“This week I'm bringing you some extra facts about TRIO, the college connector programs that would get eliminated under President Trump's proposed budget<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=ae100a5240&e=16e844e593>, as my new colleague Marcela Rodrigues and I wrote about last week<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=f5b1967cf5&e=16e844e593> (and is linked in this newsletter).” From: The Boston Globe <newsletters@bostonglobe.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 3:01 PM To: Jean, Reggie <reggie@bu.edu> Subject: It started with a school 'timeout.' Then came the police. <https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=8cb690f4b5&e=16e844e593> <https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=dbc7a6213e&e=16e844e593> <https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=83c4898a4a&e=16e844e593> [https://mcusercontent.com/90f9e490a860897c7155feca1/images/c1302592-2597-5cb2-8bf6-22b2685f872a.png]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=605af80ece&e=16e844e593> Race, class, and opportunity in our schools By Melissa Barragán Taboada, Globe Staff<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=3ed8676576&e=16e844e593> Welcome back! Today, we report on the latest in the BPS bus crash that killed a 5-year-old, on how Trump's budget threatens key education funding streams, and on a mother's fight to keep her special needs student out of a school timeout space. A Beverly mother questioned why her son was placed in timeout 13 times. The school reported her to the state and police. [https://mcusercontent.com/90f9e490a860897c7155feca1/images/5cd69431-6869-e825-6e56-ef1d62b9ef3c.jpg]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=a9c663e895&e=16e844e593> Beverly mother Carlee Hanslik-Buruiana has alleged staff at Centerville Elementary School reported her to local police and the state's child welfare agency in retaliation after she raised concerns that her son was repeatedly placed in a timeout room. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff [https://mcusercontent.com/90f9e490a860897c7155feca1/images/f851bf7b-b701-1504-cbce-ca1ab229ea50.png]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=7b8e73e79f&e=16e844e593> John Hilliard Education Reporter 📧: john.hilliard@globe.com<mailto:john.hilliard@globe.com> The knock on the door didn’t come as a complete surprise to Beverly mom Carlee Hanslik-Buruiana. On the other side, two police officers said they were sent to check on her son, at the request of his principal. In the prior few weeks, she had clashed with the Centerville Elementary staff, who had placed her 7-year-old autistic son in a padded room 13 times in a three-week span in March and April, according to school timeout logs. Inside that room, which is clad in black padding and tucked between two classrooms, the boy kicked and punched the door, tore at the walls, and removed screws with his fingers, according to school records. Hanslik-Buruiana vehemently objected and emailed administrators to say she didn’t want her son in the timeout space, but was told by the district in an e-mail obtained by the Globe that her parental consent wasn’t needed. They put him in there for nearly six hours in total, those school records showed, before she pulled her son from school with written permission from his physician, who said the placement was “potentially dangerous” to him. The mother said she still wanted to meet with administrators, but a session scheduled for earlier that day, April 11, had been called off by the district, records show, because they wanted to have a lawyer present. That night, police showed up at her door, after the principal said the boy missed eight days of school without permission and that Hanslik-Buruiana had skipped out on the meeting with district administrators that the district had called off, according to an e-mail exchange viewed by the Globe. The police visit was the latest in a pattern of retaliation from her son’s elementary school, Hanslik-Buruiana alleged in a subsequent interview. She said her experience with Beverly was documented in police reports, school logs, e-mail exchanges, and an audio recording of the school principal’s call to police, which she shared with the Globe. Read the full story.<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=399c7b211c&e=16e844e593> Connecting the Dots [https://mcusercontent.com/90f9e490a860897c7155feca1/images/265ee317-b724-8072-e505-012a062e9570.jpg]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=556bd1b400&e=16e844e593> Christopher Huffaker Education Data Reporter 📧: christopher.huffaker@globe.com<mailto:christopher.huffaker@globe.com> Each week we share statistics that show what's happening in schools. This week I'm bringing you some extra facts about TRIO, the college connector programs that would get eliminated under President Trump's proposed budget<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=ae100a5240&e=16e844e593>, as my new colleague Marcela Rodrigues and I wrote about last week<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=f5b1967cf5&e=16e844e593> (and is linked in this newsletter). [https://mcusercontent.com/90f9e490a860897c7155feca1/images/4b998b2f-7cc0-8e74-15fb-a971e7520f21.png]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=d081b840b3&e=16e844e593> More about TRIO (and GEAR UP): * The budget proposes cutting<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=3492b4df23&e=16e844e593> more than $1.5 billion in federal funding for TRIO and the related program GEAR UP, both federal grants that support low-income and first-generation students in getting ready for college. Most of the money goes to TRIO, which originated as part of a 1960s federal push<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=997925f4ed&e=16e844e593> to have more disadvantaged students attend and graduate college. * The largest TRIO program is Upward Bound<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=8e9784c8bf&e=16e844e593>. This program provides intensive support to high school students, housing them on college campuses for rigorous academic courses over the summer, and providing tutoring and college prep after school the rest of the year. * Marcela spoke to more TRIO alumni who didn't make it into our story about the budget<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=0850d02c47&e=16e844e593>. One, Brianna Bourne, 23, credited Boston University's Upward Bound with her career as a mental health counselor. The program landed her an internship at the BU medical school's mental health counseling division. Five year's later, she's now pursuing her master's degree there. Also, let us know what we should be covering, along with your thoughts on the public education system. Take our survey.<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=3d4c6eb802&e=16e844e593> What we're reading * Teacher Turnover Spiked During COVID. But It’s Now Fallen for 2 Years in a Row<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=ebc903713a&e=16e844e593> (The 74) * Losing faith: Rural, religious campuses are among the most endangered<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=a723593ef7&e=16e844e593> (The Hechinger Report) * Some NY schools turn to virtual learning as Trump deportation fears keep immigrant students home<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=ac0cdc3c5a&e=16e844e593> (Chalkbeat) [https://sli.bostonglobe.com/imp?s=1099848&li=8c58037136&e=reggie@bu.edu&p=b341955702&stpe=static] [https://sli.bostonglobe.com/imp?s=1099844&li=8c58037136&e=reggie@bu.edu&p=b341955702&stpe=default&li_coord=desktop&collapse_width=564]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=868611145e&e=16e844e593> [https://sli.bostonglobe.com/imp?s=1099845&li=8c58037136&e=reggie@bu.edu&p=b341955702&stpe=static]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=63228703b7&e=16e844e593> [https://sli.bostonglobe.com/imp?s=1099847&li=8c58037136&e=reggie@bu.edu&p=b341955702&stpe=static]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=b2f28d69f5&e=16e844e593> Bus driver who fatally struck 5-year-old had expired state-required certification on the day of the crash [https://mcusercontent.com/90f9e490a860897c7155feca1/images/70361675-36e3-2ebc-712e-77c9143f3844.jpg]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=9aa212c084&e=16e844e593> Esaie Joseph and his brother Ricardo, right, carried the casket of Esaie's 5-year-old son Lens, at Mount of Olives Evangelical Baptist Church in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston May 17, 2025. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff [https://mcusercontent.com/90f9e490a860897c7155feca1/images/f851bf7b-b701-1504-cbce-ca1ab229ea50.png]<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=fde092e82a&e=16e844e593> John Hilliard Education Reporter 📧: john.hilliard@globe.com<mailto:john.hilliard@globe.com> The Boston Public Schools bus driver who struck and killed a 5-year-old boy<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=f715738237&e=16e844e593> in Hyde Park in late April resigned Wednesday ahead of a scheduled termination hearing as more details emerged of the circumstances around the tragedy. City and Boston school officials said the driver, Jean Charles, had an expired state-required certification on the day of the crash. The officials also said that after the boy, Lens A. Joseph, was struck<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=51e3996f14&e=16e844e593>, it was uncertain whether Charles understood what happened. Charles appears to have made “unclear statements” to witnesses suggesting that he needed to complete his bus route, city and school officials said Wednesday. Lens, a student at UP Academy in Dorchester, was hit by the bus just after being dropped off on Washington Street, police said shortly after the crash. At the time of the crash, Lens was with his 11-year-old cousin, who had also just gotten off the bus, according to a family attorney. The revelations were the most comprehensive accounting of the crash and the first time officials publicly identified Charles as the driver. Those updates also came after the Globe reported Friday that the bus that struck Lens also struck two parked cars in Wellington Hill in Mattapan before fleeing that scene, according to recordings of Boston police radio calls reviewed by the Globe. And after striking Lens, the driver tried to leave that scene<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=068e304cb2&e=16e844e593>, police reported in those recordings. Read the full story.<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=b0b5e8cc41&e=16e844e593> * RELATED: At funeral, 5-year-old boy killed in Boston school bus crash remembered as ‘definition of life’ for family<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=d34240f648&e=16e844e593> Other education news from the Globe * Trump administration ends federal oversight of BPS English learner programs:<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=9191bc5302&e=16e844e593> Fifteen years after a federal investigation found that Boston Public Schools had violated the rights of thousands of English learners, the Trump administration is ending an agreement that subjected the district to additional scrutiny from the federal government. * Mass. teachers try to breathe new life into the teaching of the American Revolution:<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=89b8b76693&e=16e844e593> Lessons have expanded from emphasizing the teaching of battles, heroes, and the principles of democracy to including more discussion about the role of public activism and the experiences of a broader range of people from diverse backgrounds. * Trump’s budget threatens Mass. English learner, college transition programs:<https://bostonglobe.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90f9e490a860897c7155feca1&id=ed325ab559&e=16e844e593> As part of the roughly $12 billion proposed cut to the Education Department, the Trump proposal would eliminate a number of key funding streams, including money that supports English language acquisition programs. 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