Our Revolution Cambridge School Committee Platform 2025 

At a time when public education is under multi-pronged assault by the Trump administration, Cambridge must actively defend and protect public education, students, and educators.

  • Support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 

  • Keep ICE out of our schools and away from our students and educators

  • Support labor rights

  • Keep control of curriculum in the hands of educators

  • Oppose efforts to defund and privatize schools

  • Protect special education services for students with disabilities

  • Protect and support LBGTQIA+ students and educators

While Cambridge has made progress on many education justice issues, it should

  • Enhance efforts to achieve an anti-racist district including more educators of color, inclusive historically accurate curriculum, expanded social and academic support, more restorative practices and other alternatives to exclusionary discipline

  • Prioritize meaningful engagement, collaborative decision-making and empowerment of all stakeholders at all levels of CPS, including the budget process.

  • Maintain and improve the controlled choice system in Cambridge, including: providing caregivers with sufficient information and the opportunity to express preferences, providing more resources to underselected schools, and developing policies for future school assignments to assure that each school is more representative of the diversity of the district. 

  • Support relationships and coalition building between educators, families and activists who are working to build the civic power of the city’s public education constituency. 

  • Honor and enforce the ‘Yes on 2’ ballot win which eliminated the MCAS graduation requirement. Rather than continuing to use MCAS, reject high stakes testing and support authentic forms of assessment that will help educators maximize every student’s potential at all grade levels. 

  • Expand wraparound services for students and families to help address systemic inequalities based on race, class, and all forms of oppression that originate and persist outside the classroom and remain barriers to learning.

  • Support the efforts of the Cambridge Education Association to meet the needs of students, return agency to educators, provide livable salaries, strong benefits, and optimal working conditions. 

  • Add a non-voting CEA member who is selected by the CEA to the School Committee.

  • Ensure education for the 21st Century by expanding experiential, inquiry-based learning and teaching life skills for postgraduate living and civic participation in a participatory democracy.   

  • Support establishment of universal afterschool.

  • Advocate for increased state funding for public schools