Schools
The Boston Arts Academy Spirituals Ensemble, led by Dorchester’s Tyrone Sutton, has been selected for a 2016 GRAMMY Signature Schools Enterprise Award, one of only two schools in New England to earn the award. Barry Hetherington photoLast week, faculty... Read more
Several thousand Boston public school students walked out of their classrooms and onto the city’s streets on Monday morning, protesting budget cuts at schools in Boston and across the country. The action was part of a coordinated national response to the... Read more
Parents, students, and educators gathered at Dorchester’s Kroc Center on Wednesday evening to discuss the proposed Boston Public School budget for the upcoming year, which include across-the-board cuts to the city's high schools. Boston City Councillors... Read more
Students, faculty members and parents expressed serious concerns about proposed Boston Public School budget cuts at a lengthy town hall forum at Boston Latin School on Monday night. City Councillors Tito Jackson and Annissa Essaibi-George, who lead the... Read more
The Boston Public School Committee held the first of three public hearings on proposed budget cuts for the upcoming fiscal year on Tuesday evening at the Lilla G. Fredrick School on Columbia Road. An audience mostly comprised of students, their teachers,... Read more
Catherine T. Brandley, the current principal of St. John Paul II Catholic Academy’s Neponset Academy, will take on a new role as regional director at the end of this academic year.
The academy’s board of trustees announced Wednesday that Brandley will... Read more
Katie NolanKatie Nolan, a senior at Fontbonne Academy and tri-captain of the Ducks Ice Hockey team, scored her 100th point at Shea Rink on Sunday, Jan. 17 while beating Braintree 6-0.
Nolan, a resident of Dorchester who lives in Neponset, has been... Read more
In an emotionally charged room of parents, the state education board voted narrowly on Tuesday to revoke the charter of Dorchester Collegiate Academy Charter School. It appeared Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Mitchell Chester's... Read more
The northwest corner of the Mather School property on Meetinghouse Hill will be the site of a permanent public art installation.The Artist Selection Committee of the Mather School Green Space Improvement Project is reviewing proposals to create a new... Read more
The Lower Mills campus of Saint John Paul II Academy was re-dedicated on Wednesday morning at a ceremony that included remarks by Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry and the philanthropists who made the $10... Read more