Boston Public School employees are bracing for bad news this week in the form of layoffs that could impact as many as 400 people.
Union members, activists, and elected officials gathered in the parking lot of the South Bay shopping center last Friday (Jan. 23) to demonstrate in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul, who were holding a citywide strike that day to protest the violent immigration crackdown there by federal agents.
DESE Commissioner Pedro Martinez (shown here) says state officials are rethinking so-called “takeovers” of local school districts.
Leaders from the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative hope to revitalize a city-owned lot the Roxbury-Dorchester line with a variety of arts-related uses.
Wu signals BPS assignment revamp and some activists are asking ‘why?’
Judge Toiya Taylor presided at a community swearing-in ceremony for Councillor Miniard Culpepper on Jan. 10 in Roxbury.
Boston City Council president Liz Breadon has made her picks for committee chairs, which the body is expected to approve at their Jan. 28 meeting.
The Up Academy Holland School will exit state receivership next year, ending more than 10 years of state control over the Dorchester school.
Seven years after MBTA officials announced a ten-year plan to “transform” the Mattapan-Ashmont trolley line, representatives for the agency told attendees of a public meeting on Wednesday evening that they are only 15 percent of the way toward meeting their goals with a massive funding shortfall standing in the way going forward.
State senators who represent parts of Boston will likely have to defend their seats in next year’s election as several potential challengers have created campaign accounts in recent weeks.
The Academy Holland School has seen a major turn-around since 2013— and parents, local electeds, and administrators hope to keep that momentum going under the existing leadership, writes Yawu Miller.
Fourteen years after the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) first put a school district in receivership, education activists are now pushing for an end to the practice, citing the state’s checkered record of running schools and districts and the loss of local control.
One year after voters passed a ballot referendum barring the state from using the MCAS exam as a graduation requirement, Gov. Healey joined education officials at Dedham High School Monday to announce a proposed new framework for graduation requirements that would include course work aligned with college admission standards.
State officials estimate that Massachusetts will lose as much as $4.1 billion going forward due to losses of federal funding and changes to federal tax laws. If past budget crises are any indication, that cut of more than 5 percent of the $60 billion state budget will likely lead to trims to human services, education and other areas that Massachusetts residents depend on.
Push from Mayor Wu, unions keyed his fourth-place finish. Yawu Miller reports