Join us as we explore the critical issue of aligning supports and services for young children, drawing on successful models from Greater Boston, and around the country.
Please join the Boston Foundation, SkillWorks, JVS, Resilient Coders and JP Morgan as we highlight the release of a new series of essays on the next generation of workforce development, and a discussion of new initiatives to accelerate change in policy around workforce training.
Boston Indicators and the Boston Foundation Health and Wellness program strategy partner with PhilanthropyMA and RIZE Massachusetts for a briefing and conversation on the state's opioid crisis, what is being done to address it, and how private philanthropy can help. The event featured presentations on the scope and cost of the opioid crisis from Boston Indicators and the Mass. Taxpayers Foundation, followed by panels with experts and front-line medical staff.
A new study from the Boston Opportunity Agenda provides insight into the trends in high school that impact post-secondary success. Dr. Robert Balfanz of Johns Hopkins University provided key findings of the report, which focuses on Boston students. BPS Interim Superintendent Laura Perille used the Bolling Building event as an opportunity to unveil six new task forces established to help shape and improve the high school experience in Boston.
A new report examines trends in BPS student achievement over time relative to other large urban school districts, and examines the policies that have shaped the city's success in student achievement.
A new report finding that Boston trails some of its peer cities and the state as a whole in science achievement on the MCAS fostered a robust discussion on how the city of Boston, its schools and its business community could do a better job bringing science into the elementary and middle school grades, and be more effective connecting students and potential STEM fields at the high school level.
In 2012, a new funding formula was devised to allocate the community college budget to the system's 15 schools based on enrollment, retention and positive student outcomes. This report explores the short-lived implementation of the funding formula, discusses its budgetary impacts and draws lessons that inform recommendations for future iterations of the formula.
Please join us for the presentation of a new Boston Indicators report on the challenges facing the upcoming United States Census in 2020. We will discuss Boston's return rate - one of the lowest in the nation - and the ways in which a low return rate can have a detrimental impact on federal funding and political representation in Massachusetts. We will also explore the role that nonprofit organizations can play in helping to ensure that every Bay Stater is counted.
Join us as we release the results of a survey of Lynch Leadership Academy graduates who now lead district, Commonwealth Charter and Catholic schools in Boston. The survey explored leaders' experiences with academic and professional staff development, recruitment and hiring, student support services, budgeting, and other services at their schools. It also investigated their views on whether and how these services can be delivered more effectively.
The Greater Boston economy has been strong, but are the benefits reaching everyone? New analysis from Boston Indicators finds that while many segments of Boston's population have reaped benefits, income inequality persists and higher costs for items like housing are driving the middle class from the city. Learn more by watching this forum, and reading the new report, "Boston Is Booming... But for Whom?"
At this forum, the Boston Foundation released "The Work of Leisure: Behind the Scenes of Massachusetts' Leisure, Hospitality and Tourism Industry" - the first such study in 27 years - which is a detailed report that reveals how ubiquitous this industry really is and how much influence it has. The forum included a presentation of the report and a panel discussion about the implications of its findings.
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