News from BSF
In the past few difficult months, Boston Schools Fund (BSF) has remained committed to its mission: get resources to and lift the voices of those most proximate to schools.
As we conclude our fifth year of work and surpass our initial goal of adding 7,000 high-quality seats for Boston’s children, we are excited to deepen our partnership with Mission Grammar, helping the school add over 100 new children, from the age of 3 months to 6th grade.
We are also committing over $290,000 in resources to support our partner schools to reopen next year.
Before the pandemic, systems of inequity already shuttled Boston children toward disparate access: food and wellness, meaningful engagement between families and schools, high-quality academics, and social and emotional support.
COVID-19 only magnified and accelerated these inequities.
We were proud to support and highlight partner schools such as the PJ Kennedy and Boston Prep in their response to the urgent needs of children and families. Our schools still need support — not to respond to the present, but to plan for and adapt to an uncertain future.
Equity also demands this action. Over 11,000 children in our partner schools live in the areas of Boston hit hardest by COVID-19. Nearly 10,000 are Black or Latino children. Ensuring historically marginalized children and families have what they need and deserve in school — whatever it may look like in the coming months — will require significant commitments.
We hope this can be a start.
As this school year officially closes, our work — to advance equity in opportunity and access to high-quality schools in Boston — continues. We are grateful for our partnership with the educators, families, and children of the city, and look forward to launching a new phase in our shared work this fall.
Learn more about our work at bostonschoolsfund.org.
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