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Boston Latin School's interim head master on Tuesday attributed the school's downgrade this year to a "technicality," but state Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester said the 95 percent ... Read more.

A group of leaders that includes civil rights champion and former mayoral candidate Mel King issued a tough rebuke of Mayor Marty Walsh and his administration’s re-boot of the Boston Redevelopment Authority in a ... Read more.

You don’t have the BRA to kick around any more.

Starting today, if you are so inclined, you’ll have to get used to a longer, slightly wonkier acronym as your city government nemesis: the BPDA, which stands for ... Read more.

U.S. Congressman Stephen Lynch on Monday reaffirmed his hearty support for a ballot measure that would raise the statewide cap on charter schools. After a tour of the Boston Collegiate Charter School on Mayhew Street, ... Read more.

The Boston Public Schools will adopt a comprehensive strategy to address and prevent racial harassment of its students that will include annual trainings, an annual school-wide survey of the racial climate, and the ... Read more.

The majority of those who spoke on a proposed 18-unit condominium on River Street in Mattapan objected to the project’s density and neighborhood fit at a Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA)-hosted meeting Thursday night ... Read more.

Enrollment at the five University of Massachusetts campuses shot up 27 percent over the past decade and surpassed the 74,000 mark for the first time this year, presenting university overseers with a welcome challenge: ... Read more.

Boston Police in District C-11 gathered at the Gibson Street stationhouse on Saturday afternoon for a family day celebration that featured the dedication of a memorial wall featuring Dorchester officers who have died over ... Read more.

A meeting advertised by the city as an occasion for abutters to talk about the application for a beer and wine license for the Kriola Bar and Restaurant at 33 Hancock St. erupted into a contentious back-and-forth ... Read more.

Supreme Liquors, a family-run business that has been serving Dorchester since 1934, is in its fourth month of offering a new and improved look – and earning booming sales – at its Gallivan Boulevard store in the wake of ... Read more.

The opening of a small taqueria on Dot Ave., proposed by the owners of the Lower Mills Tavern, received a hearty blessing from the Lower Mills Civic Association at its monthly meeting on Tuesday night, teeing up the ... Read more.

The bustling Red Line, the MBTA’s busiest subway line, could transport an additional 10,000 passengers an hour and keep the time between trains to about three minutes if the agency upgrades the line’s entire fleet, ... Read more.

Trinity Financial and Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty celebrated the opening of a new sales office for Treadmark, an 83-unit mixed-income, mixed-use development now under construction across from Ashmont station, on ... Read more.

The city’s Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) will make more than $14 million in funds available to qualified housing projects this month as part of a push to create more affordable housing in Boston. The funds ... Read more.

Legislatively, it’s her post as chair of the Council’s Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice that touches on her passion projects. Campbell notes that her district is disproportionately affected by crime and ... Read more.

The future of high school track and field is in jeopardy, a Waltham-based sports retailer said, due to upheaval spurred by the ouster of the director of Roxbury Community College’s Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center ... Read more.

At Tuesday evening’s McCormack Civic Association meeting, many neighbors expressed frustration about increasing gentrification and the pressures of multiple construction projects converging on the Polish Triangle.

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The city’s Licensing Board is now hearing applications for the remaining 25 affordable liquor licenses, the last batch approved by the legislature and the best hope for a number of small restaurants who cannot swing the ... Read more.

“How did that get here?”

Starting this weekend folks strolling through Codman Square Park will notice the unexpected presence by the monument of a yellow and silver piano, flanked by little bins brimming with ... Read more.

Cruz Companies celebrated four apprentices completing the mid-point of their construction apprenticeship program last week. The partnership between Cruz Companies and YouthBuild Boston is designed to fill the minority ... Read more.

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