Superintendent Skipper and members of our school community. My name is Darlene Marano and I'm the proud head of school at the Dearborn STEM Academy. Welcome to DSA everyone. This is not only a special moment for
BPS, but it's also for the Dearborn as well, as we'll find out more later. But it is truly a tremendous day. I first want to start by introducing two of DSA's shining star seniors, Jmani
Stucky and Melanie Herrera. Please come to the stage. Jani first. >> Hello and good morning DSA. My name is Jmani. Um I'm currently here a senior here at Dearborn. And today I've been selected to come up here and share some
words with you all. When I first came here to Dearborn, I was unsure, unsure of the classes, unsure of my community, and unsure of how the years ahead would turn out to be, how I would turn out to be. But as time flew by, I was surrounded by people who are supportive, kind, and the kind of people who make
you want to keep going. That's what Dearborn STEM Academy is all about. Pushing pushing our peers to strive and become the best versions of of themselves. Dearborn does that by opening so many doors from early college classes, sports, internships, clubs, and trips to places like Atlanta, Georgia
for academic exposure. I have participated in most and have come to find opportunities in every category. My message to the upcoming Deb Wolverines is to never stop applying yourself and you will achieve all your goals. Thank you for your time. >> Okay, good morning everyone. My name is
Melanie and I'm a senior and full-time early college student here at Dearborn STEM Academy. I joined DSA during my sophomore year after previously attending a different school. I was in search of better opportunities in a diverse environment which I was quickly able to find here. Throughout my time at
DSA, I've been exposed to challenging and advanced curriculums which have given me the opportunity to to grow both as a student and as a person. The educators and staff in this building make the journey a little bit easier by caring about their craft and building connections with students. I always say
that a student is truly excited to learn when a great teacher is leading the class and I have had nothing but great teachers in the school. But the best opportunity I have ever had was early college. I along with other students across many grade levels get to see firsthand what a college course looks
like before actually graduating high school. It gives us the opportunity to explore our academic interests and obtain some college credits while doing so. I knew this program would be impactful when I took my first college course. It was an intro to marketing
class and after about a week or so, I sparked an interest in business. Since then, I have enrolled in classes that will help me get ahead in that field and help me explore the major more in depth. I have to say I don't think I would have been as prepared for college as I am now if it weren't for the early college
program. And I would like to recognize and say thank you to all of the people that made that possible. Dearborn isn't just a school. It's a stepping stone to greater future and a clearer path to where you want to be. It is a gateway of possibilities. Thank you all for coming
today and recognizing our school. Um, and now the Dearborn is excited to welcome Mayor Woo. Can we get another round of applause for our incredible student leaders? You both are amazing and um I am
inspired every day by a lot of parts of my job where I get to see the incredible things happening across Boston, but there's nothing like being uh in one of our schools in the morning and knowing that our future is in good hands because you all are are right there ready to go.
Um can everyone hear? Is it can you hear? Okay, it's okay. Okay, great. Um, I wanted to thank Miss Marano and all of the faculty and the staff here at the Dearborn STEM Academy. Thank you for all that you do every single day to make this one of the beacons of uh what we
look to for standards for academic um rigor, for community, and for student achievement. We know that um the the world today is kind of stressful in a lot of different ways, but we're celebrating some remarkable progress
here in Boston. And it's only possible because of our school communities and our students, teachers, and everyone coming together to refuse to settle for anything less than the best. Um I want to recognize some of the partners who are here with us as well. We have um uh
you'll hear in a little bit from uh our incredible superintendent of the Boston public schools, superintendent Mary Skipper. Thank you. Thank you for all that you do and for all her team at BPS to Marnell Rum Roman uh president and CEO of Ed investors, one of our most
important partners in the district. Thank you. Thank you to Michael O'Neal from the Boston Pick uh the public in a private industry council which thinks about the connections between the jobs that you all will be stepping into and our
education system and of course long longtime former Boston school committee member. Nice to see you. And to um some of our higher education and university partners who are here in the room as well. Uh, Phil Carver representing UMass Boston is in the
room. Uh, Tara Parker uh, the dean of college and human education and development. Laura Tavvaris, director of early college and community engagement at Franklin Cummings Institute, Aisha Cards from the Boston Opportunity Agenda. Um, thank
you, thank you, thank you to everyone who is here. And I also want to recognize our city team members, our chief of policy, uh, Kristen McWain, deputy chief, Tally Robbins, our senior adviser for youth and families, Rebecca Granger, and to everyone, uh, who has
made today possible. We're here to celebrate the Dearborn STEM Academy and to recognize it as a really important part as to why we got uh, some incredible news just recently. Last week, we heard officially from the
state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that last year, with all the numbers tallied up, Boston Public Schools class of 2025 hit the highest graduation rate ever recorded in Boston public schools history.
I want to give a huge congratulations to every single BPS student and graduate and their families and their community for this incredible achievement. Thank you for putting in the time and effort, investing in your future, pushing yourselves to reach your highest
potential. I know there are a lot of uh things you might be rather doing uh in those moments that you choose to spend late nights studying instead or helping each other prep for that chemistry test or making the final touches to your essays even when it wasn't easy. And now
nine months later, those graduates from the class of 2025 are already out there making their mark in Boston and around the country. wherever their paths have taken them, you will always have a piece of Boston in you and we will always claim you as part of our success in this
city and we hope you will come right back here and stay and keep contributing. I also want to say thank you to all of our amazing BPS educators and staff. Thank you for laying the foundation for everyone of our students and our schools for these academic
achievements. You show up for our students every day, encouraging them, challenging them, supporting them as they grow. Thank you. Our students are the future of our city and they're the present of our city as well. So, thank you to all of our students for showing up today and
every day to make sure that our future is as bright as yours. So, I'm um Jamani was telling me, is it all grades that are kind of represented here uh in in the audience or is it mostly seen? Okay, let me let's just go. How many seniors in the house today? No
seniors. Okay. Seniors over here. >> Over there. Um 11 11th grade juniors. Okay. Sophomores, freshman. Okay. Who What's everyone else here? >> Oh, eighth. Okay. Seventh grade. Eighth
grade. Okay. Got it. So, we really have the the full representation. Um, and it's amazing to see one class after another that baton and the the expectations and the standards that you've set really continue on because you've been building
a legacy for so many others to follow with you. Um, I want to share a little bit about why we believe this has happened, what's behind the numbers, the real people, the real investments, and the real hard work that has happened.
So Boston public schools graduation rate was 81.3% that highest rate in recorded history since the state began collecting all the numbers and publishing them in 2006. What that means is that overall 3,377
students graduated from BPS last year which was 400 more students than the previous year. We saw an increase in graduation rates across every single student demographic group with the biggest gains by multilingual learners who jumped up by five percentage points.
And it's no coincidence that alongside the highest ever graduation rate, we also saw one of the lowest dropout rates in BPS recorded history, the low the lowest one ever, except for the year that was all remote during the height of the pandemic.
I say every day around the city that our top priority is making Boston a home for everyone. And that has everything to do with our young people, our schools, school communities, and opportunities for families in Boston. That is a story behind these numbers. If Boston is going
to be a home for everyone, then Boston public schools must be a home for every student and their families. No student should be missing from our classrooms. And so one major effort that we take part in every year and that has grown year-over-year is uh right before school starts every
fall, Superintendent Skipper and I join volunteers from all over the city to go doortodoor visiting students and their families to welcome them back to school. We try to make sure that we understand and get that direct feedback right at the door of what has been going great,
what could we do better, and what could we do within our classrooms to make it more exciting for you to be in school. Often what we hear from students who have been feeling left out or whose attendance hasn't shown uh what
everything that they could do. Often what we hear is that they're struggling to see how school connects to their future or there's been a major challenge that has nothing to do with schools that is impacting their ability to show up and for their families to be safe or
healthy or have the housing and supports that they need. I hear all the time from our young people that they have so much to give, have their dreams and goals, and sometimes schools might not always feel
like it's directly connected to that. That's why, as we heard from Melody, um, and that what we do in the classroom matters. When we create opportunities for you to bank those credits, for you to figure out what you want to do with your lives, for you to spark that
interest and get a jump start and and um get ahead of what you need to do, that ends up setting the standard and inspiring every generation of students after you as well to reach for those opportunities. Schools are places where students should
feel seen and supported and know every day that what's happening in the classrooms and in their schools directly connects them to the best possible future that they are envisioning and that they're dreaming for. What we're really celebrating today is that our students are engaged and invested in
their education and that the opportunities that we're creating, the investments that we're making have directly made that possible. We've also been working to equip every single BPS high school with resources and opportunities that students need to feel inspired by the material, to connect
with the curriculum, to be pushed to meet and exceed the grade level expectations, and come to school ready to engage and apply those lessons in the larger world. Over the last few years, we've worked to make sure that all of our high schools offer college and
career pathway programming. We've increased AP course offerings across all of our high schools as well with new options for AP research, African-American studies, pre-calculus, and computer science, and redesigning professional development for AP teachers and AP course sequences so that more BPS
students enroll, take those exams, and earn college credits to save money later on. Here at the Dearborn, for example, every ninth grader takes AP biology because every student knows that they can succeed in advanced coursework. And I want to thank again all of our incredible team members for making that
possible. We've also launched new early college and dual enrollment programs supporting BPS students to enroll in college level courses and everything from computer science and biotech to health sciences, entrepreneurship and business management
in partnership with our amazing teams at Bunker Hill Community College, Franklin Cummings Tech, Roxbury Community College, UMass Boston and Wentworth Institute of Technology. Today, the number of BPS students taking early college courses is more than five times
more than what it was four years ago. We've also expanded career exploration and counseling through my cap, allowing every student starting in sixth grade to begin to chart out their post-secary future. And alongside the Boston Pick and employers across the city, we
launched Future Boss, which is initiative to guarantee a paid summer job to every BPS student who wants one. These investments in public education have been a priority for our administration because the numbers and the data and also what we hear from our
students clearly reflects that students who participate in college and career pathways are more likely to graduate and more likely to pursue post-secary learning. When students feel challenged, they stay engaged. We didn't get here by lowering any expectations for students
who might be uh experiencing challenges or moving the goalposts and making it easier for people to get by. Instead, we got here by ensuring that every single student in every single classroom is seeing grade level content and getting the support they need to thrive. That
baseline expectation of grade level learning gives our students the opportunity to do incredible things and the confidence to know that even if it feels challenging, they have what they need to succeed on whatever pathway they choose. Later this week, we'll be
hosting a round table with BPS students who have been doing exceptionally well in AP courses and talking to some of the teachers who have supported that progress as well to understand what more we can do and also what's been working well. All of this is possible because of the decommmit of our educators like Miss
Marano and her incredible team here as well as leadership from our superintendent who's also a former high school principal who knows what it likes knows what it looks like when students come to school excited to learn. So, um once again, I'm so proud of the BPS
class of 2025. really excited for the class of 2026 um here in this room. And just a reminder um that you know graduation rates are numbers that we hear about a lot. They're really important. It's a good way to keep
ourselves on track and to know from year to year how we're doing. But it's not the end. When you think about graduation at Boston public schools, in some ways it's only the beginning of opportunities that we are working to make sure you can connect with all across the city and
beyond. It's the next step in this journey that you're on. And so we're really really excited that everything that we've been doing, all the investments, all the feedback from our students and schools and all of the programs that have been put in place seem to be really really delivering
results. Um, okay. before I pass it on to Superintendent Skipper espanol and then we will move to um discussing some of the the numbers behind the data behind the numbers um
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Boston. Thank you so much and I'll pass it on to Superintendent Mary Skipper. So, good morning everyone. Um, good morning. >> All right. So, today is just a great day. I'd like to start um Melanie and
Jani did a great job and you represented Dearbornne so wonderfully. So, big round of applause for them again. I'd also like to thank our mayor um because she really deserves so much credit. Uh she is a mayor that cares
about each of you. She is somebody that puts the resources and always asks what do our students need? And today and some of the results we're getting here at the Dearborn and throughout the district is because you have a mayor that loves you and cares about you and deserves a crazy
round of applause. So, you know, when we were thinking about where to celebrate the highest graduation rate um for BPS in its history and really the lowest dropout rate, it was a full percentage lower
than the past year of 0.9. Um we really, you know, I think we all concluded Dearbornne. And the reason is because when we think about what we want high school to be like, when you start in that seventh grade and you at 12th grade
get to graduate with early college, the Dearborn was one of the places that really jumped out and came to mind. Uh some of it is that you have an amazing leader in school leader Marano, but a lot of it is because of you as students
taking advantage of everything we're putting in place. And so when we think about what does it take to get the lowest dropout other than the remote year and the highest graduation rate in the BPS, it takes a lot of work from a lot of people. The first is the
re-engagement center. What the re-engagement center does is it helps to go out and helps to re-engage students who no longer see a reason to come to school, right? They just they're not buying into it. They either had their
grades were low, they had issues that they couldn't keep coming, they had to work, or they're taking care of a parent, lots of different reasons. But that means knocking on doors. It also means going into schools that have the highest dropout rate and sitting with
students like you and having those real conversations. And so I could not be more proud of the re-engagement cent's ability to be flexible, go into schools in addition to having everything a student needs when they're ready to
re-engage. And Manny Allen, who is the director there, led that work. So Mary Manny, can you stand? It also means we have to figure out who's dropping out. And so a big piece of this was realizing a lot of our multilingual learners were dropping out
special education students. And this is where our May is really important when she asked what we need for resource because we've been able to undertake a redesign of alternative ed for students who are off track and need and really want to get a diploma but they don't know how. And so we've done a lot of
work over the last three years redesigning alternative ed creating B East for multilingual learners who are older. the next program for students who are special education and need transitioning, but then also creating uh
community academy transition programs for students that might be homeless or need extra supports and social work. uh everything to creating within our high schools, especially our big ones, the way you can make up credits and Dearborn Academy has that as well, but the way
you can make up credits if you get off track and that work Carlo Carlos Diaz, who's our executive director, undertook in his leg. Carlos, can you stand? But you know getting students back that helps with dropout but what really
matters is what we feed you. So as a high school student why you come to a high school. Do you know that with early college four years ago there were only 180 students taking early college. There's more students three times in the
dearborn right now taking early college. We have over,00 students taking early college right now. Yeah. And you know why? Because because those of you that are juniors and seniors at
the Dearborn, the seniors over here and the juniors here, you actually set that bar. You actually showed other high school kids you can take early college and get those credits. And then career connections, which is like I can learn skills and get college. I can get career
uh credential and I can decide what I want to do as a career when I'm in high school. We started off we had maybe a thousand students four years ago, three years ago. We now have over 4,000 students who are doing career
connections and that's PIC. That's our private industry council. Uh and and that is also um a a big huge piece of our secondary office. If you are affiliated with that, can you stand right now?
>> Yeah. Pick. And it's also other things like APs. How many of you have taken an AP here? Raise your hand proud. If you've taken an AP, keep your hands up. How many of you have taken early college? Raise your hands. Early college.
Do you guys know that the combination of AP and early college, 97% of kids that do early college graduate high school and go on successfully into college and succeed. That's the threshold you guys
are demonstrating you can do and setting a benchmark for every single kid in the Boston public schools. That's happening right here with your principal, with your seniors in Dearborn. When we think about um BPS and going
forward, what we really want is one out of four students right now is deeply involved in career connections at early college. Do you think one's enough? >> What should it be? >> Four vorts 100%. Right. 100%. That is
what our mayor wants and is committing resource to. That's what the BPS wants and I want. But we have to look for models for that to happen. And part of those models lie here in the Dearborn and some of our other awesome high schools for students to look at as
seventh graders and say that's where I want to go. That's the power of the Dearborn and what you guys have done as a community and it hasn't always been easy. Mr. McConnell will turn talk about that journey has not been easy for the
Dearborn but you have been able to get that to happen and to succeed. I'd like to just finish. Um, by the way, we are holding lunch for you because I know you guys had um second lunch. Yeah, I know. I know. I know. I know. I'm a a
high school principal at heart. Um, but I I do just want to finish by saying there's there's just a lot of statistics that are moving so positively in the BPS right now. Our access scores, our multilingual learners, fantastic off the chart earlier in the year. We're going
to see more and more of that. But I never want us to lose what the statistics are about because what they're about is sitting in front of me. And that is each of our students who are full of promise. Who are the next
generation of leaders in this city, a future mayor, future superintendent, future reporter, future teacher, social worker. That's you. And the reason we do the work every day we do is because we
believe in you. So congratulations to Dearborn. Congratulations to BPS. Great day. And now my distinct pleasure to give you one of our outstanding principles, Darlene McGo. >> I have a different pair of glasses this
time. Good morning again. Um, it is an honor to stand before you and celebrate the incredible progress of our school community. As a Title One school serving students in grades 7 through 12, our
mission has always been clear to ensure that every student, regardless of background, has access to high quality education and the opportunity to succeed. Today I am proud to share that our collective efforts are paying off. Our
DESIE accountability percentile has risen 14 points since 2022 and we have made substantial progress towards our improvement targets as a school community. We are also seeing meaningful gains across multiple areas on the MCCAST
assessment, including middle school ELA achievement, middle school science, and that's all reflecting on significant growth in student performance and progress towards grade level standards. Our high school dropout rate has improved, showing a strong reduction
year after year. and our English language proficiency has remained strong, highlighting our continued success in supporting multilingual learners. We have also made major strides in student engagement, improving chronic absenteeism, a testament to the
power of partnership with families. Lastly, thank you in part to our partnership with BPE, Boston Plan for Excellence. Nearly onethird, as we talked about before, onethird of our 10th through 12th grade students participate in early college, achieving
a 93% success rate and saving our families more than $1.3 million in tuitions and fee since 2022. Through high quality internships, realworld learning experiences, and long-term support like Dearborn Next, we
ensure that our students graduate not only with college college ready, but also supported well beyond high school. But these improvements did not happen by chance. They are the result of intentional BPS supported and focused
work. We implemented highquality instructional materials and strengthened virtual I'm sorry vertical alignment so that teaching and learning are coherent and rigorous across grade level. Our attendance team has conducted strategic
outreach and family workshops to raise awareness about chronic absenteeism and build stronger school home connections. We have expanded our investment in our student support staff to better meet the academic and social emotional needs of our students. And we have prioritized
equitable grading so that our students have multiple opportunities to demonstrate proficiency and truly show what they've learned. Most importantly, these accomplishments belong to all of you, our students, our
families, our ed our dedicated educators who I have to stop and say I adore and who show up and who show up every day committed to growth and to excellence. While we are
proud of how far we've come, we remain focused on the work ahead. This new data is both encouraging and invigorating to keep advancing our academic outcomes for students. And it also shows us the power of good practice and how it will
continue to help shape the roadmap to further the work that we do because it is the work that will continue to strengthen our students lives and there thereby strengthen the future of all students in the city of Boston.
Together, we will continue building a strong school community where every student is supported, challenged, and empowered to thrive. Thank you. And I believe I'm now turning it over to
our partners. >> Thank you, head of school, Marano. Um, as I as I said earlier when I came in, huge congratulations to you and your team and the students in this building for the progress you've made at Vesters. I'm Marinel Ruminer from Advesters and
one of the things we look at uh is some of the most improving schools in the city and uh the Dearborn definitely jumped off the page this year and so um that is a collective huge effort and so congratulations to you all. Um, I'm here to talk a little bit about collective
effort. Uh, as the mayor so kindly said, ADB serves as a partner to schools, uh, to the district, to nonprofits, higher education institutions, and philanthropy in an effort to move the needle on, um, key issue areas in the city so that the
students in Boston can graduate uh, fully prepared to shape a future that you define for yourselves. And so, um, that that role, uh, allows us to serve as a catalyst for systems change in Boston, creating pathways from classroom to career, uh, improving access to arts
education, uh, teaching and learning and math, focusing on racial equity efforts in schools, and as I said, shining a light on, uh, what's working in our schools. And so I just want to spend a minute highlighting two areas of key partnership uh today and that is uh arts
education and the pathways work that that we've heard a lot about this morning. Um through pathways work we have been doing here in Boston that is known as new skills Boston um the BPS has focused as you've heard already on increasing
access to quality college and career pathways. The number of students benefiting from these pathways has more than doubled over the past five years. And that includes early college innovation career pathways and career and technical education. And what
motivates that is really making learning more engaging and relevant and providing supports for students to make the most informed decisions that they can about their futures. So Jamani and Melanie, you're going about to see some of the people who are spending every day um
really thinking about how to make those opportunities happen. U one data point that has fueled that work uh that the superintendent pointed to is the graduation rate of students in college and career pathways last year that was 93% of students in pathways graduated
and that was about 15 points higher than the than the whole. Um, and so that just shows that that level of engagement through career connected learning, through having internships, taking advanced courses at colleges, uh, and through AP is is making a difference.
Um, as the superintendent often says, uh, it takes a village and I want to acknowledge some of that village. Uh, the commitment of the partners in the new skills efforts, starting with the Boston public schools and, uh, especially the office of college, career, and life readiness. I see Brett
Dickens and Marcia Inennis Mitchell who have been uh core partners along with um many others in in really waking up every day and thinking about how to make that happen. Um our partners at UMass Boston, uh Bunker Hill Community College, uh the Boston Private Industry Council, I
think, uh Michael O'Neal will be a closer here today. Um and the Massachusetts Office of Executive Education and the Mayor's Office of Workforce Development come together every other week and work every day. uh to make those efforts possible. Um they
have been the core partners of New Skills Boston over the past six years. They are not alone. Uh the Boston opportunity agenda is is a core partner uh really focused on success in post-secary for students. Uh Franklin Cummings Tech uh does amazing work here
and and in uh with other schools and communities. And uh I know one of my favorites I want to give a shout out to Apprentice Learning. any of my middle grades folks involved in apprentice learning. They do some amazing uh uh work to help younger students have
access to uh learning about careers. This work has incredible outcomes around student engagement and um we're just excited to continue that work. Advestus has also been facilitating a partnership known as BPS arts expansion um to
increase access to quality arts education during the school day for 17 years. So longer than some of you have been alive. Um we know that arts are an essential part of a quality education and they also have a key uh role in
impacting student engagement and school climate. And so when I got the call to come today and said the the mayor and superintendent, why don't you talk about the arts? I was like, "Sign me up." Because uh it's such an important piece of the work. It's often less seen than some of the other pieces of our work,
but that having um having every student have the opportunity to express themselves and learn perhaps about things that could be really engaging to their professional and personal lives uh is is key. We know that it makes a difference. And that
prioritization that the BPS has done over time, but really notably under the mayor and superintendent's leadership, uh has very clear results. Um la last year uh more there's been actually a 27 percentage point increase in students
who are completing their mass core requirement in the arts. And that's because u the district has focused on it, the partners have focused on it, and we want to make sure that that quality experience h happens for everyone. Um, this again is made possible by the BPS
more than doubling the number of arts teachers and schools making decisions about their budgets to make that possible and an incredible array of partners who comes in every day to bring cultural relevance and different disciplines and real energy and vibrancy
to our schools. So we celebrate accomplishments as a marker of the work and uh and also to be fuel for the journey. So I'm excited that today represents a moment to thank all the people who have uh worked so hard to make these numbers
possible and to put one step forward tomorrow to to keep on doing better. So thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor Ranell, and thank you to all the speakers today. Just real quick, Michael O'Neal, executive director of the private industry council. Uh we work, we have the career
specialists in all the Boston public schools that work to help find you jobs, right? And whether it's during the summer jobs and we work with the city on that. The mayor has made a pledge that every Boston public school student will have a summer job. and the pick works with her entire team for both uh jobs in
the private sector. So if you are a private sector employer in the city of Boston, we would love to work with you to provide jobs for these great young people that we see in front of us. It is a key piece of how they learn of how you learn. Right? So you have I'll tell you
a very quick story. uh a young lady of a graduate of East Boston High and and I'm not sharing anything that is that she hadn't shared publicly. Uh but she said she was dyslexic and she was having trouble learning in school and she was
um diagnosed dyslexic, got an IEP, ended up in a full inclusion classroom and she said, "I started to learn. I started to feel comfortable." And then she was in the career pathways, the criminal justice career pathways at East Boston High. And she said, "I get intrigued by this class, criminal justice. What's
this all about?" Then through the pick, she got a summer job at a district court. And not only did she become more interested in criminal justice, but she became interested in criminal justice reform because she saw the need for reform in that space. And then she ended
up in a dual enrollment program at Bunky Hill Community College. And she said, "For the first time I saw myself in a college setting, as many of you we saw, how many hands went up about college pathways, right? You saw yourself or dual enrollment. You saw yourself in a classroom and in college classroom and
said, "I can do this work." And finally, she graduated. She's now at um Salem State studying criminal justice reform, the criminal justice. She wants to go on to Suffach to be a lawyer. and she wants to be not just a lawyer focused on criminal justice, but she has set her
career goal to be the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Right? And I tell this story for a particular reason, the work the superintendent led by the mayor has done. She was involved in full inclusion. She was involved in a pathways program. She got a summer job
that tied to an area of interest that she had and then she was in dual enrollment. We may think of these as four separate areas. In fact, it's all working together and when we work together, we actually impact these students and help them change their
lives. And so that's why as Marinel has been leading so much of the work, the new skills Boston work, etc. getting the partners to work together along with the district offices realizing how much of an impact we're making in your lives in the future. And that all keeps you in
school, keeps you engaged, and hopefully you move on to great success. And as the mayor said and the superintendent said, come back, give to the Boston public schools, engage in the Boston public schools, and continue making this a great city for all of us. So, thank you everybody. Thank you, mayor, for your
leadership in particular in this. >> Oh, okay. Welcome. Um, that is the conclusion of our programming today. Thank you all for coming. Students, we're going to make sure that you get lunch. So, please go down to the lunchroom. Again, thank you
all very much.