written by Vivi Smilgius
Brookline High School will no longer offer the Calculus Project — a highly touted equity program that supplements math instruction for students of color and once helped bridge a racial achievement gap in test scores — after a falling-out between the nonprofit’s chief executive officer and the people who implemented the program in Brookline.
For more than a decade, Calculus Project leaders and BHS staff have disagreed behind closed doors about how to best execute the program in Brookline, according to the program’s leaders.
But a recent clash over how the program was run, and whether the district would pay for it, escalated the issue to the point that the nonprofit’s CEO wrote a cease and desist letter to the district asking that it be removed from Brookline’s schools.
“People don’t know how big of a story, how big of an issue, this has been,” said Adrian Mims, the Calculus Project’s founder and chief executive officer and a former administrator at BHS.
