THE POLITICS OF THE APOLOGY

Mother to mayor: Your comment was hurtful

To reassure the public a statement was given
Only turns out it's not how we're livin'.

To explain the brazen attacks
Required the use of alternative facts.

In an attempt for political cover
Sacrificing the grief of a mother.

Sorrow may be expressed,
The sincerity to be guessed.

COME TO AN ANNUAL COMPETITION

THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING-LITE

REWRITING HISTORY LESSON

THE DAY THE EARTH WAS SCORCHED

The choking smell of exhaust
Has replaced the odor
Of award-winning vegetables
Growing on the asphalt.

The humming of the diesel engines
Drowned out the not
So silent protests destined
For ears unprepared to hear.

Days of salad off in the distance
As if history had not been remembered
And could be rewritten, resurrected
In order to stroke swollen egos.

WHAT IS THE EARTH WORTH?

 Salad days ahead for Ford School

This nice considering what they once had there (NOT)!

NO FORM FOR THE NEW NORM

When the mayor and others say that crime is like a stumbling block and say that this isn’t Lynn — as if we aren’t Lynn. This is where we live, this is our community. Those statements sounded like Lenny and his friend deserved what they got because they might have known these people.”
 
It's all in who you know
For respect some to show.

Says more about them than you
Cause respect for life no clue.

A position without shame
When the victim you choose to blame.

MAKE WAY FOR O'SHEA

Election fight looms in Lynn’s Ward 1

Now I usually don't like lawyers as a rule
But to ignore the obvious would make a fool.

Turns out there's a candidate in my ward
Against costs we cannot afford.

He asks questions that I have asked
On the costs we are tasked.

The answers may be at the state not the city
Still not to raise them would be a pity.

SCHOOLS WILL BE A KEY ISSUE IN THIS COUNCIL RACE

Election fight looms in Lynn’s Ward 1

BULLDOGS LOOKING FOR SOME BOUNCE

Anderson chosen as new English basketball coach

RELOCATION RHETORIC

TALK IS TOUGH, WALK NOT SO MUCH

We need more police on the streets, Ford says

  Same old line everybody says.

THE NEXT STEP FREE?

North Shore Community Promise: free tuition

NSCC will be the first community college in the Northeast to offer a self-funded free college program.

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A POLITICAL PARTY

JUN7

Campaign Kickoff

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• Wednesday, June 7 at 6 PM - 8 PM

• Show Map Rincon Macorisano 350 Washington St, Lynn, Massachusetts 01902

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NO TIME TO HIDE

 

Violent acts terrible but not random, mayor says

Calling the violence RANDOM to make me feel better only makes it worse

When it comes time for re-election this will  be your curse.

For danger that comes without prepare

Leads to constant need to beware.

Trying to shift the blame

Always brings more shame.

As long as responsibility you abdicate

The violence will only escalate.

FARMING THE FUTURE?

HORIZON HAPPENINGS

Reach out to your Senators and Congresspersons to Protect the Multiple programs that Support Community Schools

President Trump's proposed budget for FY 2018 eliminates or severely cuts many programs that support youth and families and community schools. We must stand together against these cuts.Take action here 

Of particular concern to us is the proposed elimination of the 21^st Century Community Learning Centers program, which at $1.1 billion provides core funding for after-school programs and community schools. The Full-Service Community Schools program at $10 million is also at-risk, as is Promise Neighborhoods and Title IV Part A, the new program in ESSA authorized at $1.6 billion that can be used to implement community schools.

Several other programs inside and outside the Department of Education are proposed for elimination, including:

• Title II-A ($2.1 billion) which provides professional development for educators
• Corporation for National Service that funds Americorps programs, a majority of which are located in schools ($1 billion)
• the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), which supports housing, community facilities, economic development, and social service projects, mainly for low- and moderate-income residents ($3 billion); and
• the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), which provides anti-poverty services through local non-profit and public agencies ($714 million).

 Taken together, these proposed cuts would be devastating for youth, families and communities who access these programs and supports and that are shown to be effective. We need to tell Congress that this budget is absolutely unacceptable. And we need to protect these programs for the remainder of FY 2017 with the vote Congress will take by April 28 on the final FY 2017 budget.

We are partnering with the Afterschool Alliance on their outreach platform. Take action here to call on Congress to maintain or increase funding for these programs to ensure our young people and their families and communities can continue to learn and thrive.

We encourage you to take a step further and take other actions to reinforce the message:

1)      Call your Senators and Congressperson and urge them not to cut these programs

2)      Join with other advocates for youth and families in your community and state and advocate to your members of Congress together

3)      Visit the district offices of your members of Congress to share this message in-person (or call them)

4)      To advocate more for 21^st Century Community Learning Centers, follow the Afterschool Alliance and share their messages

 

Thank you in advance for taking a stand for the youth and families in your community and for community schools.

Sincerely,

The Coalition for Community Schools Team at the Institute for Educational Leadership

 

 

Coalition for Community Schools  

4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 100  

Washington, DC 20008-2304  

 www.communityschools.org

THE ROOT

Shots fired
Yet no one heard.

When history has no ears
We repeat the absurd.

Curse the present, blame the fast
All  in an effort to get the last word.

CITY OF SIN WHERE TO BEGIN

 

 Treat the cause not the effect
Symptoms just manifestations of neglect.

The answers found at the root
Otherwise treatment is mute.

Fighting to find who to blame
When there's no shortage of shame

For history to share.

THE ART OF THE AUDIT

Cuts to public safety, easy to blame the Mayor
Finding the money, I know not where.

Everybody cries when their budget's cut
And blames others for waste and glut.

Truth is the problems been long term
Avoid the choices, avoid the squirm.

Sacrifice the cause to treat the effect
Remember that when time to elect.