In a recent Boston Globe opinion piece, educator and former Boston School Committee member Brandon Cardet-Hernandez confronts a hard truth: only 31 percent of Boston third-graders met expectations in English and math on last spring’s state assessment — even as the district’s proposed budget reaches $1.71 billion.
His call is direct: stop managing decline, start investing in what matters. Teachers, instructional materials, transparency, and grade-level learning must take priority over central bureaucracy and institutional mythology.
Public education is a city’s greatest common project. Boston must act like it.
