Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening

Parents, teachers, health care providers, scientists, essential workers, and residents. Guided by science and data. SPS can re-open safely.

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

"I am still bewildered and horrified that our society walked away from this responsibility, that we called school inessential and left each family to fend for itself."

Thank you @MsAlmagor for your dedication to kids, & for articulating this so clearly.

https://t.co/LULwcINJjn

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

(3/3) According to data provided by @SvilleSchools in response to a SPESO member's FOIA request:
Rate of return to in-person learning in PK-8 by ethnicity:
- 88.6% of Not-Latinx (1,865 of 2,105)
- 85.0% of Latinx (1,148 of 1,351)

Raw data attached.

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

(1/3) A SPESO member made a FOIA request to obtain data on the rate of return to in-person learning at @SvilleSchools by race.
For PK-8, 87.2% of all @SvilleSchools students elected to return (3,013 of 3,456). Raw data and % return by race and ethnicity in the following posts.

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

(2/3) Rate of return to in-person learning in PK-8 by race (per data provided in response to the FOIA request):
- 81% of Asian students (258 of 317)
- 86% of Black students (431 of 499)
- 70% of Hawaiian students (14 of 20, small sample)
- 88.2% of White students (2,296 of 2,604)

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

"Plan A turns into Plan B; rinse and repeat. Parents, many of whom identify as liberals, are left befuddled and angry." @VilleJournal @AlMThompson

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[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

"In Brookline and Somerville in Massachusetts, for example, it’s been well-chronicled how the goal posts have continuously moved, vividly illustrating that the forces opposing school reopening are ideological, lacking a solutions-oriented agenda."

[TIME @TIME]

Paymon Rouhanifard: "Blue states are failing their students by not reopening schools. Here's how they got it so wrong" https://t.co/y8RLw6J0ZK

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

Months ago, I described "deep cleaning" as a distraction

This virus largely spreads through the air, not via surfaces

Do basic hand hygiene, absolutely

But focus on masks, ventilation and keeping air safe

I wish this guidance had come out earlier

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

LEGOland?

[Erich Ludwig @erichludwig]

The (been open for 4 months already) bars here in Somerville really missed an opportunity. First day of in person school for our cohort and where do the parents go to celebrate??!!

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

@therenniecenter @SvilleSchools Eager to see parent voices in future installments @therenniecenter!

[The Somerville Times @somervilletimes]

https://t.co/oZo1ZCJTAD
I Can’t Find My Somerville Pride

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

Thank you to SPESO members for continuing to demand accountability and accessibility, to the school committee for efforts to make this right, and to local press for continuing to pay attention!

@JuliaTaliesin @VilleJournal

https://t.co/V9WkU7s1LZ

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

@JoeCurtatone Us, too.

You can’t congratulate yourself on a pooled testing plan that then sat unused for months because you kept buildings closed.

https://t.co/kmWAKioTg6

[Somerville Media Center 🎤🎥🎙📺 @SCATV]

A thread from a parent viewing today's show. What say you, #SomervilleMA?

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

@giblet789 @j_g_allen 👀

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

.@dre4theville the packet containing the recommendations of the School Opening Advisory Group doesn't seem to be among the handouts made available to public attending tonight's meeting. Where can we find them? @LauraPitone1 @svilleskipper @svillecmazza @JoeCurtatone

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

.@RichRaiche presents.

[Somerville Parents 4 Equitable & Safe Opening @SomervilleSPESO]

Here we go with the School Opening Advisory Group Report Out from January, February and March. Recs are made to @svilleskipper and @JoeCurtatone, and are now public and in tonight's packet.