Current and retired Belmont members support a fair contract for Melrose educators. The @meamelrosema is fighting for prep/collaboration time, a living wage for ESPs, and salary increase that keeps up with the cost of living.

The somervilleeducatorsunion settled a contract that starts education support professional (paraprofessional) pay at $35,000 per year. Paying ESPs above poverty levels can be done.

If an employer pays, at minimum, a living wage and treats people with dignity and respect they will get more applicants.

We stand in solidarity with Haverhill Education Association and Malden Edu. Assoc. as they strike for better working conditions for their members and better learning conditions for their students!

The Winter Hill Community Innovation School will be closed while structural engineers conduct a more thorough review of the building, after a piece of concrete fell onto a stairwell inside the school. masslive.com/news/2023/06/f…

Joined Winter Hill school kids, parents, and educators today as the PTA and somervilleeducatorsunion gathered to deliver urgent care and calls for immediate action. The WHCS was closed today due to a bldg failure- this time a chunk of concrete breaking off and falling in a stairwell.

No one was hurt, as the school was closed at the time. Classes were canceled today as structural engineers consider what to do. The future is uncertain. I was asked to provide this statement for people in the Spanish speaking community. Happy to do that.

Too bad it took this to get the attention that this school deserves to be fixed/rebuilt.

This is a huge deal—concrete is falling from the ceilings at the Winter Hill school and it's a miracle no kids were hurt. We need funding for renovations NOW, not in 2026 as Mayor Katjana Ballantyne would have it!

Thank you Counselor Scott for your solidarity today

Last night, the Somerville School Committee passed a uninamous resolution directing the Superintendent to keep the Winter Hill School community together during next School year & asking the mayor for necessary funds in our budget for a building & transportation for students.