Hello freedom fighter,

The Student Immigrant Movement (SIM) , Unafraid Educators and the community have been watching the moves of BPS through the #NoICEinBPS #LearnWithout Fear Campaign. For months, the community has demanded a strong policy to be put in place to protect students and families. Right now, BPS is ignoring this demand and is not standing for the protection of all students like they say they do. Here's why.

After 2 years of questioning BPS about their practices, and months of collaboration, they have begun attempting to move forward without us--the community. They've attempted to create faux community support for their policy putting other stakeholders in direct juxtaposition with our policy. BPS continues to refuse taking a strong stance against the BPD on their jurisdiction of school disciplinary matters. Our policy consists of four main pillars:

• Clear Criteria: Define clear guidelines for what qualifies as a legitimate use of an incident report. Records of routine school disciplinary matters should NOT end up in the hands of an ICE agent.

• Transparency and Communication: Inform students and families BEFORE their information is shared with the BPD.

• Oversight: Require oversight at the school, district, and community level.

• Accountability and Training: Train all Boston School Police and school administrators on these new protocols.

BPS has only incorporated training into their policy proposal.They intend on introducing their weak policy to the school committee, April 15 at 6p.m.

Will you submit your testimony to the Boston School Committee to demand that BPS adopt ALL four pillars to have a strong policy to protect all students and their families?

For more information please visit our campaign page:  #NoICEinBPS #LearnWithout Fear Campaign

*** Testimonies may be submitted anonymously.

*** Any questions or concerns please email Sabrina - sabrina@simforus.com