVES

10:15 AND THE HAVE NOTS AND THE

10:17 STUDENTS WHO ARE IN

10:18 UNDER-RESOURCED SCHOOLS ARE THE

10:19 ONES THAT ARE EXPERIENCING THE

10:21 GREATEST, UM, NEED.

10:22 AND SO MY HOPE IS THAT WE CAN

10:24 FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN GET A

10:27 HANDLE ON THIS AND MORE

10:28 IMPORTANTLY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO

10:29 DO TO FIX IT.

10:31 SO WITH THAT I AM GOING TO TURN

10:34 IT OVER TO THE MEDIA.

10:35 SORRY MADAM CHAIR, I JUST

10:37 WANTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT I'VE

10:38 ALSO BEEN HERE FROM THE

10:39 BEGINNING AND COUNCIL MEMBER

10:40 COUNCIL WEBER IS ALSO HERE SO I

10:42 DON'T NEED TO GIVE AN OPENING.

10:43 I JUST WANTED TO MARK MY

10:44 PRESENCE.

10:45 THANK YOU.

10:46 SEAT.

10:46 SAME HERE.

10:47 CHAIR I JUST WANT TO, UH, FEEL

10:49 FREE TO MOVE ON TO THAT

10:51 OPENING.

10:51 STREAM FOR ME.

10:52 OKAY.

10:52 SORRY.

10:53 I WAS ON MY PHONE.

10:54 I DID NOT NOTICE I DIDN'T

10:55 SCROLL DOWN.

10:56 UM, SO THANK YOU.

10:57 COUNCILOR WEBER.

10:58 UM, AND COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR

11:01 FOR JOINING US.

11:02 UH, WITH ALL OF THAT SAID.

11:04 UM, WE'LL KICK IT OVER TO OUR,

11:07 UM, EXPERTS.

11:10 UM, SO AND TO BE HONEST WITH

11:13 YOU, WE HAVE, UM, OUR FIRST

11:17 EXPERT.

11:18 LET ME GO.

11:20 UH, WHERE IS MY SHEET?

11:23 SORRY.

11:28 OKAY, GOING BACK TO THE

11:31 OFFICIAL HERE.

11:32 UH, SO WE HAVE, UM, MARK.

11:38 UH OH, LORD.

11:39 MARK, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO

11:40 HELP ME WITH YOUR LAST THING.

11:41 TRAGER.

11:42 MARK.

11:43 TRAGER.

11:43 RIGHT?

11:44 OKAY.

11:45 ENGLISH IS MY SECOND

11:46 LANGUAGE AND I GOT THAT ONE

11:47 RIGHT.

11:47 SO THANK YOU.

11:48 AND YOU ARE A FORMER NEW YORK

11:49 CITY COUNCIL MEMBER.

11:51 UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE

11:53 TRAVIS MARSHALL.

11:55 UM, AND WE'LL BEGIN WITH YOU,

11:57 MARK.

11:57 YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

12:00 THANK YOU.

12:00 UH, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

12:02 GOOD AFTERNOON.

12:03 AND, UH.

12:04 I HAVE TO SAY AS A.

12:06 FORMER HISTORY TEACHER.

12:06 MUCH LOVE AND APPRECIATION FOR

12:09 THE.

12:10 BEAUTIFUL CITY OF BOSTON AND

12:11 ALL THE GREAT, UH, PUBLIC

12:13 SERVANTS AND FAMILIES.

12:14 SO MUCH LOVE FROM NEW YORK, UH

12:15 ,TO BOSTON.

12:17 MY NAME IS, UH.

12:18 MARK TRAGER.

12:19 I AM A FORMER NEW YORK CITY

12:21 PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER, UH, AND

12:23 FORMER.

12:23 MEMBER OF THE NEW.

12:24 YORK CITY COUNCIL AND I ALSO

12:26 CHAIRED THE COMMITTEE ON

12:27 EDUCATION IN CITY COUNCIL.

12:29 I WANT TO BEGIN WITH WHY I

12:31 PURSUED AND ALSO THANK YOU FOR

12:32 THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY.

12:33 I WANT TO BEGIN WITH WHY I

12:34 PURSUED PTA FUNDRAISING

12:36 TRANSPARENCY IN THE FIRST

12:38 PLACE.

12:38 UH, BECAUSE FOR ME THIS WAS

12:40 NEVER SIMPLY A DATA EXERCISE.

12:43 UM UH.

12:44 THIS UH WAS DIRECTLY FROM WHAT

12:46 I EXPERIENCED AS A TEACHER AND

12:48 A MEMBER OF THE CITY

12:50 COUNCIL WHILE I WAS TEACHING.

12:51 I WAS ALSO ATTENDING GRAD

12:53 SCHOOL AT NIGHT AT BROOKLYN

12:54 COLLEGE TO BECOME A SCHOOL

12:56 ADMINISTRATOR.

12:56 AND IN THOSE CLASSES I HEARD

12:58 FROM CLASSMATES DESCRIBE THE

13:01 EXTRAORDINARY SUPPLEMENTAL.

13:03 RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN SOME

13:04 OF THEIR SCHOOLS THROUGH PARENT

13:06 FUNDRAISING ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

13:08 ,ADDITIONAL CLUBS, ARTS

13:09 PROGRAMS, FIELD TRIPS, ACADEMIC

13:11 SUPPORT AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

13:13 THAT EXTENDED WELL BEYOND WHAT

13:14 THE SCHOOL SYSTEM ITSELF WAS

13:16 PROVIDING AT THE SAME TIME.

13:18 THE SCHOOL WHERE I WAS TEACHING

13:21 HAD TO CUT ITS DEBATE TEAM

13:22 BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE

13:23 SUFFICIENT FUNDING TO SUSTAIN

13:25 IT.

13:26 THAT CONTRAST STAYED WITH ME.

13:28 UM, THESE ARE.

13:29 ALL NEW YORK.

13:30 CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS.

13:31 THEY'RE ALL PART OF THE SAME

13:32 SCHOOL SYSTEM.

13:32 YET THE RANGE OF OPPORTUNITIES

13:34 AVAILABLE TO THEM COULD DIFFER

13:36 DRAMATICALLY BASED NOT ON THEIR

13:38 ,UH, POTENTIAL OR ABILITY OR

13:41 AMBITION BUT ON THE FUNDRAISING

13:43 CAPACITY OF THE FAMILIES IN

13:44 THEIR SCHOOL COMMUNITY OR BASED

13:45 UPON THEIR ZIP CODE.

13:47 YEARS LATER WHEN.

13:48 I REPRESENTED THE COMMUNITY

13:50 OF CONEY ISLAND AND SOUTHERN

13:51 BROOKLYN AND OTHER WORKING

13:53 CLASS NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY

13:54 COUNCIL, I SAW THE SAME

13:56 INEQUITY FROM A BROADER

13:57 PERSPECTIVE.

13:58 I SAW SCHOOLS IN MY DISTRICT

13:59 CREATING GOFUNDME PAGES SIMPLY

14:01 .

14:02 TO SUPPORT.

14:02 STUDENT CLUBS AND BASIC

14:03 ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES.

14:05 AT THE SAME TIME I WAS HEARING

14:07 ABOUT SCHOOLS IN WEALTHIER ZIP.

14:08 CODES IN NEW YORK WHERE PRIVATE

14:10 .

14:10 FUNDRAISING COULD SUPPORT.

14:12 EXTRAORDINARY PROGRAMING,

14:13 INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AND OTHER

14:15 OPPORTUNITIES THAT WERE SIMPLY

14:17 UNIMAGINABLE TO MANY OF THE

14:18 STUDENTS I REPRESENTED.

14:20 I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR.

14:21 ABOUT THIS FROM THE ONSET.

14:24 PARENT GENEROSITY WAS NEVER THE

14:26 PROBLEM.

14:26 IT'S NOT THE PROBLEM.

14:28 PARENTS WHO ARE ABLE TO

14:29 POSITION TO GIVE THEIR TIME,

14:30 ENERGY AND RESOURCES.

14:31 TO SUPPORT THEIR SCHOOLS.

14:33 SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY COMMENDED

14:34 .

14:34 THE PUBLIC POLICY PROBLEM

14:36 ARISES.

14:37 WHEN PRIVATELY RAISED

14:38 RESOURCES.

14:39 BEGIN PRODUCING PROFOUNDLY

14:40 DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL

14:42 EXPERIENCES WITHIN THE SAME

14:43 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WHILE

14:44 GOVERNMENT FAILS TO FULLY.

14:46 MEASURE, DISCLOSE OR RESPOND.

14:48 TO THAT DISPARITY.

14:49 THAT WAS.

14:49 THE PURPOSE OF MY

14:50 LEGISLATION AND IT IS IMPORTANT

14:53 TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BILL DID

14:54 AND WHAT IT DID NOT DO.

14:56 WE WERE NOT.

14:57 CREATING A NEW FINANCIAL

14:58 REPORTING.

14:58 SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH.

15:00 THE CHANCELLOR'S REGULATIONS.

15:02 ALREADY REQUIRED.

15:04 PARENT ASSOCIATIONS AND PTAS TO

15:06 MAINTAIN FINANCIAL RECORDS AND

15:08 PROVIDE FINANCIAL INFORMATION.

15:10 THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WAS

15:11 ALREADY COLLECTING MUCH OF THIS

15:13 DATA.

15:14 MY LEGISLATION.

15:14 SIMPLY REQUIRED THAT THIS

15:16 INFORMATION BE MADE PUBLIC.

15:18 TRANSPARENCY WAS THE OBJECTIVE

15:19 .

15:20 THERE WAS.

15:21 UNDERSTANDABLE CONCERN FROM

15:22 SOME COMMUNITIES WITH

15:24 SIGNIFICANT FUNDRAISING

15:25 CAPACITY.

15:26 SOME FOLKS ASKED WHAT IS THE

15:28 ENDGAME?

15:28 ARE YOU GOING.

15:29 TO.

15:29 CAP FUNDRAISING.

15:30 OR ARE YOU GOING TO

15:31 REDISTRIBUTE.

15:32 PTA DOLLARS?

15:34 UM AND THE ANSWER WAS ALWAYS

15:35 NO.

15:36 UH, THE.

15:37 LEGISLATION DID NOT, YOU.

15:38 KNOW, REDISTRIBUTE RESOURCES

15:40 OR FUNDS.

15:41 IT DID NOT LIMIT FUNDRAISING.

15:42 IT DID NOT PUNISH ANY TYPES

15:44 OF SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING

15:45 EFFORTS.

15:46 IT SIMPLY AND.

15:48 SOLELY REQUIRED DISCLOSURE.

15:49 AND WHAT THAT.

15:51 DISCLOSED REVEALED.

15:52 WAS STRIKING.

15:53 IN THE FIRST YEAR OF PUBLIC

15:54 REPORTING.

15:55 ,OVER.

15:56 24 PTA WAS REPORTED RAISING

15:57 OVER AT.

15:59 LEAST $1 MILLION.

16:00 BUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT DATA

16:01 WAS ALSO IMPORTANT.

16:02 HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS.

16:06 EITHER REPORTED NO.

16:07 FUNDRAISING AT ALL OR.

16:08 FAILED TO SUBMIT THE REQUIRED

16:11 INFORMATION.

16:11 THAT RAISED.

16:12 A SECOND AND EQUALLY

16:13 IMPORTANT.

16:13 EQUITY QUESTION.

16:14 DID EVERY SCHOOL.

16:16 ACTUALLY HAVE AN ACTIVE

16:17 FUNCTIONING PARENT ORGANIZATION

16:19 WITH.

16:20 THE INSTITUTIONAL.

16:21 SUPPORT NECESSARY.

16:22 TO SUCCEED?

16:24 UM SOME.

16:25 SCHOOL COMMUNITIES HAVE.

16:25 HAD FAMILIES WITH.

16:27 FLEXIBLE WORK SCHEDULES.

16:29 PROFESSIONAL FUNDRAISING

16:29 EXPERIENCE, EXTENSIVE EXTENSIVE

16:32 NETWORKS.

16:32 AND SIGNIFICANT DISPOSABLE

16:33 INCOME.

16:34 OTHER FAMILIES MAY BE WORKING.

16:36 MULTIPLE JOBS CONFRONTING

16:37 LANGUAGE.

16:37 BARRIERS, CARING FOR CHILDREN

16:40 OR.

16:41 LOVED ONES OR.

16:41 SIMPLY HAVE NEVER BEEN GIVEN

16:43 THE.

16:43 INFRASTRUCTURE OR SUPPORT

16:44 NEEDED.

16:45 TO BUILD A STRONG PARENT

16:46 ORGANIZATION.

16:47 NONE OF THAT MEANS THEY CARE

16:49 ANY.

16:49 LESS ABOUT.

16:49 THEIR CHILDREN.

16:50 AND WE.

16:51 SHOULD.

16:51 NEVER CONFUSE FUNDRAISING

16:52 CAPACITY WITH PARENTAL

16:53 COMMITMENT.

16:54 THAT IS WHY I PRESSED THE

16:56 D.O.E..

16:56 HERE IN NEW YORK CITY WHETHER.

16:58 EVERY PTA.

16:59 AND MPA.

17:00 SHOULD RECEIVE.

17:01 A BASELINE LEVEL OF.

17:02 SUPPORT AT OUR HEARING.

17:04 I ASKED WHETHER THE SYSTEM HAD

17:06 HISTORICALLY.

17:06 PROVIDED EVERY PARENT.

17:08 ORGANIZATION WITH SOME BASE

17:09 AMOUNT OF FUNDING AND SUPPORT.

17:11 D.O.E. COULD NOT POINT TO SUCH

17:13 A POLICY FROM THAT.

17:14 FOR ME THAT BECAME VERY

17:16 CENTRAL.

17:16 ONE OF THE LESSONS FROM THE LAW

17:18 .

17:18 THE OBJECTIVE WAS.

17:19 NEVER TO.

17:20 LOWER.

17:20 THE CEILING.

17:20 FOR PTAS.

17:21 IT WAS TO RAISE.

17:23 THE FLOOR FOR EVERYONE ELSE.

17:24 IF ONE SCHOOL CAN RAISE MORE

17:26 THAN $1 MILLION WHILE ANOTHER

17:27 SCHOOL CANNOT SUSTAIN BASIC.

17:29 PARENT PROGRAMING.

17:30 OR MAY NOT EVEN HAVE A FULLY

17:32 FUNCTIONING ORGANIZATION, THE

17:33 ANSWER IS NOT TO SIMPLY PUNISH

17:35 WHAT'S WORKING IT'S TO.

17:36 LIFT UP.

17:37 AND TO.

17:38 ADDRESS WHAT'S NOT WHAT'S

17:39 NOT WORKING.

17:40 UH THAT.

17:41 CAN INCLUDE RESOURCES FOR

17:42 TRAINING.

17:43 ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT, HELPING

17:44 WITH LANGUAGE ACCESS HELP

17:46 NAVIGATING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM

17:48 AND BASELINE RESOURCES THAT.

17:49 A VIBRANT.

17:50 PARENT ORGANIZATION DOES NOT

17:52 DEPEND ENTIRELY.

17:53 ON THE.

17:53 WEALTH OR.

17:54 PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS.

17:55 OF A PARTICULAR ZIP CODE.

17:56 THE LAW JUST TO SUMMARIZE.

17:58 THE LAW.

17:59 HAD ULTIMATELY.

17:59 THREE IMPORTANT EFFECTS.

18:01 FIRST, IT.

18:02 TRANSFORMED AN ANECDOTAL

18:04 CONVERSATION INTO AN EVIDENCE

18:05 BASED ONE.

18:06 SECOND, IT REVEALED THAT THE.

18:08 INEQUITY WAS NOT ONLY ABOUT

18:09 DOLLARS.

18:10 IT WAS ALSO.

18:10 ABOUT ORGANIZATIONAL.

18:11 CAPACITY AND.

18:12 WHETHER ALL FAMILIES HAD.

18:14 EQUAL SUPPORT TO.

18:14 PARTICIPATE MEANINGFULLY.

18:16 AND FULLY IN SCHOOL LIFE.

18:17 AND THIRD, IT CREATED.

18:19 LASTING PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY.

18:21 NEW YORK CITY CONTINUES TO.

18:22 PUBLISH THIS INFORMATION

18:24 ANNUALLY.

18:25 TRANSPARENCY ALONE DOES NOT

18:27 ELIMINATE.

18:28 INEQUITY, BUT IT CHANGES THE

18:30 QUALITY.

18:30 AND THE SUBSTANCE OF THE

18:32 CONVERSATION.

18:33 YOU CANNOT SIMPLY YOU CANNOT.

18:35 RESPONSIBLY ADDRESS A.

18:36 DISPARITY THAT.

18:37 YOU.

18:37 REFUSE TO.

18:38 MEASURE AND YOU CANNOT HAVE A

18:39 SERIOUS.

18:40 CONVERSATION ABOUT EDUCATIONAL

18:41 OPPORTUNITY WHILE LEAVING.

18:43 A.

18:43 SIGNIFICANT SOURCE

18:44 OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES.

18:45 OUTSIDE PUBLIC VIEW.

18:46 ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT

18:47 LESSONS.

18:48 I CARRIED.

18:48 WITH ME.

18:49 FROM THIS CLASSROOM INTO

18:50 PUBLIC.

18:50 OFFICE IS THIS.

18:52 TALENT IS DISTRIBUTED ACROSS.

18:54 EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD.

18:55 OPPORTUNITY IS NOT.

18:57 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A.

18:58 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS TO

18:59 NARROW THAT GAP, NOT TO OBSCURE

19:01 IT.

19:01 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.

19:03 TO.

19:03 SHARE MY EXPERIENCE.

19:04 HERE IN NEW YORK CITY.

19:06 THANK YOU MARK AND MY SISTER IS

19:09 ALSO A NEW YORK PUBLIC SCHOOL

19:11 TEACHER.

19:11 SHE TEACHES AT AVIATION.

19:14 UM AND SO AND SHE'S ALSO A

19:17 UNION REP AND IS UH DOING THE

19:20 GOOD WORK.

19:21 SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

19:23 UM, AND FOR BEING HERE TODAY.

19:24 ALL RIGHT.

19:25 I'M GOING TO GO OVER TO TRAVIS

19:28 AND THEN UM, AFTER TRAVIS WILL

19:30 GO FOR OUR FIRST ROUND

19:32 OF QUESTIONS SO MY COLLEAGUES

19:34 JUST GET READY, UM, TO DIVE IN.

19:37 OKAY.

19:38 TRAVIS.

19:39 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

19:40 THANK YOU.

19:41 AND THANK YOU, COUNCILORS, FOR

19:42 BEING HERE.

19:43 UH, AND MEMBERS OF THE

19:44 ADMINISTRATION AND, UH,

19:46 MR TRAGER, OF COURSE.

19:47 MY NAME IS TRAVIS MARSHALL.

19:49 I LIVE IN ROSLINDALE.

19:50 I AM THE PROUD PARENT OF TWO

19:52 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS STUDENTS

19:53 .

19:53 UH, ONE OF TWO ENGLISH HIGH

19:55 SCHOOL, ONE OF NEW MISSION.

19:57 AND I'M ALSO A MEMBER

19:59 OF QUALITY SCHOOLS FOR EVERY

20:00 STUDENT QUEST, WHICH IS A

20:02 GRASSROOT GROUP OF PARENTS IN

20:03 THE DISTRICT.

20:06 I PERSONALLY FIRST CAME TO THIS

20:08 ISSUE, UH, OVER THE COURSE

20:09 OF MY SIX YEARS ACTING AS

20:11 TREASURER OF THE FAMILY

20:12 COUNCIL AT MY KID'S FORMER

20:14 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

20:15 WE TYPICALLY RAISED MONEY FOR

20:18 PIZZA PARTIES, FIELD TRIPS, UH

20:20 ,WINTER CLOTHING DRIVES AND

20:22 EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAMS LIKE

20:24 MUSIC.

20:26 UM, WHEN SOLICITING DONATIONS

20:27 FROM LOCAL BUSINESSES THOUGH,

20:29 IT ALWAYS SORT OF FELT LIKE

20:31 SCHOOLS WERE IN COMPETITION

20:32 WITH EACH OTHER OVER THINGS

20:35 LIKE RESTAURANT GIFT

20:36 CERTIFICATES OR SPORTS TICKETS

20:37 THAT WE COULD RAFFLE AS

20:39 FUNDRAISERS.

20:41 QUEST FIRST UH, CAME INTO THIS

20:43 UH, WORK AFTER A 2018 ERNST AND

20:46 YOUNG AUDIT OF INDIVIDUAL

20:48 SCHOOL ACCOUNTS.

20:49 THIS WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY

20:51 TIME THERE HAS BEEN A DISTRICT

20:52 WIDE SNAPSHOT OF SCHOOL

20:55 ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE OF THE BUDGET.

20:57 QUEST USED THAT DATA TO COMPARE

21:01 SCHOOL FUNDRAISING LEVELS

21:02 ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

21:03 AND WE FOUND THAT THIS

21:05 FUNDRAISING VARIED WIDELY

21:07 BETWEEN SCHOOLS.

21:08 SOME HAD 501 C3 ORGANIZATIONS

21:11 AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, WITH

21:14 A FEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

21:15 RAISING HALF $1 MILLION A YEAR

21:17 AND SOME HIGH SCHOOLS RAISING

21:19 MILLIONS AND OTHERS SOLD CANDY

21:21 BARS AND WRAPPING PAPER THROUGH

21:23 THEIR SCHOOL PARENT COUNCILS

21:24 FOR A FEW HUNDRED.

21:26 SOME SCHOOLS FUND

21:28 ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS,

21:29 SURROUND CARE UH AND WORLD

21:32 LANGUAGE CLASSES WHILE OTHERS

21:33 FUNDRAISE FOR WINTER COATS.

21:36 AND WHAT WE WE LEARNED AS WE

21:38 DUG IN WAS WE LEARNED THAT THIS

21:40 PHENOMENON IS.

21:41 PRETTY COMMON IN PUBLIC SCHOOL.

21:43 DISTRICTS AROUND THE COUNTRY.

21:44 AND WE SET OUT TO LEARN MORE

21:46 ABOUT THIS WORK IN OTHER CITIES

21:47 AND TOWNS FROM PORTLAND, OREGON

21:50 TO NEW YORK CITY AS WELL AS

21:51 LOCALLY IN NEWTON AND WAYLAND,

21:54 MASSACHUSETTS.

21:55 WE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH LOCAL

21:56 PARENT GROUPS AND SCHOOL

21:58 DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES.

21:59 AND IT WAS THROUGH THESE

22:01 CONVERSATIONS IN NEW YORK THAT

22:02 WE MET MY FELLOW PANELISTS,

22:03 FORMER NEW YORK CITY

22:04 COUNCILOR MARK TRAGER.

22:06 AS EACH YEAR PASSED FROM THAT

22:08 2018 AUDIT, HOWEVER, OUR DATA

22:10 BECAME OLDER AND MORE OUT

22:13 OF DATE.

22:14 WE UPDATED WHAT WE COULD FROM

22:16 THE IRS FILINGS THAT TAX EXEMPT

22:18 ORGANIZATIONS ARE REQUIRED BY

22:19 LAW TO FILE.

22:21 BUT THAT LEFT OUT THE MAJORITY

22:23 OF OTHER SCHOOLS WITHOUT 501C

22:25 THREES.

22:26 THANKS TO UH COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE

22:29 WE CONNECTED WITH PAMELA LYONS,

22:31 THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE

22:32 BOSTON EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

22:33 FUND.

22:35 BEDFORD HAS LONG ACTED AS A

22:37 FISCAL SPONSOR FOR SCHOOL

22:38 GROUPS THAT DON'T HAVE THEIR

22:40 OWN TAX EXEMPT STATUS.

22:42 AND SHE HELPED US GET A FULLER

22:44 PICTURE OF THE SCHOOLS THAT

22:45 THEY HOLD ACCOUNTS FOR.

22:49 SO THIS.

22:50 STREAM OF MONEY IS REALLY A.

22:52 BLACK BOX FOR DPS.

22:54 UNLIKE THE BUDGET WHICH IS

22:55 PUBLICLY DEBATED AT SCHOOL

22:57 COMMITTEE AND VOTED UPON IN

22:59 PUBLIC BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE

23:00 AND THE CITY COUNCIL, THERE IS

23:04 NO PUBLIC RECORD OF HOW PRIVATE

23:05 MONEY WORKS IN.

23:07 AND WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE

23:08 GRANTS THAT ARE VOTED UPON BY

23:11 UH BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

23:13 THESE ARE SCHOOL PARENT

23:14 COUNCILS AND FRIENDS

23:15 OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE

23:16 AFFILIATED WITH SPECIFIC

23:17 SCHOOLS.

23:20 SUPERINTENDENT CIRCULAR FY 21.

23:24 ON DPS RECOGNIZED 501 C3

23:26 ORGANIZATIONS STATES THAT ALL

23:28 TAX EXEMPT SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONS

23:30 MUST PROVE A STRONG RATIONALE

23:32 FOR THE NEED FOR A SEPARATE

23:34 INDEPENDENT 501 C3 AND.

23:36 MUST UPDATE.

23:38 ON CURRENT DETAILS INCLUDING

23:40 BOARD STRUCTURE, STATUS AND

23:42 OPERATING REVENUE.

23:44 WE'VE CONTACTED THE FINANCE

23:45 OFFICE AND AND RECEIVED

23:47 INFORMATION FROM THEM BUT BASED

23:49 ON THE INFORMATION THEY GAVE

23:50 US, WE BELIEVE WE HAVE A MUCH

23:52 FULLER PICTURE THAN DPS DOES.

23:55 WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT THIS

23:56 INFORMATION SHOULD.

23:57 NOT BE A BLACK BOX.

24:00 WE RECOMMEND THE DPS CREATE A

24:02 DASHBOARD THAT IS UPDATED

24:03 ANNUALLY FOR ALL FUNDING

24:06 SOURCES AND EXPENDITURES.

24:08 SO THE FUNDING OF OUR PUBLIC

24:09 SCHOOLS REMAINS TRANSPARENT TO

24:12 STAKEHOLDERS AND TAXPAYERS.

24:15 CAREGIVERS SHOULD HAVE ACCESS

24:16 TO THIS INFORMATION WHEN THEY

24:17 MAKE.

24:18 DECISIONS ABOUT BEFORE AND

24:19 AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, AS WELL

24:22 AS WHAT EXTRA FUNDS AND

24:23 PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE AT

24:24 VARIOUS SCHOOLS.

24:26 AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT NEW

24:28 YORK CITY DID AS

24:30 COUNCILOR TRAGER JUST EXPLAINED

24:32 WITH LOCAL.

24:32 LAW 171.

24:34 UH, I APPRECIATE YOU HOLDING

24:36 THIS HEARING, MADAME CHAIR, AND

24:38 I LOOK FORWARD TO ANSWERING ANY

24:39 QUESTIONS FROM YOU AND YOUR

24:40 COLLEAGUES.

24:40 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

24:41 THANK YOU.

24:42 TRAVIS.

24:43 UM, AND I'M HAPPY TO SEE PAMELA

24:46 LANES HERE.

24:47 UM, DEFINITELY ONE OF THE GEMS

24:50 IN HELPING TO SUPPORT SO MANY

24:52 OF OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

24:53 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE,

24:54 PAMELA, AND ALL THAT YOU DO.

24:56 UM, I'M GOING TO GO UH, TO MY

25:00 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES FOR THEIR

25:01 FIRST ROUND OF QUESTIONS AND

25:02 THEN I'LL END WITH MINE.

25:04 UH, IN ORDER OF ARRIVAL I

25:05 BELIEVE IT WAS COUNCILOR FLYNN

25:08 FOLLOWED BY COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

25:10 AND THEN COUNCILOR WEBER.

25:11 UM, SO COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU NOW

25:14 HAVE THE FLOOR AND FIVE

25:16 MINUTES.

25:17 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

25:18 THANK YOU TO THE PANEL FOR

25:20 BEING HERE.

25:20 I LISTENED CLOSELY TO

25:23 COUNCILOR TRAGER.

25:24 I LISTENED CLOSELY TO TRAVIS AS

25:26 WELL.

25:26 UH, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS

25:28 FOR BOTH.

25:29 UM, COUNCILOR TRAGER, YOU

25:32 MENTIONED IF I HEARD YOU

25:34 CORRECTLY THAT THE NEW YORK

25:37 CITY NEW YORK CITY POST THIS

25:40 INFORMATION EACH YEAR ABOUT

25:43 PRIVATE FUNDRAISING.

25:43 IS THAT IS THAT ACCURATE?

25:45 UH, YES, COUNCILOR.

25:47 UM.

25:48 AS A RESULT.

25:49 OF.

25:49 UH, MY BILL PASSING INTO LAW.

25:52 UH, THE.

25:53 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS NOW.

25:55 REQUIRED TO ANNUALLY.

25:57 DISCLOSE, UH, PTA.

25:59 FUNDRAISING ON AN ANNUAL BASIS

26:01 AND POSTED ON THEIR WEBSITE.

26:02 CORRECT.

26:04 OKAY.

26:05 THAT'S UM THAT'S PRETTY

26:06 PRETTY IMPRESSIVE.

26:07 I I'D LOVE TO SEE SOMETHING

26:09 LIKE THAT IN BOSTON.

26:11 UM AND AND DO ALL SCHOOLS ARE

26:14 ALL SCHOOLS REQUIRED EVEN

26:15 THOUGH IT IS THE ARE ALL

26:17 SCHOOLS STILL REQUIRED TO

26:19 SUBMIT THAT INFORMATION IN THE

26:22 PROPER FORMAT?

26:24 SO UH.

26:24 CITY COUNCILOR UH IN THE PUBLIC

26:28 SCHOOL SYSTEM.

26:28 HERE IN NEW YORK CITY.

26:30 ALL PARTIES OR PARENT.

26:32 ASSOCIATIONS AND PTAS.

26:34 WERE ALREADY REQUIRED BEFORE.

26:36 THE PASSAGE OF MY LAW BY

26:38 CHANCELLOR'S.

26:38 REGULATIONS.

26:39 WHICH ARE REGS THAT.

26:40 GOVERN THE.

26:41 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

26:42 TO REPORT ANY.

26:43 FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY TO THE

26:45 CENTRAL OFFICE.

26:47 SO EVEN BEFORE MY BILL BECAME

26:49 LAW, THE.

26:50 CENTRAL OFFICE ALREADY WAS

26:51 RESPONSIBLE.

26:52 TO COLLECT THIS INFORMATION AND

26:54 HAVE IT INTERNALLY.

26:54 WHAT MY BILL DID WAS.

26:57 MAKE THAT MAKE.

26:58 THIS PUBLIC.

26:59 SO UH.

26:59 YES, EVERY YEAR THEY'RE STILL

27:01 REQUIRED TO REPORT DATA.

27:04 CENTRALLY AND THEN CENTRAL

27:05 MAKES THE INFORMATION PUBLIC

27:05 SIR.

27:06 THAT.

27:07 THANK YOU.

27:08 UM, LET ME LET ME GO TO TRAVIS.

27:12 TRAVIS IS LISTENING LISTENING

27:14 TO THE COUNCIL OR IS THAT

27:15 SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE STRIVING

27:17 TO DO IS IS TO INCLUDE THAT

27:20 TYPE OF TRANSPARENCY AND

27:23 ACCOUNTABILITY OVER OVER TO BP?

27:25 IS THAT IS THAT ULTIMATELY YOUR

27:27 YOUR GOAL?

27:28 YEAH.

27:29 WE THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

27:30 THAT'S EXACTLY I THINK WHAT

27:32 WE'RE ADVOCATING FOR UM, IS

27:35 BECAUSE THERE IS NO CENTRAL

27:37 DATABASE OF DISINFORMATION.

27:40 UM IT'S ALL IN.

27:42 SILOS HERE AND THERE.

27:43 UH.

27:44 AND UH YOU KNOW, OTHER THAN.

27:46 BDF WHICH HELD A NUMBER

27:47 OF SCHOOL ACCOUNTS UNDER ITS

27:49 PORTFOLIO.

27:50 UM, THE REMAINING SCHOOLS.

27:53 THAT THAT ARE.

27:53 DON'T HAVE ACCOUNTS WITH THEM

27:55 OR THE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE THEIR

27:56 OWN.

27:56 UH THEIR OWN TAX EXEMPT

27:58 ORGANIZATIONS.

28:00 UM, THESE ARE ALL SCATTERED

28:02 AROUND AND.

28:03 THE DATA IS NOT PUBLIC AND

28:05 CERTAINLY NOT EASILY ACCESSIBLE

28:06 BY, UH, A PARENT IN THE

28:08 DISTRICT.

28:11 SO SO TRAVIS, THE THE DATA IS

28:13 NOT PUBLIC, BUT ARE THEY ARE

28:15 THEY STILL SENDING THE DATA TO

28:18 BEEPS OR OR SOME SCHOOLS SEND

28:21 IT IN SOME SCHOOLS?

28:23 UM NOT PARTICIPATE.

28:25 DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA?

28:27 UM I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A

28:28 GOOD.

28:29 UH, MR.

28:30 DAVID BLOOM WHO I BELIEVE WAS

28:31 ON THE, UH, ADMINISTRATION

28:32 PANEL CAN SPEAK TO THAT BETTER.

28:34 UH.

28:34 THE SUPERINTENDENT CIRCULAR

28:36 DOES.

28:36 UH, DOES.

28:38 SPECIFY THAT SCHOOLS SHOULD.

28:39 BE SENDING.

28:40 THE 520 THREES SHOULD BE

28:42 SENDING THAT INFORMATION TO

28:44 BP'S.

28:45 UM.

28:46 BUT THE THE INFORMATION THAT

28:48 WE THE LIST OF SCHOOLS BIBLE

28:50 AND C THREE IS THAT THE

28:52 ADMINISTRATION WAS ABLE TO

28:53 PROVIDE.

28:53 US DID NOT HAVE ANY OF THE.

28:55 ACTUAL FINANCIAL.

28:57 DATA IT JUST HAD THE LIST

28:58 OF THE SCHOOLS THAT HAD THEIR

29:00 OWN TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS.

29:03 OKAY.

29:03 UM AND AND MAYBE ONE

29:06 QUESTION ONE FINAL QUESTION TO

29:07 UM THE COUNCIL AGAIN.

29:09 SO MARK IS IS THAT INFORMATION

29:13 READILY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC

29:14 IN AN EASY TO UM LOOK AT FORMAT

29:18 ON ON SOCIAL MEDIA?

29:20 IS IT IS IT EASY FOR PARENTS OR

29:22 ANY ANY ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC TO

29:24 LOOK AT IT AND AND FIND OUT

29:26 EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING IN

29:26 THEIR SCHOOL?

29:28 UH, YES.

29:29 SEE FOR.

29:30 THE D.O.E..

29:32 IS REQUIRED.

29:32 TO POST IT ON ITS WEBSITE UH

29:34 IN.

29:35 EASILY EASY TO FIND AND THE

29:37 REASON WHY WE KNOW.

29:38 IT'S STILL.

29:39 UH WORKING.

29:41 IS BECAUSE EVERY ALMOST EVERY

29:43 YEAR.

29:43 THE MEDIA IN NEW YORK CITY WILL

29:46 GET.

29:47 GET AHOLD OF THAT DATA ONCE

29:48 IT'S ON THE WEBSITE AND THERE'S

29:50 USUALLY NEWS STORIES.

29:51 THAT THAT COME.

29:52 FROM THAT BECAUSE.

29:54 WE STILL HAVE A.

29:55 SITUATION WHERE YOU KNOW.

29:57 ABOUT.

29:58 24 SCHOOLS.

29:59 UH, YOU.

29:59 KNOW, RAISED ABOUT.

30:01 $1 MILLION.

30:02 OR MORE UH, OVER 40 SCHOOLS

30:04 RAISED OVER 500,000.

30:06 AND THEN OVER 370 SCHOOLS

30:09 REPORTED NO PTA.

30:10 INCOME AT ALL.

30:11 UH, AND SO THERE ARE.

30:12 SOME VERY DEEP.

30:13 DEEP DISPARITIES.

30:14 ALSO SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS.

30:16 TO THE D.O.E. HERE IN NEW YORK

30:17 CITY ABOUT.

30:19 WHY DO.

30:19 WE HAVE SO MANY SCHOOLS WITH

30:21 NO ACTIVE.

30:21 PA OR PTA AT ALL.

30:23 SEPARATE AND.

30:24 APART FROM THE MONEY.

30:25 WHAT'S HAPPENING.

30:26 OR WHAT'S NOT HAPPENING AT.

30:28 THIS SCHOOL AND.

30:28 WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO TO.

30:29 PROVIDE BASE OF SUPPORT.

30:31 TO HELP FAMILIES ORGANIZE

30:33 THERE?

30:33 SO YES SIR IT'S.

30:34 IT'S MADE AVAILABLE ON THE.

30:35 WEBSITE PUBLIC FACING.

30:37 WELL THANK YOU COUNSELOR AND

30:39 THANK YOU TRAVIS AND I I

30:42 RESPECT THE WORK THAT YOU YOUR

30:45 COLLEAGUES MARK WERE ABLE TO

30:46 ACCOMPLISH.

30:47 UM, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S ABOUT

30:51 TRANSPARENCY.

30:51 IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S ABOUT

30:53 ACCOUNTABILITY.

30:53 I I ALSO SUPPORT WHAT TRAVIS IS

30:56 TRYING TO DO AS WELL.

30:57 UM, UH, BUT I DO FIND IT

31:00 REMARKABLE THAT NEW YORK CITY

31:02 IS ABLE TO DO THAT.

31:03 I SAY THAT IN A IN A

31:06 COMPLIMENTARY WAY.

31:07 UM, YOU KNOW, WE I DON'T THINK

31:10 WE'RE WE'RE EVEN CLOSE TO BEING

31:12 WHERE YOU GUYS ARE.

31:14 BUT I DO THINK IN THE INTEREST

31:16 OF TRANSPARENCY AND

31:17 ACCOUNTABILITY, I THINK I THINK

31:19 FAMILIES IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD

31:21 LIKE TO RECEIVE THAT TYPE

31:23 OF INFORMATION.

31:24 JUST MY OWN OPINION.

31:25 UM, MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU VERY

31:27 MUCH.

31:28 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FLYNN.

31:29 AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT

31:30 WE'VE ALSO BEEN JOINED BY

31:32 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

31:33 UH, AND WE'RE DOING QUESTIONS

31:36 IN THE ORDER OF ARRIVAL.

31:37 UM, SO WE HAVE

31:39 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE UP NEXT

31:41 FOLLOWED BY COUNCILOR WEBER AND

31:43 THEN COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

31:45 COUNCILOR?

31:46 UH LOUIJEUNE.

31:47 YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR IN FIVE

31:50 MINUTES.

31:50 THANK YOU, CONCILOR MEJIA HERE.

31:51 AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR

31:53 BEING HERE.

31:53 APOLOGIES THAT I'M NOT ON

31:54 CAMERA HAVING LIKE TECHNICAL

31:57 DIFFICULTIES, BUT, UH, I WANTED

31:58 TO START OFF WITH

32:00 COUNCILOR TRAGER FROM OPPONENT

32:01 COUNSELOR TRAGER.

32:01 THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.

32:03 UM, CAN YOU TELL ME WHEN WAS

32:05 YOUR BILL ENACTED INTO LAW?

32:08 UH, THIS WAS, UH, BEFORE

32:10 BEFORE.

32:11 THE PANDEMIC.

32:12 UH, 2028.

32:14 NOTICE HOW MY MIND WORKS THAT

32:15 WAY.

32:15 YEAH.

32:16 ACADEMIC POST PANDEMIC.

32:17 BUT THIS WAS ENACTED.

32:19 BACK IN 2018.

32:20 THANK YOU.

32:21 AND AND AND SO WE WENT FROM A

32:24 PERIOD IN NEW YORK CITY OF UH

32:26 NOT HAVING TRANSPARENCY AROUND

32:28 THAT UH, TO HAVING

32:30 TRANSPARENCY.

32:31 UH, WAS IT A COMPLETE BLACK BOX

32:33 BEFOREHAND?

32:36 SO WE WE KNEW THAT CENTRALLY

32:39 THE D.O.E..

32:40 HELD ON TO THIS INFORMATION.

32:42 BUT IT WAS LIKE PULLING.

32:43 TEETH AT TIMES TO GET.

32:45 IT OUT.

32:46 AND WE HAD.

32:47 YOU KNOW, SOME TAS.

32:50 SHARE STORIES ABOUT WHAT.

32:51 THEY RAISED AND SO IT.

32:53 WAS LARGELY ANECDOTAL.

32:55 CITY COUNCILOR AND AND THE

32:57 PURPOSE.

32:57 OF.

32:58 THE BILL WAS TO MOVE FROM

32:59 ANECDOTES TO EVIDENCE.

33:00 BASED UH, TRANSPARENCY AND

33:03 DECISION MAKING WHEN IT COMES

33:04 TO FUNDRAISING HERE.

33:05 AND WE'RE ALL THE PARTIES AND

33:08 ASSOCIATIONS WERE THEY ALL FIVE

33:11 ORGANIZATIONS 503.

33:12 .

33:13 NOT EVERY NO NOT EVERY ONE BUT.

33:17 ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT

33:18 I.

33:18 DIDN'T.

33:19 EXPECT TO GET OUT OF THE.

33:20 BILL.

33:21 UH.

33:21 WHICH WAS.

33:22 EYE OPENING FOR MY COLLEAGUES

33:23 AND STAKEHOLDERS.

33:24 WAS THE FACT THAT WE HAD OVER.

33:26 300 SCHOOLS THAT.

33:28 REPORTED NO.

33:29 ACTIVITY WHATSOEVER.

33:31 UM.

33:32 I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT.

33:33 WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT.

33:35 WE HAD GOOD OUT OF HOW MANY.

33:36 OUT OF OVER.

33:37 1600 SCHOOLS.

33:39 IN NEW.

33:39 YORK CITY.

33:40 MHM.

33:40 THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER

33:41 AND WE DIDN'T WE HAD NO.

33:43 IDEA THAT WE HAD SO MANY

33:44 INACTIVE OR NOTHING WHATSOEVER

33:46 .

33:46 AND SO THAT PUT PRESSURE ON

33:47 THE.

33:48 D.O.E. TO START.

33:49 ROLLING UP THEIR.

33:50 SLEEVES TO FIGURE OUT.

33:51 WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHAT'S NOT

33:52 HAPPENING AT THOSE SCHOOL

33:53 COMMUNITIES HOW.

33:54 TO BETTER SUPPORT.

33:55 SUPPORT FAMILIES.

33:56 UH, BUT YOU KNOW, SOME SOME

33:58 FOLKS HAD.

33:58 DIFFERENT STRUCTURES BUT THEY

34:00 WERE STILL REQUIRED TO REPORT

34:02 THE.

34:02 FUNDRAISING AND THAT TYPE

34:04 OF SPENDING TO THE D.O.E.

34:05 CENTRAL.

34:05 OUR BILL JUST SIMPLY FORCED.

34:07 IT TO BECOME PUBLIC.

34:08 THANK YOU.

34:09 AND IF THEY WEREN'T ORGANIZED

34:10 THOSE 523.

34:10 IS.

34:11 WHAT WAS THEIR STRUCTURE?

34:13 SOME SOME.

34:14 SCHOOLS HAD LIKE PARENT

34:16 ASSOCIATIONS.

34:16 YOU KNOW.

34:18 AGAIN EACH.

34:19 SCHOOL KIND OF CREATED ITS OWN

34:20 KIND OF.

34:21 STRUCTURE WHERE SOME.

34:24 IT JUST IT.

34:24 VARIED SOMETIMES CITY

34:26 COUNCILOR FROM SO LIKE.

34:26 SOMETIMES VERY INFORMAL LIKE

34:28 MAYBE A PARENT WHO HAD LIKE AN

34:29 IT LIKE TOOK ALL THE MONEY AND

34:31 DID X Y Z FOR EXAMPLE.

34:33 YEAH.

34:34 I MEAN BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT

34:37 THE BILL.

34:37 FORCED THESE TYPES

34:38 OF CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE WE

34:39 DIDN'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT.

34:40 THIS BUT WE LEARNED ABOUT IT.

34:42 AFTER THE.

34:42 BILL WAS PASSED.

34:43 SO THIS WILL GENERATE THOSE.

34:44 TYPES OF GREAT.

34:45 DIS.

34:46 CONVERSATIONS AND THAT

34:47 TRANSPARENCY AS WELL.

34:48 THANK YOU.

34:49 AND I LIKE THAT YOU KNOW, UH,

34:51 TRAVIS HAD MENTIONED UM

34:53 CONNECTING TO TO PAM PAMELA

34:55 LANES OVER AT BDF.

34:57 IS THERE SOMETHING SIMILAR TO

34:58 BDF IN NYC TO ACT AS A FISCAL

35:01 SPONSOR FOR SCHOOLS THAT WANT

35:03 TO DO SIMILAR THAT WANT TO DO

35:05 FUNDRAISING?

35:09 I I'M SORRY I MISSED THAT CITY

35:11 COUNCILOR.

35:12 IS THERE SOMETHING SIMILAR IN

35:13 NEW YORK CITY AS A BEDFORD UH

35:17 UH, PAMELA LANE'S ORGANIZATION

35:19 WHERE THEY CAN ACT OR THEY ACT

35:21 AS A FISCAL SPONSOR FOR SCHOOLS

35:23 THAT WANT TO DO OR ENGAGE IN

35:26 FUNDRAISING AND DON'T HAVE A

35:28 STRUCTURE.

35:29 SO A PART IS I'M NOT FAMILIAR

35:30 WITH.

35:31 BDF BUT.

35:31 I AM.

35:32 FAMILIAR WHEN.

35:33 IN THE NEW YORK CITY SYSTEM WE

35:34 HAVE SOMETHING CALLED.

35:36 PHASE FAMILY.

35:37 UH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

35:39 DIVISION WITHIN THE CENTRAL

35:40 OFFICE.

35:41 IT'S A.

35:41 VERY BIG.

35:42 PRIORITY OFFICE.

35:43 WITHIN THE CENTRAL OFFICE THAT

35:45 THE.

35:45 CHANCELLOR OVERSEES.

35:48 AND THEY'RE.

35:48 SUPPOSED TO BE.

35:49 THE THE CENTRAL UH OR MAIN

35:51 TOUCHPOINT.

35:51 FOR PARENTS.

35:53 ASSOCIATIONS PTA, CCS.

35:56 AND FAMILY.

35:56 GROUPS TO PROVIDE THAT TYPE

35:58 OF BASE LEVEL OF SUPPORT.

35:59 IF THERE'S A.

36:00 FAMILY THAT NEEDS TO HELP.

36:02 OR PARENTS.

36:02 THAT NEED.

36:03 HELP TO ORGANIZE OR HAVE.

36:04 ANY TYPES.

36:05 OF BASIC QUESTIONS.

36:06 WE HAVE THIS FACE UNIT.

36:07 WITHIN CENTRAL THAT'S SUPPOSED.

36:08 TO BE BE A SUPPORT.

36:10 FOR THEM TO PROVIDE

36:11 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BACK

36:11 OFFICE.

36:12 SUPPORT AS WELL.

36:13 SO I HOPE THAT HOPE THAT

36:14 ADDRESSES YOUR QUESTION.

36:15 UH IT DOES IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S

36:17 A LITTLE DIFFERENT BUT I HAVE

36:18 ONE I THINK FINAL QUESTION, UH

36:19 ,FOR YOU.

36:21 UH WHAT HAPPENED?

36:22 SO THE LEGISLATION PASSED IN

36:24 THE PRE-COVID AREA.

36:25 WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN AS A

36:27 TANGIBLE RESULT OF SORT OF UH,

36:29 THE TRANSPARENCY OF THAT

36:30 INFORMATION BETWEEN THAT TIME

36:32 IN 2018 TO NOW LIKE WHAT ARE

36:34 THE PRACTICAL RESULTS BEEN?

36:35 WELL.

36:36 I LOVE.

36:37 THAT QUESTION BECAUSE MY

36:38 FINAL BUDGET.

36:40 UH BEFORE I TERM.

36:41 LIMITED OUT.

36:42 OF CITY COUNCIL AND UH WAS I

36:45 WAS TOLD FOR EXAMPLE.

36:47 THE NEW YORK.

36:47 CITY SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA

36:48 THAT WE USE IN PUBLIC SCHOOL IN

36:50 THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM

36:51 IS CALLED FAIR STUDENT FUNDING

36:53 FORMULA.

36:53 IT'S A CITY CREATED FORMULA.

36:55 AND HOW WE RESOURCE OUR

36:57 SCHOOLS.

36:57 AND UH, WHEN I TOOK UH WHEN I

37:00 WHEN I JOINED THE.

37:02 AS CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE.

37:04 UH MOST.

37:04 MOST OF.

37:05 OUR.

37:05 SCHOOLS WERE.

37:06 NOWHERE NEAR 100% OF RECEIVING.

37:07 THAT THAT.

37:08 FORMULA UH, THE FUNDING

37:09 PROMISED BY THAT.

37:10 FORMULA.

37:11 ,UH, WHEN WE GOT.

37:12 SUPPORT FROM THE PANDEMIC AND

37:14 SOME SUPPORT FROM ALBANY AND SO

37:16 FORTH.

37:16 UH.

37:17 EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL RECEIVED

37:19 100% OF ITS FAIR STUDENT

37:20 FUNDING.

37:21 AND WHERE WE GAVE.

37:22 SCHOOL COMMUNITY IS THE ABILITY

37:24 TO.

37:24 INVEST WHERE.

37:25 THEY NEEDED TO INVEST IN AND

37:27 ONE OF THE.

37:28 GOALS THAT WE HAD BUT.

37:29 AGAIN.

37:29 IT'S UP TO THE SCHOOL.

37:30 COMMUNITY, TO THE PRINCIPAL AND

37:31 THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY THERE.

37:32 WAS TO.

37:35 INCREASE UH THE BASE LEVEL OF.

37:37 SUPPORT FOR FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

37:39 AND THIS IS.

37:40 WHERE I WILL SAY.

37:41 THERE'S NO MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

37:43 BANNER HERE IN NEW.

37:44 YORK CITY D.O.E. EITHER

37:45 THERE'S.

37:45 STILL A LOT MORE WORK TO DO.

37:47 TO PROVIDE.

37:48 MUCH.

37:48 MUCH MORE TARGETED SUPPORT.

37:49 MUCH MORE SUPPORT.

37:51 UH, TO ACTIVATE MORE PA AND.

37:53 TAS BUT.

37:54 I.

37:54 WOULD SAY NUMBER ONE, IT.

37:56 WAS A.

37:56 MAJOR TALKING POINT IN OUR

37:57 BUDGET.

37:57 FIGHT TO.

37:58 PROVIDE MORE RESOURCES.

37:59 TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

38:00 AND NUMBER TWO.

38:01 WE WE NOW.

38:02 HAVE NO MORE ANECDOTES.

38:03 NOW WE HAVE EVIDENCE, WE HAVE

38:04 FULL TRANSPARENCY AND IT'S AN

38:06 ORGANIZING TOOL.

38:08 FOR POLICYMAKERS.

38:09 FOR.

38:09 PARENTS AND FAMILIES TO DEMAND

38:11 MORE.

38:11 FROM THE D.O.E. TO SAY HOW DO

38:13 YOU LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD?

38:14 HOW DO WE MAKE SURE.

38:15 THAT.

38:15 ALL OF OUR.

38:16 KIDS AND THE D.O.E. JUST TO BE

38:17 CLEAR, IS THIS STATEWIDE

38:19 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION?

38:20 OH MY APOLOGIES.

38:21 SO UH NO, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION

38:22 .

38:23 SO WE HAVE THE NEW YORK.

38:24 CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM,

38:25 WHICH IS WE ALSO CALL IT.

38:26 THE.

38:26 NEW YORK.

38:27 CITY D.O.E..

38:28 UM AND SO APOLOGIES APOLOGIES

38:30 ON THAT.

38:30 THIS IS THE LOCAL.

38:31 SCHOOL DISTRICT.

38:32 UH.

38:32 THAT GOVERNS NEW YORK CITY.

38:34 THANK YOU.

38:35 I THINK I HAVE I HAVE

38:36 FURTHER QUESTIONS, BUT I SORRY,

38:37 TRAVIS, BUT THANKS FOR YOUR

38:39 WORK, TRAVIS I THINK AS MANY AS

38:40 TELLING ME THAT I'M OUT

38:41 OF TIME.

38:41 THANK YOU.

38:42 UH, THANK YOU,

38:43 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

38:44 UM.

38:44 ALL RIGHT.

38:45 SO SO WE WANT TO BE EQUITABLE

38:47 HERE AND I WANT MY COLLEAGUES

38:48 TO THINK I'M GIVING YOU MORE

38:49 THAN I DID OTHERS.

38:51 UM, BECAUSE I KNOW

38:53 COUNCIL CULPEPPER IS ALWAYS

38:54 CHECKING THE CLOCK.

38:55 I AM I RESPECT TIME.

38:57 UH, SO I'M GOING TO GO TO, UH,

39:00 COUNSELOR.

39:00 I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT

39:01 WE HAVE BEEN JOINED BY

39:03 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

39:04 UM, SO IN THE ORDER OF ARRIVAL,

39:06 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, JUST SO

39:07 THAT YOU KNOW, IT'S

39:08 COUNCILOR WEBER THEN FOLLOWED

39:09 BY COUNCILOR CULPEPPER, THEN

39:11 YOURSELF AND THEN IT WILL BE

39:13 ALL RIGHT.

39:14 COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU NOW HAVE

39:15 FIVE MINUTES ON THE FLOOR.

39:17 OKAY.

39:17 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, TRAVIS

39:18 .

39:19 VERY NICE TO SEE YOU.

39:21 UH, I GUESS UH, SO FOR FOR.

39:24 FOR MARK.

39:25 UH, TRAGER, UM, I I'M, UH I'M

39:28 BORN IN NEW YORK.

39:29 UH, MY MOM WAS A SPECIAL ED

39:31 TEACHER IN THE BRONX FOR 30

39:32 YEARS.

39:33 UH, AND SO JUST THINKING SO

39:36 HERE ONE I'M NOT SURE HOW THIS

39:38 PLAYS OUT FOR PRIVATE

39:40 FUNDRAISING WHEN YOU HAVE A

39:42 SPECIALTY SCHOOL LIKE WE HAVE

39:44 THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY HERE.

39:46 MY AUNT YOU WENT FROM UH, IS

39:48 FROM FOREST HILLS, QUEENS.

39:49 SHE WENT TO THE HIGH SCHOOL

39:50 PERFORMING ARTS IN NEW YORK.

39:52 LIKE HOW HOW DO YOU THINK

39:56 OF LIKE YOU KNOW THOSE SCHOOLS

39:57 I FEEL LIKE NEED YOU KNOW, SORT

40:02 OF SPECIALIZED SOURCES

40:03 OF FUNDING UM, IN A WAY THAT'S

40:05 DIFFERENT THAN THOSE.

40:06 OTHER.

40:07 SCHOOLS AND I, I JUST YOU KNOW,

40:09 IF WE DON'T HAVE WE CAN'T BUILD

40:10 THE SPECIAL THEATERS AND ART

40:13 STUDIOS THERE.

40:14 YOU KNOW, UH, WE WE DON'T HAVE

40:16 THOSE RESOURCES.

40:17 I JUST DID THAT COME UP IN YOUR

40:19 DISCUSSIONS IN NEW YORK ABOUT

40:20 OUR IMPACT LIKE A SCHOOL LIKE

40:22 THE HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS

40:23 OR OR OTHER SCHOOLS LIKE.

40:25 THAT IS THERE.

40:27 WELL.

40:27 FIRST SO.

40:28 YOU CAN SORT OF THANK YOU

40:29 FOR YOUR AND.

40:29 FAMILY FOR YOUR GREAT FOR YOUR

40:30 GREAT SERVICE.

40:31 UM WHAT I.

40:32 WOULD SAY IS THAT THE BILL WAS

40:35 PRETTY SIMPLE.

40:36 IN THE SENSE WHERE.

40:39 IF THE SCHOOL.

40:40 IS ALREADY REQUIRED BY.

40:42 EXISTING TRANSFERS REGS.

40:44 TO REPORT CENTRALLY.

40:46 WHAT THEIR.

40:47 FUNDRAISING UH.

40:49 IS WE'RE.

40:49 JUST SAYING.

40:50 MAKE IT PUBLIC.

40:52 SO IF.

40:52 REGARDLESS OF WHAT SCHOOL UH IF

40:55 YOU'RE IF YOU'RE GOVERNED BY

40:57 THE CHANCELLOR'S REGULATIONS.

40:59 TO DISCLOSE THAT INFORMATION

41:00 CENTRALLY WE JUST WANTED TO SEE

41:02 IT PUBLICLY.

41:03 WE DID.

41:03 UH, AS I MENTIONED IN MY UH,

41:06 OPENING TESTIMONY.

41:07 THERE WERE SOME.

41:08 UH, CONCERNS OR SOME.

41:09 FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED.

41:11 FROM SOME SCHOOL COMMUNITIES UH

41:13 .

41:13 PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT.

41:15 UH WE'RE RAISING.

41:16 QUITE A.

41:16 BIT FOR SUPPLEMENTAL UH,

41:18 OPPORTUNITIES AND AND SERVICES

41:20 FOR KIDS AND FOR FAMILIES.

41:23 COMMUNITIES.

41:24 AND I MADE.

41:25 IT VERY CLEAR FROM THE GET.

41:27 GO THAT MY OBJECTIVE.

41:29 WAS JUST SIMPLY.

41:30 JUST TRANSPARENCY AND.

41:32 TO ULTIMATELY USE IT AS.

41:33 A LEVERAGE TOOL.

41:34 TO THE TO THE CENTRAL.

41:35 SYSTEM UH.

41:36 TO THE TO TO THE MAYOR.

41:38 TO UH THE.

41:39 CHANCELLOR TO SAY WHAT ARE YOU

41:41 DOING TO HELP.

41:42 LEVEL THE.

41:42 PLAYING FIELD IN TERMS

41:43 OF INCREASING.

41:44 BASE LEVEL SUPPORT ACROSS ALL

41:46 OF OUR UH ALL.

41:47 OF OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES?

41:48 WHAT I WOULD I WILL.

41:49 BRING UP AGAIN CITY COUNCILOR.

41:51 WEBER IS.

41:52 THAT WHAT I DID NOT EXPECT?

41:54 UH WHICH WE CAME VERY AS MUCH

41:57 IMPORTANT TO ME AS NOT JUST THE

41:59 MONEY BUT THE PIECE.

42:00 BUT ALSO JUST THE JUST.

42:02 NO STRUCTURE.

42:03 UH, THAT THE D.O.E. WAS

42:05 HELPING.

42:05 SUPPORT OR ESTABLISH IN.

42:07 OVER 370 SCHOOLS.

42:09 UH, OUT.

42:10 OF.

42:10 A.

42:10 SYSTEM OF ABOUT 1600.

42:11 WHERE THERE WAS JUST.

42:12 VIRTUALLY NO ACTIVITY.

42:13 WE HAD NO.

42:14 IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON.

42:15 UM, AND THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE.

42:17 UH.

42:18 BECAUSE TO ME.

42:19 THEY.

42:19 WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION.

42:20 AS.

42:20 A FORMER TEACHER AND I'M SURE.

42:21 I I'M SPEAKING AMONGST FOLKS

42:22 WHO.

42:23 AGREE FAMILIES GETTING.

42:24 FAMILIES INVOLVED IN ANY.

42:27 ANY WAY IS SO.

42:28 CRITICAL TO AN EDUCATION.

42:29 UM.

42:30 AND THE FACT.

42:30 THAT.

42:31 WE HAD.

42:31 NO INFORMATION.

42:32 WHATSOEVER ABOUT WHAT'S

42:33 HAPPENING.

42:34 AT HUNDREDS OF OUR SCHOOLS.

42:35 WAS UNACCEPTABLE TO ME AND

42:37 THAT'S WHAT FORCED.

42:38 THAT.

42:39 CONVERSATION CENTRALLY.

42:40 TO BETTER SUPPORT THAT THEY

42:41 STAFFED UP FACE, WHICH.

42:43 IS THAT FAMILY AND COMMUNITY

42:44 ENGAGEMENT DIVISION IN CENTRAL.

42:45 THEY STAFFED IT UP TO PROVIDE.

42:48 MORE OUTREACH, MORE SUPPORT.

42:49 AND ULTIMATELY I.

42:50 STILL THINK WHERE THERE'S.

42:52 MUCH MORE WORK TO DO.

42:53 IS WE NEED MORE BASE.

42:54 LEVEL.

42:55 SUPPORT TO PASS AND PTA.

42:56 I KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME TITLE

42:57 ONE.

42:58 REGULATIONS THAT.

42:59 REQUIRE SOME MONEY TO GO TO

43:00 TO.

43:00 PARENT GROUPS WITHIN A SCHOOL

43:02 COMMUNITY.

43:02 IF YOU IF.

43:03 YOU'RE A TITLE ONE.

43:04 SCHOOL BUT.

43:04 THAT'S NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH SIR.

43:05 UH.

43:06 WE.

43:06 NEED MUCH.

43:07 MORE WORK TO DO ON THAT

43:07 FRONT.

43:08 OKAY.

43:09 AND THEN I GUESS HOW DID IT

43:10 WORK?

43:11 UH, WITH YOUR BILL AND THE THE

43:14 EXAM SCHOOLS LIKE THE SKY ISN'T

43:17 BROAD SCIENCE FOR CONTACT

43:19 HUNTER I DON'T KNOW DID THEY

43:20 HAVE THEIR OWN SOURCES.

43:22 OF FUNDING?

43:23 YEAH.

43:24 UH.

43:24 SO ALL THE SCHOOLS THAT.

43:25 THAT SUBMIT FUNDRAISING REPORTS

43:28 TO.

43:28 CENTRAL HAD TO.

43:29 DISCLOSE UH.

43:30 WHAT THEIR NUMBERS.

43:31 WERE AGAIN.

43:33 AND AND I GUESS WHAT DID YOU

43:34 FIND?

43:35 WELL.

43:36 UH.

43:37 I DON'T HAVE THE STUYVESANT

43:38 DATA UP IN FRONT OF ME, BUT

43:39 WHAT WE DID FIND IS THAT IN

43:41 SOME OF THE, UM.

43:43 WEALTHIER PARTS OF THE.

43:44 CITY, UM, WE HAD.

43:47 OVER OVER CLOSE.

43:48 TO TWO DOZEN SCHOOLS

43:49 RAISING.

43:50 AT.

43:50 LEAST OVER $1 MILLION.

43:51 IN CERTAIN POCKETS OF.

43:52 THE CITY.

43:53 UM, AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S AND

43:59 THE D.O.E..

43:59 TESTIFIED BECAUSE.

44:00 I ASKED THEM WHAT COULD.

44:01 SCHOOLS USE THAT MONEY ON AND

44:04 YOU KNOW, THAT FUNDED

44:06 SUPPLEMENTAL ART.

44:06 MUSIC THAT FUNDED TRIPS.

44:08 TO EUROPE AROUND.

44:09 THE WORLD.

44:09 UH.

44:10 CLUBS GALORE.

44:12 A NUMBER OF ENRICHMENT

44:13 OPPORTUNITIES FOR KIDS AND

44:14 FAMILIES AND.

44:15 AGAIN THAT'S GREAT.

44:17 BUT WHY.

44:19 IS IT THAT IN MY DISTRICT.

44:20 SCHOOLS HAD TO.

44:21 USE A.

44:22 GOFUNDME PAGE.

44:23 TO START A.

44:23 DANCE CLUB IN CONEY ISLAND?

44:25 THAT WAS UNACCEPTABLE TO

44:26 ME AND.

44:27 THAT'S.

44:27 WHERE WE HAD TO YOU KNOW, I

44:28 LEVERAGE THAT IN.

44:29 THE.

44:29 BUDGET CONVERSATIONS WITH THE

44:30 SYSTEM TO.

44:31 PROVIDE MORE SUPPORT TO SCHOOLS

44:33 .

44:33 THAT DON'T HAVE.

44:34 YOU KNOW, THAT TYPE OF.

44:36 FUNDRAISING CAPACITY.

44:37 I GUESS BECAUSE I DO.

44:39 SO WHEN YOU'RE SAYING THAT BUT

44:40 THE DATA SHOWED IN LIKE SO

44:42 YOU'RE ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE

44:43 AND THERE'S WHATEVER YOU KNOW

44:46 WHO LIKE THAT SCHOOL COULD

44:48 RAISE MORE MONEY BUT WAS THAT

44:50 ALSO HAPPENING AT THE HIGH

44:51 SCHOOL LEVEL FOR LIKE THE EXAM

44:55 SCHOOLS VERSUS THE NON EXAM OR

44:57 RIGHT RIGHT.

44:58 YEAH I MEAN YOU KNOW.

45:01 WE SAW THAT THERE ARE.

45:02 POCKETS OF THE CITY WHERE

45:03 THOSE.

45:04 SCHOOLS YOU KNOW.

45:05 EXIST UH SOME WHERE.

45:07 SOME OF THOSE SCHOOLS.

45:07 EXIST WHERE THEY.

45:08 HAD SIGNIFICANT CAPACITY.

45:11 TO RAISE.

45:11 LARGE SUMS OF MONEY AND THAT'S

45:13 SEPARATE AND APART FROM ANY

45:14 FOUNDATIONS.

45:15 SOME OF THESE SCHOOLS ALSO HAVE

45:17 ALUMNI FOUNDATIONS THAT

45:18 SUPPLEMENT WHAT.

45:19 YOU'RE SPEAKING.

45:20 ABOUT.

45:20 WHICH IS.

45:21 ALSO UH.

45:21 YOU.

45:22 KNOW, THAT'S A SEPARATE.

45:23 POT OF MONEY BUT THAT'S.

45:24 THAT'S.

45:24 THEIR OWN.

45:24 THEIR OWN REGULATIONS.

45:26 BUT YES OR UH THEY WE BUT WE

45:29 EXPECTED.

45:30 SOME OF THAT AND THAT'S WHAT WE

45:32 WANTED TO SEE IN THE.

45:33 BILL WHAT WE DIDN'T.

45:34 EXPECT AND WHICH.

45:36 WAS.

45:36 CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO US.

45:37 AS WELL WAS.

45:38 HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS REPORTING

45:39 NOTHING WHATSOEVER.

45:41 UH AND THAT WAS EYE OPENING FOR

45:42 US IN THE CITY COUNCIL.

45:44 THANK YOU.

45:45 THANK YOU COUNCIL WITH I'M

45:47 SORRY.

45:47 WE NO PROBLEM.

45:48 THANK YOU.

45:50 UM, AND BEFORE I MOVE ON TO

45:52 MY CUT MY THE NEXT UH, PERSON

45:54 LINED UP UH, I'M JUST CURIOUS,

45:57 UH, COUNSELOR CHAPTER IS, UM

45:59 DID YOU AT THE TIME WHEN YOU

46:01 WERE THAT CHAIR OF EDUCATION,

46:02 DID YOU OVERSEE THE EDUCATION

46:03 BUDGET, WHICH IS WHY YOU WERE

46:05 FAR MORE INTIMATE WITH THE

46:07 INNER WORKINGS.

46:08 YEAH.

46:09 SO IN ADDITION.

46:10 TO BEING THE CHAIR OF THE

46:11 EDUCATION.

46:12 COMMITTEE WAS ALSO A MEMBER

46:13 OF WHAT'S.

46:14 CALLED THE CITY.

46:15 COUNCIL BUDGET NEGOTIATION TEAM

46:16 WHICH HELPED.

46:17 NEGOTIATE THE BUDGET.

46:19 UH, WITH UH WHEN SUPPORTED WITH

46:21 WITH OUR SPEAKER AT THE.

46:23 TIME AND WITH THE MAYOR MAYORAL

46:25 MINISTRATION AT THE TIME.

46:26 YES.

46:26 OKAY.

46:27 SO YOU HAD A SEAT AT THE

46:28 TABLE.

46:28 THAT'S GREAT.

46:30 AND THE DATA NOW TO WORK WITH

46:32 GREAT.

46:32 THANK YOU FOR THAT.

46:33 UM I'M GOING TO MOVE ON NEXT TO

46:36 COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOLLOWED

46:37 THEM BY COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

46:39 AND THEN MY ROUND OF QUESTIONS

46:41 COUNCILOR CULPEPER YOU NOW HAVE

46:42 THE FLOOR IN FIVE MINUTES.

46:43 THANK YOU, MADAM.

46:44 CHAIR, FOR.

46:45 HOLDING THIS.

46:46 UH, THIS IMPORTANT AND

46:48 INFORMATIVE HEARING AND, UH,

46:52 COUNCIL I JUST HAVE A COUPLE

46:53 OF QUESTIONS.

46:54 UH, DID YOU SEND US A LETTER?

46:56 DO WE HAVE THAT LEGISLATION

46:57 THAT YOU FILED AND THAT WAS

46:59 PASSED?

47:00 UH, DO WE.

47:01 HAVE A COPY OF IT?

47:02 UH, I'M HAPPY.

47:04 TO TO FORWARD UH.

47:06 TO THE CHAIR.

47:07 AND THE CHAIR.

47:07 ABSOLUTELY SURE.

47:09 AND SO DID.

47:10 THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS HAVE

47:13 EITHER A PERSON DEDICATED TO

47:18 JUST DOING FUNDRAISING OR DID

47:20 THEY HAVE A FUNDRAISING

47:21 DEPARTMENT OR DID THEY HIRE

47:23 PRIVATE FOR FUNDRAISING?

47:25 WHAT WERE THE DIFFERENT

47:27 ITERATIONS OF HOW THE FUNDS

47:28 WERE RAISED?

47:29 WELL.

47:30 I'LL TELL YOU CITY

47:32 COUNCILOR, THAT'S.

47:32 THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION BECAUSE

47:33 IT.

47:34 IT THE.

47:34 BILL REVEALS.

47:36 THE DIFFERENT.

47:37 STRUCTURES THAT YOU'RE.

47:38 SPEAKING ABOUT BECAUSE AGAIN.

47:40 ALL WE.

47:41 HAD.

47:41 PRIOR TO THE BILL.

47:43 WAS THE.

47:44 EXPECTATION AND HEARING

47:46 ANECDOTES.

47:46 ABOUT SOME SCHOOLS RAISING TONS

47:48 OF MONEY, SOME SCHOOLS HAVING

47:49 NOTHING OR SOMETHING IN BETWEEN

47:52 UH, AND NOT KNOWING ALL THE

47:53 DIFFERENT.

47:53 STRUCTURES UM AND SO BUT.

47:55 BUT IN.

47:57 THE CHANCELLOR'S.

47:57 REGULATIONS THAT.

47:58 PREDATE MY.

47:59 BILL BEING.

48:00 PASSED INTO LAW.

48:01 THERE WAS UH A REQUIREMENT THAT

48:05 WHETHER YOU HAVE A.

48:06 YOU KNOW, A PTA OR A PA.

48:08 UH A PARENT ASSOCIATION.

48:09 A PARENT ORGANIZATION WITHIN

48:10 YOUR SCHOOL.

48:11 COMMUNITY IF YOU'RE.

48:12 RAISING MONEY YOU.

48:13 HAVE TO REPORT IT IN WHATEVER

48:16 THE STRUCTURE IS.

48:17 IF YOU'RE RAISING MONEY.

48:18 WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL WITH

48:20 THE YOU KNOW, THE.

48:21 SCHOOL COMMUNITY, THIS IS NOT

48:23 YOU KNOW, SOME IF YOU START A

48:24 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION IN THE

48:25 COMMUNITY FROM THE SCHOOL.

48:27 THAT'S NOT.

48:28 WHAT WE'RE TALKING WE'RE

48:28 TALKING ABOUT.

48:29 SCHOOL BASED FUNDRAISING.

48:31 THEN YOU ARE REQUIRED BY.

48:33 REGULATIONS TO REPORT THAT

48:34 INFORMATION TO THE CENTRAL

48:36 OFFICE.

48:36 WE UH.

48:37 CITY COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL,

48:39 COUNCIL MEMBERS WANTED TO HAVE

48:41 ACCESS.

48:41 TO THAT DATA.

48:42 THE D.O.E..

48:43 INITIALLY DID NOT WANT TO, UH.

48:45 SHARE A LIST, SO WE HAD TO PASS

48:47 A BILL TO.

48:48 FORCE THEM TO REQUIRED.

48:49 TO DISCLOSE IT.

48:50 AND DID A REPORT THE STRUCTURE

48:55 OF THE ACTUAL FUNDRAISING

48:58 ORGANISM.

48:58 YES.

48:59 WELL, THEY.

49:00 BROKE IT.

49:00 DOWN WHETHER.

49:01 THE PTA, WHETHER IT'S A PA OR.

49:03 SOME PARENT STRUCTURE.

49:05 UM, WE.

49:06 LEARNED AFTER.

49:08 AFTER WE LEARNED THAT HUNDREDS

49:10 OF SCHOOLS.

49:11 HAD NO ACTIVITY WHATSOEVER.

49:13 WE LEARNED THAT.

49:14 SOME PARENTS SOME FAMILIES.

49:17 UH.

49:17 NEEDED SOME SUPPORT.

49:18 FROM D.O.E..

49:20 IN TERMS OF ESTABLISHING WHAT.

49:22 STRUCTURE THEY.

49:22 WANTED TO STRUCTURE.

49:23 SOME OF THEM.

49:24 SAID WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO

49:25 SUBMIT IT.

49:26 WE DIDN'T KNOW WHO TO.

49:27 SUBMIT IT TO.

49:28 IT GENERATED A WHOLE BUNCH OF.

49:29 CONVERSATIONS AND AND.

49:31 AND AND.

49:32 VERY REVEALING INFORMATION

49:34 ABOUT.

49:34 THE STRUCTURES.

49:35 THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING.

49:35 ABOUT WHERE THEY NEEDED.

49:37 TO KIND OF PROFESSIONALIZE OR.

49:39 GET PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT FROM

49:40 THE.

49:41 D.O.E. WHICH.

49:41 THEY WERE NOT GETTING

49:42 BEFORE.

49:42 AND THAT'S.

49:43 WHY SIR.

49:44 I WILL SAY THEY HAD TO STAFF

49:46 UP THE.

49:47 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

49:48 DIVISION CALLED.

49:49 FACE IN D.O.E. CENTRAL.

49:51 IN LIGHT.

49:52 OF THIS.

49:52 BILL BECAUSE WE REALIZED THE

49:54 EXTENT.

49:54 OF THE PROBLEM OF HOW MANY

49:55 FAMILIES IN SCHOOL COMMUNITIES

49:56 WHO NEEDED THAT THE TYPE

49:57 OF BACK OFFICE INSTITUTIONAL

49:59 SUPPORT.

50:00 DID THE BILL REQUIRE THAT THEY

50:03 ONCE A BILL WAS FILED AND

50:05 PASSED, DID IT REQUIRE THAT

50:07 THEY FOLLOW A CERTAIN STRUCTURE

50:10 IN ORDER TO DO THE FUNDRAISING

50:12 OR DID YOU CONTINUE TO ALLOW

50:13 THEM TO DO IT AS BEST THEY

50:16 COULD?

50:18 THE BILL SIMPLY SAID D.O.E.

50:22 MAKE PUBLIC WHAT YOU HAVE.

50:24 UM, THAT'S THAT'S THAT WAS THE

50:26 BEAUTY OF THE BILL.

50:27 IT WAS SOLELY.

50:29 A TRANSPARENCY BILL.

50:30 REMEMBER ALSO SIR.

50:31 IN.

50:31 NEW YORK.

50:32 NEW YORK WE HAD SOMETHING

50:33 CALLED MAYORAL.

50:33 CONTROL WHERE.

50:35 WE CANNOT.

50:36 FORCE IN THE CITY

50:37 COUNCIL OF NEW YORK.

50:38 CITY THEY.

50:39 CANNOT FORCE.

50:39 SUBSTANTIVE POLICY CHANGES

50:42 BECAUSE THE.

50:43 STATE OF.

50:43 NEW YORK GRANTS THAT POWER

50:45 TO.

50:45 THE MAYOR AND.

50:46 TO.

50:46 THE CHANCELLOR.

50:47 BUT WE DO HAVE THE POWER TO.

50:48 DO IS TO.

50:49 MAKE INFORMATION PUBLIC.

50:50 TO REPORT DATA.

50:52 SO IT WAS A REPORTING BILL.

50:54 FORCING THEM TO DISCLOSE THE

50:55 NUMBERS THAT.

50:56 THAT THEY ALREADY HAD

50:57 CENTRALLY.

50:58 SO IF A SCHOOL BROUGHT ON UH,

51:01 PRO BONO A PRIVATE FUNDRAISER,

51:04 THEY COULD CONTINUE TO USE THAT

51:06 FUNDRAISER TO RAISE THE FUNDS

51:08 SO LONG AS THEY REPORTED WHAT

51:10 THEY RAISED TO YOU.

51:12 MY SENSE IS.

51:13 THAT THE SCHOOL.

51:14 WOULD I COULD SPEAK ABOUT NEW

51:16 YORK CITY.

51:17 SO FORGIVE.

51:17 ME.

51:18 IF I'M IN.

51:18 BOSTON.

51:19 BUT MY SENSE IS IF.

51:20 A.

51:21 SCHOOL DID SOMETHING LIKE.

51:21 THAT IT WOULD BE ALSO BEST.

51:23 TO.

51:23 CHECK IN WITH.

51:24 THE ADMINISTRATION

51:26 SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE TO MAKE

51:27 SURE THAT.

51:27 AND FACE WHICH.

51:28 IS THAT FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

51:29 DIVISION TO MAKE.

51:30 SURE.

51:31 THAT IT'S FULLY IN COMPLIANCE

51:32 WITH ALL.

51:32 OF THE.

51:33 REGULATIONS AND RULES.

51:34 UH, BUT YEAH, I MEAN ANYTHING.

51:37 I'M SURE.

51:38 BY.

51:38 THE WAY.

51:39 THE JOB OF FACE IS TO

51:41 PROVIDE THAT TYPE.

51:42 OF SUPPORT WHERE YOU WOULDN'T.

51:43 NEED TO.

51:44 HAVE A CONSULTANT OR AN

51:45 OUTSIDE.

51:46 PERSON COMING IN TO HELP AND

51:47 ASSIST YOU.

51:48 THERE'S A VERY THERE'S A.

51:49 THERE'S AN.

51:50 OFFICE AND DIVISION WITHIN THE

51:51 CENTRAL AND IN NEW YORK CITY.

51:53 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT'S.

51:54 SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR THIS.

51:56 TYPE OF SUPPORT.

51:56 FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES IN THE

51:58 SCHOOL COMMUNITY.

51:59 AND SO WHAT DOES FACE STAND

52:01 FOR?

52:01 WHAT DOES THAT ACRONYM STAND

52:02 FOR IT?

52:03 IT STANDS FOR FAMILY.

52:05 AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

52:07 OKAY.

52:07 THAT'S THE ONE OKAY.

52:08 AND SO THE SCHOOLS THAT UH YOU

52:11 SAW THE HUNDREDS.

52:13 OF PARENTS THIS WOULD BE YOUR

52:14 LAST QUESTION.

52:15 OKAY.

52:15 THE HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS THAT

52:16 YOU SAW WEREN'T RAISING MONEY.

52:19 WAS THERE ANY INCENTIVE OR ANY

52:21 WAY THEY NOW SAW THAT MAYBE WE

52:26 SHOULD BEGIN TO RAISE THE MONEY

52:26 AND THEY STARTED RAISING MONEY.

52:29 SO I WILL.

52:30 SAY THAT THERE WERE A VARIETY

52:32 OF REASONS.

52:32 WHY WE WE WERE TOLD.

52:34 WHY THEY DIDN'T.

52:35 DISCLOSE ANYTHING OR NOTHING

52:36 WAS DISCLOSED.

52:37 UH.

52:38 AGAIN, IN SOME CASES THEY

52:40 HAD INFORMATION INTERNALLY.

52:42 THEY DIDN'T.

52:42 KNOW HOW.

52:43 TO SEND IT IN.

52:45 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO TO SPEAK

52:46 TO.

52:46 SO THERE.

52:47 WAS A BREAKDOWN IN

52:48 COMMUNICATION.

52:48 SOME SCHOOLS.

52:49 HAD ABSOLUTELY NO UH FORMAL.

52:51 STRUCTURE OR ACTIVITY

52:53 WHATSOEVER.

52:53 WHICH AGAIN TO ME IS

52:54 UNACCEPTABLE.

52:55 YEAH.

52:56 UM AND.

52:56 SO THERE WERE A VARIETY

52:57 OF REASONS WHY.

52:58 THEY.

52:58 REPORTED ZERO.

52:59 BUT JUST I.

53:00 WANT TO READ UP THIS POINT

53:01 VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME.

53:01 JUST BECAUSE A SCHOOL REPORTED

53:03 ZERO OR REPORTING TO A

53:04 STRUCTURE.

53:05 DOESN'T MEAN THE FAMILIES.

53:06 DON'T CARE.

53:07 DIDN'T CARE.

53:08 THERE'S A VARIETY OF REASONS

53:09 .

53:09 WHY THAT HAPPENED.

53:10 MOST OF WHICH IS NOT THE

53:12 PARENTS FAULT.

53:12 IT'S THE FAULT OF THE CENTRAL

53:14 SYSTEM.

53:14 THAT FAILED TO ADEQUATELY

53:15 SUPPORT THAT SCHOOL COMMUNITY.

53:17 THANK YOU COUNCILOR APPRECIATE

53:19 IT.

53:20 GREAT INFORMATION.

53:21 THANK YOU.

53:22 THANK THANK YOU

53:23 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER I'LL MOVE

53:24 ON NEXT TO COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

53:27 .

53:27 YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

53:30 THANK YOU CHAIR AND THANK YOU

53:31 EVERYONE TO BE ON THE PANEL

53:32 TODAY.

53:33 UM.

53:33 UH.

53:34 JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.

53:35 I'M LOOKING AT UH UH, THE

53:38 EDUCATION FUNDS, BOSTON.

53:39 EDUCATION FUNDS.

53:40 UH.

53:41 WEBSITE PAMELA.

53:41 SO JUST A QUICK QUESTION.

53:43 TO YOU.

53:43 AND HELLO.

53:44 TO MY.

53:44 HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE AS WELL.

53:45 UM.

53:45 I'M READING HERE UNDER THE.

53:47 UM.

53:48 FISCAL SPONSORSHIP SERVICES.

53:50 UH, IT SAYS BDF ALSO PROVIDES

53:53 FISCAL SPONSORSHIP SERVICES

53:54 INCLUDING GENERAL MANAGEMENT,

53:55 FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATIVE

53:57 STAFFING AND FUNDRAISING

53:58 SERVICES TO PRIVATELY FUNDED

54:00 PROGRAMS.

54:01 IN ORDER.

54:01 TO MAXIMIZE THEIR OPERATING

54:03 CAPACITY, FACILITATE THEIR

54:04 TIMELY INVITATION, PROPER

54:05 COMPLIANCE, ETC. UM PRIVATELY

54:09 FUNDED PROGRAMS IS THAT IT IS

54:10 THE MAJORITY OF THAT UH THE

54:13 PARENT COUNCILS.

54:14 UH FOR.

54:15 YOU OR IS THAT ARE YOU

54:16 FINDING THAT THERE'S OTHER

54:17 PRIVATE FUNDERS THAT YOU UH,

54:20 OFFER THESE FISCAL SERVICES TO.

54:22 WAIT?

54:23 SORRY, I DON'T MEAN TO

54:24 INTERRUPT,

54:24 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, BUT

54:25 PAMELA IS NOT ON THIS PANEL AND

54:28 I KNOW THAT COUNCILOR TRIGGER

54:30 HAS A HARD STOP.

54:31 SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

54:32 GET THROUGH THE FIRST ROUND

54:33 OF QUESTIONS FOR BOTH.

54:35 UH, COUNCILOR.

54:36 FATHER OR TRAVIS.

54:37 BUT I APOLOGIZE THAT PAMELA, UM

54:40 I APOLOGIZE SAW YOU ON THERE.

54:41 SO I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL AND I

54:42 THOUGHT WE WERE JUST ONE PANEL

54:43 HERE.

54:44 UM.

54:44 I YET NOT YET.

54:47 SORRY.

54:48 SO SORRY.

54:48 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, IF YOU

54:49 COULD DIRECT QUESTIONS TO

54:51 COUNCILOR UH, JAGGER AND TRAVIS

54:52 FOR THIS FIRST ROUND, I THINK.

54:54 ABSOLUTELY.

54:54 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR.

54:55 THANK YOU, TRAVIS, FOR BEING

54:56 HERE.

54:57 UM, LET ME ASK DID IT DID.

54:59 YOU ACCOUNT IT WHEN YOU TOOK

55:00 THIS ACCOUNTING IN?

55:01 DID YOU HAVE TO OR WAS IT, UH,

55:04 WHERE INDIVIDUALS REPRESENTED

55:06 ON AND HOW MUCH THEY MAY HAVE

55:08 DONATED UM, TO A PTA LIKE, UH

55:11 OR WAS IT JUST THE BULK NUMBER?

55:12 WAS IT JUST A FINAL NUMBER AT

55:14 THE END OF LIKE THE SCHOOL

55:15 RAISED $1,000 OR WAS IT THE

55:18 SCHOOL RAISED 100 FROM JIMMY,

55:19 100 FROM TOMMY HUNDRED FROM

55:21 BILLY ETC. RIGHT.

55:23 SO GREAT QUESTION AS A

55:24 COUNSELOR UH, SO WHAT WE.

55:27 WANTED TO WE WANTED TO MAKE THE

55:29 BILL AS.

55:29 SIMPLE AND EASY AS POSSIBLE.

55:31 AND WHAT.

55:31 THAT WHAT.

55:32 THAT MEANS IS.

55:32 THAT WHATEVER WAS ALREADY

55:34 REQUIRED BY OUR.

55:36 REGULATIONS IN THE PUBLIC

55:37 SCHOOL.

55:37 SYSTEM WITH REGARDS TO ANY.

55:39 UH, FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY.

55:40 ANY FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY NEW

55:41 YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

55:42 HAS TO BE.

55:44 REPORTED TO CENTRAL THAT'S MY

55:45 THAT'S MINE IS MY.

55:46 ORG THAT'S ALREADY THE.

55:47 SYSTEM RIGHT?

55:48 MY BILL SIMPLY SAID CENTRAL DO

55:51 MAKE THAT.

55:52 MAKE THOSE NUMBERS.

55:52 PUBLIC PER SCHOOL.

55:54 ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.

55:55 THAT WAS IT.

55:56 PRIOR TO PRIOR TO YOUR.

55:57 BILL WAS THERE.

55:59 ARE INDIVIDUALS REPORTED UH THE

56:01 AND THE CONTRIBUTION THAT THEY

56:03 MADE.

56:04 SO IF A PARENT DECIDED TO GIVE

56:06 $1 MILLION WHAT WOULD THAT IT

56:07 WOULD IT JUST SAY WE HAVE A

56:09 MILLION OR WOULD IT SAY

56:10 SO-AND-SO GAVE A MILLION AND

56:12 THAT WAS ON THE PUBLIC RECORD?

56:14 UH.

56:15 PARENTS AND FAMILIES HAVE AN

56:16 OPTION TO DISCLOSE WHEN IT

56:18 COMES TO THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL.

56:19 PTA HOW THEY.

56:20 GET THEIR.

56:21 MONEY IF.

56:22 IF IF SOMEONE WANTS TO

56:23 DYNAMICALLY DONATE $1 MILLION

56:25 TO A.

56:25 SCHOOL THEY COULD DO THAT.

56:27 BUT UM.

56:29 THOSE THAT THAT TYPE OF UH

56:31 LEVEL OF DETAIL.

56:32 IS CONTROLLED BY CENTRAL.

56:33 WHAT WAS MADE PUBLIC.

56:34 SIR WAS NOT THE NAMES OF.

56:36 WHO GAVE IT.

56:37 WAS JUST THE AMOUNTS.

56:38 YEAH.

56:39 NO I JUST WONDERING IF THAT

56:40 WAS PART OF THE PROCESS

56:41 REGARDLESS UM AND MAYBE SOME

56:43 OF THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES

56:44 THAT COULD COME OFF OF UH, YOU

56:46 KNOW, YOU WOULD HATE TO

56:47 DISSUADE PEOPLE FROM

56:48 CONTRIBUTING BECAUSE THEY KNOW

56:49 THEIR NAME MIGHT BE ON A LIST

56:51 FOR ALL TO SEE.

56:52 UM ANOTHER QUESTION WAS THERE

56:54 ANY UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

56:56 OF ALL THIS DATA OUT THERE, UH,

56:58 OF THE SCHOOLS THAT MAY HAVE.

57:00 RAISED MORE VERSUS.

57:01 THE SCHOOLS WHO DIDN'T HAVE ANY

57:03 UM I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS

57:04 EXACTLY IN NEW YORK PUBLIC

57:06 SCHOOLS, BUT RIGHT IN BOSTON

57:07 THERE'S SOME CHOICES OF WHERE

57:08 YOU CAN GO AND DID IT.

57:10 I WORRY THAT DOES IT GIVE ANY

57:12 FAVORABILITY TO WANT?

57:13 OH I LOOKED AT THE NUMBERS AND

57:14 UH THE PTA DOESN'T RAISE MUCH

57:16 AT THAT SCHOOL AND UH, YOU

57:18 KNOW, WE CAN SEE WHAT WHAT IS

57:20 OFFERED AND SO THEY CAN'T DO X,

57:21 Y AND Z UH, BUT OVER HERE DOES

57:23 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN UH, THERE'S

57:25 SORT OF A RUSH TO TO YOU KNOW,

57:27 ONE SCHOOL HAS THE UPPER HAND

57:29 OVER THE OTHER AND FAMILIES

57:30 MIGHT FEEL LIKE THEY'RE GETTING

57:32 A SHORT END OF THE STICK, SO TO

57:33 SPEAK.

57:34 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

57:35 UH, NO, I APPRECIATE.

57:36 THE QUESTION.

57:37 I WOULD.

57:37 SAY THE THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY

57:39 FOR ME THAT WE.

57:41 DIDN'T SEE COMING.

57:42 UH, WAS.

57:43 THE FACT THAT WE HAD.

57:44 OVER 370 SCHOOLS REPORTING

57:46 NOTHING.

57:47 YEAH.

57:47 NO ACTIVITY.

57:48 AND THAT.

57:49 IS UNACCEPTABLE TO ME, SIR.

57:51 AND THAT'S NOT ON THEM.

57:52 THAT'S ON THE CENTRAL SYSTEM.

57:55 UH.

57:56 THEY KNEW.

57:57 I MEAN, IT MADE.

57:59 ME QUESTION HOW LONG DID YOU

58:00 KNOW THIS FOR.

58:01 AND WHAT WAS THE GAME PLAN TO

58:02 TO.

58:03 TO TURN THIS AROUND?

58:05 UM AND AND THAT TO ME IS

58:07 UNACCEPTABLE.

58:07 BUT AS.

58:08 FAR AS THE WAY WE RESOURCE

58:09 SCHOOLS WE STILL RESOURCE.

58:10 THEM THE SAME.

58:11 AS FAR AS EVERY KID WHETHER

58:13 YOU'RE IN SOUTH.

58:14 BROOKLYN WHERE I LIVE OR UPPER

58:15 WEST SIDE, YOU'RE FUNDED.

58:18 THE SAME FUNDING FORMULA.

58:19 IF YOU'RE A KID THAT.

58:20 SPECIAL NEEDS YOU MIGHT GET

58:21 SOME MORE FUNDING AND SO FORTH.

58:23 BUT I WOULD JUST SAY THE

58:25 BIGGEST TAKEAWAY FOR ME.

58:26 WAS.

58:27 THE FACT THAT.

58:27 HUNDREDS OF SCHOOLS HAD NO.

58:28 ACTIVITY WHATSOEVER.

58:30 YEAH UNDERSTOOD AND ENDED THAT

58:32 RESULT AND UH WELL I GUESS WHAT

58:35 YOU'RE SAYING IF ANY PRIVATELY

58:36 FUNDED BUT YOU'RE NOT SAY IT

58:37 WAS IT EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED TO

58:39 EACH SCHOOL IN YOUR IN THE

58:40 SCHOOL DISTRICT OR UH YOU KNOW

58:42 BECAUSE WHAT I'M TRYING TO

58:43 FIGURE OUT IS WHERE THERE

58:44 DIFFERENCE IN THE RESULTS UH

58:46 FROM AN EDUCATION STANDPOINT

58:48 AND HEY HERE IS A SCHOOL THAT

58:50 MIGHT HAVE HAD SOME WEALTHY

58:51 PARENTS IN IT AND THEY FUNDED

58:52 THE PTA GREATLY AND THEY WERE

58:54 ABLE TO DO SO MUCH MORE.

58:55 STUFF AND WE SAW RESULTS

58:56 DIFFERENT IN THE CHILD'S

58:58 EDUCATION VERSUS THE SCHOOLS

59:00 THAT MAYBE HAD ZERO ACTIVITY

59:01 THE 300 SCHOOLS THAT HAD ZERO

59:03 UH, ACTIVITY AND AND THE

59:05 RESULTS UH FROM AN ACADEMIC

59:08 POINT OF VIEW ON HOW IT

59:09 AFFECTED THEM.

59:11 WELL WHAT.

59:12 A QUESTION.

59:13 I MEAN, I AM A.

59:15 FORMER I.

59:16 CAN ANSWER.

59:17 THAT QUESTION AS A FORMER

59:18 TEACHER TOO THAT RESOURCES

59:20 ABSOLUTELY.

59:20 DO MATTER IN MANY, MANY

59:22 WAYS.

59:22 UH.

59:23 WHEN WHEN I TOOK MY STUDENTS

59:25 I TOOK GOVERNMENT AND MY FINAL

59:27 COUPLE.

59:27 YEARS BEFORE.

59:28 I JUMPED THE CITY COUNCIL.

59:30 UH.

59:30 UH, WHEN I TOOK MY STUDENTS

59:32 TO WASHINGTON DC UM, THAT WAS A

59:35 GAME CHANGING EXPERIENCE FOR

59:36 THEM.

59:36 UM, THEY WERE ABLE TO YOU KNOW,

59:39 THE SCHOOL THANKFULLY HAD DUE

59:41 TO MY ADVOCACY OR A BUDGET TO

59:44 TAKE KIDS ON SOME SOME TRIPS.

59:46 UM, THERE ARE SOME KIDS IN MY

59:48 FORMER DISTRICT IN CONEY ISLAND

59:50 THAT VIRTUALLY NEVER LEFT THEIR

59:51 ZIP CODE.

59:52 NEVER SAW A MUSEUM IN

59:54 MANHATTAN.

59:55 RIGHT?

59:55 UM, THAT WAS UNACCEPTABLE TO

59:56 ME.

59:57 SO YES, SIR.

59:58 I WOULD SAY THAT THOSE

59:59 RESOURCES MAKE A VERY BIG

1:00:00 DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES

1:00:01 OF THOSE KIDS AND FAMILIES AND

1:00:03 ALSO THE FACT THAT THEY WERE

1:00:04 ALSO USED TO SUPPLEMENT ART,

1:00:06 MUSIC, UM, AFTER SCHOOL

1:00:08 PROGRAMS.

1:00:08 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE TRIPS.

1:00:10 IT'S ABOUT SO MUCH SO MANY

1:00:12 PROGRAMS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT

1:00:13 REALLY KEEP KIDS IN SCHOOL AND

1:00:15 TO RETAIN THEM AND TO AND TO

1:00:17 ADVANCE YOUR ACADEMIC SUCCESS

1:00:19 AS WELL SIR.

1:00:19 THANK YOU.

1:00:20 IT I KNOW THAT'S MY TIME TO

1:00:21 I JUST THINK I WANTED TO JUST

1:00:23 MAKE THE POINT OF IF WE HAVE

1:00:24 SCHOOLS THAT ARE PRIVATELY

1:00:26 FUNDED UH AND ALLOW MORE ACCESS

1:00:28 TO MORE THINGS IN IN THE WAY

1:00:30 THAT THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

1:00:32 SYSTEM WORKS AS WE KNOW UH, YOU

1:00:34 COULD UM, YOU KNOW, SOME

1:00:36 SCHOOLS MIGHT BE MORE FAVOR

1:00:38 OTHERS AND UM, YOU KNOW, I'D

1:00:40 HATE TO SEE ANY SCHOOL LAG

1:00:42 BEHIND BUT UM, I UNDERSTAND

1:00:44 ALSO IT'S ABOUT THE PARENTS

1:00:45 INVESTING IN THEIR SCHOOL AND

1:00:46 IT'S KIND OF LUCK OF THE DRAW

1:00:48 OF WHO YOU GET AND DO CAN RAISE

1:00:49 WHAT YOU ORGANIZE AROUND WHAT?

1:00:51 SO, UM IT'S DIFFICULT BUT THANK

1:00:53 YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME.

1:00:55 REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

1:00:55 UH, AND PAMELA, I WON'T BE

1:00:57 AROUND FOR THE SECOND PANEL.

1:00:58 I'M SORRY.

1:00:59 UH, I'LL JUST TEXT YOU.

1:01:00 ALL RIGHT.

1:01:00 THANK YOU.

1:01:01 GUYS, WHAT.

1:01:02 DO YOU WANT TO ANSWER THE

1:01:03 QUESTION, PAMELA?

1:01:04 NOW JUST AND NO ONE I'M NOT

1:01:07 PLAYING FAVORITISM.

1:01:09 BUT SINCE COUNSELOR FOR SHOW IS

1:01:10 NOT GOING TO BE HERE.

1:01:10 THANK YOU.

1:01:11 UM, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER.

1:01:14 SO THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING

1:01:15 THAT WE HOLD IS ALL

1:01:16 PHILANTHROPIC.

1:01:17 UM, WE HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING

1:01:20 PARENT COUNCILS IF THEY CHOOSE

1:01:22 TO UH, THAT'S ACTUALLY AN

1:01:24 EFFORT THAT WE'VE REALLY BEEN

1:01:26 FOCUSED ON DOING IN THE PAST

1:01:27 TWO YEARS OR SO WHEN WE OPENED

1:01:30 THE DOORS TO SUPPORT PARENT

1:01:32 COUNCIL.

1:01:33 SO THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING

1:01:34 THAT WE HAVE IS REALLY TO UM

1:01:36 HAS BEEN AT THE LOCAL SCHOOL

1:01:38 AND DEPARTMENT LEVEL BUT WE DO

1:01:42 HAVE COUNCILS THAT WE SUPPORT

1:01:43 AND WE'RE TRYING TO BRING ON

1:01:45 MORE JUST TO BE ABLE TO GIVE

1:01:47 THEM THAT UM THAT OVERALL

1:01:49 FOUNDATIONAL SUPPORT WHERE WE

1:01:50 SEE THERE'S BIG INEQUITIES AS

1:01:53 WELL.

1:01:54 GREAT.

1:01:55 THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING

1:01:55 THAT.

1:01:56 UH THANK YOU CHAIR I APPRECIATE

1:01:57 THE EXTRA TIME I REALLY DO.

1:02:01 YOU'RE WELCOME.

1:02:02 DON'T SAY I NEVER GAVE YOU

1:02:03 ANYTHING.

1:02:05 I LET'S GO.

1:02:06 TO UH IT'S MY TURN, I BELIEVE.

1:02:08 UH, SO, COUNSELOR TRAGER, I'M

1:02:11 JUST CURIOUS WHAT CHALLENGES

1:02:13 DID YOU FACE IN WRITING.

1:02:15 UH, AND.

1:02:16 PASSING THIS PIECE

1:02:18 OF LEGISLATION SPECIFICALLY

1:02:19 KIND OF WHAT WAS THE RESPONSES

1:02:20 FROM THE STAKEHOLDERS

1:02:22 EDUCATORS, DISTRICT UH, LEADERS

1:02:24 ,STUDENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS?

1:02:26 UH, AND THE REASON WHY I ASK IS

1:02:28 BECAUSE CHANGE IS NEVER EASY

1:02:29 AND I'M SURE THERE WAS SOME

1:02:31 FOLKS WHO WERE UBER

1:02:33 ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THIS AND

1:02:34 OTHERS WERE LIKE WHY DO YOU

1:02:35 WANT.

1:02:35 TO BE ALL UP IN MY BUSINESS?

1:02:37 SO I'M JUST CURIOUS IF YOU

1:02:38 DON'T MIND KIND OF HELPING TO

1:02:40 PAINT A PICTURE.

1:02:41 AND THE REASON WHY I ASKED THIS

1:02:43 QUESTION IS BECAUSE WE DO HAVE

1:02:44 A LOT OF FOLLOWERS ON OUR

1:02:45 INSTAGRAM AND THESE ARE THE

1:02:46 SORT OF CONVERSATIONS THAT WE

1:02:47 REALLY WANT PARENTS TO

1:02:48 UNDERSTAND ARE HAPPENING AND

1:02:50 THE ROLE THAT THEY CAN PLAY IN

1:02:51 SHIFTING UM, POLICY.

1:02:53 SO IF YOU COULD JUST TALK TO US

1:02:54 A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR

1:02:55 EXPERIENCE.

1:02:57 THERE.

1:02:57 IT'S REALLY GREAT QUESTION.

1:02:59 UM SO I RECEIVED SOME SOME

1:03:04 CONCERNS UH, FROM SOME SCHOOL

1:03:07 COMMUNITIES WHERE UH

1:03:10 FUNDRAISING WAS PRETTY

1:03:11 SUCCESSFUL UM, ASKING ABOUT YOU

1:03:14 KNOW, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR

1:03:15 THEIR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES?

1:03:17 UH, ARE YOU GOING TO WORK TO

1:03:19 CAP HOW MUCH WE CAN GIVE OR ARE

1:03:20 YOU GOING TO WORK TO

1:03:21 REDISTRIBUTE RESOURCES?

1:03:22 AND THAT WAS THAT WAS THAT WAS

1:03:23 NOT UH THE INTENTION OF MY BILL

1:03:27 WAS SIMPLY JUST TO HAVE FULL

1:03:29 TRANSPARENCY ABOUT UH, PTA

1:03:32 FUNDRAISING.

1:03:32 AND I ALSO WANTED TO NOTE THAT

1:03:36 THERE WAS IT WAS ALREADY A KIND

1:03:37 OF UH, AGAINST CHANCES

1:03:38 REGULATIONS TO EVEN DO

1:03:39 SOMETHING LIKE THAT ANYWAY.

1:03:40 AND SO NO ONE WAS PURSUING

1:03:42 THOSE TYPES OF CHANGES.

1:03:44 UH, WHEN I WAS PUSHING MY BILL

1:03:46 UM, WE ALSO RECEIVED UM SOME

1:03:50 INTERNAL UH, I WOULD SAY

1:03:53 CONVERSATIONS OR SOME LEVEL

1:03:55 OF CONCERNS FROM THE FROM THE

1:03:56 D.O.E. AS WELL SAYING THAT

1:03:58 WHENEVER YOU PASS A REPORTING

1:04:00 BILL THAT FORCES THEM TO

1:04:01 DISCLOSE INFORMATION THAT UM,

1:04:04 YOU KNOW, IT COSTS MONEY FOR

1:04:06 THEM TO DO THAT.

1:04:07 MY RESPONSE TO THAT WAS I

1:04:10 RESPECTFULLY, YOU'RE ALREADY

1:04:11 REQUIRED BY YOUR OWN RULES TO

1:04:12 COLLECT THIS INFORMATION.

1:04:13 ALL YOU'RE DOING IS MAKING THE

1:04:16 EXCEL CHART PUBLIC ON YOUR

1:04:17 WEBSITE THAT YOU ALREADY PAY

1:04:18 FOR ANYWAY.

1:04:19 SO THIS THIS IS NOT A MAJOR

1:04:20 COST.

1:04:21 THIS IS NOT A MAJOR BURDEN

1:04:22 OF ANY KIND BECAUSE TECHNICALLY

1:04:23 YOUR OWN RULES SAY YOU HAVE TO

1:04:25 COLLECT THIS ANYWAY.

1:04:26 AND SO THOSE WERE THE CRUX

1:04:29 OF THE FEEDBACKS AND CONCERNS.

1:04:31 BUT MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES I

1:04:33 WILL TELL YOU UH WERE VERY

1:04:36 APPRECIATIVE UH, MANY PTAS AND

1:04:38 FOLKS IN MY DISTRICT ARE VERY

1:04:40 APPRECIATIVE TO TO KIND OF WORK

1:04:41 ON THIS BECAUSE NOW NOW IT'S A

1:04:44 MAJOR A PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY

1:04:45 TOOL.

1:04:46 NOW PEOPLE GET TO ASK ABOUT THE

1:04:49 THEIR WHETHER IT'S THEIR MAYOR

1:04:51 OR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS SCHOOL

1:04:52 COMMUNITY TO SAY HEY WHAT ARE

1:04:54 WE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:04:55 OPPORTUNITY IS REACHING ALL

1:04:56 OF OUR KIDS AND ZIP CODES

1:04:58 REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU LIVE.

1:05:00 SO IT'S A GREAT TOOL TODAY, UH

1:05:03 ,TO ORGANIZE TO PUSH MORE

1:05:05 RESOURCES EQUITABLY ACROSS OUR

1:05:06 SCHOOLS.

1:05:07 THANK YOU.

1:05:08 AND JUST BECAUSE I'M ALSO ON

1:05:09 A TIMER, I HAVE TWO MORE

1:05:10 QUESTIONS THAT I WANT TO TRY TO

1:05:12 GET IN.

1:05:12 UM, AND SO ONE IS AND THIS IS

1:05:16 JUST CURIOUS CURIOSITY HERE I'M

1:05:18 JUST WONDERING WHETHER OR NOT

1:05:20 THE SCHOOLS WHO ARE DOING

1:05:22 BETTER AT FUNDRAISING, WHETHER

1:05:24 THERE ANY DISCUSSION AROUND HOW

1:05:27 WE BUILD EQUITY MAYBE PERHAPS

1:05:28 THEY GIVE A PERCENTAGE OF WHAT

1:05:30 THEY RAISE BACK INTO SOME SORT

1:05:33 OF FUNDS SO THAT THEY CAN HELP

1:05:34 SUPPORT THE SCHOOLS THAT WERE

1:05:35 NOT DOING GREAT.

1:05:37 WAS THERE ANY KIND OF LIKE

1:05:38 SOLUTIONS ASIDE FROM JUST

1:05:39 KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW AND YOU

1:05:41 KNOW, YOUR SUCCESSFUL BUDGET,

1:05:42 UH, ADVOCACY WORK BUT I'M

1:05:45 CURIOUS IF THERE WAS ANY TYPE

1:05:46 OF DISCUSSIONS AROUND THAT.

1:05:49 YEAH.

1:05:50 I MEAN AGAIN, UH THE.

1:05:53 UH IT DID.

1:05:54 GENERATE SOME CONVERSATIONS UM,

1:05:56 THE OUR THE CURRENT REGULATIONS

1:05:58 IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IN

1:05:59 NEW YORK DON'T KIND OF ALLOW

1:06:02 FOR LIKE SOME SORT OF UH THAT

1:06:04 TYPE OF REDISTRIBUTION OF SOME

1:06:05 KIND.

1:06:05 HOWEVER, I WILL SAY THAT UH,

1:06:08 THERE WERE THERE ARE SCHOOL

1:06:09 DISTRICTS IN BROOKLYN, UH, IN

1:06:11 THE COMMUNITIES AROUND PARK

1:06:13 PROSPECT, THE PROSPECT PARK

1:06:14 COMMUNITY, THE OTHER HALF

1:06:15 OF THE BOROUGH THAT FOR EXAMPLE

1:06:17 ,HAVE AN ANNUAL PROSPECT PARK

1:06:19 WALK, UH, WHERE THEY RAISE

1:06:21 MONEY FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL

1:06:23 DISTRICT AND THEY TRY TO

1:06:25 PROVIDE THOSE RESOURCES TO THE

1:06:26 TO ALL THE COMMUNITY.

1:06:28 SO IT.

1:06:28 DID GENERATE UH OR VALIDATE

1:06:31 SOME EFFORTS TO KIND OF DO

1:06:33 THINGS TO KIND OF MAKE SURE

1:06:34 THAT EVERY SCHOOL WAS WAS

1:06:35 GETTING KIND OF A PIECE OF THAT

1:06:36 PIE.

1:06:37 YEAH.

1:06:37 THE BIGGEST THING

1:06:38 COUNCIL MEMBER WAS TO FORCE THE

1:06:39 D.O.E. TO DO MORE AS WELL.

1:06:42 YEAH, YEAH.

1:06:43 AND YOU KNOW, I'M SO SORRY THAT

1:06:45 WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME BUT

1:06:47 I'M GOING TO USE THE PRIVILEGE

1:06:48 OF BEING THE CHURCHES TO GO A

1:06:49 LITTLE BIT OVER.

1:06:50 I'M ALSO CURIOUS AROUND THE

1:06:53 ORGANIZING WAIT, I MEAN THESE

1:06:54 ARE THE SORT OF OPPORTUNITIES

1:06:55 THAT REALLY INSPIRE PARENTS

1:06:57 ORGANIZE AROUND THIS INEQUITY.

1:06:59 DID YOU SEE ANY TYPE

1:07:00 OF ORGANIZING HAPPENING ONCE

1:07:02 THE PARENTS KNEW WHAT THEY

1:07:03 KNEW?

1:07:03 WAS THERE ANY GROUNDSWELL

1:07:05 OF SUPPORT?

1:07:06 AND THEN THE MY SECOND FOLLOW

1:07:07 UP QUESTION IS I'M ALSO CURIOUS

1:07:09 AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE

1:07:11 DISTRICT DECIDED THAT THEY

1:07:13 PLAYED A ROLE IN HELPING TO

1:07:14 BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THE

1:07:16 PARENT COUNCILS THAT WEREN'T AS

1:07:18 SUCCESSFUL AND WHAT ROLE, IF

1:07:20 ANY, DID THE D.O.E. PLAY IN

1:07:21 HELPING TO, UH, BUILD CAPACITY

1:07:23 FOR OTHER PARENT COUNCILS?

1:07:25 GREAT QUESTIONS.

1:07:26 I'LL TRY TO BE AS SPECIFIC AS

1:07:28 POSSIBLE.

1:07:28 OUR NUMBER ONE UH, PARENTS

1:07:30 PLAYED A TREMENDOUS ROLE.

1:07:31 IF ANYTHING, I WOULD NOT HAVE

1:07:32 BEEN ABLE TO DO WHAT WE DID IN

1:07:34 THE COUNCIL IN MY FINAL YEARS

1:07:36 IF NOT FOR PARENTS AND

1:07:37 FAMILIES.

1:07:37 THE REVEALING AND SOBERING DATA

1:07:40 OUT OF THE PTA FUNDRAISING BILL

1:07:41 AND THE FACT THAT WE ALREADY

1:07:43 KNEW THAT MOST OF OUR SCHOOLS

1:07:44 WERE NOT GETTING WHAT THEY'RE

1:07:46 OWED BY THE CITY'S OWN FUNDING

1:07:48 FORMULA KNOWN AS FAIR STUDENT

1:07:49 FUNDING.

1:07:49 UH, AS.

1:07:50 I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE WERE

1:07:52 ABLE TO ADD HUNDREDS

1:07:53 OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN MY

1:07:54 FINAL BUDGET TO SCHOOLS

1:07:56 DIRECTLY TO GET EVERY SCHOOL AT

1:07:58 100% OF THEIR FAIR STUDENT

1:07:59 FUNDING FORMULA UH, LARGELY

1:08:01 BECAUSE OF PARENTS AND FAMILY

1:08:03 ADVOCACY.

1:08:03 AGAIN, IT'S NOT MISSION

1:08:05 ACCOMPLISHED BECAUSE WE STILL

1:08:06 NEED TO DO MORE TO DIRECTLY

1:08:08 PROVIDE DIRECT AID AND SUPPORT

1:08:09 TO PPAS AND TAS.

1:08:11 AND THE SECOND PART IS UH YES.

1:08:14 UH, NOW UH I COULD TELL YOU

1:08:17 THAT UH FORGIVE ME COUNCIL

1:08:19 WANTS TO MAKE SURE I GET THE

1:08:20 SECOND QUESTION RIGHT.

1:08:21 IF YOU COULD JUST REPEAT THAT

1:08:21 VERSION.

1:08:22 YEAH.

1:08:22 IT WAS REALLY MORE AROUND UH,

1:08:23 THE ROLE THAT THE D.O.E. PLAYS

1:08:25 IF ANY IN HELPING TO SUPPORT TO

1:08:27 BUILD THE CAPACITY OF OTHER

1:08:28 PARENT COUNCILS SO THAT THEY

1:08:30 CAN FUNDRAISE AS WELL.

1:08:31 YEAH.

1:08:32 SO TO EXCELLENT QUESTION AND

1:08:34 TO THIS WAS ALSO RAISED I THINK

1:08:36 BY CITY COUNCIL THAT

1:08:38 COUNCILOR CULPEPER WITH REGARD

1:08:39 IT FORCED THE D.O.E. TO STAFF

1:08:41 UP THEIR FACE DIVISION FAMILY

1:08:43 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIVISION

1:08:44 UH TO ACTUALLY PROVIDE MORE

1:08:47 SUPPORT TO WE KNOW WHERE TO

1:08:48 TARGET THAT SUPPORT.

1:08:50 UM AND WE LEARNED AGAIN JUST TO

1:08:52 BE CLEAR JUST BECAUSE OF SCHOOL

1:08:53 WAS REPORTING ZERO IT DOESN'T

1:08:54 MEAN FAMILIES DON'T CARE.

1:08:56 IT WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO

1:08:57 INFRASTRUCTURE UH, INVESTED IN

1:08:58 BY THE CENTRAL DISTRICT TO

1:09:00 SUPPORT THAT SCHOOL COMMUNITY.

1:09:01 SO NOW THERE'S A LOT MORE FOLKS

1:09:03 WORKING IN FAITH BUT AGAIN, NOT

1:09:05 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED BY ANY

1:09:06 MEANS.

1:09:07 OKAY.

1:09:08 AND THEN I HAVE, UH, TWO

1:09:09 MORE QUESTIONS.

1:09:10 ONE IS FOR, UH, TRAVIS AND

1:09:12 THEN, UM, I'LL GO BACK TO YOU

1:09:14 FOR YOUR MY LAST QUESTION BUT

1:09:15 BUT TRAVIS, ACCORDING TO THE

1:09:16 IRS CONTRIBUTIONS AND APPLY

1:09:19 2025 BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY HAD

1:09:20 OVER 5 MILLION IN DONATIONS

1:09:23 WHILE UM FENWAY HIGH SCHOOL

1:09:25 WHICH IS JUST TEN MINUTES AWAY

1:09:28 RECEIVED UNDER A MILLION WHICH

1:09:29 IS STILL A LOT LIKE A MILLION.

1:09:31 AND YOU KNOW IT'S NOT BAD BUT

1:09:32 HOW COMMON ARE THESE

1:09:34 DISCREPANCIES, UH, SUCH AS THIS

1:09:36 ?

1:09:37 UM AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

1:09:39 UM, AND THE REST OF QUEST WOULD

1:09:41 BELIEVE IS THE BEST SOLUTION TO

1:09:43 IN TO ADDRESSING THOSE, UM,

1:09:45 INEQUITIES.

1:09:46 AND THEN FOR YOU, MARK, MY LAST

1:09:47 QUESTION IS I'M GOING TO ASK

1:09:48 YOU WHETHER OR NOT YOU THINK

1:09:49 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD

1:09:50 WORK HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON

1:09:51 CONSIDERING THAT WE'RE NOT A

1:09:52 DISTRICT AS LARGE AS UH, NEW

1:09:55 YORK AND IF SO, WHAT WOULD THAT

1:09:56 LOOK LIKE?

1:09:56 AND THEN THAT'S IT FOR ME.

1:09:58 THANK YOU.

1:09:59 COUNCILOR.

1:09:59 UM, BUT I CAN SAY IS THAT THE

1:10:02 DISPARITIES, UH, ARE ACTUALLY

1:10:03 WIDER THAN THE ONES THAT YOU,

1:10:05 UH, JUST USED AS AN EXAMPLE.

1:10:07 UM, BUT MOST AT THE ELEMENTARY

1:10:09 LEVEL AND AT THE HIGH SCHOOL

1:10:10 LEVEL.

1:10:11 UM, YOU KNOW, SOME SCHOOLS HAD

1:10:12 $11 IN THEIR UH, ACCOUNTS AND

1:10:14 SOME SCHOOLS HAD UH MILLIONS

1:10:17 UPON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN

1:10:18 THEIR ACCOUNTS.

1:10:19 UM, AND WE WHEN WE WENT BACK

1:10:22 AND RETRACED THE DATA FOR AN

1:10:24 UPDATE IN 2023, UH, THE BIGGEST

1:10:27 THING WE NOTICED IS THAT

1:10:29 POST-PANDEMIC UH, AND POST

1:10:31 ESSER FUNDING THAT UH, A LOT

1:10:34 OF THE SMALLER UH FY23

1:10:36 ORGANIZATIONS HAD FALLEN OFF

1:10:37 AND WERE NO LONGER REPORTING

1:10:39 UH, THEY WERE WE ASSUMED

1:10:40 THEY'RE DEFUNCT IF THEY'RE NOT

1:10:42 FILING WITH THE IRS.

1:10:44 UM, BUT THE LARGEST FUNDING UH

1:10:47 ,SCHOOLS ACTUALLY INCREASED

1:10:49 THEIR FUNDRAISING CAPACITY

1:10:50 DRAMATICALLY UH, OVER IN THE

1:10:52 YEARS FOLLOWING COVID AND SO I

1:10:55 GUESS BUT I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE

1:10:56 YOU WITH IF I MAY, IS JUST TO

1:10:57 SAY THAT WITH SCHOOL BUDGETS

1:10:58 TIGHTENING IT'S PERFECTLY

1:11:00 UNDERSTANDABLE THAT PEOPLE WANT

1:11:01 TO FIND OTHER FUNDING SOURCES

1:11:02 FOR THEIR CHILD'S SCHOOL.

1:11:04 BUT WE SHOULD BE REALLY CAREFUL

1:11:06 NOT TO CONFLATE, UM, THE

1:11:08 STRUCTURAL ABILITY TO RAISE

1:11:10 MONEY WITH ACCESS TO WEALTH.

1:11:13 UM, OUR ANALYSIS OF THE 2018

1:11:15 DATA SHOWED THAT SCHOOLS WITH

1:11:16 HIGHER POVERTY LEVELS, SCHOOLS

1:11:18 SERVING A HIGH PERCENTAGE

1:11:20 OF STUDENTS CATEGORIZED AS

1:11:22 AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND HISPANIC

1:11:23 DID NOT HAVE THE SAME LEVELS

1:11:25 OF COMMUNITY WEALTH BUT SUPPORT

1:11:27 THE DISTRICT'S MOST SUCCESSFUL

1:11:29 FUNDRAISING SCHOOLS AND EACH

1:11:31 CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT HAS 1 OR

1:11:34 2 OF THESE SCHOOLS WITH LARGE

1:11:35 FUNDED FUNDRAISING OPERATIONS,

1:11:37 BUT IT ALSO HAS MANY SCHOOLS

1:11:38 THAT DO NOT AND THE SCHOOL

1:11:40 SYSTEM THAT WE.

1:11:41 CURRENTLY HAVE FOR ASSIGNMENT

1:11:44 TENDS TO REINFORCE THAT

1:11:45 DISPARITY ALREADY WHETHER THAT

1:11:47 INFORMATION IS ON A DASHBOARD

1:11:49 OR NOT.

1:11:49 THANK YOU.

1:11:51 THANK YOU FOR THAT.

1:11:53 OKAY COUNSELOR TRIGGER AND THIS

1:11:55 IS IT FOR YOU OKAY.

1:11:56 YEAH.

1:11:57 YOU GOT IT.

1:11:57 UH, I WOULD SAY, UM TO THE CITY

1:12:02 OF BOSTON TO TO THE COUNSELOR

1:12:04 COUNSELORS, EVERYONE.

1:12:05 JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER THESE

1:12:07 ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND US

1:12:10 POLICYMAKERS, UH, FAMILIES

1:12:12 FOLKS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO KNOW

1:12:14 HOW WE'RE RESOURCING OUR

1:12:15 SCHOOLS AND HOW OUR SCHOOLS ARE

1:12:16 BEING RESOURCED AND, UH, BOTH

1:12:19 IN TERMS OF THE PUBLIC DOLLARS

1:12:21 THAT GO IN AND THE SUPPLEMENTAL

1:12:23 RESOURCES BECAUSE WE HAVE TO IN

1:12:25 ORDER TO MAKE THE BEST INFORMED

1:12:26 DECISIONS, YOU NEED TO HAVE THE

1:12:28 MOST INFORMATION IN FRONT

1:12:29 OF YOU.

1:12:30 HOW DO YOU NEGOTIATE A BUDGET

1:12:31 IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE FULL

1:12:32 PICTURE OF WHAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE

1:12:33 RECEIVING OR NOT RECEIVING?

1:12:35 AND SO I THINK IN ORDER TO MAKE

1:12:36 THE MOST INFORMED BEST DECISION

1:12:37 ON BEHALF OF KIDS AND FAMILIES

1:12:39 AND EDUCATORS WE SHOULD KNOW UH

1:12:41 ,ABOUT ABOUT THESE RESOURCES

1:12:42 THAT ARE COMING IN.

1:12:44 THEY DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

1:12:45 UH, IT'S NOT IN THE DIFFERENCES

1:12:47 THAT, YOU KNOW, THE

1:12:49 SUPPLEMENTAL THINGS THAT WE

1:12:50 TALKED ABOUT BUT ALSO IT DROVE

1:12:52 A LARGER CONVERSATION IN THE

1:12:54 CITY ABOUT OUR BUDGET PROCESS

1:12:56 AS WELL IN TERMS OF HOW WE

1:12:57 FUNDAMENTALLY RESOURCED

1:12:58 SCHOOLS.

1:12:58 SO I THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE

1:13:00 AN EYE OPENING AND VERY

1:13:02 HEALTHY.

1:13:03 UH, IT'S IT'S TRANSPARENCY AT

1:13:05 ITS BEST BUT IT'S GOING TO

1:13:06 ULTIMATELY RESULT IN MY HOPE IN

1:13:08 MORE RESOURCES PARTICULARLY

1:13:10 WHERE THOSE KIDS IN SCHOOL

1:13:11 COMMUNITIES YOU GET THE MOST

1:13:12 THANK YOU FOR OPPORTUNITY.

1:13:16 THANK YOU COUNCILOR TRAEGER.

1:13:18 WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOUR

1:13:19 EXPERTISE AND WE LOOK FORWARD

1:13:20 TO SHARING YOUR LEGISLATION

1:13:22 WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND COUNCIL.

1:13:24 CULPEPPER DON'T BE TRYING TO

1:13:25 TAKE IT BECAUSE I'M GOING TO BE

1:13:27 LEADING IT.

1:13:27 DON'T EVEN UM AND WE WILL

1:13:31 HOPEFULLY RE REPLICATING IT

1:13:33 HERE AS WELL AND YOU COULD BE

1:13:35 MY CO SPONSOR COUNCIL CALLED

1:13:36 THAT BECAUSE YOU LIKE TO TAKE

1:13:37 ON MY WORK.

1:13:38 UM ALL RIGHT SO WE'RE GOING TO

1:13:40 MOVE ON UH TO THE NEXT PANEL.

1:13:44 UM TRAVIS YOU'RE MORE THAN

1:13:44 WELCOME TO STAY I KNOW

1:13:47 COUNCILOR UH, TRAEGER YOU HAD,

1:13:48 UH, ANOTHER COMMITMENT.

1:13:50 SO, UH, YOU ARE FREE TO GO.

1:13:52 WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT.

1:13:53 WE'LL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH YOU

1:13:54 AS WE CONTINUE ON THIS JOURNEY.

1:13:56 RIGHT.

1:13:57 SO I'M GOING TO GO OVER NOW TO

1:14:00 THE ADVOCATES PANEL.

1:14:03 WE HAVE UH, JAMES UH NEWMAN.

1:14:06 NEW UM OH MY LORD.

1:14:10 UM NUAN.

1:14:11 UH YOU WERE.

1:14:12 PRONOUNCED THE CORRECTLY WHEN

1:14:13 IT'S YOUR TURN BP'S PARENT AND

1:14:16 ASSOCIATE UH, PROFESSOR

1:14:18 OF EDUCATION AND WE HAVE KYLE

1:14:21 MACLAY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

1:14:23 OF BGA.

1:14:24 SO WE'LL START WITH JAMES AND

1:14:26 YOU WILL, UH, EDUCATE US ON HOW

1:14:29 TO CORRECTLY SAY YOUR LAST

1:14:29 NAME.

1:14:30 JAMES.

1:14:30 YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:14:32 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:14:34 UM.

1:14:34 I REALLY.

1:14:35 APPRECIATE THIS.

1:14:36 OPPORTUNITY TO.

1:14:36 TESTIFY TODAY.

1:14:37 MY NAME IS JAMES NOONAN.

1:14:38 UH, AS YOU SAID, I'M AN

1:14:40 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR.

1:14:41 OF.

1:14:41 EDUCATION AT THE MCCUNE.

1:14:43 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AT SALEM

1:14:44 STATE UNIVERSITY.

1:14:45 I'M ALSO A RESIDENT OF.

1:14:47 ROXBURY AND A PARENT OF TWO

1:14:48 STUDENTS.

1:14:49 IN.

1:14:49 THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS ONE

1:14:50 AT THE NATHAN HALE ELEMENTARY

1:14:52 SCHOOL AND THE.

1:14:54 OTHER AT ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL.

1:14:57 UM AND I WANT TO START UH, A

1:14:59 LITTLE BIT.

1:14:59 ABOUT THIS IDEA OF MONEY AND UH

1:15:01 AND EDUCATION AND WHEN IT COMES

1:15:04 TO MONEY IN EDUCATION THE

1:15:06 RESEARCH IS REALLY CLEAR.

1:15:07 UM, AND COUNCILOR TRAGER SPOKE

1:15:09 TO THIS, UH, BRIEFLY, UM, AN

1:15:12 INCREASE IN PER PUPIL SPENDING

1:15:15 IS POSITIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH

1:15:17 NUMEROUS EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS.

1:15:18 UH, A RECENT STUDY FOUND.

1:15:20 THAT AN ADDITIONAL.

1:15:22 $1,000 PER STUDENT PER YEAR

1:15:23 SUSTAINED OVER FOUR YEARS

1:15:25 INCREASE BOTH STUDENT TEST

1:15:26 SCORES AND COLLEGE ENROLLMENT.

1:15:29 UM MOREOVER, THE POSITIVE

1:15:31 OUTCOMES WERE LARGER FOR

1:15:32 STUDENTS FROM LOWER

1:15:34 SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS WHICH

1:15:36 UH MEANS THAT MONEY THAT IS

1:15:38 TARGETED AT THE MOST IN NEED

1:15:40 CAN YIELD THE GREATEST BENEFIT.

1:15:43 UH, SCHOOL BUDGETS AS AS WE

1:15:46 KNOW ARE LARGELY MADE UP

1:15:48 OF ALLOCATIONS FROM THE CITY

1:15:49 AND THE STATE.

1:15:50 IN BOSTON, THE NEW UH,

1:15:52 REIMAGINED SCHOOL FUNDING

1:15:53 FORMULA LAYS OUT TWO SPENDING

1:15:55 CATEGORIES UH COMPLIANCE

1:15:57 FUNDING WHICH FUNDS UH STAFFING

1:16:00 THAT IS.

1:16:00 REQUIRED TO SERVE.

1:16:02 THE STUDENTS IN THAT SCHOOL

1:16:03 AND DISCRETIONARY FUNDING WHICH

1:16:05 FUNDS EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPS UM

1:16:08 .

1:16:08 UH AND OR STAFFING.

1:16:09 BEYOND WHAT IS UM REQUIRED.

1:16:13 HOWEVER, AS WE ALSO KNOW AND AS

1:16:14 WE'VE DISCUSSED UH SOME SCHOOLS

1:16:17 SUPPLEMENT THESE ALLOCATIONS

1:16:18 WITH ANOTHER POT OF MONEY AND

1:16:19 THIS PRIVATE FUNDRAISING CAN

1:16:21 INCLUDE SCHOOL BASED

1:16:23 FUNDRAISERS AND ESTABLISHED 501

1:16:27 C3 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.

1:16:30 UM THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT'S

1:16:32 RAISED AND HELD BY THESE

1:16:34 ORGANIZATIONS VARIOUS

1:16:35 TREMENDOUSLY UH ACCORDING TO

1:16:38 PROPUBLICA WHICH UM KIND

1:16:40 OF GATHERS THE MOST RECENT TAX

1:16:41 FILINGS AVAILABLE WHICH HAS

1:16:43 ALSO BEEN REFERENCED THE

1:16:45 FRIENDS OF THE NATHAN HILL

1:16:46 SCHOOL WHERE MY CHILDREN HAVE

1:16:48 ATTENDED HAD.

1:16:50 OVER JUST OVER $9,000 IN ASSETS

1:16:53 IN 2022, UH, WHICH IS THE MOST

1:16:56 RECENT FILING AVAILABLE.

1:16:58 IN 2025.

1:16:59 THE BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL

1:17:00 ASSOCIATION REPORTED NET ASSETS

1:17:03 OF OVER $97 MILLION.

1:17:06 UM AND MEANWHILE THERE ARE

1:17:08 DOZENS OF SCHOOLS THAT HAVE NO

1:17:11 FUNDRAISING ARMS AT ALL OR

1:17:12 DEFUNCT FUNDRAISING ARMS AS UM

1:17:15 TRAVIS MARSHALL MENTIONED, THIS

1:17:18 DISPARITY.

1:17:18 ACROSS SCHOOLS IS NOT UH,

1:17:21 RANDOM UH RESEARCHERS WHO.

1:17:24 STUDY WHO HAVE STUDIED.

1:17:25 PRIVATE FUNDRAISING IN AND THE

1:17:26 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUND THAT

1:17:28 SCHOOLS THAT HAD 500 AND C3 HAS

1:17:31 TENDED TO SERVE STUDENTS IN

1:17:33 NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WERE ON

1:17:34 AVERAGE MORE WHITE AND MORE

1:17:37 ECONOMICALLY ADVANTAGED.

1:17:38 UM AND I SUSPECT THAT THE SAME

1:17:41 IS TRUE, UM, AND NOT IN

1:17:43 PHILADELPHIA PRIVATELY RAISED

1:17:45 MONEY IS USED TO PAY FOR

1:17:47 ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES, FIELD

1:17:49 TRIPS, ATHLETICS, SCHOOL

1:17:50 SUPPLIES, TECHNOLOGY AND MORE.

1:17:52 UH, AT THE NATHAN HILL SCHOOL

1:17:54 THE FRIENDS OF THE NATHAN HALE

1:17:55 HELP TO FUND UH REHABBED SCHOOL

1:17:58 PLAYGROUND WHICH UH, WAS.

1:18:01 UM YOU KNOW, BADLY NEEDED AND

1:18:02 SO THAT FUNDRAISING WAS A

1:18:04 CRITICALLY IMPORTANT UH, PART

1:18:07 OF REHABBING THAT PLAYGROUND

1:18:08 AND PROVIDING A SAFE AND

1:18:10 ENGAGING PLACE TO PLAY FOR ALL

1:18:11 THE STUDENTS.

1:18:12 BUT IT MIGHT ALSO BE USED TO

1:18:14 BLUNT THE NEGATIVE IMPACT

1:18:16 OF PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS UH

1:18:17 WHICH HAPPEN UM ON UH

1:18:20 OCCASIONALLY UM THE MOST RECENT

1:18:23 $1.7 BILLION SCHOOL BUDGET

1:18:25 PASSED BY THIS BODY WAS

1:18:26 ESTIMATED TO REQUIRE HUNDREDS

1:18:28 OF JOB CUTS ACROSS THE

1:18:29 DISTRICT.

1:18:29 I'M SURE THAT WAS A VERY

1:18:31 DIFFICULT VOTE FOR FOR FOR YOU

1:18:34 UH, FOR THIS COUNCIL.

1:18:35 AND SO IN TIMES OF SCARCITY

1:18:38 SCHOOLS THAT DO NOT HAVE THE

1:18:40 BENEFIT OF PRIVATE REVENUE

1:18:41 STREAMS, UM, ARE LIKELY TO

1:18:43 SUFFER EVEN MORE UM

1:18:47 IMPORTANTLY, PRIVATE PRIVATELY

1:18:48 RAISED DOLLARS UH, ARE NOT

1:18:51 REFLECTED ON DISTRICTS

1:18:52 SPREADSHEETS UH, MEANING THAT

1:18:53 WE HAVE AN INCOMPLETE PICTURE

1:18:56 OF THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOR

1:18:57 BETTER AND WORSE AVAILABLE TO

1:19:00 VARIOUS SCHOOLS.

1:19:02 UM BUDGET PROCESSES ARE OFTEN

1:19:04 OPAQUE.

1:19:05 I HAVE CERTAINLY OBSERVED THIS

1:19:06 UH, ATTENDING SCHOOL SITE

1:19:08 COUNCIL MEETINGS, UH, AND

1:19:09 BUDGETING MEETINGS THE UH THE

1:19:12 LANGUAGE OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS

1:19:14 AND UH STUDENT FUNDING IS HARD

1:19:18 TO INTERPRET.

1:19:19 QUESTIONS FROM FAMILIES

1:19:20 INCLUDING MYSELF TEND TO RELY

1:19:22 TEND TO FOCUS ON BASIC

1:19:24 CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND NOT ON

1:19:26 DEEPER ISSUES OF WHAT.

1:19:28 MATTERS WHAT'S IMPORTANT AND

1:19:29 WHAT WE WHAT WE MOST VALUE.

1:19:33 UM.

1:19:33 BUT THIS INFORMATION DEFICIT

1:19:36 ABOUT PRIVATE FUNDRAISING ON A

1:19:38 POLICY LEVEL DEEPENS

1:19:40 INEQUALITY.

1:19:41 I THINK THE TRUTH IS THAT

1:19:43 WITHOUT A SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNTING

1:19:45 OF PRIVATE FUNDRAISING, A

1:19:47 TRANSPARENT SYSTEMATIC

1:19:48 ACCOUNTING WE CANNOT KNOW YEAR

1:19:51 TO YEAR HOW BIG THE RESOURCE

1:19:53 GAP IS BETWEEN SCHOOLS, UH,

1:19:55 THAT HAVE PRIVATE FUNDRAISING

1:19:57 STREAMS IN SCHOOLS THAT DON'T

1:19:59 THIS IS I THINK, A GAPING

1:20:01 PUBLIC POLICY BLACK HOLE WHICH

1:20:04 MAKES IT VERY HARD IF NOT

1:20:06 IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU AND FOR THE

1:20:08 BROADER PUBLIC TO KNOW THE TRUE

1:20:11 IMPACT.

1:20:12 OF ANY BUDGETING DECISIONS.

1:20:14 UM, AS POLICYMAKERS AND AS

1:20:18 STAKEHOLDERS.

1:20:18 WITH A COMMITMENT.

1:20:19 TO EQUITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY,

1:20:20 WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO CARE

1:20:21 THE MOST FOR THE LEAST AMONG

1:20:23 US.

1:20:24 BUT UH, WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY

1:20:26 AND PRIVATE FUNDRAISING WE ARE

1:20:28 CONSTRAINED IN OUR ABILITY TO

1:20:29 DO JUST THAT.

1:20:31 SO, UH, IN CLOSING, I'D URGE

1:20:33 YOU ALL TO CONSIDER MEASURES

1:20:35 THAT COMPEL SCHOOLS AND THE

1:20:36 DISTRICT TO MAKE PRIVATE

1:20:38 FUNDRAISING REVENUES, UM,

1:20:39 PUBLIC AND TRANSPARENT AND

1:20:42 EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO ALL.

1:20:43 AND I REALLY THANK YOU AGAIN

1:20:45 FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY

1:20:46 AND FOR HOLDING THIS HEARING.

1:20:48 I THINK THIS IS A REALLY,

1:20:49 REALLY CRITICAL ISSUE.

1:20:51 THANK YOU JAMES, AND I REALLY

1:20:53 DO APPRECIATE YOU UPLIFTING THE

1:20:54 BUDGET AND ALL THE WALLS THAT

1:20:55 WE GO THROUGH.

1:20:57 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT AND I'LL

1:20:59 HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS WHEN

1:21:00 IT'S MY TURN.

1:21:00 BUT FOR NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE

1:21:02 ON TO.

1:21:03 KILL YOU NOW HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:21:06 AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

1:21:07 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

1:21:09 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

1:21:10 UM I MUST ADMIT I'M A LITTLE

1:21:12 UNDER THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW BUT

1:21:13 I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

1:21:14 OF THE AUTHENTICATION JUSTICE

1:21:16 ALLIANCE.

1:21:17 I'M AN ALUMNUS.

1:21:18 OF EDWARD KENNEDY ACADEMY FOR

1:21:20 HEALTH CAREERS, FORMER STUDENT

1:21:21 REP ON THE BOSTON SCHOOL

1:21:23 COMMITTEE AND FORMER PRESIDENT

1:21:24 OF BEST.

1:21:24 ACTIVE BOSTON.

1:21:25 STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL.

1:21:27 UM CELEBRATING MY 12TH YEAR IN

1:21:29 ADVOCACY THIS YEAR.

1:21:31 SO UM AND I WANT TO START BY

1:21:32 BEING CLEAR THAT PRIVATE

1:21:34 FUNDRAISING IN OUR PUBLIC

1:21:35 SCHOOLS IS NOT SIMPLY A FUND

1:21:36 RAISING ISSUE IS AN ISSUE.

1:21:38 IT'S AN EQUITY ISSUE, AN

1:21:40 OPPORTUNITY GAP ISSUE AND

1:21:41 ULTIMATELY A QUESTION OF PUBLIC

1:21:43 POLICY HAS MADE A COMMITMENT TO

1:21:45 ELIMINATE OPPORTUNITY GAPS AND

1:21:46 ENSURE AN EQUITABLE ACCESS TO

1:21:48 HIGH QUALITY LEARNING

1:21:50 OPPORTUNITIES.

1:21:50 BUT WE HAVE TO LOOK HONESTLY AT

1:21:52 WHETHER OUR CURRENT SYSTEMS ARE

1:21:55 ACTUALLY DELIVERING ON THOSE

1:21:55 PROMISES WHICH THEY HAVE NOT.

1:21:58 WHEN ONE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CAN

1:22:00 LEVERAGE SIGNIFICANT WEALTH

1:22:01 SOCIAL CAPITAL, SOCIAL CAPITAL

1:22:03 ,FINANCIAL NETWORKS, UM

1:22:06 PRIVATE DONORS WHILE ANOTHER

1:22:07 CANNOT RECREATE TWO VERY

1:22:08 DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL

1:22:09 EXPERIENCES WITHIN THE SAME

1:22:10 SCHOOL DISTRICT.

1:22:11 THIS IS A STRUCTURAL INEQUITY

1:22:13 AND WE CANNOT SEPARATE THAT

1:22:15 FROM RACE CLASS GEOGRAPHY OUR

1:22:17 HISTORICALLY UNDER-INVESTED

1:22:18 BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES.

1:22:20 I DON'T WANT TO BLAME WE CAN'T

1:22:21 BLAME PARENTS.

1:22:22 WE CAN'T BLAME EDUCATORS.

1:22:23 WE CAN'T BLAME SCHOOL

1:22:24 COMMUNITIES FOR FUNDRAISING.

1:22:25 THEY ARE DOING WHAT THEY CAN TO

1:22:27 MAKE SURE THAT STUDENTS HAVE

1:22:29 ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITIES.

1:22:30 BUT THE QUESTION WE SHOULD BE

1:22:31 ASKING IS WHY DOES THE CHILD'S

1:22:32 ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY DEPEND ON

1:22:34 THEIR SCHOOLS ABILITY TO

1:22:35 FUNDRAISE?

1:22:36 IF WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT AN

1:22:38 EQUITY LENS, THEN WE HAVE TO

1:22:40 EXAMINE THE TOTALITY

1:22:41 OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO ALL

1:22:42 STUDENTS NOT JUST THE DOLLARS

1:22:43 THAT APPEAR IN SCHOOL.

1:22:45 ALLOCATION ALREADY HAS TOOLS

1:22:47 SUCH AS THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX

1:22:48 AND EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS

1:22:50 DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY DISPARATE

1:22:52 DISPARITIES, UM AND DIRECT

1:22:55 RESOURCES TOWARD STUDENTS AND

1:22:56 SCHOOLS WITH GREATER NEEDS.

1:22:57 SO I'M DEMANDING THAT THE

1:22:59 SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE WOLF

1:23:00 SKIP ADMINISTRATION APPLY THE

1:23:02 SAME LEVEL OF RIGOR TO PRIVATE

1:23:03 FUNDRAISING.

1:23:04 HOW MUCH IS EACH SCHOOL RAISING

1:23:06 ?

1:23:06 WHO HAS ACCESS TO THOSE?

1:23:07 WHO HAS ACCESS TO THOSE

1:23:09 RESOURCES WHERE OPPORTUNITIES

1:23:10 ARE BEING CREATED BECAUSE

1:23:11 OF THOSE FUNDRAISING?

1:23:12 AND WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE

1:23:13 STUDENTS AT OTHER SCHOOLS

1:23:15 MISSING BECAUSE THEIR

1:23:16 COMMUNITIES DON'T HAVE THE SAME

1:23:17 SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CAPITAL?

1:23:20 WE NEED TRANSPARENCY.

1:23:21 WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY AND WE

1:23:22 NEED A DISTRICT WIDE STRATEGY

1:23:23 FOR ENSURING THAT PRIVATE

1:23:26 FUNDRAISING DOES NOT UNDERMINE

1:23:27 EQUITABLE RESOURCES UM OR

1:23:29 EQUITABLE ALLOCATION I SHOULD

1:23:30 SAY BECAUSE PUBLIC EDUCATION

1:23:32 CANNOT OPERATE ON A MODEL WHERE

1:23:34 THE SCHOOLS WITH THIS MOST

1:23:35 SOCIAL CAPITAL WILL GET THE

1:23:37 MOST OPPORTUNITY.

1:23:38 IF WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT CLOSING

1:23:39 OPPORTUNITY GAPS, THEN WE

1:23:40 CANNOT SIMPLY MEASURE WHAT

1:23:41 BYPASS PROVIDES.

1:23:42 WE HAVE TO MEASURE WHAT

1:23:43 STUDENTS ACTIVELY HAVE ACCESS

1:23:45 TO.

1:23:45 EVERY STUDENT DESERVES

1:23:47 EXCELLENT EDUCATION REGARDLESS

1:23:48 OF THEIR ZIP CODE, THEIR

1:23:50 SCHOOLS FUNDRAISING CAPACITY

1:23:51 AND THEIR FAMILIES CONNECTIONS

1:23:52 .

1:23:53 OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD BE A

1:23:54 PUBLIC COMMITMENT AND NOT A

1:23:55 PRIVATE PRIVILEGE.

1:23:56 THANK YOU.

1:23:59 OKAY.

1:23:59 GOOD JOB KIDDO THANK YOU.

1:24:02 IT ALMOST FEELS AND I'M GOING

1:24:04 TO MOVE INTO MY COLLEAGUES

1:24:05 QUESTIONS BUT I JUST WANT TO

1:24:06 INSERT THIS REALLY QUICK IS

1:24:07 THAT YOU KNOW THESE ARE.

1:24:08 PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1:24:09 BUT IT FEELS LIKE SOME OF THEM

1:24:12 ARE SEMI-PRIVATE IN MANY WAYS.

1:24:14 RIGHT.

1:24:14 BECAUSE THE THE SUPPLEMENTAL.

1:24:17 UM CAPACITY FOR FUNDRAISING UM

1:24:20 AND BASED ON JAMES'S DATA.

1:24:22 UH IN.

1:24:23 TERMS OF WHO IS ATTENDING

1:24:24 THESE SCHOOLS ARE PREDOMINATELY

1:24:25 MORE AFFLUENT AND MORE WHITE

1:24:26 AND OBVIOUSLY THAT'S HOW THEY

1:24:28 KEEP.

1:24:29 UM SCHOOLS SEGREGATED.

1:24:31 UH, NOT JUST RACIALLY BUT ALSO

1:24:33 SOCIOECONOMICALLY.

1:24:34 AND SO THAT'S WHY I'M SO GLAD

1:24:35 THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S PEOPLE

1:24:38 LIKE JAMES AND TRAVIS AND QUEST

1:24:40 THAT.

1:24:41 ARE LEADING THIS CHARGE BECAUSE

1:24:43 YOU'RE NOT JUST THINKING ABOUT

1:24:44 YOUR OWN KIDS AND OFTENTIMES

1:24:45 THAT IS A NARRATIVE LIKE

1:24:47 EVERYONE'S JUST THINKING

1:24:48 OF THEIR OWN AND THE FACT THAT

1:24:50 YOU ARE SHARING THIS

1:24:51 RESPONSIBILITY AND YOU KNOW,

1:24:53 BRING THE LENS, UM, TO THE

1:24:55 INEQUITIES THAT EXIST IN

1:24:56 SCHOOLS THAT ARE

1:24:56 UNDER-RESOURCED AND ALSO UNDER

1:24:58 ORGANIZE LIKE I'M REALLY

1:25:00 EXCITED TO TO DIG IN A LITTLE

1:25:01 BIT DEEPER TODAY.

1:25:02 SO THANK YOU ALL.

1:25:03 UM.

1:25:04 FOR THIS I'M GOING TO GO UM

1:25:06 THE ORDER OF ARRIVAL HAS

1:25:07 SHIFTED BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT

1:25:09 COUNCILOR FLYNN IS NO LONGER

1:25:10 WITH US NOR IS

1:25:12 COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:25:13 SO WE'LL GO TO

1:25:14 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE THEN

1:25:16 COUNCILOR WEBER AND THEN

1:25:17 COUNCILOR CULPEPER AND THEN

1:25:19 MYSELF.

1:25:19 SO COUNCILOR.

1:25:20 LOUIJEUNE YOU NOW HAVE THE

1:25:21 FLOOR.

1:25:23 THANK YOU.

1:25:24 UM, CONCILOR MEJIA HERE AND

1:25:25 THANK YOU TO JAMES AND TO KEOGH

1:25:27 .

1:25:28 UH.

1:25:28 FOR YOUR TESTIMONY.

1:25:30 I AGREE THAT ECONOMIC AND

1:25:31 SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE SCHOOL

1:25:32 CAN REALLY BE TRANSFORMATIVE

1:25:35 AND, UH, INTRODUCE STUDENTS TO

1:25:37 OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY

1:25:38 WOULDN'T OTHERWISE HAVE.

1:25:39 AND SO I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL

1:25:41 FOR YOUR TESTIMONY, ESPECIALLY

1:25:42 IN A WEEK WHERE WE KNOW THERE'S

1:25:43 BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATION

1:25:45 AROUND EDUCATION, JUSTICE AND

1:25:46 WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO REALLY

1:25:48 THINK ABOUT, UH, COMMUNITY

1:25:52 NEEDS AND NOT JUST INDIVIDUAL

1:25:54 ADVANCEMENT OF STUDENTS.

1:25:55 SO, UM, JUST WANT TO THANK YOU

1:25:56 FOR YOUR TESTIMONY AND I LOOK

1:25:57 FORWARD I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS

1:25:58 FROM FOR THE ADMINISTRATION SO

1:25:59 I'M GOING TO WITHHOLD MY

1:26:00 QUESTIONS FOR THAT PANEL.

1:26:01 THANK YOU.

1:26:03 OH AND.

1:26:04 CONGRATS TO AKIO ON ALL THE UM

1:26:06 WELL WONDERFUL I THINK YOU

1:26:08 STATED THAT YOU WERE JUST UH

1:26:09 POINTING TO WHAT YOU JUST

1:26:10 WANTED TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS

1:26:11 AND HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON.

1:26:13 THANK YOU I APPRECIATE THAT.

1:26:16 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:26:17 WE'LL GO NOW TO COUNCILOR.

1:26:19 WEBER AND YOU NOW HAVE FIVE

1:26:21 MINUTES ON THE FLOOR.

1:26:22 OKAY.

1:26:23 THANK YOU.

1:26:24 UH, YEAH.

1:26:24 UH, I FEEL BETTER, KIDDO.

1:26:27 AND CONGRATULATIONS ON 12 YEARS

1:26:29 .

1:26:30 OF ADVOCACY.

1:26:31 UH, SO I GUESS JUST, UM, IN

1:26:35 TERMS OF THE ISSUE WE HEARD

1:26:36 ABOUT NEW YORK CITY, YOU KNOW

1:26:40 THAT I GUESS.

1:26:42 DO WE HAVE THIS DO WE THINK WE

1:26:44 HAVE THE SAME ISSUE HERE IN

1:26:46 BOSTON LIKE YOU KNOW, UH DO YOU

1:26:48 HAVE ANY EXAMPLES OF TWEAKS?

1:26:51 DO WE THINK SCHOOLS ARE HIDING

1:26:52 RESOURCES TO GET MORE FUNDING,

1:26:55 WHICH IS I THINK SEEM TO BE

1:26:57 WHAT THE ISSUE IN NEW YORK WAS

1:26:59 .

1:26:59 BUT ONE OF THE POTENTIAL ISSUES

1:27:01 UH, FOR SOME OF YOU, PROFESSOR

1:27:02 NOONAN, IF YOU HAVE ANY

1:27:05 THOUGHTS, LET ME.

1:27:08 UM UH.

1:27:09 THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION,

1:27:11 COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:27:12 UM, UH, I CAN'T SPECULATE ON

1:27:15 WHETHER SCHOOLS ARE TRYING TO

1:27:17 SHELTER OR HIDE RESOURCES IN

1:27:19 ORDER TO, UH TO BOOST THEIR

1:27:21 FUNDING.

1:27:22 UM UH, BUT I THINK THE ISSUE

1:27:26 FOR ME IS THAT WE SEE THAT

1:27:29 THERE IS A DISPARITY IN THESE

1:27:30 KIND OF MECHANISMS AND THE

1:27:32 SUPPORT AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE

1:27:34 TO SUPPORT A SUPPLEMENTAL

1:27:36 PRIVATE FUNDRAISING REVENUE

1:27:38 STREAM AND AS UH AS THE

1:27:41 COUNCILOR FROM NEW YORK CITY,

1:27:42 UH, SAID IN HIS TESTIMONY

1:27:44 EARLIER UM.

1:27:46 THIS IS.

1:27:48 FUNDRAISING FOR YOUR SCHOOL OR

1:27:49 FUNDRAISING FOR YOUR CHILD'S

1:27:50 SCHOOL IS NOT THE ISSUE.

1:27:52 WE CARE ABOUT OUR CHILDREN'S

1:27:53 EDUCATION.

1:27:54 WE CARE ABOUT THE SCHOOLS OUR

1:27:55 CHILDREN ATTEND.

1:27:57 UM THE ISSUE IS THE DISPARITY

1:27:59 AND THE LACK OF, UH,

1:28:01 TRANSPARENCY AND INFORMATION

1:28:03 WHICH HELPS THAT DISPARITY GROW

1:28:05 BECAUSE IF WE DON'T HAVE THE

1:28:07 INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE THESE

1:28:09 SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUES ARE I

1:28:10 MEAN WE CAN KIND OF DO THE THE

1:28:13 INDIVIDUAL KIND OF EXCAVATION

1:28:14 WORK OF GOING AND DIGGING

1:28:16 THROUGH PROPUBLICA'S DATABASE

1:28:18 OF TAX FILINGS.

1:28:19 BUT IT'S IT'S A IT'S STILL A

1:28:21 BLACK.

1:28:21 BOX WE DON'T KNOW.

1:28:23 AND SO HAVING KIND OF CLEAR

1:28:25 INFORMATION.

1:28:27 UM HELPS US KNOW LIKE WHERE

1:28:30 SCHOOLS REQUIRE EXTRA SUPPORT

1:28:34 UM SCHOOLS THAT ARE BETTER

1:28:35 POSITIONED TO WITHSTAND TIMES

1:28:37 OF SCARCITY.

1:28:38 UM AND SO THAT TO ME IS LIKE

1:28:40 THE THE.

1:28:41 THE ISSUE IF.

1:28:42 AND OF COURSE IF THERE ARE KIND

1:28:44 OF SCHOOLS THAT ARE SHELTERING

1:28:46 RESOURCES TO KIND OF GAME THAT

1:28:48 SYSTEM THAT'S OBVIOUSLY AN

1:28:49 ISSUE TOO.

1:28:50 UM I THINK IT'S A RELATED ISSUE

1:28:52 TO ME IT'S A IT'S A SEPARATE

1:28:54 ISSUE.

1:28:56 WE CAN.

1:28:57 UM I GUESS SO DO YOU KNOW

1:29:00 HOW MUCH THE HILL RAISES IS UH

1:29:03 ,EACH YEAR I YOU KNOW, I'VE

1:29:05 HAD KIDS AT THE AT THE MENDEL

1:29:08 MISSION HILLS SCHOOL CURLEY UH

1:29:10 ,BUT YEAH, I I DON'T KNOW,

1:29:12 LIKE WHAT KINDS OF DOLLARS.

1:29:13 THAT YOU.

1:29:14 THROUGH AND.

1:29:15 YEAH, I'M NOT INVOLVED DIRECTLY

1:29:18 IN THE FRIENDS OF THE NATHAN

1:29:20 HALE GROUP SO I DON'T KNOW.

1:29:21 UM, ALL.

1:29:22 I LIKE WHAT I DO KNOW IS.

1:29:23 THAT, UM.

1:29:25 YOU KNOW, IN.

1:29:27 LIKE A FEW YEARS AGO THEY HAD

1:29:29 $9,000 ON HAND.

1:29:30 UM, I THINK SOME OF THAT MONEY

1:29:31 PROBABLY WENT TO THE NEW

1:29:33 PLAYGROUND.

1:29:34 SO I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY

1:29:35 THEY HAVE ON HAND NOW I DON'T

1:29:36 KNOW HOW MUCH THEY RAISE, BUT I

1:29:38 I WILL SAY THAT MY WIFE AND I

1:29:39 DO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT.

1:29:41 IT IS LIKE A WAY TO SUPPORT THE

1:29:43 SCHOOL.

1:29:44 BUT IT ALSO MEANS THAT YOU

1:29:46 KNOW, THAT IS A SCHOOL THAT HAS

1:29:49 THIS INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE TO

1:29:51 RECEIVE DONATIONS WHERE UM

1:29:55 OTHER SCHOOLS.

1:29:56 DON'T LIKE THE UH OTHER SCHOOLS

1:29:58 THAT ARE ALSO CLOSE BY.

1:30:00 THE HIGGINSON LEWIS IS RIGHT

1:30:02 ACROSS THE THE PARK FROM ME AND

1:30:04 THEY DON'T HAVE A FRIENDS

1:30:06 OF THE HIGGINS UNLESS THERE'S

1:30:07 LIKE NOT THE RESOURCES AND THE

1:30:09 INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE.

1:30:11 UM AND SO ONE POSSIBILITY MIGHT

1:30:13 BE THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT

1:30:15 BE WAYS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL

1:30:18 SUPPORT BEYOND WHAT, YOU KNOW,

1:30:20 BDF PROVIDES AS A FISCAL AGENT

1:30:22 BEYOND LIKE THERE MAY BE OTHER

1:30:23 WAYS TO SUPPORT THE CAPACITY

1:30:25 BUILDING FOR FUNDRAISING AND

1:30:27 SCHOOLS TO TO TO TAKE ADVANTAGE

1:30:30 OF UH RESOURCES AND UM

1:30:35 COMMUNITY WEALTH THAT BOSTON

1:30:36 HAS TO OFFER.

1:30:37 YEAH.

1:30:38 JUST THE LAST QUESTION

1:30:39 SHARING IS FOR FOR YOU AGAIN

1:30:40 PROFESSOR NEEDED TO SEE THE

1:30:42 HEAD ON MY SCREEN HERE.

1:30:45 UM HE ADDED THERE ARE OTHER

1:30:46 CITIES THAT YOU, UH, THINK WE

1:30:48 SHOULD LOOK TOWARD AS MODELS.

1:30:50 FOR FOR THIS.

1:30:52 UH, HAVE YOU COME ACROSS OTHER

1:30:56 PLACES THAT DO THIS?

1:30:57 WELL.

1:30:58 ,THAT'S A THAT'S A REALLY GOOD

1:30:59 QUESTION.

1:31:00 I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'M WELL

1:31:02 INFORMED ENOUGH ON UH, KIND

1:31:03 OF FULL RANGE, BUT I THINK THE

1:31:05 EXAMPLE OF UH COUNCILOR TRACKER

1:31:07 FROM NEW YORK CITY BROUGHT

1:31:08 TODAY IS ACTUALLY A VERY, VERY

1:31:10 GOOD AND SIMPLE MODEL THAT

1:31:12 COULD HAVE MEANINGFUL

1:31:14 CONSEQUENCES FOR US IN BOSTON.

1:31:16 OKAY.

1:31:17 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:31:18 THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ELSE.

1:31:19 WE'LL TRY TO UH, INTO THIS.

1:31:23 OKAY.

1:31:23 WELL, UH, THANK THANK YOU VERY

1:31:24 MUCH, CHAIR.

1:31:26 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:31:27 AND WITH YOUR TIME I'M CURIOUS.

1:31:28 OF TRAVIS.

1:31:29 I KNOW QUEST HAS BEEN DOING A

1:31:30 LOT OF WORK IN RESEARCH IN THAT

1:31:32 SPACE.

1:31:32 SO WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW

1:31:34 ASIDE FROM NEW YORK CITY, ARE

1:31:35 THERE ANY OTHER CITIES THAT YOU

1:31:37 WOULD POINT TO?

1:31:39 WE MET WITH FOLKS IN PORTLAND.

1:31:41 WE MET WITH FOLKS IN UH,

1:31:44 CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HONESTLY

1:31:46 12 OR 14 DIFFERENT CITIES AND

1:31:47 TOWNS EVERY TOWN HAS UH EVERY

1:31:48 PLACE HAS THEIR OWN.

1:31:50 PARTICULAR WAY.

1:31:52 OF UH.

1:31:53 ADDRESSING THIS.

1:31:54 OR AT LEAST.

1:31:55 PUBLISHING IT.

1:31:55 UH, BUT NEW YORK CITY WAS

1:31:57 THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE IN TERMS

1:31:58 OF THE REQUIREMENT EVERY YEAR

1:32:00 PUBLISHING THAT INFORMATION

1:32:02 WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL REMEDIES

1:32:06 PRESCRIBED.

1:32:07 JUST JUST THE DATA OUT FRONT IN

1:32:11 PUBLIC UM, WITHOUT ANY UH

1:32:14 PARTICULAR AGENDA ACCOMPANYING

1:32:15 IT WHICH IS I THINK WHAT WE

1:32:17 THOUGHT WAS THE APPROPRIATE

1:32:18 FIRST STEP.

1:32:19 THANK YOU FOR THAT, TRAVIS AND

1:32:21 I INSERTED YOU BACK INTO THE

1:32:23 CONVERSATION.

1:32:23 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING SO

1:32:24 WILLING TO ANSWER.

1:32:25 THANK YOU.

1:32:26 UM, I KNOW COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

1:32:28 HAS BEEN.

1:32:29 PATIENTLY WAITING.

1:32:31 SO COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU

1:32:31 HAVE.

1:32:32 FIVE MINUTES AND THE FLOOR.

1:32:33 OKAY.

1:32:34 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, BUT

1:32:35 I'M GOING TO WAIT UNTIL THE

1:32:38 ADMINISTRATION COMES ON.

1:32:40 UH, THAT'S WHERE UH, MOST OF MY

1:32:43 QUESTIONS WILL PROBABLY BE

1:32:45 ANSWERED.

1:32:45 SO, UM, DO I GET TO ADD MY FIVE

1:32:50 MINUTES NOW TO THE

1:32:52 ADMINISTRATION?

1:32:53 GOT ANOTHER FIVE MINUTES?

1:32:55 NO.

1:32:55 THERE'LL BE ANOTHER NO.

1:32:56 SORRY.

1:32:57 NO, I WANT TO YEAH BECAUSE.

1:32:59 IT'S NOT EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION

1:33:01 HERE OKAY YOU CAN'T TRANSFER

1:33:03 WEALTH LIKE THAT.

1:33:04 NO IT'S NOT HAPPENING.

1:33:05 WELL I'LL HOLD MY WELL UNTIL

1:33:07 THE ADMINISTRATION COMES.

1:33:09 THAT'S RIGHT.

1:33:10 SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD PLAN FOR

1:33:11 YOU.

1:33:11 ALL RIGHT, SO I HAVE MY

1:33:15 QUESTIONS.

1:33:15 UM, AND THEN WE'LL TRANSITION

1:33:17 INTO OUR UM.

1:33:20 OUR THIRD PANEL.

1:33:22 SO I'M CURIOUS, UH, CERTAIN

1:33:23 SCHOOLS SUCH AS BILLS HAVE

1:33:26 ENTIRE POSITIONS FUNDED BY

1:33:29 THEIR SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS.

1:33:31 THAT'S RIGHT.

1:33:32 YOU HEARD IT HERE.

1:33:33 HOW DO WE ENSURE, UH.

1:33:36 UH, WE FUND PROGRAMS AND

1:33:38 POSITIONS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO

1:33:39 STUDENT SUCCESS EQUITABLY

1:33:40 ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT?

1:33:45 MHM.

1:33:46 I WONDER IF KIA HAS THOUGHTS

1:33:48 ON THAT.

1:33:52 SORRY I WAS BLOWING MY NOTES.

1:33:54 CAN CAN.

1:33:54 YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION?

1:33:56 YES.

1:33:57 SO UH, THE.

1:33:58 QUESTION IS UH THAT.

1:33:59 THERE'S CERTAIN SCHOOLS.

1:34:00 SUCH AS DALLAS UM.

1:34:03 THAT THEY HAVE.

1:34:04 ENTIRE POSITIONS FUNDED BY

1:34:06 THEIR SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONS.

1:34:08 RIGHT.

1:34:08 AND SO.

1:34:10 I DON'T UNDER THOSE.

1:34:11 CIRCUMSTANCES HOW DO WE ENSURE

1:34:13 .

1:34:13 THAT WE FUND PROGRAMS.

1:34:15 AND POSITIONS THAT ARE

1:34:17 IMPORTANT TO STUDENT SUCCESS

1:34:18 EQUITABLY ACROSS THE ENTIRE.

1:34:20 SYSTEM.

1:34:21 ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT?

1:34:23 I MEAN.

1:34:23 AND THAT'S A QUESTION THAT I

1:34:26 THINK THAT WE ALL HAVE IN MIND

1:34:27 RIGHT NOW WITH BUDGET SEASON

1:34:29 STARTING AND THINKING ABOUT THE

1:34:31 500 WHAT 400 PLUS PAIR

1:34:32 OF POSITIONS THAT WE LOST THIS

1:34:34 YEAR ALONE IN THE LAST BUDGET

1:34:35 SEASON.

1:34:36 SO THINKING ABOUT HOW ARE WE

1:34:37 NOT CUTTING VITAL STAFF IN THE

1:34:39 SCHOOL COMMUNITIES ARE.

1:34:41 YOU KNOW, MAYBE OKAY I'M GONNA

1:34:43 STOP MYSELF BEFORE I RAMBLE

1:34:44 BECAUSE I CAN GO ON A RANT BUT

1:34:45 I'M NOT.

1:34:46 UM SO I THINK UTILIZING TOOLS

1:34:48 THAT THE DISTRICT ALREADY HAS

1:34:50 LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX AND

1:34:51 THE EQUITY IMPACT ANALYSIS

1:34:53 BEING ABLE TO REFRESH THAT.

1:34:55 MAYBE WORKING WITH THE

1:34:56 OPPORTUNITY TEAM WE GOT TASK

1:34:57 FORCE TO THINK ABOUT HOW

1:34:58 EFFECTIVE IS THIS TOOL, HOW CAN

1:35:01 WE EXPAND IT TO BE MORE

1:35:02 INCLUSIVE OF UM OWNERSHIP UH

1:35:05 INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS AND YES,

1:35:09 THAT'S ALL I CAN THINK OF AT

1:35:10 THE MOMENT.

1:35:12 UH I I I APPRECIATE THAT IT

1:35:15 JUST GOES THE QUESTION.

1:35:17 WAS REALLY HOPING TO GET AT

1:35:18 THE.

1:35:19 FACT THAT THE THE.

1:35:20 REASON WHY SO MANY SCHOOLS ARE

1:35:22 SUCCESSFUL IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE

1:35:23 THE INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, TO

1:35:25 REALLY BE ABLE TO DO JUST THAT

1:35:28 AND WHEREAS PARENT COUNCIL YOU

1:35:29 KNOW, IT'S VOLUNTEER AND A LOT

1:35:32 OF THE PARENTS PARTICULARLY IN

1:35:34 SCHOOLS.

1:35:35 UM WITH LOW INCOME AND

1:35:37 UNDER-RESOURCED.

1:35:38 NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:35:38 THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE

1:35:39 TIME OR CAPACITY TO DO JUST

1:35:41 THAT.

1:35:41 AND I THINK THAT THERE IS A

1:35:42 ROLE FOR THE DISTRICT TO PLAY.

1:35:43 AND I.

1:35:44 THINK MY HOPE IS ASIDE FROM

1:35:45 THE REPORTING THAT WE CAN GET

1:35:47 AT WHAT ELSE WE CAN BE DOING TO

1:35:48 HELP SUPPORT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE

1:35:50 OVERALL ECOSYSTEM.

1:35:52 SO THANK YOU.

1:35:52 BUT I.

1:35:53 WOULD I MEAN ALSO.

1:35:54 PORTLAND SCHOOL HAS AN

1:35:55 EXTENSIVE ALUMNI NETWORK THAT

1:35:57 GIVES BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITY.

1:35:58 THEY ALSO HAVE PRIVATE

1:35:59 DEVELOPMENT TEAMS THAT WORK.

1:36:01 WITH UM INSTITUTIONS IN THE

1:36:03 FENWAY AREA TO CREATE LIKE LIKE

1:36:07 EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR

1:36:08 STUDENTS IN THEIR SCHOOLS THAT

1:36:09 WE DON'T SEE BEING OFFERED TO

1:36:10 SCHOOLS LIKE THE HAALAND SCHOOL

1:36:12 OR FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE BARAK.

1:36:14 OR EVEN M.K. WHO STILL DOESN'T

1:36:16 HAVE A BUILDING AFTER 25 YEARS

1:36:17 OF BEING AN IN DISTRICT

1:36:18 CHARTER.

1:36:19 SO I MEAN WE SEE THESE

1:36:21 DISPARITIES GENERATION AFTER

1:36:22 GENERATION NO MATTER WHAT WE'RE

1:36:24 GOING THROUGH.

1:36:25 SO UM YEAH.

1:36:26 THANK YOU.

1:36:27 JAMES I.

1:36:28 WAS JUST GOING TO ADD THAT I

1:36:30 THINK KIND OF BUILDING ON THAT.

1:36:32 THAT THE.

1:36:34 IF THE.

1:36:34 FIRST STEP IS GETTING

1:36:36 INFORMATION.

1:36:36 UH.

1:36:37 CLEAR ACROSS THE ACROSS

1:36:39 SCHOOLS AND ACROSS DISTRICT

1:36:41 THAT WE HAVE A FULL PICTURE

1:36:42 OF WHAT THE RESOURCES ARE AND

1:36:43 WHAT THE RESOURCE DISPARITIES

1:36:45 ARE, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND

1:36:47 OF INFORMATION COULD LIKE

1:36:49 ANOTHER STEP AFTER THAT COULD

1:36:50 BE TO FOLD THAT INFORMATION

1:36:51 INTO THINGS LIKE BUDGETING

1:36:54 TOOLS, UM, AND.

1:36:56 SCHOOL CHOICE TOOLS LIKE THE.

1:36:58 OPPORTUNITY INDEX OR OTHER KIND

1:37:00 OF BUDGETING.

1:37:01 KIND OF UH, FORMULAS SO THAT WE

1:37:04 CAN ENSURE GREATER EQUITY

1:37:07 ACROSS THOSE SCHOOLS IN TERMS

1:37:08 OF STAFFING RESOURCES, IN TERMS

1:37:10 OF MATERIAL RESOURCES, IN TERMS

1:37:12 OF CURRICULUM RESOURCES.

1:37:13 UM, I I'M AND I'D CERTAINLY BE

1:37:16 HAPPY TO BE A PART OF A

1:37:18 CONVERSATION LIKE THAT AND I

1:37:19 THINK WE CAN'T DO THAT UNTIL WE

1:37:22 HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION AND IN

1:37:24 A WAY THAT IT'S LIKE EASILY

1:37:25 ACCESSIBLE, DIGESTIBLE,

1:37:27 INTERPRETABLE.

1:37:28 UM AND SO TO.

1:37:29 TO TO GET THAT FIRST THEN WE

1:37:31 CAN CAN USE IT IN THE SERVICE

1:37:34 OF UH UM UH OF WHAT YOU'RE WHAT

1:37:37 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT,

1:37:38 COUNSELOR.

1:37:38 THANK YOU FOR THAT, JAMES.

1:37:40 AND THEN I'M JUST THIS WILL.

1:37:42 BE MY LAST QUESTION IS WHAT

1:37:43 ARE.

1:37:43 SOME OF THE INEQUITIES.

1:37:44 THAT YOU SEE NOW ACROSS THE

1:37:46 DISTRICT?

1:37:47 AND THIS IS JUST TO GET IT ON

1:37:49 THE RECORD BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT

1:37:50 WE KNOW.

1:37:50 BUT JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THIS

1:37:52 EXERCISE.

1:37:53 ON THE GROUND, WHAT DO YOU SEE.

1:37:54 THOSE.

1:37:55 UH, INEQUITIES LOOKING LIKE?

1:37:57 AND YOU KNOW, JAMES.

1:37:59 SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU AS A

1:38:01 PARENT.

1:38:01 HOW DO.

1:38:02 YOU SEE THIS IMPACTING YOUR.

1:38:04 CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES

1:38:06 ?

1:38:07 AND I'M PARTICULARLY

1:38:08 INTERESTED IN ENGLISH HIGH

1:38:09 SCHOOL I WAS LIKE OH WOW.

1:38:11 YOU ACTUALLY PICKED THAT SCHOOL

1:38:13 .

1:38:13 AND YOU KNOW.

1:38:15 I KNOW THAT SCHOOL WHEN I'M

1:38:17 HAPPY TO SEE THAT ALUMS ARE

1:38:20 RECOGNIZING THE GEM THAT IT IS

1:38:21 AND I'M CURIOUS KIND OF LIKE

1:38:22 WHAT THOSE INEQUITIES LOOK LIKE

1:38:24 SPECIFICALLY AT ENGLISH.

1:38:25 I'M IT'S A REALLY.

1:38:27 GOOD QUESTION.

1:38:28 UM.

1:38:30 ,UH, OUR OUR OUR OLDEST JUST

1:38:33 STARTED AT ENGLISH THREE WEEKS

1:38:35 AGO.

1:38:36 UM AND SO HAVING A FULL SENSE

1:38:39 OF LIKE UH BOTH THE

1:38:41 OPPORTUNITIES THE THE THE

1:38:42 RESOURCES AND WHAT YOU SAID THE

1:38:44 GEM UH, I REALLY AGREE WITH

1:38:46 YOU.

1:38:47 UM, AND.

1:38:48 YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT, UM, AND

1:38:52 I THINK TRAVIS COULD SPEAK TO

1:38:54 THIS TOO.

1:38:54 TRAVIS ALSO HAS A CHILD AN

1:38:55 ENGLISH.

1:38:56 UM, UM, IS, UH.

1:39:00 THAT ENGLISH DOES HAVE AN

1:39:01 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?

1:39:02 UM, IT DOES HAVE FUNDRAISING

1:39:05 CAPACITY.

1:39:06 UM, BUT I THINK THAT AT THE

1:39:08 LAST KIND OF TAX FILING IT HAD

1:39:10 LIKE $800,000 ON HAND WHICH

1:39:13 AGAIN IS ONE IS LESS THAN ONE

1:39:15 TENTH OF WHAT THE BOSTON LATIN

1:39:16 SCHOOL ASSOCIATION HAS.

1:39:19 UM AND THERE'S TO MY KNOWLEDGE

1:39:21 I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND.

1:39:22 OF.

1:39:23 DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY

1:39:23 DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS

1:39:24 FUNDRAISING IS IN PLACE BUT UM

1:39:28 ,YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE ENGLISH

1:39:29 HAS ONE MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE

1:39:32 UM THEY OFFER SPANISH UM AS AN

1:39:34 ELECTIVE UM COMPARED TO UM I

1:39:38 THINK.

1:39:39 6 OR 7 LANGUAGES AT BOSTON

1:39:41 LATIN ACADEMY.

1:39:43 UM AND SO LIKE THAT'S JUST ONE

1:39:45 EXAMPLE OF THE AND THE THE

1:39:47 INTRAMURAL CLUBS UM.

1:39:52 UH EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES,

1:39:54 UM FIELD TRIPS THESE ARE OTHER

1:39:56 THINGS THAT ARE REALLY

1:39:59 DIFFERENTLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS

1:40:00 THE DISTRICT.

1:40:01 UM, AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT

1:40:05 AS THAT'S WE HAVE TO TAKE THAT

1:40:07 INTO ACCOUNT.

1:40:08 UM, BUT UM, WHEN WE'RE MAKING

1:40:10 CHOICES FOR SCHOOLS BUT ALSO

1:40:11 WHEN WE'RE MAKING CHOICES ABOUT

1:40:13 HOW WE ALLOCATE RESOURCES TO

1:40:14 SCHOOLS AND ACROSS SCHOOLS.

1:40:16 SO THANK YOU.

1:40:17 I WAS JUST MY TIME IS UP TOO

1:40:21 AND I'LL JUST SAY BEFORE WE

1:40:23 TRANSITION OVER TO THE ADMIN.

1:40:24 PANEL IS THAT.

1:40:26 OH YEAH YEAH GO AHEAD KYLE I

1:40:28 WAS JUST.

1:40:28 GOING TO ADD SOMETHING ELSE

1:40:29 THAT BASE OF THE COALITION TOO

1:40:30 WHICH IS LIKE SOME OF THE OTHER

1:40:31 INEQUITIES WE HAVE AROUND LIKE

1:40:33 OUR CORE CAMPAIGNS WHICH ARE

1:40:34 LIKE FACILITIES AROUND NEW

1:40:35 BUILDS AND RENOVATIONS

1:40:36 HAPPENING THE DISTRICT WHERE

1:40:38 SCHOOLS THAT ARE PRIMARILY

1:40:39 SERVING BLACK AND BROWN

1:40:40 STUDENTS DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO

1:40:42 HAVING THE SAME UM RESOURCES

1:40:44 FOR REPAIRS AS STUDENTS AT

1:40:46 SCHOOLS LIKE BLESS OUR OB OR UM

1:40:50 LATIN ACADEMY.

1:40:51 UM ALSO OTHER DISPARITIES ARE

1:40:52 AROUND EXPANDING THE

1:40:53 MULTILINGUAL LEARNING ALLIANCE

1:40:55 AND THE WORK FOR BILINGUAL

1:40:57 LITERACY UM ACROSS THE DISTRICT

1:40:58 AS WELL UM ESPECIALLY FOR LIKE

1:41:01 HAITIAN CREOLE OUR CAPE VERDEAN

1:41:03 CREOLE AND EXPANDING THOSE

1:41:04 VERSUS JUST SOME OF THE OTHER

1:41:05 ONES THAT WE HAVE EMPHASIZED AS

1:41:08 WELL UM, AS WELL AS THE EXAM

1:41:10 SCHOOL POLICY WHERE WE'RE

1:41:11 INTERVENERS IN THE CASE RIGHT

1:41:12 NOW WORKING WITH THE LEGAL

1:41:13 DEFENSE FUND HOLDING BOSTON

1:41:15 PUBLIC SCHOOL COMMITTEE

1:41:16 ACCOUNTABLE FOR ADOPTING THIS

1:41:17 NEW POLICY THAT HAS PROVEN

1:41:20 WE'LL HAVE A DROP IN ADMISSIONS

1:41:21 FOR BLACK AND BROWN STUDENTS IN

1:41:23 THE UPCOMING YEARS.

1:41:24 SO THOSE ARE JUST OTHER

1:41:26 INEQUITIES THAT ARE HAPPENING

1:41:26 THAT AREN'T SILOED TO, YOU

1:41:29 KNOW, FUNDRAISING.

1:41:31 THANK YOU FOR THAT, KYLE.

1:41:33 YOU KNOW, AS I.

1:41:34 AS I.

1:41:35 THINK ABOUT THIS

1:41:35 CONVERSATION, I ALWAYS LIKE TO

1:41:37 FRAME IT AS THE WHOLE CHILD.

1:41:38 RIGHT.

1:41:39 AND SOMETIMES WE FOCUS SO

1:41:40 MUCH ON JUST THE ACADEMICS AND

1:41:41 THE QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE WITH

1:41:42 THE TEXTBOOKS AND THINGS

1:41:43 OF THAT NATURE.

1:41:44 BUT I BELIEVE THAT THE.

1:41:46 SOFT SKILLS, THE CULTURAL

1:41:48 EXPERIENCES UH, THOSE THINGS

1:41:50 REALLY HELP.

1:41:51 SHAPE.

1:41:52 .

1:41:53 UM.

1:41:53 YOU KNOW.

1:41:54 THE TRAJECTORY OF A STUDENT AND

1:41:56 I THINK THAT.

1:41:57 THESE ARE THE SORT OF THINGS

1:41:58 THAT OTHER SCHOOLS HAVE THE

1:42:00 ADVANTAGE OF BECAUSE THEY HAVE

1:42:01 THE LUXURY OF BEING ABLE TO

1:42:03 SUPPLEMENT THESE EXTRA UM

1:42:06 ACTIVITIES FOR FOR STUDENTS AND

1:42:08 AND I THINK THAT CREATES A

1:42:09 FURTHER DIVIDE.

1:42:12 UM FOR STUDENTS.

1:42:13 SO I WANT TO NAME THAT AS ONE

1:42:14 OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS

1:42:15 REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO KEEP

1:42:17 TOP OF MIND AS WE CONTINUE

1:42:18 HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.

1:42:19 AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, AS

1:42:22 OF 2024.

1:42:23 UM.

1:42:23 THE UH.

1:42:25 THE UH FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND,

1:42:28 UH, ENGLISH HIGH HAD $771,000

1:42:33 SO CLOSE TO 800.

1:42:34 SO YOU'RE GOOD WITH NUMBERS

1:42:35 BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT

1:42:36 YOU'RE NOT THAT BAD OFF.

1:42:38 UM, SO SO SO GOOD JOB.

1:42:40 JAMES AND TRAVIS.

1:42:42 I AM GOING TO MOVE ON, UH, TO,

1:42:45 UM.

1:42:47 FOR THE.

1:42:48 ADMIN PANEL AND THIS IS THE

1:42:50 MOMENT THAT WE ALL HAVE BEEN.

1:42:51 WAITING FOR BECAUSE I'M

1:42:52 HOPING THAT THE ADMINISTRATION

1:42:54 IS WALKING.

1:42:55 IN, UH.

1:42:56 LISTENING TO WHAT THEY'VE HEARD

1:42:58 AND.

1:42:58 BEING ABLE TO EITHER.

1:43:00 CLARIFY OR, YOU KNOW.

1:43:02 HOPEFULLY YOU.

1:43:03 WERE INSPIRED BY WHAT YOU

1:43:05 HEARD TODAY AND ARE ABLE TO

1:43:06 MAKE SOME COMMITMENTS TO HOW

1:43:07 WE'RE GOING TO FIX ALL OF THIS,

1:43:08 BUT WE'RE GOING.

1:43:09 TO GO ON TO THE ADMIN PANEL.

1:43:12 WE HAVE.

1:43:12 UH OUR UH CHIEF OF FINANCE AND

1:43:14 DPS DAVID BLOOM, DOCTOR AND.

1:43:17 CLARK, THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER.

1:43:18 FOR STRATEGY AND

1:43:19 PARTNERSHIPS AND INNOVATION OPS

1:43:21 AND OUR VERY OWN AND VERY

1:43:23 FAVORITE.

1:43:23 UM.

1:43:25 AMAZING COMMUNITY.

1:43:26 ORGANIZER AND ACTIVIST AND ALL

1:43:28 THINGS THAT DEAL WITH EDUCATION

1:43:29 .

1:43:29 EQUITY, UM AND LINES.

1:43:31 UM FROM THE BOSTON EDUCATION

1:43:34 DEVELOPMENT FUND.

1:43:35 SO I WANTED TO UH JUST GIVE

1:43:38 YOU.

1:43:38 ALL YOUR FIVE.

1:43:39 MINUTES.

1:43:40 EACH UM.

1:43:41 UM.

1:43:42 .

1:43:42 SO WHO WANTS TO START FIRST?

1:43:44 UM.

1:43:45 THANK YOU SO MUCH,

1:43:46 COUNSELOR.

1:43:46 I'LL KICK US OFF.

1:43:48 UM, FOR MY ILLUSTRIOUS

1:43:50 COLLEAGUES TAKE OVER.

1:43:51 UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO

1:43:54 EVERYONE INVOLVED FOR SORT

1:43:55 OF RAISING THIS ISSUE TODAY AND

1:43:57 MAKING SURE WE'RE SPENDING TIME

1:43:59 TALKING ABOUT VERY IMPORTANT,

1:44:01 UM, PART OF THE SORT

1:44:03 OF DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS IN

1:44:04 THIS.

1:44:05 CITY AND SOMETHING WE SHOULD

1:44:06 CONTINUE TO BE HAVING A

1:44:07 CONVERSATION ABOUT.

1:44:08 UM, AS WE TALK ABOUT FUNDING

1:44:10 EDUCATION UM I THINK UM I

1:44:14 REALLY WANT TO MOSTLY LEAVE UH,

1:44:16 TIME TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER

1:44:17 QUESTIONS FROM THE COUNCIL BUT

1:44:19 I WILL JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, WE

1:44:21 TAKE THIS WORK VERY SERIOUSLY

1:44:22 AND HAVE OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS

1:44:24 UM, I'M HOPING OVER THE COURSE

1:44:27 OF OUR CONVERSATION THREE WILL

1:44:29 HIGHLIGHT UH, THINGS THAT WE

1:44:31 HAVE BEEN DOING SUCH AS OUR

1:44:33 WORK UH, ON THE PARTNERSHIPS

1:44:35 FUND, UM, ORIGINALLY WITH

1:44:37 DOCTOR BROWN ROSE UM, AND USING

1:44:39 THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX UM, AS

1:44:42 WELL AS UM OUR RECENT WORK WITH

1:44:45 STUDENT ACTIVITY ACCOUNTS AND

1:44:46 PUBLISHING THAT WHICH I BELIEVE

1:44:47 IS WHAT WE COULD DO THAT'S SORT

1:44:49 OF EQUIVALENT TO WHAT THEY DID

1:44:51 IN NEW YORK.

1:44:52 UM, AND THEN OUR WORK REALLY UH

1:44:55 ,ESPECIALLY OVER THE LAST TWO

1:44:56 YEARS IS UH, PAM WAS MENTIONING

1:44:58 IN HER EARLY REMARKS UM IN

1:45:00 PARTNERSHIP WITH BDF AND EQUITY

1:45:04 UM TO BE ABLE TO REALLY THINK

1:45:06 ABOUT HOW WE CAN.

1:45:08 BE USING OUR OFFICIAL 501 C3

1:45:11 PARTNERSHIP WITH PAM AND HER

1:45:14 AND BDF TO BE ABLE TO UH, LIFT

1:45:17 UP THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT MIGHT

1:45:19 NEED OUR SUPPORT, UM, TO GET

1:45:21 FUNDRAISING.

1:45:22 UM, SO PAM, MAYBE I TURN IT

1:45:24 OVER TO YOU NEXT TO DO YOUR

1:45:26 SIDE AND AND CAN CLOSE FOR US.

1:45:29 AND I WANT TO KNOW FOR THE

1:45:31 RECORD THAT PAM.

1:45:32 IT DOES.

1:45:32 NOT WORK.

1:45:33 FOR DPS.

1:45:33 EVEN THOUGH.

1:45:34 SHE WAS PART OF THE ADMIN

1:45:35 PANEL.

1:45:36 I WANT TO.

1:45:37 DO THAT DISCLOSURE SO THAT

1:45:38 PEOPLE DON'T ASSOCIATE HER WITH

1:45:41 THE ADMINISTRATION.

1:45:42 THERE'S NOTHING.

1:45:42 WRONG WITH THE ADMINISTRATION

1:45:43 BUT.

1:45:44 JUST FOR THE RECORD.

1:45:45 SHE'S OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM.

1:45:47 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:45:50 UH, WHEN I STARTED THIS

1:45:51 EVERYONE GOOD AFTERNOON.

1:45:53 UH, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

1:45:55 MY NAME IS PAM OR FORMULA LANDS

1:45:57 .

1:45:57 AND FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS

1:45:58 I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE

1:45:59 OF SERVING AS THE EXECUTIVE

1:46:01 DIRECTOR OF THE BOSTON

1:46:02 EDUCATION FUND.

1:46:03 OTHERS MAY KNOW US AS THE

1:46:04 BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1:46:06 FOUNDATION.

1:46:06 EITHER ONE IS FINE.

1:46:08 WE ALL GO BY VIDEO I'M ALSO A

1:46:10 PROUD GRADUATE OF BOSTON PUBLIC

1:46:12 SCHOOLS, THE MOTHER OF TWO SONS

1:46:14 IN BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, A

1:46:15 FOURTH GRADER AT THE HERNANDEZ

1:46:17 AND A NINTH GRADER AT NEW

1:46:18 MISSION, MULTIPLE MEMBER OF THE

1:46:19 CITYWIDE PARENT

1:46:20 COUNCIL LEADERSHIP TEAM.

1:46:23 UM A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER

1:46:23 THINGS TOO BUT I KNOW I ONLY

1:46:24 HAVE A FEW MINUTES THOSE, UH,

1:46:27 PERSPECTIVES GIVE ME A FRONT

1:46:29 ROW SEAT TO THE INEQUITIES OUR

1:46:31 CHILDREN, SCHOOLS, FAMILIES AND

1:46:34 EDUCATORS FACE EVERY DAY I SEE

1:46:36 THE CARE AND CREATIVITY IN OUR

1:46:38 SCHOOL.

1:46:38 I ALSO SEE HOW HARD PEOPLE WORK

1:46:40 TO SECURE OUR OPPORTUNITIES

1:46:41 EVERY CHILD DESERVES.

1:46:42 THANK YOU FOR HOLDING THE SPACE

1:46:44 IN THIS HEARING.

1:46:45 UM, QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO HAS

1:46:47 ACCESS TO PRIVATE RESOURCES,

1:46:49 HOW THOSE RESOURCES ARE MANAGED

1:46:51 AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR STUDENTS

1:46:53 DESERVE AN HONEST CONVERSATION.

1:46:55 PBF HAS SUPPORTED BPA SINCE

1:46:59 1984.

1:46:59 WE'VE BEEN ON A LONG FOR A LONG

1:47:02 TIME.

1:47:03 UM WE ARE ANON.

1:47:05 WE ARE THE NONPROFIT ARM THAT

1:47:07 SCHOOLS CAN TURN TO FOR FISCAL

1:47:10 SPONSORSHIP AND FUNDRAISING

1:47:12 SUPPORT AND EVERY BPA SCHOOL IS

1:47:15 WELCOME TO USE OUR SERVICES.

1:47:17 I WANT TO STRESS THAT EVERY

1:47:19 SINGLE SCHOOL HAS THE ABILITY

1:47:21 TO USE OUR SERVICES AS THEIR

1:47:23 FISCAL SPONSOR AND FUNDRAISING

1:47:26 UM UM PARTNER WE HAVE SCHOOL

1:47:30 DEPARTMENTS AND EDUCATION

1:47:31 INITIATIVES, RECEIVE CHARITABLE

1:47:32 GIFTS, MANAGE FUNDS AND PAY FOR

1:47:36 APPROVED ACTIVITIES AND REPORT

1:47:37 ON THOSE RESEARCH TO A SCHOOL

1:47:39 THAT OUR EDUCATOR SHOULD NOT

1:47:41 HAVE TO BUILD A NONPROFIT OR

1:47:43 BECOME A FINANCE EXPERT TO

1:47:45 BRING OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDENTS

1:47:46 .

1:47:47 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.

1:47:48 OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS WE'VE

1:47:50 ASKED OURSELVES A VERY HARD

1:47:52 QUESTION IF ALL THE EDF DOES IS

1:47:55 PROVIDE FISCAL SPONSORSHIP, WHO

1:47:57 IS BEST POSITIONED TO USE THAT

1:48:00 SERVICE?

1:48:00 WHERE ARE WE INADVERTENTLY

1:48:02 SUSTAINING THE VERY INEQUITIES

1:48:04 WE WANTED TO CHOOSE TO CLOSE?

1:48:06 I'VE EXPERIENCED WHAT IT MEANS

1:48:07 TO BELONG TO A SCHOOL COMMUNITY

1:48:09 WITH STRONG ACCESS TO

1:48:11 RESOURCES.

1:48:11 I'VE ALSO SEEN A SCHOOL ACROSS

1:48:13 THE STREET SERVING STUDENTS

1:48:14 WITH VERY SIMILAR DEMOGRAPHICS

1:48:16 HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT

1:48:17 EXPERIENCE.

1:48:18 THAT DIFFERENCE CAN COME DOWN

1:48:21 TO RELATIONSHIPS, FUNDRAISING

1:48:22 CAPACITY AND WHO HAS THE TIME

1:48:23 TO MAKE THE EFFORT.

1:48:25 EVERY SCHOOL MAY BE WELCOME TO

1:48:28 USE THE IDEA, BUT AN OPEN DOOR

1:48:30 ALONE DOES NOT ENSURE EVERY

1:48:32 SCHOOL HAS THE SAME OPPORTUNITY

1:48:33 TO WALK THROUGH IT.

1:48:35 WE HAD TO LOOK INWARD BEFORE WE

1:48:37 COULD DO MORE OUTWARD.

1:48:38 AND SO THE EDF HAS INVESTED IN

1:48:41 THE SYSTEMS THAT HELP US STAFF,

1:48:43 SCHOOLS AND OUR TEAM HAS GROWN

1:48:44 FROM THREE PEOPLE TO SIX IN

1:48:47 SCHOOL YEAR 2026 WE'VE

1:48:49 SUPPORTED OVER 224 FUND

1:48:52 MANAGERS, PROVIDED HUNDREDS

1:48:54 OF TRAININGS AND PROCESSED MORE

1:48:55 THAN 5000 TRANSACTIONS.

1:48:57 AND WE CONTINUE TO EXAMINE HOW

1:49:00 WE OPERATE AND HOW WE CAN DO

1:49:01 MORE THAN ADMINISTER THE

1:49:03 RESOURCES THAT COME OUR WAY.

1:49:04 WE'VE ALSO WORKED HARD TO

1:49:06 STRENGTHEN RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS

1:49:08 BPA AND THE BROADER EDUCATIONAL

1:49:11 ECOSYSTEM.

1:49:11 WE SPEAK REGULARLY WITH

1:49:13 DISTRICT LEADERSHIP

1:49:14 DEPARTMENTS, EDUCATORS,

1:49:16 FAMILIES, COMMUNITY

1:49:18 ORGANIZATIONS, PARTNERS AND

1:49:20 FUNDERS.

1:49:20 OUR ROLE AS A CONNECTOR IS

1:49:23 FUNDAMENTAL TO OUR SERVICE.

1:49:26 UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE SCHOOL

1:49:26 COMMUNITY HOPES TO ACCOMPLISH

1:49:28 HELPS US BRING PEOPLE,

1:49:30 PARTNERSHIPS AND RESOURCES

1:49:31 TOGETHER.

1:49:32 FUNDS MANAGED THROUGH PDF HAVE

1:49:34 SUPPORTED 3D PRINTERS AND SMART

1:49:36 BOARDS IN CLASSROOMS,

1:49:38 EXPERIENTIAL FIELD TRIPS, HBCU

1:49:40 TOURS, STUDENT WELLNESS

1:49:41 ATHLETICS AND CITY PREP ARTS

1:49:44 ENRICHMENT AND THOSE ARE JUST A

1:49:45 FEW EXAMPLES.

1:49:47 WE ALSO HELP SCHOOLS MAKE

1:49:48 GIVING MORE ACCESSIBLE.

1:49:50 LAST YEAR ALONE WE CREATED 62

1:49:52 NEW ONLINE GIVING ACCOUNT

1:49:54 ALLOWING FOR A SCHOOL TO INVITE

1:49:56 SUPPORT THROUGH SOMETHING AS

1:49:57 SIMPLE AS THE QR CODE.

1:49:59 MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME THAT

1:50:00 EDUCATION IS THE ONE THING NO

1:50:02 ONE CAN TAKE AWAY FROM YOU.

1:50:04 HELP ME IMAGINE A FUTURE BEYOND

1:50:06 WHAT MY FAMILY HAD EXPERIENCED

1:50:07 .

1:50:08 I WANT THAT FOR MY SONS AND FOR

1:50:10 EVERY CHILD WHOSE FAMILY I HEAR

1:50:11 FROM AS APPARENTLY THEY'RE

1:50:13 THEIR OPPORTUNITIES AND NOT

1:50:15 DEPEND ON WHICH SCHOOL THEY

1:50:16 ATTEND OR HOW MUCH MONEY THE

1:50:18 ADULTS AROUND THEM CAN REIGN.

1:50:20 THAT WILL LEAD US TO LAUNCH AT

1:50:22 EQUITY BOSTON MY BABY.

1:50:25 WE'RE WORKING TO BRING MORE

1:50:27 RESOURCES TO SCHOOLS WHILE

1:50:28 GIVING SCHOOL COMMUNITIES A

1:50:30 MEANINGFUL ROLE IN DECIDING

1:50:31 WHAT SUPPORT THEY NEED.

1:50:33 WE'RE STILL LEARNING BUT OUR

1:50:35 PRINCIPLE IS CLEAR PEOPLE

1:50:37 CLOSEST TO STUDENTS EXPERIENCE

1:50:39 SHOULD HAVE POWER IN SHAPING

1:50:41 INVESTMENTS INTENDED TO SERVE

1:50:42 THEM.

1:50:43 THAT INCLUDES OUR STUDENTS,

1:50:45 ESPECIALLY OUR STUDENTS.

1:50:47 THEY ARE AT THE CENTER ALWAYS.

1:50:49 TRANSPARENCY IS PART OF OUR

1:50:51 RESPONSIBILITY.

1:50:52 EDF IS COMMITTED TO CLEAR

1:50:54 REPORTING ON THE RESOURCES WE

1:50:56 MANAGE AND TO WORKING WITH

1:50:57 GROUPS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND

1:50:58 PRIVATE RESOURCES ACROSS THE

1:51:00 DISTRICT THAT WORK CALLS FOR

1:51:02 INFORMATION FAMILIES CAN

1:51:04 UNDERSTAND AND PROBLEM HANDLED

1:51:06 WITH APPROPRIATE CARE FOR

1:51:08 SCHOOLS AND DONORS.

1:51:10 PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY CAN OPEN

1:51:11 THOSE DOORS FOR STUDENTS BUT IT

1:51:13 CANNOT REPLACE PUBLIC FUNDING.

1:51:16 BIDEN'S JOB IS TO MANAGE

1:51:17 RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY, MAKE

1:51:19 FUNDRAISING EASIER, CONNECT

1:51:21 PEOPLE ACROSS THE EDUCATIONAL

1:51:23 ECOSYSTEM AND KEEP ASKING ARE

1:51:25 WE HELPING OPPORTUNITY REACH

1:51:26 THE STUDENTS WHO NEED IT OR

1:51:28 ONLY THE SCHOOL'S BEST

1:51:30 POSITIONED TO.

1:51:30 ASK FOR IT?

1:51:31 THANK YOU.

1:51:34 NICE.

1:51:35 OKAY.

1:51:35 THANK YOU.

1:51:37 UM, SO WE'LL GO NEXT TO DOCTOR

1:51:40 CLARK.

1:51:40 YOU NOW.

1:51:41 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:51:42 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE I WANT

1:51:45 TO FIRST ECHO.

1:51:46 DAVID AND PAM.

1:51:48 THANK YOU FOR.

1:51:50 BRINGING THIS VERY IMPORTANT

1:51:51 ISSUE TO THE FORE.

1:51:53 WE ALL.

1:51:53 WORK EVERY DAY AND DO WHAT WE

1:51:55 DO BECAUSE WE DESERVE OUR.

1:51:57 WE BELIEVE OUR.

1:51:58 STUDENTS DESERVE ALL OF THESE

1:52:00 RESOURCES AND SO WE REALLY

1:52:01 APPRECIATE YOUR PARTNERSHIP IN

1:52:03 THIS CONVERSATION.

1:52:05 UM.

1:52:05 MY ROLE IN THE DISTRICT IS

1:52:08 AS YOU SAID AS DEVELOPMENT

1:52:09 OFFICER FOR STRATEGY

1:52:10 PARTNERSHIPS AND INNOVATION.

1:52:12 UM.

1:52:13 I ALSO WANT TO BE MOSTLY

1:52:15 RESPONSIVE TO YOUR QUESTIONS,

1:52:16 BUT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT TWO

1:52:18 STRATEGIES THAT WE EMPLOY

1:52:20 DISTRICT WIDE THAT DAVID AND I

1:52:22 THOUGHT MIGHT BE USEFUL AND

1:52:23 RELEVANT TO THIS CONVERSATION.

1:52:25 UM, THE FIRST IS THE

1:52:28 PARTNERSHIPS FUND WHICH IS

1:52:30 SOMETHING THAT IS DISTRIBUTED

1:52:32 THROUGH THE CENTRAL OFFICE AND

1:52:34 IN FISCAL YEAR 2019 A

1:52:37 SIGNIFICANT SHIFT WAS MADE IN

1:52:39 THAT PARTNERSHIPS FUND WHERE IT

1:52:42 IS UM ALLOCATE ALLOCATED.

1:52:45 THROUGH AN ANALYSIS USING THE

1:52:48 OPPORTUNITY INDEX PURPOSELY TO

1:52:51 INCREASE EQUITY AND CLOSE

1:52:53 OPPORTUNITY GAPS.

1:52:57 SO USING THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX

1:52:58 THE DISTRICT IDENTIFIES UM A

1:53:01 PERCENTAGE OF SCHOOLS.

1:53:03 WHO NEED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

1:53:07 UM AND DISTRIBUTES ANNUALLY

1:53:09 THIS YEAR IT'S 7 MILLION UM

1:53:14 DOLLARS ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO

1:53:20 105 SCHOOLS BECAUSE OF THEIR

1:53:23 OPPORTUNITY INDEX SCORES.

1:53:25 AND THIS IS UH AN EXPLICIT

1:53:28 STRATEGY UM, MEANT TO MITIGATE

1:53:31 SOME OF THE DYNAMICS THAT WE

1:53:32 TALKED ABOUT EARLIER IN THE

1:53:34 PANEL TODAY.

1:53:35 UH, THE OTHER STRATEGY THAT I

1:53:38 WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, WERE

1:53:40 SOME OF OUR DISTRICT WIDE

1:53:43 PARTNERSHIP AND RESOURCE UM.

1:53:46 INITIATIVES SUCH AS UH

1:53:48 PRINCIPAL PARTNERS FORMERLY

1:53:49 KNOWN AS PRINCIPAL FOR A DAY,

1:53:51 WHICH IS AN ANNUAL INITIATIVE

1:53:53 THAT WE ORGANIZED CENTRALLY

1:53:57 CONNECTING SCHOOL LEADERS

1:53:59 THROUGH A SURVEY, UM, WHERE

1:54:01 THAT SOLICITS THEIR INPUT AS TO

1:54:03 WHAT KINDS OF PARTNERS AND

1:54:05 RESOURCES THEY'RE LOOKING WE'RE

1:54:06 LOOKING FOR RATHER AND

1:54:08 CONNECTING THEM TO, UM,

1:54:11 BUSINESSES AND COMPANIES THAT

1:54:14 ARE CONNECTED TO THE BOSTON

1:54:15 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THAT

1:54:17 HAPPENS ANNUALLY AND SOME

1:54:18 OF THOSE PARTNERSHIPS AND

1:54:20 RESULTING DONATIONS CONTINUE

1:54:22 FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

1:54:24 THAT SAID, WE KNOW THERE IS

1:54:25 MUCH WORK TO DO AND WE'RE

1:54:27 EXCITED TO BE PART OF THIS

1:54:29 CONVERSATION TODAY AND HOPE TO

1:54:31 MAKE, UM, SOME JOINT DECISIONS

1:54:34 ABOUT PATHWAYS FORWARD.

1:54:40 UH, ECONOMY.

1:54:41 GREAT.

1:54:42 THANK YOU.

1:54:42 ALL RIGHT.

1:54:44 SO I AM GOING TO UH,

1:54:46 INITIATE THE ROUND

1:54:48 OF QUESTIONS.

1:54:48 AS I MENTIONED SINCE WE HAD

1:54:50 THREE.

1:54:50 PANELS WE WERE GOING TO.

1:54:51 DO ONE ROUND.

1:54:52 SO MAKE IT COUNT, Y'ALL.

1:54:55 UH, WE'LL GO TO

1:54:57 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOLLOWED BY

1:54:58 COUNCILOR WEBER, COUNSELOR

1:55:00 CULPEPER.

1:55:00 AND THEN MYSELF.

1:55:01 AND YOU EACH FOR FIVE MINUTES.

1:55:03 THANK YOU.

1:55:04 MADAM CHAIR.

1:55:04 AND THANK YOU.

1:55:05 TO.

1:55:05 THIS PANEL I.

1:55:06 ALSO.

1:55:06 WANT TO CORRECT I SAID CONGRATS

1:55:07 ON A BOARD.

1:55:07 CONGRATS ON 12 YEARS

1:55:09 OF ADVOCACY.

1:55:09 UM, REALLY UH, WANTED TO JUST

1:55:12 MAKE SURE THAT I CORRECT THE

1:55:14 RECORD THERE.

1:55:14 UM, PAM.

1:55:16 GOOD TO SEE YOU.

1:55:17 THANK YOU.

1:55:17 FOR BEING ON THIS, UM, PANEL

1:55:19 .

1:55:19 YOU YOU STATED LIKE WHICH I

1:55:21 THINK WAS REALLY IMPORTANT BUT

1:55:23 LIKE HOW ARE WE MAKING SURE

1:55:24 THAT YOU'RE SERVING SCHOOLS

1:55:26 THAT DON'T KNOW BASICALLY YOU

1:55:29 KNOW THAT OKAY.

1:55:30 FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE I'VE DONATED

1:55:32 TO SCHOOLS AND EVENTS WHERE

1:55:33 IT'S LIKE JUST A TEACHER KIND

1:55:35 OF PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER

1:55:36 RIGHT?

1:55:36 AND THEY DIDN'T DO LIKE GO TO

1:55:38 THE FISCAL SPONSORSHIP.

1:55:39 UM, WHAT IS THAT SOLUTION LIKE

1:55:42 HOW ARE YOU MAKING SURE THAT

1:55:43 THAT.

1:55:44 SCHOOL COMMUNITIES OR TEACHERS

1:55:46 OR OR PARENTS LIKE KNOW TO ASK

1:55:49 FOR YOUR HELP?

1:55:49 LIKE WHAT?

1:55:50 BECAUSE THAT'S THE HARDEST

1:55:51 WORK.

1:55:51 IT'S LIKE THE WORK OF MEETING

1:55:52 PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE AND SORT

1:55:55 OF WAITING THERE FOR THEM TO

1:55:56 KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR.

1:55:57 YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

1:55:58 SO WE ACTUALLY UM WE SERVE THE

1:56:00 MAJORITY OF SCHOOLS AND I WILL

1:56:03 EVEN SAY THERE ARE SCHOOLS THAT

1:56:05 HAVE THEIR OWN FRIENDS OF UM

1:56:07 ACCOUNT THAT ALSO USE US AS

1:56:10 THEIR FISCAL UH, SPONSOR.

1:56:13 SO UM, THE IDEA THAT I

1:56:16 CONFIDENTLY SAY THAT ALL OF THE

1:56:18 .

1:56:20 SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS KNOW

1:56:22 THAT WE ARE HERE AND THAT WE'RE

1:56:23 READY TO SERVE THEM AND LIKE I

1:56:25 SAID, WE'VE DONE A LOT

1:56:27 OF INWARD WORK WHERE OVER THE

1:56:28 PAST FIVE YEARS WE'VE REALLY

1:56:30 DONE UM, A TON OF INTENTIONAL

1:56:32 WORK OF MAKING SURE THAT

1:56:35 SCHOOLS AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL,

1:56:36 DEPARTMENTS AT THE DEPARTMENT

1:56:37 LEVEL, PARENT COUNCIL AT THE

1:56:39 PARENT COUNCIL LEVEL,

1:56:40 COMMUNITIES AT THE COMMUNITY

1:56:42 LEVEL KNOW WHAT IT IS WE'RE

1:56:44 WE'RE HERE TO DO TO HELP TO

1:56:46 SERVE AND LIKE WHAT ARE THE

1:56:48 RESOURCES THAT WE UM, HAVE THE

1:56:50 ABILITY TO BRING TO THEM.

1:56:51 SO AGAIN, LIKE OUR BIG THING

1:56:53 AND I'M YOU KNOW ME A LOT

1:56:55 OF PEOPLE KNOW ME LIKE BEING A

1:56:56 CONNECTOR IS SUCH A HUGE PART

1:56:58 OF THE WORK THAT WE DO.

1:57:00 AND SO I CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY

1:57:03 ALL OF THE SCHOOLS KNOW WE

1:57:04 EXIST HOW THEY USED US AND KIND

1:57:07 OF LIKE WHAT WE'RE WORKING TO

1:57:09 MEET THEM WHERE THEY ARE SO

1:57:11 THAT THEY CAN BETTER USE US AS

1:57:12 A BETTER RESOURCE.

1:57:13 YEAH, AND THAT SOUNDS LIKE.

1:57:14 AN INCREDIBLE ENDEAVOR FOR

1:57:16 UM, A STAFF OF SIX.

1:57:19 SO WE'RE TRYING.

1:57:21 YEAH.

1:57:22 UM THANK YOU PAMELA FOR ALL THE

1:57:24 WORK THAT YOU DO AND THAT

1:57:25 YOU'VE BEEN DOING FOR ALL OF.

1:57:26 OUR.

1:57:26 SCHOOLS AND ALL OF OUR KIDS.

1:57:27 SO APPRECIATE IT.

1:57:28 UM, AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU WERE

1:57:29 ABLE TO CONNECT WITH TRAVIS AND

1:57:32 REALLY TALK ABOUT THE REALLY

1:57:33 GREAT WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING.

1:57:35 UM, UM, QUESTION FOR

1:57:37 ADMINISTRATION IS REALLY IF YOU

1:57:38 COULD TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE

1:57:39 ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX

1:57:40 INFORMS FUNDING AND WHAT WHAT

1:57:43 WHAT IT WHAT WHAT WHAT MAKES IT

1:57:45 UP?

1:57:47 YEAH.

1:57:48 UM SO THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX

1:57:52 UM, IS DESIGNED TO BE A MEASURE

1:57:56 OF, UM, THE COMMUNITY THE

1:57:58 SCHOOL SERVES.

1:57:59 SO IT'S NOT, UM, ABOUT WHERE

1:58:01 THE SCHOOL IS LOCATED AND AT

1:58:04 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IT LOOKS UM

1:58:08 AT MEASURES LIKE UM COMMUNITY

1:58:12 POVERTY, UH COMMUNITY

1:58:13 EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND

1:58:15 OTHERS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL

1:58:16 LEVEL.

1:58:16 IT ALSO ADDS INFORMATION ABOUT

1:58:19 UM STUDENTS WHO ARE ENTERING

1:58:20 THE SCHOOL AND NEEDS THEY MIGHT

1:58:22 HAVE UM AND THE GOAL OF OUR USE

1:58:24 OF THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX AND

1:58:25 OUR FUNDING FORMULA IS TO

1:58:28 ENSURE THAT THOSE SCHOOLS THAT

1:58:31 HAVE THE LEAST SORT

1:58:34 OF COMMUNITY ABILITY TO

1:58:35 FUNDRAISE HAVE SOME DEDICATED

1:58:39 STREAMS OF FUNDING FUNDING FOR

1:58:41 FLEXIBLE USE AND IT'S SPLIT

1:58:42 INTO TWO CATEGORIES.

1:58:44 THE FIRST IS THE PARTNERSHIP

1:58:46 FUND UM, WHICH IS.

1:58:48 SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO FUND

1:58:49 THE SORTS OF COMMUNITY

1:58:51 ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES THAT UM

1:58:54 COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING OFTEN

1:58:55 PAYS FOR.

1:58:56 AND THEN THE SECOND IS WHAT'S

1:58:58 JUST CALLED THE SCHOOL SUPPORT

1:58:59 FUND.

1:58:59 IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE GENERAL

1:59:01 AND MEANT TO BE SORT OF MORE AT

1:59:03 THE SCHOOL'S DISCRETION TO

1:59:05 DETERMINE UM.

1:59:07 I THINK.

1:59:08 SO THAT'S SORT.

1:59:09 OF THE MAIN WAY WE'RE USING

1:59:10 THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX AND CAN

1:59:11 TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT

1:59:12 THE WAY WE PARTNER WITH SCHOOLS

1:59:13 TO DETERMINE SORT OF HOW THEY

1:59:15 USE THAT.

1:59:15 THANK THANK YOU.

1:59:17 BUT BEFORE WE MOVE TO THAT SO

1:59:18 INHERENT IN THE OPPORTUNITY

1:59:19 INDEX AS IT CURRENTLY EXISTS,

1:59:21 ARE THERE SCHOOLS THAT ARE

1:59:22 CURRENTLY GETTING MORE PER

1:59:24 PUPIL THAN OTHER SCHOOLS

1:59:26 BECAUSE OF BECAUSE OF THE

1:59:28 OPPORTUNITY TO INDEX OR BECAUSE

1:59:29 OF THE COST PER STUDENT TO

1:59:31 ADVOCATE?

1:59:32 IS THAT CURRENTLY OR BECAUSE

1:59:33 OF THE YOU KNOW, SOCIOECONOMIC

1:59:35 BACKGROUND?

1:59:35 IS THAT ALREADY HAPPENING?

1:59:36 YES.

1:59:37 SO THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX IS

1:59:39 IS WEIGHTED.

1:59:40 SO UM HIGHER NEEDS SCHOOLS

1:59:43 RECEIVE MORE FUNDING.

1:59:45 UM AND WE ALSO PROVIDE

1:59:46 ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO SCHOOLS

1:59:48 BASED ON THE LEVEL OF POVERTY

1:59:51 IN THE SCHOOL, THE NUMBER

1:59:52 OF HOMELESS YOUTH IN THE

1:59:53 SCHOOL, ALL OF THOSE MEASURES

1:59:56 UM INCREASE THE PER PUPIL

1:59:57 SPENDING AT SCHOOLS WITH HIGHER

1:59:58 NEEDS.

2:00:01 RIGHT.

2:00:01 AND I THINK THERE IS AN

2:00:02 ADDITIONAL AND RELATED QUESTION

2:00:06 UM, ABOUT LIKE JUST WHAT THE

2:00:08 SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE SCHOOL

2:00:09 WILL DO FOR IT THAT YOU CAN'T

2:00:12 NECESSARILY MAKE UP FOR IN

2:00:13 DOLLARS AND SOUNDS RIGHT.

2:00:14 THAT'S JUST ABOUT SORT OF THE

2:00:15 NETWORK AND AND SO LIKE YOU

2:00:17 KNOW WHAT ARE THE IDEAS THERE

2:00:19 IS THAT WHAT WHAT ANNE WAS

2:00:20 GOING TO TALK ABOUT BECAUSE I

2:00:21 THINK LIKE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT

2:00:22 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CAPITAL

2:00:23 AMONG THE PARENTS, AMONG THE

2:00:25 ALUMNI OR THE LACK THEREOF THAT

2:00:27 CAN REALLY UM INFORM A SCHOOL

2:00:30 ENVIRONMENT EVEN WHEN THE

2:00:32 OPPORTUNITY INDEX IS ALREADY

2:00:33 TAKING INTO ACCOUNT HIGHER

2:00:35 SPENDING PER PUPIL IN LOW

2:00:37 INCOME SCHOOLS, WHICH IS THE

2:00:38 MAJORITY OF BOTH OF THOSE

2:00:39 DOORS.

2:00:40 TOTALLY.

2:00:41 AND WHAT I THINK THE

2:00:42 PRINCIPAL PARTNER IS A GREAT

2:00:43 EXAMPLE OF THAT.

2:00:43 AND THEN I SORRY IN THAT LAST

2:00:45 YEAR TOO.

2:00:46 YEAH THAT THIS IS THE LAST

2:00:48 QUESTION BECAUSE THE TIME HAS

2:00:49 BEEN UP.

2:00:49 SO IF YOU CAN ANSWER THAT THAT

2:00:50 WOULD BE GREAT THANK YOU.

2:00:52 YES SO.

2:00:53 OUR INTENTION JUST LIKE.

2:00:55 THE PARTNERSHIPS FUND IS TO UM

2:00:58 MAKE SURE THAT THOSE SCHOOLS

2:01:00 THAT HAVE FEWER PARTNERS HAVE

2:01:03 FEWER PARTNERS WITH CAPACITY,

2:01:06 UM, HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO

2:01:08 CONNECT WITH THOSE UM KINDS

2:01:10 OF PARTNERS THROUGH.

2:01:11 THE PRINCIPAL PARTNERS, UH,

2:01:14 OPPORTUNITY.

2:01:15 SO WE ARE EXPLICITLY MAKING ONE

2:01:18 BY ONE MATCHES LOOKING AT THE

2:01:20 OPPORTUNITY INDEX, LOOKING AT

2:01:23 UM SCHOOL LEADERS, UH,

2:01:25 REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THEY

2:01:26 NEED AND TRYING TO CONNECT

2:01:28 THOSE SCHOOLS THAT NEED THE

2:01:30 MOST WITH THE PARTNERS THAT

2:01:31 HAVE THE MOST CAPACITY.

2:01:34 THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR

2:01:35 ANSWERING QUESTIONS.

2:01:36 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:01:37 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR DIVISION.

2:01:38 UM, COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE

2:01:41 FIVE MINUTES AND THEN WE'RE

2:01:42 GOING TO COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

2:01:44 YEAH, THANK YOU.

2:01:45 VERY MUCH.

2:01:46 UM, I'M MEAN FOR THE PANEL.

2:01:48 SO I GUESS, YOU KNOW, WE HEARD

2:01:50 ABOUT IN NEW YORK CITY THAT

2:01:52 THERE ARE CERTAIN AREAS WHERE

2:01:54 THERE YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT

2:01:55 MORE RESOURCES POURED INTO THE

2:01:57 SCHOOLS.

2:01:58 SO I THINK LIKE AT THE IN THE

2:02:00 AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL

2:02:01 ,I MEAN I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN

2:02:03 IN EVERY SCHOOL IN DISTRICT SIX

2:02:05 AND SOME OTHERS ACROSS THE CITY

2:02:06 LIKE I I'M NOT SURE I MEAN I

2:02:10 GUESS YOU KNOW THE DISTRICT

2:02:11 WIDE VIEW IS THERE A DISPARITY

2:02:13 IN TERMS OF YOU KNOW, WHAT

2:02:18 RESOURCES YOU KNOW THIS THE

2:02:19 SCHOOLS OR UH, THE SCHOOLS HAVE

2:02:21 AND IS THAT EXACERBATED BY

2:02:25 PRIVATE FUNDRAISING?

2:02:26 WHAT'S THE.

2:02:27 YEAH, I MEAN I THINK YOU KNOW,

2:02:29 THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES.

2:02:31 YOU KNOW, UM, CONCILOR MEJIA UH

2:02:34 AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS A

2:02:35 NUMBER OF TIMES OVER THE YEARS.

2:02:36 WE'RE HAVING THIS HEARING FOR A

2:02:37 REASON FOR SURE.

2:02:39 UM, THAT DISPARITY DOES EXIST.

2:02:41 UM, THERE ARE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE

2:02:44 SIGNIFICANTLY MORE PRIVATE

2:02:45 FUNDRAISING POWER THAN OTHERS.

2:02:48 I THINK WE DEFINITELY TAKE SOME

2:02:50 EFFORTS TO TRY AND COUNTER THAT

2:02:54 WITH UH, DISTRICT FUNDS WITH

2:02:56 CITY FUNDS, YOU KNOW, WITH THE

2:02:57 FUNDS YOU APPROPRIATE FOR US

2:02:59 UH, BY THINGS LIKE THE

2:03:00 PARTNERSHIP FUND THAT WE WERE

2:03:01 TALKING ABOUT EARLIER.

2:03:02 UM, BUT I ALSO THINK, UH, BOTH

2:03:04 THE PRINCIPAL PARTNERS AND THE

2:03:06 WORK AT HAND IS DOING IT UH BDF

2:03:10 UM TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS BOTH IN

2:03:12 THEIR CONNECTIONS TO THE

2:03:14 BROADER BOSTON COMMUNITY AND TO

2:03:16 PRIVATE FUNDRAISING AND

2:03:17 PHILANTHROPY ARE IMPORTANT AND

2:03:20 HOW WE BUILD A SORT OF NETWORK

2:03:23 OF UM, PHILANTHROPY WHERE, YOU

2:03:27 KNOW, THERE MIGHT BE A CENTRAL

2:03:28 TEAM WHETHER APS OR EPRDF

2:03:31 THAT'S DOING THE HARD WORK

2:03:32 OF BUILDING THE RELATIONSHIPS

2:03:33 AND THE FUNDRAISING, BUT THEN

2:03:35 WE'RE ENSURING THAT THOSE

2:03:36 RESOURCES ARE FLOWING DOWN TO

2:03:37 OUR NEEDIEST, UM, SCHOOLS.

2:03:40 I'M A PAM.

2:03:41 IF YOU WANT TO TALK A LITTLE

2:03:41 BIT ABOUT SOME OF THAT PILOT

2:03:43 YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, WHICH

2:03:44 IS REALLY COOL.

2:03:45 YEAH.

2:03:46 SO I THINK ONE.

2:03:47 OF THE BIG THINGS THAT

2:03:48 HASN'T BEEN MENTIONED IS ALSO A

2:03:50 BIG UH, PERSON THAT SHOULD FOR

2:03:53 A PERSON PERSONIFY AT THE TABLE

2:03:55 IS THE FUNDER OF THE FUNDER

2:03:57 DECIDES THAT THEY WANT TO GIVE

2:03:59 $1 MILLION TO SUPPORT 3D

2:04:02 PRINTERS.

2:04:02 I USE THIS EXAMPLE A LOT.

2:04:03 RIGHT.

2:04:04 AND THEY SAY WE WANT TO GIVE

2:04:05 EVERY SINGLE THIRD GRADE THAT

2:04:07 HAS A KID WITH A BLUE EYE AND

2:04:09 AN A GREEN EYE, A 3D PRINTER

2:04:12 USUALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS WE KIND

2:04:13 OF WORK BACKWARDS AND GO

2:04:14 LOOKING FOR THAT THIRD GRADER

2:04:16 THAT HAS A BLUE EYE AND A GREEN

2:04:17 EYE, YOU KNOW, SO THAT THEY CAN

2:04:19 GET THIS 3D PRINTER INSTEAD

2:04:20 OF ACTUALLY ACTUALLY HAVING THE

2:04:22 CONVERSATION WITH THE FUNDER

2:04:23 AND SAYING YOU KNOW THAT THANK

2:04:24 YOU FOR THE DONATION.

2:04:26 WE CAN ACTUALLY PUT A 3D 3D

2:04:28 PRINTER ON EVERY ONE OF THE

2:04:29 SCHOOLS.

2:04:30 BUT TO GO A LITTLE FURTHER

2:04:31 THERE ARE SOME SCHOOLS THAT

2:04:32 DON'T EVEN HAVE REALLY GOOD

2:04:34 WI-FI RIGHT?

2:04:35 SO WE TOOK TO TO RUN THE 3D

2:04:37 PRINTER OR LIKE THE STAFF ARE

2:04:39 GOING TO NEED ADDITIONAL

2:04:41 RESOURCES TO EVEN KNOW HOW TO

2:04:42 TEACH THE YOUNG PEOPLE HOW TO

2:04:44 USE THE 3D PRINTER.

2:04:45 BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAN

2:04:46 JUST THAT LIKE VERY BLACK AND

2:04:50 WHITE THERE'S MONEY BEING

2:04:51 DONATED INTO THE SCHOOL.

2:04:52 THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS

2:04:54 THAT AREN'T BEING CROWDED AND

2:04:55 THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE

2:04:56 BEEN BRINGING TO THE TABLE AS

2:04:58 FAR AS UM EQUITY THAT THAT'S

2:05:01 EXACTLY WHAT EQUITY IS.

2:05:02 I THINK IN THAT WE'RE HAVING

2:05:05 THE CONVERSATIONS AND WE'RE

2:05:07 PAYING BACK THE SCHOOL UH,

2:05:10 COMMUNITY TO LET US KNOW WHAT

2:05:12 THEIR NEEDS ARE SO THAT WE CAN

2:05:13 KIND OF MEET THEM WHERE THEY

2:05:15 ARE AND WE CAN HELP PROVIDE THE

2:05:18 FOUNDATION, LET THEM KNOW WHAT

2:05:20 THEY NEED TO DO AND HAVE THEM

2:05:22 SET UP US FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO

2:05:24 FUNDRAISE.

2:05:25 WE CAN TAKE CARE OF ALL OF THE

2:05:26 FINANCE AND OPERATIONS OF IT

2:05:29 WHERE YOU KNOW THERE ARE UM WE

2:05:33 TAKE AWAY THE BURDEN OF TAX

2:05:35 FILINGS, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THAT

2:05:36 TECHNICAL PIECE OF THINGS

2:05:38 EXACTLY WHAT THE EDF IS HERE TO

2:05:40 SUPPORT WITH AND THROUGH EQUITY

2:05:42 .

2:05:42 WE AS AN ORGANIZATION ARE NOW

2:05:45 FUNDRAISING TO HELP DISTRICT

2:05:46 WIDE AND CLOSING THE GAP UM,

2:05:49 YOU KNOW AND AND LOOKING AT ALL

2:05:50 OF THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS EVERY

2:05:52 SCHOOL HAS NEEDS I SAY THIS ALL

2:05:53 THE TIME BUT EVERY EVERY NEEDS

2:05:55 OF THE SCHOOLS LOOK VERY

2:05:56 DIFFERENT.

2:05:57 SO IT'S OUR JOB TO FIGURE OUT

2:05:58 WHERE THOSE GAPS ARE SO THEN WE

2:06:00 CAN WORK TOWARD UM CLOSING

2:06:02 THOSE GAPS.

2:06:04 I GUESS JUST ONE LAST QUESTION.

2:06:05 SO IN TERMS OF LIKE MUSIC

2:06:07 EDUCATION IS THERE IS THIS LIKE

2:06:11 DISPARITY IMPACT LIKE WHERE YOU

2:06:13 COULD HAVE A MUSIC TEACHER DOES

2:06:15 I FEEL LIKE I AM I YOU RAISE

2:06:18 MONEY IN MISSION HILL SCHOOL

2:06:19 AND I WOULD I THOUGHT IT WENT

2:06:21 TO LIKE A PART TIME MUSIC

2:06:22 TEACHER LIKE I'M JUST TRYING TO

2:06:24 FIGURE OUT THE OTHER YOU KNOW

2:06:26 SOME SCHOOL MIGHT NOT HAVE

2:06:27 WI-FI OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

2:06:28 HOW DOES THAT ACTUALLY PLAY

2:06:30 OUT?

2:06:30 LIKE WHERE ARE THE RESOURCES

2:06:32 THAT ARE MISSING?

2:06:34 YEAH, I MEAN WE FOUND A LOT

2:06:36 OF UH INITIALLY A LOT OF THE

2:06:38 RESOURCES WERE THOSE SORTS

2:06:40 OF UM EXTRACURRICULAR PARTNERS

2:06:43 THINGS LIKE MUSIC PROGRAMS, UM

2:06:45 AND ARTS AND OTHER THINGS.

2:06:47 UM, YOU KNOW, MOST OF OUR

2:06:49 SCHOOLS AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A

2:06:50 CERTAIN SIZE AND YOU CAN HAVE

2:06:52 MOLD, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE ENOUGH

2:06:53 NEED FOR MULTIPLE DIFFERENT

2:06:54 TYPES OF SPECIALTIES.

2:06:56 WE FUND, YOU KNOW, AN ART

2:06:58 TEACHER OR A MUSIC TEACHER

2:07:00 THOSE SORT OF BASICS.

2:07:01 BUT THE MORE UM COMPLEX OR

2:07:06 SUPPLEMENTAL UM ENGAGEMENT

2:07:07 PROGRAMS MIGHT TAKE UM MORE UM

2:07:11 FUNDING.

2:07:12 OKAY.

2:07:13 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:07:14 UH, SHE FLEW ON AND THANK YOU,

2:07:16 CHAIR.

2:07:18 THANK YOU.

2:07:19 COUNCILOR REBER.

2:07:20 DO YOU HAVE I MEAN ONE MORE

2:07:22 QUESTION.

2:07:23 THAT I I KNOW

2:07:26 COUNCILOR CULPEPER HAS BEEN

2:07:27 PATIENTLY WAITING AND UH, HE

2:07:29 YOU KNOW, HE AND.

2:07:30 HE'S GIVING ME HIS TIME.

2:07:32 AND.

2:07:33 I'M THE CHAIR OF THIS.

2:07:35 THANK YOU CHAIR.

2:07:37 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER.

2:07:38 OKAY.

2:07:39 COUNCILOR CULPEPER.

2:07:39 YOU HAVE YOUR TIME.

2:07:41 I THANK YOU, CHAIR.

2:07:43 DAVID, LET ME ASK YOU A

2:07:44 QUESTION BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO

2:07:45 MAKE SENSE OF THIS AND SO DID I

2:07:48 HEAR CORRECTLY THAT BOSTON LIED

2:07:50 AND HAS $97 MILLION IN THEIR

2:07:54 ENDOWMENT?

2:07:55 UH, THAT IS WHAT WAS SAID AND I

2:07:57 CERTAINLY BELIEVE IT.

2:07:58 I WOULD HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK MY

2:08:00 RECORDS TO BE 100% SURE, BUT.

2:08:01 AND SO YOU'VE GOT $97 MILLION

2:08:06 AND ONE SCHOOL'S ENDOWMENT AND

2:08:09 I HEARD THEM TALK ABOUT THE

2:08:10 OPPORTUNITY INDEX.

2:08:12 BUT WHEN I WAS AT THE UH

2:08:15 ORCHARD GARDEN SCHOOL LAST YEAR

2:08:17 UH, OR THE EARLIER THIS YEAR I

2:08:21 WAS REALLY FIGHTING TO GET

2:08:23 THOSE AUDITORIUM SEATS UH,

2:08:27 FIXED BECAUSE THE STUDENTS

2:08:29 COULDN'T SIT IN THE AUDITORIUM

2:08:33 TO DO ANY SETTING BECAUSE THE

2:08:34 SEATS HAD YELLOW TAPE ALL

2:08:37 ACROSS THEM.

2:08:39 WHEN WE TALKED TO THE CAPITAL

2:08:41 BUDGET, UH, PERSON BRIAN BRIAN

2:08:45 SAID IT HAD TO GO ON A CULTURAL

2:08:49 CAPITAL BUDGET SCHEDULE UNLESS

2:08:51 IT WAS CONSIDERED EMERGENCY NOT

2:08:54 CONSIDERED THOSE SEATS THAT

2:08:56 WERE IN THE AUDITORIUM THEY

2:08:58 COULDN'T USE THOSE SEATS UP

2:09:01 FROM QUITE A FEW ROWS.

2:09:03 THEY COULDN'T USE THEM.

2:09:05 I CONSIDERED THAT AN EMERGENCY

2:09:06 .

2:09:07 BUT YET YOU HAVE $97 MILLION IN

2:09:10 AN ENDOWMENT AT BOSTON LATIN

2:09:13 THAT'S NOT BEING USED.

2:09:15 HOW CAN WE HOW HOW CAN THAT

2:09:18 HAPPEN?

2:09:21 YEAH, IT'S A VERY TRICKY

2:09:23 SITUATION RIGHT?

2:09:24 BECAUSE UM, THAT $97 MILLION IS

2:09:29 NOT OUR MONEY, RIGHT?

2:09:30 IT'S IT'S MONEY THAT'S BEEN

2:09:32 PRIVATELY FUNDRAISED BY THE BY

2:09:33 0501 C3.

2:09:35 I THINK THE WORK WE TRY AND DO

2:09:37 ,ESPECIALLY WITH OUR LARGER

2:09:39 500 AND C3 IS LIKE THE TWO THAT

2:09:41 HAVE BEEN MENTIONED TODAY THE

2:09:42 FRIENDS OF BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL

2:09:44 AND UM THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY

2:09:47 FOUNDATION IS IDENTIFY WAYS

2:09:49 WHERE THOSE FOUNDATIONS AND THE

2:09:51 MONEY THEY RAISE CAN BE USED TO

2:09:52 SUPPORT OTHERS UM STUDENTS

2:09:54 THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.

2:09:56 SO I KNOW THE BOSTON LATIN

2:09:57 SCHOOL ASSOCIATION DOES A LOT

2:09:59 OF FUNDING FOR OUR EXAM SCHOOL

2:10:00 INITIATIVE WORK.

2:10:02 UM, AND YOU KNOW, PREPARING UM

2:10:06 SCHOLARS AND ESPECIALLY WITH A

2:10:07 FOCUS ON STUDENTS WHO MIGHT

2:10:08 HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN

2:10:10 MARGINALIZED FOR ACCESS TO THE

2:10:11 LATIN SCHOOL.

2:10:12 I KNOW THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY

2:10:14 DOES A LOT OF WORK IN THE

2:10:16 BROADER COMMUNITY WITH ARTS

2:10:17 EDUCATION AND OTHER SCHOOLS AS

2:10:19 WELL.

2:10:20 UM, AND SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE

2:10:21 REALLY TRYING TO WORK ON UM,

2:10:23 WITH THOSE UM, 501 C3

2:10:26 ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE

2:10:27 AFFILIATED THAT AREN'T RUN BY

2:10:29 PAM UM, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

2:10:32 ARE ENSURING THAT WE ARE

2:10:33 GETTING THAT BROAD COMMUNITY

2:10:34 BENEFIT AS WELL AS THE SUPPORT

2:10:37 FOR THE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL THAT

2:10:39 THEY ARE RAISING MONEY FOR.

2:10:42 SO THE COUNCIL HAVE TO DO

2:10:44 SOMETHING OR DO WE HAVE TO LOOK

2:10:46 AT THE ORDINANCE TO AMEND IT

2:10:48 BECAUSE OF THOUGHT AND I GUESS

2:10:51 I THOUGHT WRONG THAT ALL THE

2:10:53 MONEY THAT WAS RAISED BY

2:10:56 OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS HAD TO

2:10:59 COME TO THE COUNCIL IN ORDER

2:11:01 FOR IT TO GET TO THE SCHOOL.

2:11:04 YEAH.

2:11:05 SO UH NO UNFORTUNATELY SO

2:11:09 THE THE THE WAY IT WORKS IS

2:11:11 THAT THE UM THE 501 C3

2:11:14 ORGANIZATION, UM, CAN RAISE THE

2:11:17 MONEY DIRECTLY.

2:11:17 THEY'RE THEIR OWN SEPARATE UM

2:11:20 ENTITY.

2:11:22 UM THEY RAISE THE MONEY

2:11:23 DIRECTLY AND THEN IF THEY'RE

2:11:24 CHOOSING TO SPEND IT UM, THAT'S

2:11:26 WHEN THEY HAVE TO WORK WITH UM

2:11:28 ,THE BP'S AND THE SCHOOL

2:11:30 COMMITTEE.

2:11:31 RIGHT.

2:11:31 BUT I THOUGHT ALL THE MONEY

2:11:33 THAT CAME FROM GRANTS OUTSIDE

2:11:36 OF THE SCHOOL IN ORDER TO COME

2:11:40 TO THE SCHOOL TO BE USED THAT

2:11:43 THE COUNCIL HAD TO APPROVE THE

2:11:45 GRANT MONEY.

2:11:46 UH, THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE DOES

2:11:47 IN THE CASE OF UM THE SCHOOLS.

2:11:50 SO THE COUNCIL HAS NO ROLE

2:11:52 WHATSOEVER WITH MONEY THAT'S

2:11:55 BEING RAISED OUTSIDE THAT THEN

2:11:57 COME COMES THROUGH THE SCHOOL

2:12:01 AND SO WE'RE APPROVING THIS

2:12:03 GRANT MONEY THAT'S COMING FROM

2:12:06 OUTSIDE SOURCES TO THE SCHOOL

2:12:08 LIKE WE JUST DID FOR MADISON

2:12:09 PARK A FEW WEEKS AGO.

2:12:11 I THINK WE PROVED UH MONEY FOR

2:12:14 MADISON PARK FOR THE DIFFERENT

2:12:16 PROGRAMS THAT IT WAS BEING USED

2:12:17 FOR.

2:12:18 WE APPROVE THAT BUT THERE'S

2:12:20 OUTSIDE MONEY THAT'S COMING.

2:12:22 YEAH.

2:12:23 THE SCHOOLS THE WE DON'T

2:12:26 EVEN KNOW ABOUT THAT.

2:12:28 I BELIEVE THE OUTSIDE FUNDING

2:12:29 THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED A FEW

2:12:30 WEEKS AGO ACTUALLY WENT TO THE

2:12:32 OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

2:12:32 DEVELOPMENT, WHICH.

2:12:34 WENT TO MADISON PARK.

2:12:35 IT WENT TO SUPPORT STUDENTS.

2:12:36 AT MADISON, BUT IT'S GOING

2:12:38 THROUGH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

2:12:39 OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

2:12:40 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS

2:12:41 WHY IT COMES THROUGH THE

2:12:44 COUNCIL OUTSIDE FUNDRAISING FOR

2:12:45 THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS,

2:12:46 GRANTS THAT ARE RECEIVED BY THE

2:12:47 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS GO TO THE

2:12:49 BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND NOT

2:12:50 TO THE COUNCIL.

2:12:50 NOT TO THE COUNCIL.

2:12:52 UM AND SO WE SHOULD PROBABLY

2:12:54 START LOOKING AT SOME

2:12:57 COUNCIL AMENDMENTS BECAUSE.

2:13:01 I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT

2:13:02 WHEN WE APPROVED THAT GRANT

2:13:04 MONEY IT DIDN'T GO TO THE

2:13:05 MAYOR'S OFFICE.

2:13:06 THE GRANT MONEY WENT TO IN FACT

2:13:09 ,I THINK THE UNIONS HAD SOME

2:13:12 ROLE IN THAT MONEY THAT WENT TO

2:13:15 MADISON PARK, I THINK BUT.

2:13:19 IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S THERE'S

2:13:21 SOME LOOPHOLES THERE WHERE THAT

2:13:26 $97 MILLION CAN SIT WITH THE

2:13:29 FROM THE BUS AND LAND WHILE

2:13:31 ALDER GARDENS STUDENTS CAN'T

2:13:35 EVEN USE THE THE AUDITORIUM

2:13:38 BECAUSE THE SEATS ARE TORN UP.

2:13:40 YEAH AND SO AND I'M JUST AMAZED

2:13:43 I JUST WANTED TO COME BACK TO

2:13:44 THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX BECAUSE

2:13:47 IF THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX IS

2:13:48 GOING AROUND ASSESSING WHAT

2:13:51 NEEDS THE OTHER SCHOOLS HAVE,

2:13:54 THEY THEY MUST HAVE MISSED THE

2:13:57 ORCHARD GARDEN SCHOOL BECAUSE

2:13:59 WE WERE FIGHTING AND PUSHING

2:14:01 FOR THAT MONEY TO GET ON THE

2:14:03 EMERGENCY LIST SO THAT THE

2:14:06 SEATS COULD BE EITHER REPAIRED

2:14:08 OR THEY COULD BRING IN NEW

2:14:09 SEATS SO THE STUDENTS COULD USE

2:14:11 THE AUDITORIUM.

2:14:12 AND SO FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

2:14:14 INDEX UM, HOW DOES THAT

2:14:16 OPPORTUNITY INDEX AND WHEN THEY

2:14:19 GO TO THE SCHOOLS ARE THEY

2:14:21 GOING TO EVERY SCHOOL THAT HAS

2:14:23 NEEDS AND THOSE NEEDS GO ON THE

2:14:25 LIST.

2:14:25 HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?

2:14:27 I JUST WANT TO YOU KNOW, UH

2:14:29 CHIEF BLOOM THAT THE SO I

2:14:31 ALREADY GAVE COUNCILOR.

2:14:33 CULPEPPER EXTRA TIME SO THIS

2:14:35 WOULD BE HIS FINAL QUESTION.

2:14:35 SO IF YOU CAN ANSWER.

2:14:36 THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

2:14:37 THANK YOU.

2:14:38 I'LL MY ANSWER WILL BE IN 27

2:14:39 PARTS SO BUT.

2:14:41 BUT DAVID I WANTED UH.

2:14:43 JUST JUST FORWARD.

2:14:44 THERE WAS SOMEONE THAT WAS

2:14:46 TALKING ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

2:14:47 AND YEAH.

2:14:48 SO WOULD.

2:14:49 YOU JUST GIVE US AN

2:14:50 OVERVIEW.

2:14:51 OF YES WE.

2:14:51 NAME IT.

2:14:54 HOW IT.

2:14:54 WORKS AND WHAT THE GOALS AND

2:14:56 OBJECTIVES ARE.

2:14:56 I MEAN I'LL BE VERY QUICK

2:14:57 ABOUT IT.

2:14:59 SO THE THE PARTNERSHIP UM FUND

2:15:02 GOES TO ABOUT THE HIGHEST NEED

2:15:04 ABOUT 40% SUPPORTS ABOUT 40

2:15:06 SCHOOLS GET THAT PARTNERSHIP

2:15:07 FUND RIGHT THEN THERE'S A

2:15:10 BROADER SET OF UH UM UH DOLLARS

2:15:15 CALLED THE SCHOOL SUPPORT FUND

2:15:16 THAT GOES TO A MUCH BROADER SET

2:15:18 OF ABOUT 100 SCHOOLS THE

2:15:20 PARTNERSHIP FUND THE GOAL IS

2:15:22 SUPPORT WORKS WITH EXTERNAL

2:15:24 PARTNERS AT THE SCHOOL.

2:15:27 SO YOU KNOW, UH, ORCHARD

2:15:28 GARDENS GETS $270,000 FOR THAT

2:15:32 PARTNERSHIP FUND UH, ANNUALLY

2:15:34 APPROXIMATELY THAT MUCH TO WORK

2:15:36 WITH OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS TO

2:15:37 PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORTS

2:15:39 WHETHER IT'S MUSIC OR ARTS

2:15:41 THEATER TO THE SCHOOL.

2:15:44 BUT DAVID, HOW DOES THE SCHOOLS

2:15:47 THAT LIKE HOLD YOU.

2:15:49 SO I'M SORRY CONCERTS HALL

2:15:50 PEPPER I JUST WANT TO THE

2:15:51 QUESTION.

2:15:52 WAS ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

2:15:53 INDEX.

2:15:54 IT WASN'T ABOUT THAT FUND.

2:15:55 IT WAS ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

2:15:57 INDEX THAT SHE SAID THEY WENT

2:15:59 AROUND TO SCHOOLS AND THEY

2:16:00 LOOKED AT THE NEEDS FROM THE

2:16:02 SCHOOL AND THEY PUT THEM ON

2:16:03 THIS LIST IN ORDER OH.

2:16:05 FOR THE FOR THE PRINCIPAL

2:16:06 THE PRINCIPAL PARTNERS.

2:16:08 NO, I WAS I WAS TALKING ABOUT

2:16:10 THE PARTNERSHIP FUND BUT SO THE

2:16:12 OPPORTUNITY INDEX IS A TOOL

2:16:13 THAT IS USED TO TO FIGURE OUT

2:16:16 WHICH SCHOOLS NEED PARTNERSHIP

2:16:19 DOLLARS.

2:16:19 SO THAT'S THAT CONNECTION.

2:16:21 OKAY UM AND.

2:16:23 HOW DOES IT WORK.

2:16:24 SO HOW DOES IT WORK.

2:16:26 OR TO GARDNER IS ONE OF THE

2:16:27 HIGHEST NEED SCHOOLS ON THAT

2:16:28 LIST FOR SURE OKAY.

2:16:29 AND THEY GOT THE THEY GOT

2:16:30 THE LEAST THE $250,000.

2:16:33 IS NOT IT'S NOT.

2:16:34 IT'S NOT EQUITABLE IF THAT'S

2:16:36 THE HIGHEST NEEDED AND THAT'S

2:16:37 THE THRESHOLD BUT THAT'S A

2:16:38 WHOLE NOTHER CONVERSATION I'M

2:16:40 ANXIOUS TO GET MY QUESTIONS IN

2:16:41 COUNCIL CULPEPPER AND I OKAY

2:16:43 GOING THANK YOU.

2:16:44 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:16:45 OKAY THANK YOU THANK YOU.

2:16:47 COUNCIL CALLED FOR YOUR

2:16:48 ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF YOUR

2:16:49 DISTRICT AND ALL OF OUR

2:16:50 STUDENTS.

2:16:50 UM, SO I GUESS YOU KNOW, I WANT

2:16:53 TO JUST KIND OF IT'S A

2:16:54 HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION HERE,

2:16:55 BUT I'M JUST VERY CURIOUS IF

2:16:57 WE'RE UTILIZING THE STUDENT

2:16:59 WEIGHTED FORMULA BASED ON THE

2:17:00 HIGHEST NEEDS TO FUND OUR

2:17:03 SCHOOLS, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK

2:17:04 LIKE IF WE ARE USING THE MOST.

2:17:08 RESOURCED FUNDRAISING HIGHEST

2:17:09 SCHOOLS TO THEN FUND THEM

2:17:12 ACCORDINGLY SO THAT THERE IS A

2:17:13 MORE OF A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD

2:17:15 AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND I DON'T

2:17:16 KNOW IF YOU GET WHAT I'M TRYING

2:17:17 TO ASK.

2:17:17 OKAY WELL THIS HAS YOU KNOW,

2:17:21 MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND

2:17:21 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ALREADY IN

2:17:24 THEIR BUDGET AND ORCHARD GARDEN

2:17:27 HAS NOT CAN WE USE THIS CAN YOU

2:17:31 USE THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX TOOL

2:17:34 AND THE REVERSE AND MAYBE CALL

2:17:36 IT THE AFFLUENT OPPORTUNITY,

2:17:38 THE AFFLUENT INDEX TOOL TO

2:17:41 OFFSET SOME OF THIS WORK SO

2:17:43 THEY GET LESS MONEY FROM THE

2:17:44 DISTRICT SINCE THEY HAVE THE

2:17:45 MOST MONEY IN THEIR ACCOUNTS?

2:17:48 YES.

2:17:49 UM I HEAR YOU ON THAT I SO

2:17:51 BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL IS

2:17:53 CURRENTLY THE LOWEST FUNDED

2:17:53 SCHOOL IN THE DISTRICT PER

2:17:55 PUPIL UM, THAT IS BASED ON THE

2:17:58 NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS WHO GO

2:17:59 THERE.

2:17:59 HOWEVER, I THINK YOUR POINT IS

2:18:01 ALSO VALID, RIGHT?

2:18:02 WHICH IS THEY ARE OFFSETTING

2:18:04 THAT WITH PRIVATE WITH PRIVATE

2:18:06 FUNDRAISING FOR SURE.

2:18:08 ALL RIGHT.

2:18:09 MY MATH IS UP IN THE LAST YEAR

2:18:10 OR SOMETHING EQUIVALENT TO

2:18:11 ABOUT $3,000 PER PUPIL BECAUSE

2:18:14 THE OTHER THING IS THEY ARE THE

2:18:15 BASICALLY THE LARGEST SCHOOL IN

2:18:16 THE DISTRICT.

2:18:17 RIGHT.

2:18:18 SO UM UH WHEN WE THINK ABOUT

2:18:20 THINGS PER PUPIL THAT'S A

2:18:21 PRETTY BIG DIFFERENCE RIGHT?

2:18:23 UM AND SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE

2:18:25 THINKING ABOUT RIGHT.

2:18:27 WHILE THE OPPORTUNITY INDEX

2:18:28 PROVIDES, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL

2:18:29 HUNDRED DOLLARS PER PUPIL IN

2:18:30 ADDITION IT IS DEFINITELY LESS

2:18:33 THAN THE FUNDRAISING POWER

2:18:35 OF THE BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL

2:18:37 ASSOCIATION.

2:18:38 SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE DOING

2:18:39 WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS TWO

2:18:40 THINGS.

2:18:40 ONE IS THROUGH THINGS LIKE THE

2:18:43 REIMAGINE SCHOOL FUNDING

2:18:43 FORMULA, IDENTIFY WAYS WE CAN

2:18:46 DIRECT RESOURCES TO OUR HIGHEST

2:18:48 NEED SCHOOLS FIRST AND THEN

2:18:50 PARTNER WITH WITH AMAZING

2:18:51 ORGANIZATIONS LIKE PAMS TO DO

2:18:53 FUNDRAISING FOR THOSE SCHOOLS

2:18:54 THAT CAN'T AFFORD TO DO IT FOR

2:18:56 THEMSELVES.

2:18:56 AND BECAUSE YOU KNOW, I DON'T

2:18:58 HAVE A LOT OF TIME I WANT TO,

2:18:59 YOU KNOW, KEEP THE CONVERSATION

2:19:01 GOING.

2:19:02 I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO MY NEXT

2:19:03 SET OF QUESTIONS HERE.

2:19:04 UM, I APPRECIATE THE ANSWER.

2:19:06 AND UH AND BRIEFLY JUST HIGH

2:19:08 LEVEL I'M JUST GOING TO ASK ALL

2:19:09 MY QUESTIONS SO YOU ALL SHOULD

2:19:10 WRITE THEM DOWN BECAUSE AFTER I

2:19:11 ASK THEM I'M JUST GOING TO LET

2:19:13 YOU ALL ANSWER THEM SO THAT WAY

2:19:14 WE CAN GET THROUGH.

2:19:16 UM OTHER TESTIMONY.

2:19:17 SO FOR PAM, I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO

2:19:19 TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT UM WHAT

2:19:21 CAN BE F UM YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU

2:19:25 ALL ARE DOING TO CREATE MORE

2:19:26 STREAMLINED WAYS FOR SCHOOLS TO

2:19:29 FUNDRAISE BECAUSE YOU ARE

2:19:30 ALREADY DOING AMAZING WORK.

2:19:31 I'D LOVE TO SEE YOU ALL MAYBE

2:19:33 MAYBE DOING THE TRAINING

2:19:34 WORKING MORE IN PARTNERSHIP

2:19:35 WITH MAYBE YOU CAN THAT CAN

2:19:38 CONTACT YOU ALL AS A TRAINING

2:19:41 INSTITUTE TO HELP SUPPORT THESE

2:19:42 SCHOOLS.

2:19:43 I MEAN THERE HAS TO BE SOME

2:19:44 SOLUTIONS HERE ASIDE FROM JUST

2:19:45 THE REPORTING, I THINK THAT WE

2:19:47 NEED TO REALLY START THINKING

2:19:48 ABOUT.

2:19:48 ALSO BOTH.

2:19:49 THE STRENGTHENING RIGHT?

2:19:50 ONCE WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW

2:19:51 WHAT SCHOOLS DO WE NEED TO

2:19:52 SUPPORT?

2:19:52 WE'D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR.

2:19:53 THOUGHTS ON THAT.

2:19:54 AND EVEN THOUGH BDF SUPPORTS A

2:19:57 LOT OF SCHOOLS WITH THEIR

2:19:58 FUNDRAISING, THEY SHOULD BE

2:19:59 PROVIDING A BASE BUDGET THAT

2:20:01 COVERS THE SCHOOL BASIC NEEDS.

2:20:03 IS THE DISTRICT WORKING ON ANY

2:20:04 PLAN TO FULLY FUND SCHOOLS WITH

2:20:06 ITS $1.8 BILLION BUDGET?

2:20:10 UM I'M ALSO CURIOUS HOW MANY

2:20:11 SCHOOLS HAVE 5 TO 1 C THREES

2:20:14 THAT YOU KNOW OF.

2:20:15 IS THIS INFORMATION PUBLICLY

2:20:15 AVAILABLE AND IF NOT WHY AND

2:20:18 WHY ISN'T THAT INFORMATION

2:20:19 AVAILABLE?

2:20:20 IS PRIVATE FUNDRAISING DONE BY

2:20:22 INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS?

2:20:23 CONSIDER THE REIMAGINE SCHOOL

2:20:24 FUND FOR ME UH, CONSIDERED IN

2:20:27 THE REIMAGINE SCHOOL FUND

2:20:28 FORMULA.

2:20:29 SO THINKING THROUGH THIS IN

2:20:31 TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE

2:20:32 INFRASTRUCTURE WHEN YOU'RE

2:20:34 THINKING ABOUT YOUR EQUITABLE

2:20:37 DISTRIBUTION, ARE YOU THINKING

2:20:38 ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY THESE.

2:20:38 SCHOOLS ALREADY HAVE?

2:20:40 UM, DOES THE DISTRICT WORK

2:20:42 ALONGSIDE.

2:20:42 THE FIVE AND ONE C THREES

2:20:43 AND OTHER.

2:20:44 PRIVATE FUNDERS.

2:20:44 TO SUPPLEMENT ANY BUDGETARY

2:20:47 UM AND RESOURCE DEFICITS?

2:20:49 HOW IS THE RACIAL EQUITY

2:20:50 PLANNING TOOL USED IF AT ALL?

2:20:53 UM WHEN PRIVATE DONATIONS ARE

2:20:54 GIVEN TO SOME.

2:20:55 SCHOOLS AND NOT OTHERS?

2:20:56 SO I'M JUST CURIOUS OF KIND

2:20:57 OF WHAT IS THAT YOU CAN PROVIDE

2:20:58 ON THAT.

2:20:58 AND HOW DOES THE DISTRICT AND

2:21:00 THE CENTRAL OFFICE SUPPORT

2:21:02 PARENT COUNCILS WITH TECHNICAL

2:21:04 ASSISTANCE BUILDING

2:21:05 INFRASTRUCTURE SIMILAR TO FACE

2:21:07 IN NEW YORK CITY?

2:21:08 AND LASTLY, DAVID AND THIS IS

2:21:11 YOU BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN HERE

2:21:12 THE.

2:21:12 LONGEST DEALING WITH ME IS THAT

2:21:14 I'VE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN ASKING

2:21:16 FOR.

2:21:16 DASHBOARDS ABOUT.

2:21:17 EVERYTHING LIKE I.

2:21:18 WANT EVERYTHING.

2:21:19 TO BE TRANSPARENT.

2:21:20 AS WE.

2:21:21 HAVE THIS CONVERSATION I

2:21:21 WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE

2:21:23 APPETITE IS FROM.

2:21:24 AND WHAT WHAT WOULD IT LOOK

2:21:26 LIKE AND WHAT WOULD YOU NEED

2:21:27 TO.

2:21:28 BE ABLE TO DELIVER THIS

2:21:29 REPORTING TO UM ON OUR WEBSITE?

2:21:33 THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS.

2:21:35 SO YOU COULD TAKE THEM IN THE

2:21:37 ORDER THAT I ASKED OR YOU CAN

2:21:38 BOUNCE AROUND.

2:21:39 WHATEVER YOU SEE FIT.

2:21:41 I THINK I GOT MOST OF THEM

2:21:42 WRITTEN DOWN.

2:21:43 PAM, DO YOU WANT TO YOUR FIRST

2:21:44 QUESTION WAS FOR YOU DO YOU

2:21:45 WANT TO TAKE IT?

2:21:46 YEAH.

2:21:47 SO WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING ALL

2:21:49 OF THAT UM WHERE WE'RE DOING

2:21:52 THE TRAININGS WE UH ARE ABOVE

2:21:56 AT THE LOWEST AND EASIEST I

2:21:59 GUESS TANGIBLE EXAMPLE AND I

2:22:00 MENTIONED THIS IN MY STATEMENT

2:22:02 THAT WE'RE CREATING UM,

2:22:04 DONATION LINKS FOR ALL OF THE

2:22:07 SCHOOLS.

2:22:08 SO AT THE VERY MINIMUM EVERY

2:22:10 SCHOOL ON THEIR WEB PAGE SHOULD

2:22:12 HAVE A DONATE LINK THAT THEY

2:22:14 CAN THEN SEND OUT TO THEIR

2:22:16 NETWORKS.

2:22:16 AND THAT IS KIND OF LIKE A LOW

2:22:18 HANGING FRUIT ON UM HOW THEY

2:22:19 CAN START TO.

2:22:20 ACTIVATE THEIR THEIR.

2:22:21 FUNDRAISING EFFORTS.

2:22:23 UM WE HAVE STARTED WORKING WITH

2:22:25 THE PARENT COUNCILS.

2:22:27 WE STARTED WORKING WITH THE

2:22:27 CITY WIDE PARENT COUNCIL AS ITS

2:22:29 FISCAL SPONSOR.

2:22:31 UM, AND REALLY PROVIDING ALL

2:22:34 OF THE THE RESOURCES THAT THEY

2:22:36 NEED.

2:22:37 UM, WE HAVE A COMMUNICATION A

2:22:39 RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND

2:22:40 COMMUNICATION MANAGER SAMANTHA

2:22:42 ,WHO WORKS DIRECTLY WITH THE

2:22:44 SCHOOLS PROVIDES THEM WITH ONE

2:22:46 ON ONE TRAINING.

2:22:47 SHE HELP UM WHEN SHE CAN

2:22:50 PROVIDE ACTUAL VISUALS.

2:22:52 THERE ARE TWO THERE'S LITERALLY

2:22:54 THIS TOOLBOX THAT WE PROVIDE

2:22:57 SCHOOLS WITH HOW THEY CAN USE

2:22:59 ALL OF THE RESOURCES TO

2:23:01 MAXIMIZE ON THEIR FUNDRAISING,

2:23:03 UM, EFFORT.

2:23:04 SO THAT'S ALL HAPPENING AND

2:23:06 THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN

2:23:07 FOCUSED ON OUTSIDE OF OUR WHOLE

2:23:09 FINANCE AND OPERATIONS LIKE

2:23:12 WE'VE LIVED IN.

2:23:13 RIGHT.

2:23:14 AND I GUESS TO KIND OF LIKE

2:23:16 PUT A BUTTON ON THAT SPECIFIC

2:23:17 AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU LAID OUT

2:23:19 EVERYTHING AS.

2:23:20 YOU.

2:23:20 DID NOW IN THIS GO AROUND

2:23:22 BECAUSE I'M CURIOUS WHAT ROLE

2:23:23 IF ANY BP'S PLAYS IN PARTNERING

2:23:26 WITH YOU ALL ON THOSE

2:23:28 DELIVERABLES ARE ARE ARE ARE

2:23:30 THEY PROVIDING YOU WITH ANY

2:23:31 TYPE OF RESOURCES SUPPORT YOU

2:23:34 KNOW WHETHER IT'S SO GRANTS HOW

2:23:38 HOW ARE THEY SUPPORTING YOU

2:23:39 SUPPORT PARENTS.

2:23:41 SO WE HAVE I MEAN WE HAVE AN

2:23:42 MOU WITH BP AS A AS A DISTRICT

2:23:45 UM TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE TO

2:23:47 ALL THE SCHOOLS AND AS I

2:23:48 MENTIONED EARLIER, EVERY SINGLE

2:23:49 SCHOOL HAS THE ABILITY TO USE

2:23:51 US AS A AS A SERVICE.

2:23:53 UM WE HAVE A PAY FOR SERVICE

2:23:54 KIND OF MODEL.

2:23:56 SO THAT'S HOW I'M ABLE TO PAY

2:23:57 MY STAFF.

2:23:58 UM, BUT THAT'S YOU KNOW, THAT'S

2:24:00 VERY MINIMAL AND THEN WE DO OUR

2:24:01 OWN FUNDRAISING AS AN

2:24:03 ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT THE

2:24:05 STAFF OUR OWN OPERATIONAL UH,

2:24:07 BUDGET AS WELL, UM, YOU KNOW,

2:24:09 HOPEFULLY BRING IN NEW FUNDING

2:24:11 FOR ALSO UM REINVESTMENTS

2:24:15 OF BPA.

2:24:16 SO IT'S LIKE A YES, WE'RE

2:24:18 WORKING ON IT AND WE'RE LIKE

2:24:20 FIGURING OUT BETTER WAYS TO

2:24:21 SUPPORT EACH OTHER.

2:24:23 THE OTHER BIG THING IS LIKE THE

2:24:26 COMMUNICATION WE HAVE REALLY

2:24:27 DONE SOME INTENTIONAL WORK ON

2:24:30 STRENGTHENING THE STRENGTHENING

2:24:32 THE COMMUNICATION WITH BETWEEN

2:24:33 BPA AND THE FDA SO THAT WE KNOW

2:24:37 YOU KNOW WHAT FUNDERS WE'RE

2:24:38 TALKING TO COLLECTIVELY WE KNOW

2:24:41 THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE FIVE

2:24:42 SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN ASKING THIS

2:24:43 FUNDER FOR $5,000 BUT IT'S LIKE

2:24:45 OKAY, WAIT A SECOND, WHY DON'T

2:24:47 WE ASK FOR YOU AND HAVE LIKE

2:24:51 THESE MORE STRATEGIC

2:24:52 CONVERSATIONS?

2:24:53 I THINK THAT HAS BEEN A REALLY

2:24:54 A KEY THING AS TO THE WORK THAT

2:24:56 WE'RE DOING COLLECTIVELY AND IN

2:24:59 PARTNERSHIP WITH EACH OTHER TO

2:25:00 BETTER SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL.

2:25:02 I LOVE THAT THANK YOU.

2:25:03 THANK YOU FOR THAT BREAKDOWN.

2:25:05 UM AND SO OKAY, SO DAVID AND

2:25:08 DOCTOR CLARK IF YOU COULD TAKE

2:25:09 THE.

2:25:11 REST.

2:25:12 THAT'D BE NOW.

2:25:12 AND DAVE AND DON'T YOU KNOW YOU

2:25:14 DON'T HAVE TO GO TOO DEEP IN

2:25:15 THE WEEDS BECAUSE I WANT TO.

2:25:17 BE MINDFUL OF PUBLIC

2:25:18 TESTIMONY.

2:25:18 YEAH.

2:25:19 I THINK UM IN TERMS OF UH WE

2:25:21 SHOULD DEFINITELY HAVE A FOLLOW

2:25:23 UP CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT WE

2:25:24 SHOULD MAKE PUBLIC AND HOW WE

2:25:26 DO IT.

2:25:26 I THINK I CERTAINLY HAVE NO

2:25:28 ISSUES WITH MAKING WHAT WE HAVE

2:25:30 AVAILABLE PUBLIC.

2:25:32 I THINK THERE ARE SOME UM,

2:25:34 ISSUES AROUND TIMING AND

2:25:36 AVAILABILITY OF REPORTS FROM

2:25:38 501 C THREES.

2:25:39 UM, BUT IN TERMS OF EVERYTHING

2:25:41 ELSE WE CERTAINLY WE CAN ALWAYS

2:25:43 PUT THE MOST RECENT AVAILABLE

2:25:44 PUBLIC SO WE COULD TALK ABOUT

2:25:46 WHAT'S WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO

2:25:47 DO THAT TO MAKE IT MORE

2:25:47 ADJUSTABLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE.

2:25:49 YEAH AND I'D LIKE TO INSERT

2:25:50 THAT I'D LOVE TO CREATE SOME

2:25:52 SORT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS

2:25:53 YOU.

2:25:53 CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT.

2:25:55 WOULD BE THE TYPE OF PUBLIC.

2:25:57 UH, FACING INFORMATION THAT WE

2:25:58 WOULD SHARE.

2:25:59 SO TRAVIS AND YOUR TEAM YOU

2:26:01 KNOW, JUST THAT THIS IS AN

2:26:02 INVITATION THAT ONCE THEY START

2:26:03 THINKING ABOUT THAT, WE'D LOVE

2:26:04 TO INVITE YOU ALL TO BE AT THE

2:26:05 TABLE.

2:26:06 OKAY.

2:26:06 DAVID, CONTINUE.

2:26:08 YEP.

2:26:08 UM, IN TERMS OF UH, UH, THE

2:26:11 INTERSECTION WITH OUR REIMAGINE

2:26:13 SCHOOL FUNDING, I THINK UM,

2:26:15 BECAUSE WE CAN'T CONTROL OR

2:26:18 DIRECTLY PREDICT PRIVATE

2:26:19 FUNDRAISING BUT WE TRY TO LOOK

2:26:21 AT WERE WHAT WERE WAYS WE CAN

2:26:23 ENSURE THAT HIGHER NEEDS

2:26:24 SCHOOLS ARE GETTING MORE

2:26:25 OF THAT SECOND CATEGORY

2:26:27 OF DISCRETIONARY FUNDING THAT

2:26:28 WAS OUTLINED EARLIER.

2:26:31 UM THAT WAS ONE OF THE BIG UM

2:26:34 THINGS WE NEEDED TO CHANGE IN

2:26:35 OUR FUNDING FORMULA.

2:26:37 UM, AND COUNSELOR, I KNOW

2:26:39 YOU'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS

2:26:40 FROM YOUR PAST WORK BUT JUST

2:26:41 FOR THE MORE GENERAL PUBLIC

2:26:43 HISTORICALLY WITH WEIGHTED

2:26:44 STUDENT FUNDING, THE PROBLEM

2:26:46 WAS IS THAT THE BASICS TOOK UP

2:26:47 ALL ALL OF THE MONEY AND THEN

2:26:50 OUR HIGHER NEED SCHOOLS THEN

2:26:52 DIDN'T OFTEN HAVE THE MONEY FOR

2:26:53 THOSE SORT OF DISCRETIONARY

2:26:56 CHOICES.

2:26:56 AND DISCRETIONARY DOESN'T MEAN

2:26:57 OPTIONAL IT MEANS JUST SORT

2:26:59 OF AT THE DISCRETION OF THE

2:27:00 SCHOOL FOR THAT PROGRAMING.

2:27:02 AND SO BY GUARANTEEING

2:27:05 EQUITABLY DISTRIBUTED

2:27:06 DISCRETIONARY FUNDING THAT'S

2:27:07 ONE OF THE WAYS THAT UM OUR

2:27:09 REIMAGINE SCHOOL FUNDING

2:27:11 FORMULA IS WORKING ON THIS

2:27:13 ISSUE.

2:27:13 I'M NOT SUGGESTING WE'VE SOLVED

2:27:15 IT BY ANY MEANS, BUT THAT WAS

2:27:16 DEFINITELY THE INTENTION.

2:27:18 UM, AND THEN IN TERMS

2:27:20 OF SUPPORT FOR PARENT COUNCILS

2:27:21 ,I THINK YOU KNOW, I'M

2:27:22 PROBABLY NOT THE PERFECT PERSON

2:27:24 TO ANSWER THIS BECAUSE I KNOW

2:27:25 UM, UH AAFCA DOES A LOT OF THAT

2:27:27 SUPPORT DIRECTLY BUT WE PARTNER

2:27:30 UM WITH OFF GOING TO DO UH,

2:27:32 BUDGET TRAININGS UM WITH

2:27:35 SCHOOLS LIKE COUNCIL MEMBERS IS

2:27:36 MOSTLY NEWER SCHOOL SITE

2:27:38 COUNCIL MEMBERS THOSE AREN'T

2:27:39 ALWAYS THE HIGHEST ATTENDED

2:27:40 EVENTS.

2:27:40 SO I THINK WE'LL CONTINUE TO

2:27:42 WORK WITH PAM AND OUR OFFICE

2:27:43 OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY

2:27:44 ADVANCEMENT TO FIGURE OUT HOW

2:27:46 WE CAN EXPAND AND SUPPORT THOSE

2:27:48 PARENT COUNCILS.

2:27:49 AND THEN THE LAST THING I ALSO

2:27:50 WANT TO SHOUT OUT IS OUR HUB

2:27:52 SCHOOLS WORK.

2:27:52 I THINK THAT INITIATIVE IS A

2:27:54 GREAT WAY WHEN THOSE SCHOOLS

2:27:55 ARE REALLY FOCUSED AT HIRING

2:27:56 EIGHT SCHOOLS TO BUILD A HUB

2:27:58 FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN THE

2:28:00 SCHOOL, BOTH THROUGH OUR

2:28:02 SUPPORTIVE FUNDRAISING AND

2:28:03 THROUGH CONNECTIONS UH, TO

2:28:05 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.

2:28:07 AND I'M SORRY, COUNSELOR, IF I

2:28:09 MISSED ONE, PLEASE UM, LET

2:28:11 ME KNOW.

2:28:15 MY TIME IS WAY OVER AND BUT.

2:28:19 WAIT A MINUTE.

2:28:20 HOLD ON.

2:28:20 DON'T GET.

2:28:20 TOO EXCITED DAVID.

2:28:22 I'M JUST LOOKING AT MY NOTES,

2:28:23 MAKING SURE THAT THE SAME

2:28:24 THING.

2:28:24 UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU DID

2:28:28 THE RACIAL EQUITY PLANNING TOOL

2:28:30 .

2:28:30 OH, YES.

2:28:31 CAN YOU TALK TO ME A LITTLE BIT

2:28:32 ABOUT THAT ONE THAT I DIDN'T?

2:28:33 YES.

2:28:34 SORRY THAT'S THE ONE I

2:28:36 DEFINITELY MISSED THAT LET

2:28:36 ME GET BACK TO THAT.

2:28:38 SO WE USE THE RACIAL EQUITY

2:28:39 PLANNING TOOL IN OUR DESIGN

2:28:41 OF OUR REIMAGINE SCHOOL FUNDING

2:28:42 FORMULA.

2:28:44 WE CANNOT ENFORCE A PRIVATE 501

2:28:47 C3 TO USE IT UM SEPARATELY.

2:28:50 SO I THINK WHAT WE TRY AND DO

2:28:53 IS THINK ABOUT HOW CAN WE USE

2:28:54 THE INFORMATION WE KNOW AS

2:28:57 WHERE AS WE'RE HAVING

2:28:58 CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE FUNDING

2:28:59 THAT WE HAVE TO DISTRIBUTE THAT

2:29:01 FUNDING MORE EQUITABLY AND FOR

2:29:02 US THAT DOES INCLUDE USE OF THE

2:29:03 RACIAL EQUITY PLAY TOOL.

2:29:05 AND THEN HOW DOES THE DISTRICT

2:29:07 AND THE CENTRAL OFFICE SUPPORT

2:29:08 PARENT.

2:29:08 COUNCILS WITH TECHNICAL

2:29:09 ASSISTANCE?

2:29:10 I KNOW PAM TALK A LITTLE YOU

2:29:11 KNOW.

2:29:12 A LOT ABOUT OUR WORK.

2:29:13 UM AND I DON'T WANT PAM DOING

2:29:16 THE DISTRICT'S JOB.

2:29:17 SO I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT.

2:29:18 ROLE YOU.

2:29:19 ARE PLAYING IN TO SUPPORT

2:29:21 THAT.

2:29:21 WORK AS WELL.

2:29:23 SO UM, MY TEAM PRIMARILY

2:29:26 SUPPORTS THROUGH STUDENT

2:29:26 ACTIVITY ACCOUNTS, WHICH ARE

2:29:28 THE THINGS I THINK ARE MOST

2:29:29 SIMILAR TO WHAT THE

2:29:30 COUNCIL FROM NEW YORK WAS

2:29:31 DESCRIBING, UM, WHICH ARE

2:29:34 ACCOUNTS THAT SORT OF TAKE

2:29:35 MONEY THAT'S RAISED FROM

2:29:37 PARENTS AND BIG SALES AND UM,

2:29:39 OTHER SORT OF FUNDRAISING

2:29:40 THINGS AND REDISTRIBUTE THOSE

2:29:41 FOR STUDENT ACTIVITIES IN THE

2:29:43 ORGANIZATION.

2:29:44 SO WE DO TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

2:29:45 DIRECTLY TO SCHOOLS WITH

2:29:46 WORKING ON THOSE ACCOUNTS AND

2:29:48 THEN WE PARTNER WITH UM THE

2:29:50 PARENT ENGAGEMENT TEAM IN THE

2:29:52 OFFICE OF FAMILY AND COMMUNITY

2:29:53 ADVANCEMENT TO SUPPORT

2:29:55 TRAININGS FOR SCHOOL SITE

2:29:56 COUNCILS.

2:29:57 UM I DON'T BELIEVE WE SUPPORT

2:29:58 PARENT COUNCILS SEPARATELY FROM

2:30:00 SCHOOL SITE COUNCILS, BUT I

2:30:02 THINK THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE

2:30:03 SOMETHING WE'D BE OPEN TO

2:30:04 SUPPORTING FOR SURE.

2:30:05 AND HOW MANY SCHOOLS HAVE.

2:30:07 5 TO 1 C THREES AND IS THIS

2:30:08 INFORMATION PUBLIC AND IF NOT

2:30:09 WHY.

2:30:11 UM I DON'T REMEMBER THAT ANSWER

2:30:13 .

2:30:13 YEAH WE UH WE DON'T UM WE DON'T

2:30:17 HAVE A SORT OF HISTORICAL WAY

2:30:19 OF REPORTING ON THAT.

2:30:21 UM, SO IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING

2:30:22 WE COULD DISCUSS.

2:30:23 UM, THE LAST TIME WE PULLED ALL

2:30:27 THE DATA TOGETHER WHICH WAS

2:30:28 UPDATED THROUGH THE 2024 FISCAL

2:30:31 YEAR BECAUSE THE 2025 UPDATES

2:30:32 AREN'T FULLY FILED YET.

2:30:35 UM, I KNOW IT'S BEEN A SUCCESS

2:30:37 .

2:30:37 THERE WERE 42 SCHOOLS THAT AT

2:30:39 ONE POINT OR ANOTHER HAD A

2:30:41 FRIENDS OF OR AFFILIATED 500

2:30:43 AND C3 A NUMBER OF THOSE WE

2:30:45 THINK ARE POTENTIALLY DEFUNCT.

2:30:47 SO I THINK THE REAL ANSWER IS

2:30:50 PROBABLY LESS THAN 42 OKAY.

2:30:53 BUT WE DON'T HAVE UH, BETTER

2:30:55 INFORMATION THAN THAT FOR NOW.

2:30:57 YEAH.

2:30:57 I THINK IT MIGHT.

2:30:58 BE WILLING TO SHARE THAT

2:30:59 INFORMATION WITH YOU THAT WE

2:31:00 HAVE.

2:31:01 I WOULD LOVE THAT.

2:31:01 AND I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW, UH,

2:31:03 THEM.

2:31:03 UH, MENTIONED BEING ABLE TO

2:31:06 SUPPORT.

2:31:06 SOME OF THE SCHOOLS.

2:31:08 BUT NOT ALL THE SCHOOLS HAVE

2:31:09 WEBSITE WHICH IS KIND OF LIKE

2:31:10 WE NEED TO WORK ON THAT TOO.

2:31:12 NOT EVERY.

2:31:13 SCHOOL HAS A FUNCTIONING

2:31:15 WEBSITE.

2:31:16 AND WHY UM THERE IS.

2:31:18 REPORTING THAT HAS BEEN UM

2:31:20 MANDATED I GUESS SINCE IT WAS.

2:31:22 UH AMENDED IN 2021 UH, BY THE

2:31:26 SUPERINTENDENT.

2:31:27 I'M NOT SURE IF YOU ARE

2:31:28 FAMILIAR WITH THAT BUT ANYWAYS.

2:31:30 YEAH, I ENJOYED THAT REALLY

2:31:32 QUICKLY ON THAT AND UH AND I

2:31:35 MENTIONED THIS EARLIER BUT

2:31:36 OF THE UH WHAT'S THE TOTAL

2:31:37 COUNT OF SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW THEY

2:31:39 ARE AND IS A 109 OFFICIAL

2:31:42 SCHOOLS.

2:31:43 WE HAVE FUNDS FOR ALL 109

2:31:45 OF THEM.

2:31:47 SO EVEN THOUGH A SCHOOL DOES

2:31:48 NOT HAVE A FRIENDS UH THEY

2:31:50 HERNANDEZ IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE.

2:31:52 THEY HAVE A FRIENDS OF PRETTY

2:31:53 STRONG FRIENDS OF AND THEY HAVE

2:31:55 THE EDF ACCOUNT.

2:31:57 SO THERE ARE MANY SCHOOLS IF

2:31:58 NOT MOST OF THEM THAT THAT USE

2:32:01 US AS THEIR MAIN SERVICE AS

2:32:04 THEIR MAIN FISCAL SPONSOR.

2:32:05 THAT'S AMAZING.

2:32:07 I'M TELLING YOU.

2:32:09 WE NEED TO GIVE.

2:32:10 UH UH, A WHOLE DEPARTMENT.

2:32:12 M.C.P.S UM, BECAUSE SIX PEOPLE

2:32:15 IS NOT HOLDING IT DOWN HERE.

2:32:16 UM, AND I BELIEVE THERE WAS A

2:32:19 SUPERINTENDENT CIRCULAR THAT UM

2:32:20 THAT SAID THAT ALL 501 C

2:32:22 THREES.

2:32:22 NEED TO.

2:32:23 SUPPORT THE NEED TO REPORT TO

2:32:25 THEM, BUT THE DISTRICT HAS

2:32:26 NEVER REALLY ENFORCED IT.

2:32:28 AND I THINK THAT IF WE'RE

2:32:28 TALKING ABOUT.

2:32:29 REPORTING AND KIND OF YOU KNOW,

2:32:30 THERE ARE SOME.

2:32:31 POLICIES IN PLACE FOR THIS IS

2:32:33 JUST REALLY ALSO SOME

2:32:34 ENFORCEMENT THAT WE MAY

2:32:35 POTENTIALLY NEED TO DO.

2:32:38 UM AND SO I THINK IT'S

2:32:39 SOMETHING WORTH CONSIDERING.

2:32:40 FOR ME I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT

2:32:42 THAT WE WHEN WE HAVE HEARINGS

2:32:45 THEY IT'S IT'S THE GOAL IS TO

2:32:46 ALL LISTEN AND THEN GO BACK AND

2:32:50 THINK ABOUT WHERE ARE SOME

2:32:51 OF THE THINGS.

2:32:51 THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY.

2:32:53 WORK ON COLLABORATIVELY TO

2:32:54 FIX.

2:32:55 AND THE GOAL IS TO DELIVER.

2:32:56 ON THOSE THINGS BECAUSE PEOPLE.

2:32:58 DON'T WANT TO SHOW.

2:32:59 UP FOR A MEETING ABOUT A

2:33:01 MEETING AND NOTHING HAPPENS,

2:33:02 RIGHT.

2:33:03 SO OUR GOAL.

2:33:04 IS TO TAKE THE LESSONS THAT.

2:33:05 WE'VE LEARNED.

2:33:06 HERE AND.

2:33:06 AND UM, WHAT WAS SHARED.

2:33:08 AND REALLY START MAYBE PUTTING

2:33:10 TOGETHER A WORKING.

2:33:11 GROUP.

2:33:11 SO THAT WE CAN START.

2:33:13 DRAFTING SOME, YOU KNOW,

2:33:15 POLICIES.

2:33:16 AND MODELING.

2:33:16 UH.

2:33:17 NEW YORK BECAUSE YOU KNOW,

2:33:18 NEW.

2:33:18 YORK AND BOSTON ARE VERY

2:33:19 COMPETITIVE.

2:33:20 AND SO THEY'RE AHEAD OF US ON

2:33:21 THIS ONE AND I THINK WE HAVE AN

2:33:23 OPPORTUNITY.

2:33:23 IT'S JUST REPORTING IT'S

2:33:25 TRANSPARENCY.

2:33:26 IT DOESN'T REALLY COST MUCH

2:33:27 ACCORDING TO YOU KNOW JUST

2:33:28 PUTTING UP THE EXCEL.

2:33:29 SHEET RIGHT ONTO YOUR WEBSITE I

2:33:31 MEAN IT IT SHOULD NOT BE

2:33:33 COMPLICATED AND I THINK THAT IF

2:33:35 WE REALLY.

2:33:36 WANT TO RESTORE TRUST IN

2:33:37 GOVERNMENT THAT THIS IS A

2:33:38 REALLY GOOD STEP AND TOWARDS.

2:33:39 THAT DIRECTION GIVEN ALL THE

2:33:42 DISCREPANCIES THAT WE HAVE BEEN

2:33:43 HAVING REGARDING OUR BUDGETS IN

2:33:45 ALL THIS, THAT OR THE OTHER.

2:33:47 SO MY HOPE IS IS THAT WE HAVE

2:33:48 THREE PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR

2:33:49 PUBLIC TESTIMONY.

2:33:52 UM UH NOT SURE.

2:33:53 IF YOU I WANT.

2:33:54 TO STAY AND LISTEN BUT YOU'RE.

2:33:56 MORE THAN WELCOME TO.

2:33:57 BUT I DO WANT TO THANK.

2:33:59 EVERYONE OUR PANELISTS.

2:34:00 OUR EXPERTS, OUR ADVOCATES FOR

2:34:02 SHOWING UP.

2:34:03 UM.

2:34:04 AND SHARING THEIR EXPERTISE.

2:34:05 IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR

2:34:06 THIS WORK, UM, FOR US TO BE

2:34:09 SPEAKING ALL IN ONE VOICE WELL,

2:34:10 NOT IN ONE VOICE BUT YOU KNOW,

2:34:12 COLLECTIVELY TO GETTING TO WHAT

2:34:14 WE NEED TO BE.

2:34:14 SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND

2:34:16 I'M GOING TO BE TRANSITIONING

2:34:17 TO PUBLIC.

2:34:17 TESTIMONY UNLESS ANYONE HERE

2:34:19 HAS.

2:34:20 SOMETHING THAT THEY NEED TO SAY

2:34:22 BEFORE WE TRANSITION.

2:34:25 GOING ONCE.

2:34:27 ALL RIGHT.

2:34:28 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:34:29 ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR

2:34:30 AFTERNOON.

2:34:30 I'M GOING TO BE TRANSITIONING

2:34:32 UM, TO PUBLIC TESTIMONY.

2:34:34 I BELIEVE WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE

2:34:36 SIGNED UP.

2:34:37 UM, SO, UH, ETHAN, IF YOU COULD

2:34:39 START LETTING FOLKS IN THAT

2:34:40 WOULD BE GREAT.

2:34:41 THANK YOU PAMELA THANK YOU

2:34:42 DAVID THANK YOU DOCTOR CLARK

2:34:43 THANK YOU TRAVIS.

2:34:44 THANK YOU.

2:34:45 THANK YOU EVERYONE THAT UH,

2:34:46 SHOWED.

2:34:46 UP AND SHOWED UP AS A FACE.

2:34:48 THANK YOU.

2:34:51 OKAY.

2:34:51 OTHER TESTIMONY WE GOT ON

2:34:55 DECK.

2:35:03 WE HAVE EUGENIA AND MEGAN WOLF

2:35:05 .

2:35:09 ON MY LIST I SEEN.

2:35:13 AND WHILE WE WAIT, I WANT TO

2:35:15 THANK QUEST UH, FOR BRINGING

2:35:18 THIS TO OUR OFFICE AND YOUR

2:35:20 STEADFAST LEADERSHIP AND

2:35:23 DEDICATION TO EQUITY ACROSS ALL

2:35:24 OF OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

2:35:26 WE REALLY WANT TO WORK IN

2:35:27 PARTNERSHIP WITH YOU ALL.

2:35:28 YOU HEARD IT HERE.

2:35:29 WE GOT IT ON THE RECORD.

2:35:30 THEY DID SAY THEY DON'T HAVE

2:35:31 ANY PROBLEMS.

2:35:33 SO LET'S SEE ONCE WE START

2:35:34 REALLY UH, PUSHING WHAT KIND

2:35:36 OF UH YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND

2:35:37 OF ISSUES WE MAY ENCOUNTER BUT

2:35:39 OUR GOAL IS TO UM, LOOK WITH

2:35:42 QUEST AND OTHER ADVOCATES AND

2:35:44 PAMELA, WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU

2:35:45 AT THE TABLE HELPING SHAPE.

2:35:47 UM.

2:35:47 WHAT THIS.

2:35:48 IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

2:35:49 AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS

2:35:50 STRUCTURAL REFORM AND I THINK

2:35:51 THAT THIS IS THESE LITTLE

2:35:53 THINGS THAT WE DO, UM, CAN.

2:35:56 MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN TERMS

2:35:57 OF THE WORK.

2:35:58 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING.

2:35:59 WITH QUEST TO DO JUST THAT.

2:36:01 SO UH, THANK YOU.

2:36:02 TRAVIS AND TO YOUR ENTIRE TEAM

2:36:03 FOR.

2:36:04 YOUR LEADERSHIP HERE.

2:36:05 THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP

2:36:06 COUNCIL.

2:36:07 WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE TIME

2:36:08 TODAY.

2:36:09 YEAH THANK YOU.

2:36:10 ALL RIGHT.

2:36:11 SO WE HAVE.

2:36:15 UM PEOPLE SIGNED UP.

2:36:17 WE HAVE.

2:36:17 SARAH.

2:36:18 MARY AND FIELD AND MEGAN

2:36:20 WOLF AND WE NEED THE VOTES TO

2:36:22 BE.

2:36:23 PANELISTS ETHAN.

2:36:26 IF THEY CAN ACCEPT THE

2:36:28 PANELISTS.

2:36:28 INVITATION PLEASE.

2:36:38 OR MEGAN.

2:36:39 SARAH AND MARY ARE ON.

2:36:41 WE'RE JUST WAITING ON MEGAN TO

2:36:43 ACCEPT.

2:36:43 THE PROMISE.

2:36:44 OKAY.

2:36:44 SO THEN OKAY.

2:36:45 SORRY I DID NOT SEE THAT.

2:36:47 OKAY, SO WHO CAME IN FIRST?

2:36:51 SARAH.

2:36:53 ALL RIGHT.

2:36:53 SARAH.

2:36:54 EVERYONE TWO MINUTES.

2:36:56 UM, MY NAME IS SARAH DELURY.

2:36:58 UM, I AM A MEMBER OF QUEST AND

2:37:00 ALSO A PARENT OF TWO, UH,

2:37:03 CHILDREN AND BP'S UH, THIS YEAR

2:37:06 MY DAUGHTER IS AT BELLA AND MY

2:37:07 SON IS AT THE SARAH ROBERTS

2:37:09 SCHOOL AT THE NEW SCHOOL IN

2:37:10 ROSLINDALE.

2:37:11 AND FOR OUR FIRST SEVEN YEARS

2:37:12 AS A FAMILY, MY CHILDREN WERE

2:37:14 STUDENTS AT THE MILDRED

2:37:16 ADVOCATE IN MATTAPAN.

2:37:17 WHEN MY.

2:37:18 OLDEST CHILD BEGAN K-1 AT

2:37:19 THE MILDRED.

2:37:20 THERE IS NO FORMALLY

2:37:21 ESTABLISHED SPC.

2:37:23 IN FACT, UH AFTER MANY YEARS

2:37:25 OF TRYING BUT GAINING NO

2:37:26 TRACTION AND SPC WAS FINALLY

2:37:28 SET UP DURING MY DAUGHTER'S

2:37:29 THIRD UH, THIRD GRADE YEAR

2:37:31 WHICH WAS OUR FIFTH YEAR AT THE

2:37:32 SCHOOL.

2:37:33 IT WAS A SMALL GROUP OF 4 TO 5

2:37:35 COMMITTED PARENTS AND GUARDIANS

2:37:36 WHO WOULD CONSISTENTLY SHOW UP

2:37:38 TO MEETINGS AND HELP TO

2:37:39 ORGANIZE EVENTS.

2:37:41 WE DID OUR BEST TO FUNDRAISE,

2:37:42 HOPING TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR

2:37:44 SOME FUN EVENTS FOR THE UH

2:37:46 STUDENTS.

2:37:47 THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE WERE

2:37:48 ACTIVE, OUR GOAL WAS TO BE ABLE

2:37:50 TO ORGANIZE AND PAY FOR THE

2:37:51 CHILDREN TO HAVE A FIELD DAY

2:37:52 WHICH THEY HAD NEVER HAD IN OUR

2:37:54 TIME AT THE SCHOOL.

2:37:55 WE FIRST UH, TRIED SELLING

2:37:57 MILDRED AS BRANDED ITEMS AT

2:37:59 SCHOOL DROP OFF ONCE PER WEEK.

2:38:01 THE MOST EXPENSIVE ITEM THAT WE

2:38:03 SOLD WAS A CAR MAGNET UH.

2:38:05 WHICH UH, WE ARE TRYING TO

2:38:06 REMEMBER BUT I BELIEVE IT WAS

2:38:08 EITHER 5 OR $8.

2:38:10 UH, UNFORTUNATELY THE UH THE

2:38:13 FUNDRAISING ASPECT OF THIS WAS

2:38:15 LARGELY UNSUCCESSFUL AS MANY

2:38:18 OF THE FAMILIES JUST DID NOT

2:38:19 HAVE THE MONEY UH, TO SPARE TO

2:38:21 BUY THESE THINGS.

2:38:22 IN THE END, MOST OF WHAT WE

2:38:24 SOLD WAS ACTUALLY, UM, SOLD TO

2:38:27 STUDENTS AND STAFF WOULD USE

2:38:28 THEIR OWN CASH AT THE BEGINNING

2:38:30 OF THE DAY TO BUY THE STUDENTS

2:38:31 UM, PENCILS.

2:38:34 THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISER

2:38:35 WE EVER HAD WAS AN ELECTION DAY

2:38:37 BAKE SALE.

2:38:38 WE RAISED $600 THAT DAY.

2:38:40 IN THE THREE YEARS THAT I WAS

2:38:42 ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH THE SPC

2:38:44 ,THE MOST MONEY THAT WE EVER

2:38:45 HAD AT ONE TIME WAS ABOUT

2:38:47 $1,200.

2:38:48 I DO NOT REMEMBER EVER

2:38:50 RECEIVING A CASH DONATION.

2:38:52 ALMOST ALL OF THAT MONEY WAS

2:38:53 FROM UM SELLING BAKED GOODS

2:38:55 HONESTLY BUT A FEW FROM PENCILS

2:38:57 AND MAGNETS.

2:38:59 UH THE THEN LAST YEAR MY MY

2:39:02 CHILDREN BOTH STARTED AT THE

2:39:03 NEW SARAH ROBERTS SCHOOL IN

2:39:05 ROSLINDALE AND WHILE BOTH THE

2:39:07 SARAH ROBERTS AND THE MILDRED

2:39:08 ABBY SCHOOLS WERE FILLED WITH

2:39:09 CARING PARENTS, CARING AND

2:39:11 DEDICATED PARENTS WHO WANTED

2:39:12 THE BEST FOR THEIR CHILDREN, IT

2:39:14 VERY QUICKLY BECAME CLEAR THAT

2:39:15 THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN

2:39:17 THE FUNDRAISING CAPACITIES AT

2:39:18 THE TWO SCHOOLS.

2:39:19 I WENT TO THE FIRST SPC MEETING

2:39:21 OF THE YEAR AND AGAIN IT WAS A

2:39:23 BRAND NEW SCHOOL AND UH EVEN

2:39:25 THOUGH IT WAS A BRAND NEW

2:39:26 SCHOOL, PARENTS HAD ALREADY

2:39:28 ESTABLISHED A 501 C3

2:39:29 ORGANIZATION BY THAT FIRST

2:39:31 MEETING TO UH TO SUPPORT

2:39:32 FUNDRAISING AT THE SCHOOL

2:39:34 DURING THAT FIRST YEAR.

2:39:37 I ACTUALLY UM, DON'T KNOW

2:39:38 EXACTLY HOW MUCH MONEY WAS

2:39:40 RAISED THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL

2:39:41 THE YEAR AGAIN A CALL FOR

2:39:43 TRANSPARENCY UM, BUT THE MOST

2:39:45 FUN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL

2:39:46 FUNDRAISING EVENT OF THE YEAR.

2:39:48 I DO KNOW THE ONE BIG ANNUAL

2:39:50 FUNDRAISER ONE NIGHT EVENT MADE

2:39:52 OVER $25,000 IN THAT ONE NIGHT

2:39:55 WHICH WAS FAR AND AWAY MORE

2:39:57 MONEY THAN WE EVER RAISED IN

2:39:58 OUR SEVEN YEARS AT THE MILDRED

2:40:00 ABBEY SCHOOL UM IN MATTAPAN.

2:40:01 AND WHILE.

2:40:02 THOSE.

2:40:03 TWO SCHOOLS ARE BOTH.

2:40:03 PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

2:40:04 WITHIN THE SAME SCHOOL DISTRICT

2:40:07 ,UM, I ONLY HAVE ACCESS TO

2:40:08 THIS INFORMATION ABOUT HOW MUCH

2:40:10 MONEY THEY RAISED BECAUSE I WAS

2:40:12 INVOLVED AND WENT TO THE SPC

2:40:13 MEETINGS AT THOSE TWO

2:40:15 RESPECTIVE SCHOOLS.

2:40:17 THIS DATA IS NOT CURRENTLY

2:40:18 BEING COLLECTED.

2:40:19 THERE IS NOWHERE THAT A PARENT

2:40:21 ,A DONOR, A POLICYMAKER OR AN

2:40:23 EDUCATOR EDUCATOR CAN GO AND

2:40:25 LOOK ONLINE TO ACCESS THIS

2:40:27 INFORMATION.

2:40:29 AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR AS

2:40:30 OTHERS HAVE BEEN THAT THIS IS

2:40:31 NOT ABOUT PITTING SCHOOLS

2:40:32 AGAINST EACH OTHER OR RESENTING

2:40:34 FAMILIES WHO HAVE THE ABILITY

2:40:36 TO GIVE GENEROUSLY TO THEIR

2:40:37 CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS.

2:40:38 EVERY PARENT I HAVE MET AT BOTH

2:40:40 BOTH OF MY CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS

2:40:42 WANTS THE SAME THING A

2:40:44 WELL-ROUNDED EXPERIENCE FOR

2:40:44 THEIR CHILDREN AND FOR TEACHERS

2:40:46 TO NOT HAVE TO MAKE UP FOR

2:40:48 BUDGET GAPS.

2:40:49 THANK YOU.

2:40:50 RIGHT UP.

2:40:50 SORRY BUT YOU.

2:40:51 ALMOST DONE SARAH.

2:40:52 JUST A COUPLE MORE SENTENCES.

2:40:54 I WAS JUST GONNA SAY I SUPPORT

2:40:55 THE CALL FOR A PUBLIC DASHBOARD

2:40:57 TO TRACK THIS DATA IF WE ARE

2:40:59 SERIOUS ABOUT ENSURING THAT

2:41:00 EVERY SCHOOL AND EVERY STUDENT

2:41:02 IN THE DISTRICT HAS THE

2:41:02 RESOURCES THEY NEED TO BE

2:41:04 SUCCESSFUL THE FIRST STEP THIS

2:41:05 FIRST STEP EXCUSE ME IS TO

2:41:07 SIMPLY SEE THE FULL AND

2:41:08 ACCURATE PICTURE OF THE FUNDS

2:41:09 THAT EACH SCHOOL HAS ACCESS TO

2:41:11 .

2:41:11 WE CAN'T FIX A DISPARITY THAT

2:41:13 WE CANNOT SEE.

2:41:14 THANK YOU THANK.

2:41:15 YOU SIR AND I THINK I BOUGHT

2:41:17 ALL THOSE CUPCAKES IN THE.

2:41:18 COOKIES THAT.

2:41:19 ELECTION DAY.

2:41:21 UM AND HELPED YOU RAISE THOSE

2:41:23 AND I DO REMEMBER YOU ALL OUT

2:41:25 THERE.

2:41:25 UM ALL RIGHT, SO I THINK WE

2:41:27 HAVE MARY NEXT.

2:41:30 MARY.

2:41:30 YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES AND.

2:41:32 I WILL TRY TO BE FAST.

2:41:34 UH, AND I WILL.

2:41:35 I CAN'T I WILL DEVOTE A COUPLE

2:41:36 OF MY TIME.

2:41:37 SO THANK YOU.

2:41:38 THANK YOU, NEW COUNCILOR FOR

2:41:40 CHAIRING THIS HEARING.

2:41:42 SO AMAZINGLY AMID, UM, PERSONAL

2:41:44 LOSS.

2:41:45 UM, SO, UH, I I I, UM I HAVE UH

2:41:50 ,THREE GRADUATES OF BOSTON

2:41:52 PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND HAVE BEEN AT

2:41:53 SIX DIFFERENT SCHOOLS FROM ONE

2:41:55 THE HANNIGAN WHICH HAS VERY

2:41:57 LITTLE MONEY TO ONE BOSTON ARTS

2:41:58 ACADEMY WHICH HAS LOTS OF MONEY

2:41:59 AND I CAN TELL A LOT

2:42:01 OF ANECDOTES ABOUT THIS BUT AS

2:42:02 UM UH MARK TRAGER SAID, IT'S

2:42:04 IMPORTANT TO MOVE FROM

2:42:06 ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE BASED AND

2:42:07 THAT'S WHAT HAVING A DASHBOARD

2:42:08 IS ABOUT.

2:42:09 SO I JUST WANTED TO NOTE A

2:42:11 COUPLE OF THINGS.

2:42:12 UM, UM, FIRST OF ALL, OVERALL

2:42:15 THE DATA ON THE SCHOOL UH,

2:42:18 PRIVATE UH FUNDRAISING AND

2:42:20 SCHOOL FUNDS UM, IS THAT THE

2:42:24 SCHOOLS THAT HAVE LESS SERVES

2:42:28 STUDENTS WHO NEED MORE AND THAT

2:42:31 IS AND THAT IS RACIALIZED.

2:42:32 THAT MEANS STUDENTS THAT ARE

2:42:34 SORT OF HIGH SCHOOLS THAT SORT

2:42:35 OF HIGH PROPORTION OF BLACK AND

2:42:37 HISPANIC STUDENT HIGH

2:42:38 PROPORTIONS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

2:42:40 LEARNERS HAVE LESS TO USE THE A

2:42:42 BA FOR EXAMPLE I LOVE BA I

2:42:44 THINK AND CLARK STILL ON BUT

2:42:46 THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY HAS I

2:42:48 THINK 5% UM ENGLISH LANGUAGE

2:42:50 LEARNERS THAT HENNIGAN HAS LIKE

2:42:52 I THINK CLOSE TO 70%.

2:42:55 UM SO WHEN WE DID OUR WE DID UM

2:42:58 OUR 2021 QUEST REPORT ON

2:43:00 PRIVATE FUNDRAISING, I ASKED A

2:43:03 STUDENT, A FORMER STUDENT ERICA

2:43:04 LEE, TO DO A LINEAR REGRESSION

2:43:07 ANALYSIS.

2:43:08 UM, THE ANALYSIS REVEALED THAT

2:43:09 FOR EVERY 1% INCREASE IN BLACK

2:43:11 AND HISPANIC STUDENT ENROLLMENT

2:43:13 AT A BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL,

2:43:15 PRIVATE FUNDRAISING DECREASED

2:43:16 BY AN AVERAGE OF $35 PER

2:43:19 STUDENT.

2:43:19 IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEW YORK

2:43:21 CITY DATA AND AGAIN, GREAT THAT

2:43:23 WE HAVE THAT TRANSPARENCY.

2:43:25 UM, IT TELLS US A LOT OF THINGS

2:43:26 BUT IT DOESN'T SOLVE THE

2:43:28 PROBLEM.

2:43:28 SO IN THE NEW YORK CITY DATA,

2:43:30 UM, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN SEE

2:43:32 THAT DISTRICT TWO WHICH IS ON

2:43:33 THE UPPER EAST SIDE UM AND THEN

2:43:36 UM MIDTOWN WHICH IS ONE OF THE

2:43:37 WEALTHIEST AND WHITEST HAS ONLY

2:43:40 8.3% OF STUDENTS IN THAT

2:43:41 DISTRICT ARE BLACK.

2:43:42 THEY HAD AN IMBALANCE IN THEIR

2:43:45 UH ACCOUNT OF 15.5 MILLION

2:43:48 DISTRICT 23 IN BROOKLYN, WHICH

2:43:50 IS NEARLY 100% BLACK AND

2:43:51 HISPANIC, HAD ONLY $5,000

2:43:54 OVERALL.

2:43:55 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT DATA ON

2:43:56 THE NEW YORK CITY UM THING,

2:43:58 WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT THE TOP 30

2:44:00 SCHOOLS WHICH IN NEW YORK IS

2:44:01 ONLY 2.5% BECAUSE THEY'RE SO

2:44:03 BIG.

2:44:04 BUT THE TOP THREE SCHOOLS UM,

2:44:05 IN NEW YORK RAISED UH HALF

2:44:08 OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY

2:44:11 RAISED UM 309 90 SCHOOLS AS UM

2:44:16 COUNCILOR TRAGER EMPHASIZED HAD

2:44:17 NONE.

2:44:18 AND UM I WANT TO NOTE ALSO THAT

2:44:20 WHILE I APPRECIATE UM BEDFORD

2:44:24 THE WORK MAKING SURE UM PARENTS

2:44:27 HAVE ACCESS TO FUNDRAISING

2:44:28 TRAINING AND THINGS THAT'S NOT

2:44:30 ENOUGH.

2:44:30 SOME PARENT COMMUNITIES HAVE

2:44:32 THE SOCIAL CAPITAL TO ACCESS

2:44:34 EXTERNAL FUNDS AND SOME DON'T.

2:44:36 UM, FOR EXAMPLE YOUNG ACHIEVERS

2:44:38 WHERE MY KIDS WENT TO LAW AT A

2:44:40 LONG TIME HAS A FRIENDS

2:44:42 OF YOUNG ACHIEVERS BUT THEY

2:44:43 DIDN'T HAVE A LARGE STAFF LIKE

2:44:44 THE BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY

2:44:45 FOUNDATION.

2:44:46 THEY DIDN'T HOLD FUNDRAISERS AT

2:44:47 THE SEAPORT HOTEL.

2:44:48 WE DIDN'T HAVE FAMILIES OR

2:44:50 ACCESS TO WEALTHY DONORS WHO

2:44:51 WERE ABLE TO PAY TOP DOLLAR FOR

2:44:53 THOSE TICKETS.

2:44:55 SO HOW WE ADDRESS THESE CLEAR

2:44:57 AND RACIALIZED INEQUITIES IN

2:44:59 NOT ONLY FUNDS THEMSELVES, BUT

2:45:00 ACCESS TO FUNDRAISING IS FOR A

2:45:02 LONGER COMMUNITY CONVERSATION.

2:45:04 I'M VERY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE

2:45:07 AGREEMENT AND HAPPY ABOUT THE

2:45:08 AGREEMENT THAT WE THAT WE GET

2:45:10 THE DATA FIRST AND HAVE IT OUT

2:45:12 TRANSPARENTLY.

2:45:13 BUT THEN AS COUNCILOR MEJIA

2:45:15 SAID, WE NEED TO SEEK SOLUTIONS

2:45:17 AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THE

2:45:18 WORK WE CAN DO TOGETHER TO

2:45:19 TRANSPARENTLY BOTH SHARE AND

2:45:21 ULTIMATELY ADDRESS PRIVATE

2:45:22 FUNDRAISING DISPARITIES.

2:45:24 THANKS.

2:45:25 THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

2:45:26 JUST FOR THE RECORD, I DID LET

2:45:27 MARY GO ON A LITTLE LONGER.

2:45:29 SHE'S BEEN ON THIS.

2:45:30 QUEST MUCH LONGER THAN ANY

2:45:31 OF US HERE.

2:45:32 AND SO I WANTED TO HONOR YOU.

2:45:34 AND JUST HOW MUCH YOU'VE BEEN

2:45:36 DEDICATED TO THIS CONVERSATION.

2:45:37 SO THANK YOU.

2:45:38 UM, I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO

2:45:41 DOING THE GOOD WORK AND IT'S

2:45:43 IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET THESE

2:45:44 THINGS ON THE RECORD.

2:45:46 UM.

2:45:46 SO THAT.

2:45:47 WE CAN THEN FIGURE.

2:45:48 OUT WHERE DO.

2:45:48 WE.

2:45:49 GO FROM HERE.

2:45:49 AND YOU GUYS ALREADY.

2:45:50 WALKED INTO THIS WITH A VERY.

2:45:51 CLEAR.

2:45:52 MANDATE.

2:45:53 AND SO WE.

2:45:53 ARE.

2:45:54 LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING IN

2:45:55 PARTNERSHIP WITH YOU ALL TO DO

2:45:56 JUST THAT.

2:45:57 UM.

2:45:58 SO I AM GOING TO.

2:46:00 CLOSE THE HEARING.

2:46:01 I BELIEVE WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE

2:46:02 ELSE SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC

2:46:03 TESTIMONY.

2:46:04 NOPE.

2:46:05 WE'RE ALL SET.

2:46:06 A GREAT.

2:46:07 SO I WANTED TO.

2:46:09 UH JUST THANK UH AGAIN THE

2:46:12 PANELISTS.

2:46:12 AND EVERYONE FOR SHOWING UP THE

2:46:14 WAY THAT YOU DID ESPECIALLY.

2:46:16 UM WITH IT'S I KNEW IT WAS

2:46:18 GOING TO BE A SENSITIVE TOPIC.

2:46:19 THIS IS NOT A TOPIC THAT

2:46:20 MOST PEOPLE WANT TO TALK.

2:46:21 ABOUT.

2:46:22 BUT I'M GLAD THAT MY

2:46:23 COLLEAGUES SHOWED UP TO DO JUST

2:46:24 THAT.

2:46:25 SO I WANT ALSO THANK MY

2:46:26 COLLEAGUES TO THE WHO SHOWED UP

2:46:28 AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

2:46:29 THEIR PARTNERSHIP SO THAT WE

2:46:30 CAN GET TO WORK.

2:46:32 SO I WANTED TO.

2:46:34 JUST NOTE THAT.

2:46:34 FOR THE RECORD, THIS.

2:46:35 HEARING ON DOCKET 0406 HAS BEEN

2:46:38 ADJOURNED.

2:46:40 THANK YOU EVERYONE.

2:46:41 HAVE A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT.

2:46:41 BYE.