By Alain Jehlen Anyone who has read this blog knows I’m not a fan of the Boston Public Schools administration. But the recent MBTA…

“Did the political establishment learn nothing from the past two decades?”

By John Mudd

“Inclusion is not created by saying, ‘Magic! Now all the schools are inclusive!’”

According to MCAS data, it’s at least average

BPS sensors recorded sizzling temperatures at many schools

Open enrollment students wait for months after exam schools and other selective high schools send out invitations. That hurts!

By Edith Bazile, Chair, Boston Public Schools Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SpEdPAC)

A Boston School Committee member’s comment raises a warning flag

Officials say they used a 2023 community panel’s budget principles. Did they?

“[T]he Foundation Budget tells only part of the story. … It does not tell us how resources are experienced by students”

Putting immigrant students into classes with English-only classmates may save big bucks

Not compared with most of the neighbors

Both featured a push for a multilingual America

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free” — Frederick Douglass

Ex-Superintendent Cassellius got data on what happened in years following the closure

“Learning two languages makes [our children] more confident and more capable.”

Part 3 of Suleika Soto’s series on BPS policy making

Part 2 of Suleika Soto’s series on BPS policy making

A nationwide move to disempower communities

Is it really “High Quality”?

They say such programs have life-changing benefits for many children and their families

Kennedy School students helping with “the human side”

“BPS is choosing to shut down schools that serve some of the highest-need populations in the district.”

“Have you ever done high school scheduling? It’s a really complicated beast.”

Former Head of School Dania Vazquez describes how the Muñiz teaches academics along with personal and interpersonal skills that students…

Protesters say schools chosen for closure educate students who already face big obstacles

“What you’re going to do is rip that community apart.”

“Why close the only successful inclusion high school in Boston?”

A Black Panther talks with with Mary Lyon High students

“I’m here today as a mother of two amazing daughters … who remind me every single day that no single test can define a child’s brilliance…

Equity Coalition asks the School Committee to vote them down

Black students were 15 percent of those invited to exam schools for this year, down from 22 percent the year before. Officials say grades…

Are Boston Public Schools potentially undermining special education and ELL students?

They raised a wide range of issues, from bathroom access to teacher diversity

They say the needs of BPS students are very different from those of Pioneer Valley

Actress, immigration activist, and former BPS student Diane Guerrero shares her story with Mary Lyon High School students

Skipper plans a new “anchor” high school in the South Boston High School building after renovations

Responding to BSAC, Patricia Kinsella says Yondr pouches are working well in her district

Education and community groups say low-income Black and Latino children will be hurt

Operating in six schools, the Parent Mentor Program has quietly transformed classrooms across the city.

The Boston Student Advisory Council is leading a movement to abolish the BPS Yondr Pouch policy

Is your school next?

Can one teacher provide both general education to the whole class and special education to students who need it?

En la escuela hay casi 400 estudiantes y más del 60 por ciento son de origen de hispano, la mayoría viven a escasos metros del plantel, un lugar que ven como un segundo hogar.

Parents say they’re frustrated since their children have been thriving at the school.

As Boston Public Schools looks to reduce the number of schools in the district and provide more complete offerings, several school communities are hurting. Among them are families from the Paul A. Dev...

BPS posted a mountain of data — but the decisions still don’t make sense