Last updated: 11/15/24

A Green New Deal for Boston Public Schools

We’re reimagining our schools as full-service community hubs and engines of climate resilience.

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For every student and family to have access to the BPS High-Quality Student Experience close to home, we need school buildings that are safe, healthy, climate-resilient, inclusive, and inspiring. The Green New Deal for BPS is our commitment to shifting the physical footprint of our district to provide a high-quality student experience for all students by acting with urgency, transparency, and equity.

RELATED: Read Mayor Wu’s 2023 Executive Order requiring all new or renovated municipal buildings to be free of fossil fuels.

Community Engagement

We are engaging in community conversations to share the rubric data about our school buildings, understand patterns, and develop proposals for new investments, school closures, school mergers, and other shifts to support our collective vision of a High-Quality Student Experience.

Community Engagement Summary and Analysis

After completing the Long-Term Facilities Plan Workshops and the School Transition and Planning Survey, we synthesized the major themes and data points in a presentation that you can view here. We are currently building out our community engagement events for the 2024-2025 school year. Below you can find our engagement efforts from the 2023-2024 school year.

BPS LONG-TERM FACILITIES WORKSHOPS

Zoom Webinar: What’s in the Long-Term Facilities Plan?

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Community Workshops: Applying the Long-Term Facilities Plan

In the Spring of 2024, we held 4 workshops to engage the community in the Long-Term Facilities Plan and dove into the data for a selection of BPS schools.

SURVEY: School Transition and Planning

To implement the Long Term Facilities Plan, we asked you to share your thoughts on how to make school transitions a better and more supportive experience by completing our School Transition and Planning Survey. The survey was open from February 26, 2024 until March 15, 2024, and was available in the major BPS languages.

Learn more about the annual timeline and cycle of community engagement (pages 46-47, 72).

LONG-TERM FACILITIES PLAN

The BPS Long-Term Facilities Plan is a data-driven roadmap for shifting our physical footprint to support the High-Quality Student Experience with greater urgency, transparency, and equity. For the full length version of the Long-Term Facilities Plan, click this link. For translated versions of the Long-Term Facilities Plan, please click this link.

Download the BPS Long-Term Facilities Plan and explore the data at this link.

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LONG-TERM FACILITIES PLAN

Introduction (pages 4-11): This section includes a message from the Mayor, Superintendent, and School Committee Chair, the executive summary, and the demographics of the BPS community.

The High-Quality Student Experience (pages 12-21): This section details how community priorities shaped our definition of the High-Quality Student Experience.

Planning Framework (pages 22-34): This section includes our problem of practice, shares the BPS data story, and describes the Green New Deal for BPS approach to addressing our district’s biggest challenges with urgency.

Current and Planned Projects (pages 51-59): This section includes a summary of all current and planned projects.

A list of recently completed, current or planned infrastructure repairs and improvement projects in BPS facilities is on page 54.
For more information on current new builds, gut renovations, and major school reconfiguration projects visit this link.

EQUITY IMPACT STATEMENTS / RACIAL EQUITY PLANNING TOOL (REPT)

The Equity Impact Statement is a summary of the REPT, which is a holistic assessment of the equity impacts of a certain decision. The Equity Impact Statement is presented to the School Committee when a significant decision requires their approval.