“You won’t balance your budget on the back of my child!” “Do you know what Boston students’ lives are like? We need MORE social workers, not less!” “Bail out schools, not banks.” That’s what some of the thousands of parents and students said, as they angrily attacked school cutbacks in “budget hearings” called by Supt. Carol Johnson. Between 210 and 900 school jobs (out of 8,000 teacher and staff positions) will be cut; 110 “permanent” teachers and paraprofessionals, and 400 provisional teachers, will be cut.  Art, music, and language programs are to be closed; many math, English, science, and social studies teachers will be cut.

The capitalist government works for the rich against the working class. That’s why anything that workers have won, like public education, can be taken back.

Gov. Deval Patrick announced $165 million for schools in Mass. but $0 for the mainly black and Latino students of Boston! Teacher unions spent heavily for Patrick/Obama — but these politicians are the enemies of working people.

The Boston Teachers’ Union has called a mass rally for May 19 at 4 pm together with parents, teachers, and students to restore all school cutbacks. Now the job of PLP’ers is to build a massive rally; to talk to more parents, students and teachers about PLP; to sell more Challenges, and recruit members during this struggle.

Boston Comrade