Raul Fernandez Calls For Education Equity In Brookline And Beyond

BROOKLINE, MA — Subsequent a neighborhood discussion covering education and learning policy on Thursday night, Brookline Pick out Board Vice-Chair and current Point out Representative applicant Raul Fernandez issued a assertion calling for education and learning equity in the town and throughout Massachusetts.

Fernandez was joined Thursday by Brookline Significant University social worker Paul Epstein, Brookline High College METCO coordinator Malcolm Cawthorne, Brookline Significant College university student and training equity researcher Azavia Barsky-Elnour, and Citizens for General public Faculties Govt Director Lisa Guisbond.

“As a lecturer at BU and as an appointed member to DESE’s Racial Imbalance Advisory Council, I’ve witnessed how instructional option gaps establish the course of our students’ lives.” Fernandez stated. “Thursday’s conversation laid those inequities bare. When our accomplishment gaps are growing each 12 months, when our students of coloration have in no way had a trainer that appears to be like them, when we have racist graffiti and anti-Semitic iconography in our schools — we know it’s past time to consider aggressive motion to provide genuine training justice.”

“I am grateful to my co-panelists for their candor and knowledge, and I’m energized to integrate their feed-back into my education platform,” he continued.

Fernandez’s coverage conversation arrived as Brookline Large University grapples with a sequence of racist graffiti and anti-Semitic iconography on college home.

“The dislike we are observing throughout the condition and in Town is very concerning,” Fernandez explained. “I’ve devoted my occupation to diversity and inclusion in training, and as a Condition Rep, I am going to fight to eradicate this detest and supply product sources to our college students of shade.”

A lecturer in Boston University’s Wheelock School of Education and learning and Human Advancement, Fernandez’s scholarship has centered on the importance of variety and equity in schooling.

“As a pupil, I want almost nothing additional than to focus on only college and close friends, but pretty couple of moments has that been an choice for me,” Barsky-Elnour mentioned all through Thursday’s discussion. “As a black female, I have been proven that I can not glimpse the other way and anticipate adjust to take place.”

“With Raul and his campaign, I have felt support and dedication to bettering the globe all-around us in a way I seldom have ahead of,” she ongoing. “His motivation and authentic fascination in finding answers that function and mean one thing to the folks they are meant to serve is refreshing and comforting. As people of coloration, we are instructed to take the bare least, but Raul claims no. He calls for far better. I am impressed by his kindness and dedication each and every working day, and I appear ahead to looking at and discovering from how he will challenge the standing quo in this campaign, in the Statehouse, and past.”