Platform | Eugenia

Education Priorities

[1] Relentless focus on closing the racial academic achievement gap.

Equity should be a tide that lifts all boats; not a reason to decrease standards.

[2] There's no improvement without feedback — so why doesn't CPS ask for any?

CPS must ask families, teachers, principals, nonprofit partners & students for their feedback regularly + publish it for all to see.

[3] Reading is the baseline. CPS must publicly commit to only teach the Science of Reading so every child is at grade level.

[4] No reason for CPS to fail to provide 8th grade Algebra and limit those who don't take summer courses.

[5] Support walking and biking to school; make the bus fleet all-electric.

[6] Use afterschool for much-needed extra academic + socio-emotional learning.

Top 3

Relentless focus on closing the racial achievement gap at a high academic level to set up every child for post-graduation success.
Ensuring every student is engaged in the classroom — struggling learners get support; advanced learners are challenged.
Radically increasing parent, student + teacher feedback — asking for input regularly and transparently sharing the issues that get raised. Today, CPS solicits almost no feedback — a huge missed opportunity to surface problems, find solutions, and build trust.

Academics

Given the uproar over widespread, harmful reading instruction, publicly embracing the science of reading + implementing it so every child reads at grade level by 3rd grade.
Upholding equity by enabling every child to succeed in Algebra in 8th grade, not 9th grade, as it is today - a delayed timeline that limits crucial learning. And changing the system so that advanced math is no longer reserved for just those who take summer programs/get outside help.
Ensuring each school and student has the staff support they need to achieve academic success and assure their wellbeing.

Each child gets the attention they deserve

Improving students’ wellbeing with regular check-ins for each student.
Letting families know when their child is behind in any subject + empowering them to find solutions — ex: being able to opt for tutoring or extra class time.
Streamlining communication to families — for a tight focus on the 2 issues that matter most: academic achievement + student wellbeing. Publicly tracking data to ensure all families — even non-English speakers + people without Internet access — know what's important.

Out-of-School = School

Creating a bridge between school and out-of-school programs so that, together, they support academic excellence, enrichment, socio-emotional learning and play, as well as the family wellbeing.
Given Cambridge’s housing crisis, prioritizing the issues affecting students whose families face being priced out of their homes, evicted, or becoming unhoused.

Climate Change + Transportation

Instead of timidly aiming for a 10% electric school bus fleet, CPS must contract for an all-electric fleet by 2030, as some of its larger peers are already doing.
CPS should also reduce its bus usage (while also saving money + boosting students’ health) by planning supervised walks and bike rides to school.

Closing the Achievement Gap

Listening to Families, Teachers, Nonprofit Partners, and Students

Strengthening Student Well-Being

Bridging the School-Afterschool Divide