Schools
Last week, I stood in a packed gymnasium at English High School right here in Boston and watched Governor Baker as he signed a nation-leading education funding equity bill into law.
The bill corrects our Commonwealth’s 26-year-old K-12 funding formula,... Read more
Boston City Council President Andrea J. Campbell, who this summer released Action for Boston Children, a comprehensive plan to accelerate achievement for all BPS students, will host a discussion on the implementation of the plan on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 8 a... Read more
Two well-respected Dorchester institutions have joined forces to plan a new, $30 million indoor sports and community center that would be built on what is now a little-used field next to the McCormack Middle School on Columbia Point. The Boys and Girls... Read more
A good administrator who can also be a public figure, navigating the political circles of Boston and Massachusetts. A visionary leader who's excited to be part of change and can inspire a diverse student body. The Bill Belichick of public research... Read more
More than a year after the University of Massachusetts Amherst purchased a campus in Newton, faculty at UMass Boston are continuing to press system officials to address what they describe as competition with their school.
A trio of UMass Boston professors... Read more
Fifteen months after a previous search collapsed in discord, University of Massachusetts officials gathered Aug. 27 to launch a new search for a permanent chancellor for the Boston campus, which serves more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students... Read more
Superintendent of Boston Public Schools (BPS) Brenda Cassellius will visit schools across the City over the next four months as part of a Community Engagement Tour. The tour will kick off at schools in Dorchester on Sept. 6th — the first day of school—... Read more
The approval Monday of a $43.1 billion state budget resolves a question that had kept University of Massachusetts officials from setting tuition rates for this fall, though students will have longer still to wait before they know what their final cost... Read more
The Thomas J. Kenny School will add a 6th grade for the 2020-2021 school year, the school's parent council announced Friday.
Parents and advocates pushed for the expansion to the Oakton Avenue elementary school, which serves students in kindergarten... Read more
Traffic delays expected near campus
UMass Boston’s commencement ceremonies on Thursday and Friday of this week will mark a return to the Dorchester campus after several years of being held off-site due to construction on its Columbia Point grounds.
It... Read more