Citizens for Public Schools

08/24/2026

08/20/2026

In loving memory of our former co-president, Ruth Rodriguez, the fiercest and most passionate fighter for education justice.

08/12/2026

"Black student enrollment at Boston Latin School has more than doubled in the five years since an overhaul of the admissions process sought to increase diversity and make the prestigious exam school more broadly reflect the city it serves."

In the most recent academic year, Black students made up nearly 16 percent of enrollment, bringing the school’s demographics more closely in line with Boston.

08/03/2026

Happy belated birthday to James Baldwin! His 1963 "A talk to teachers" feels as essential as it must have when he delivered it 63 years ago. "[If I were a teacher in a negro school, I would teach them] that there are currently very few standards in this country which are worth a man’s respect. That it is up to him to change these standards for the sake of the life and the health of the country. I would suggest to him that the popular culture — as represented, for example, on television and in comic books and in movies — is based on fantasies created by very ill people, and he must be aware that these are fantasies that have nothing to do with reality. I would teach him that the press he reads is not as free as it says it is — and that he can do something about that, too. I would try to make him know that just as American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it, so is the world larger, more daring, more beautiful and more terrible, but principally larger — and that it belongs to him. I would teach him that he doesn’t have to be bound by the expediencies of any given administration, any given policy, any given morality; that he has the right and the necessity to examine everything."

Article. By James Baldwin. October 16, 1963. Baldwin addresses the challenges of education to prepare children to grapple with the myths and realities of U.S. history.

07/31/2026

07/23/2026

Join us on Friday and/or Saturday during a 24-hour vigil at the Statehouse to honor the lives of those who have been killed, support communities impacted by immigration enforcement, and affirm our collective power to grieve, organize, and demand justice.

https://actionnetwork.org/events/honor-the-dead-fight-for-the-living?source=direct_link&