Deanna Pan

RT @BostonGlobe: Hundreds of Massachusetts parents of students with special needs have been forced to sign nondisclosure agreements in orde…

RT @Dale_Chu: The project of standards-based reform has been on the ropes for some time now, but Massachusetts’ about-face on state testing…

RT @mandy_mclaren: “This feels like an end of an era,” @MichaelPetrilli said. “Massachusetts had a good run there for a couple of decades..…

RT @mandy_mclaren: MCAS results 2024: How Massachusetts towns voted on Question 2 https://t.co/TPdlEVD2fz via @BostonGlobe

RT @mandy_mclaren: NEW: Not great news out of Massachusetts... 2024 MCAS scores show students falling further behind post-pandemic https:/…

Garden-variety incompetence — not fraud or theft — fueled Brockton Public Schools’ multimillion-dollar shortfall in fiscal year 2023, according to a comprehensive, independent investigation: https://t.co/ruFpY27HHY

Brockton schools finance officer files whistle-blower complaint over budget fiasco: https://t.co/YEX3tNEglI

‘I feel really lucky’: Pushed out of Everett, Priya Tahiliani takes helm of troubled Brockton schools: https://t.co/5e9wuqzUPJ

RT @LCRBOSTON: Lawyers for Civil Rights (@LCRBOSTON) & Massachusetts Advocates for Children (@MassAdvocates) allege #Saugus illegally block…

RT @mandy_mclaren: Wowwwww @DDpan! Check out this graphic novel, written by Deanna and illustrated by The Gutter Studios @BU_Tweets: https…

RT @Antonio_Caban: The first is from @DDpan of @BostonGlobe, with a historical lens on the impact of busing and on Latinos and the importan…

“The vast majority [of English learners] are not getting the kind of services that they should,” said Alan Rom, a civil rights and labor attorney, who has represented Latino parents in BPS over the years in their fight for equal education.

Deanna 小美 Pan @DDpan

But just 7% of English learners in BPS are enrolled in dual-language programs and schools, which research shows is the gold standard of bilingual education, improving not only students’ academic outcomes, but their English and native language literacy.

But just 7% of English learners in BPS are enrolled in dual-language programs and schools, which research shows is the gold standard of bilingual education, improving not only students’ academic outcomes, but their English and native language literacy.

Deanna 小美 Pan @DDpan

Students learning English in Boston, who represent ~1/3 of the district’s population, lag even further behind. Last year, less than 1/2 of the district’s elementary-age multilingual students and 13% of multilingual high schoolers made progress learning English, per state data. https://t.co/yH0ec9loqv

Students learning English in Boston, who represent ~1/3 of the district’s population, lag even further behind. Last year, less than 1/2 of the district’s elementary-age multilingual students and 13% of multilingual high schoolers made progress learning English, per state data. https://t.co/yH0ec9loqv

Deanna 小美 Pan @DDpan

Today, Latinos make up close to half of the district’s students and ~40% of them are classified as English learners. Their graduation rate in 2023 — 77% — was 10 percentage points lower than that of their white peers. They also had the highest dropout rate last year at 11%.

RT @SchlFinance101: @DDpan And these days, they are concentrated in the state's least well funded districts. https://t.co/NWXrNbAGO2

Today, Latinos make up close to half of the district’s students and ~40% of them are classified as English learners. Their graduation rate in 2023 — 77% — was 10 percentage points lower than that of their white peers. They also had the highest dropout rate last year at 11%.

Deanna 小美 Pan @DDpan

For the 50th anniversary of desegregation in Boston Public Schools, I wrote about Latino students, who were an afterthought in Judge Garrity’s order and are still fighting for an equal education today: https://t.co/m9h2aiXh6x