

Funding is tight in Boston’s public schools (BPS), with budget cuts forcing layoffs for more than 500 teachers as rising costs, flat revenues, and the loss of federal funding has put a hole in the city’s budget.
Mayor Michelle Wu visited UMass Boston’s Dorchester campus on Monday to launch a partnership between the school’s Urban Public Health Department and the city’s Public Health Commission (BPHC) that is aimed at improving the health and well-being of all Boston residents— particularly its teenagers.
It’s the beginning of a new school year, and I’m thinking back to the summer of 2017. I had walked into a brand new school, grade, and community. Upon entering my classroom, I was handed three texts and told, “These are the books we read, just connect them to the standards. You gotta sink or swim.”

Mayor Michelle Wu visited UMass Boston’s Dorchester campus on Monday to launch a partnership between the school’s Urban Public Health Department and the city’s Public Health Commission (BPHC) that is aimed at improving the health and well-being of all Boston residents— particularly its teenagers.

Dorchester’s Dr. Lianne Hughes-Odom, the principal at Dorchester’s Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 Innovation School, will be honored by the Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation on Wed., Oct. 21 at an event in Kensington, NH, where she will receive the Harriet R. Lewis Gutsy Young Leader award for her work at the school.
It’s the beginning of a new school year, and I’m thinking back to the summer of 2017. I had walked into a brand new school, grade, and community. Upon entering my classroom, I was handed three texts and told, “These are the books we read, just connect them to the standards. You gotta sink or swim.”

Mayor Michelle Wu visited UMass Boston’s Dorchester campus on Monday to launch a partnership between the school’s Urban Public Health Department and the city’s Public Health Commission (BPHC) that is aimed at improving the health and well-being of all Boston residents— particularly its teenagers.

Congressman Stephen Lynch and UMass Boston officials on Monday this week announced $1 million in federal funding that will help restore the 50-year-old saltwater pump station that provides cooling to the campus using water from Savin Hill Bay – and with equipment upgrades, might also be able to heat the campus.

The Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 School in Dorchester hosted Dr. Christina Grant, a board member of the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), as the keynote speaker for its teacher and staff back-to-school day on Aug. 31.

The principal at Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy’s Columbia campus talks about the start of the school year.

He will remain at UMass Boston after a sabbatical, returning to the faculty and concentrating on research, writing, and teaching focused principally on climate resilience and the ethical use of artificial intelligence.

Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro recommended an internal investigation and 10-day pause on the district’s payments to vendors for certain departments.

The goal: Transition large energy users to clean infrastructure

A group of parents with children at Dorchester’s Mather Elementary School have delivered a 160-signature petition to Boston Public School officials calling for urgent steps to cool the 121-year-old school building, which lacks air conditioning.

Dorchester’s Dr. Lianne Hughes-Odom, the principal at Dorchester’s Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 Innovation School, will be honored by the Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation on Wed., Oct. 21 at an event in Kensington, NH, where she will receive the Harriet R. Lewis Gutsy Young Leader award for her work at the school.