On MPS/MFT Tentative Agreement Reached

I want to be hopeful today and through the weekend, that the demands and needs of MPS educators and support professionals, what all they’ve fought to secure for our kids, are being met in this tentative agreement. 

However, I feel we have a long game on our hands; If the union members do vote their hearts and minds, in agreement, to return to school on Monday, then it’s “settled.”

 I feel this effort must continue, in that case shifting completely to us; as parent/community stakeholders, to continue this fight in a couple of ways. Letting our educators and support staff continue to do what it is they do best; nurture our children’s minds in their schools and classrooms.

1) MPS administration and school board are an embarrassment, and behaved shamefully these three weeks. I believe they have shown us they don’t care for our kids. I don’t know how to flip a school board, but I would love to find ways to engage our PTO or other parent groups to •back• new candidates for the board, come November, who •will• fight with MPS parents for full public school funding.
(Letting our educators do what they do best, while we continue the good fight.)

2) In the meantime, to anyone able to keep this momentum (and narrative about our schools unmet needs) going there is an MPS Parent Legislative Action group. 

I know we are all tired and overburdened. And I don’t actually know how to do any of this, but will continue to support our public school system in the only ways I know how. Thank you for reading. 
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