Brockton Public School parents angry over deficit
The mayor said he first learned of a $14.4 million deficit in last year's budget nearly a month ago, What else we learned at the school board meeting.
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The mayor said he first learned of a $14.4 million deficit in last year's budget nearly a month ago, What else we learned at the school board meeting.
"The people who are designing the menus do not represent our cultures," said Brisa Oliveira Sousa, a seventh grader at Edgar B. Davis K-8 School.
Brockton has large Haitian and Cape Verdean communities but the only option in the cafeteria is low quality American food, Michaela Lauture said.
"If we're not doing the job well, if we're not doing it right, we need to hear that," said BPS Deputy Superintendent Sharon Wolder.
BROCKTON — "Beware of the woke church" was the warning Pastor Manny Daphnis remembers from a congregant of a different church, as he recalled the beginning of the Restoration Community Action Ministry. The idea of his church being lumped in with other justice movements and bringing in people with different agendas may have bothered that churchgoer , but not Daphnis. In a city with a public school system experiencing a widening achievement gap, a homeless population hit hard by COVID and a global pandemic that has taken the lives of residents young and old, there are "agents of restora...