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Exam school admissions is just one of several controversies former Minnesota commissioner of education Brenda Cassellius inherited when she took the top education job in Boston.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced on June 25 that the city of Boston had transferred ownership of the John Eliot Square Urban Wild to Paige Academy along with a $100,000 renovation grant from the city’s Grassroots open space program, an initiative that supports the creation and sustainment of community gardens and open spaces.

The prospect of a career in real estate initially did not capture the attention of Keller Williams realtor Elizabeth Dawan-Abdullah. But an early liking for entrepreneurial work inspired within her a lasting desire to create grassroots change through real estate.

More than 1,000 people gathered Friday evening in the Boston Common to stand in solidarity with migrants detained at the border and to demonstrate against the reported inhumane conditions in several Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers.

This year the Whittier Street development itself will see its biggest change yet as the Boston Housing Authority takes the wrecking ball to its familiar brick-faced towers.

Lawmakers on the Education Committee have for weeks been working to iron out a compromise between differing visions of education funding reform. On one side are legislators who support Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz’s Promise Act, which would raise funding by $1 billion. On the other are legislators who are demanding enhanced accountability measures be included with an increase in funding.

Members of the Mattapan community convened Monday at the Mildred Avenue Community Center for a Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council monthly meeting in which residents and council board members engaged with state legislators on the issues of economic and education inequity, affordable housing and environmental justice.

While blacks saw desegregation as the culmination of a decades-long struggle for resources, some whites act as if busing was the opening salvo in one of Boston’s most divisive decades. That distinction — often lost in the white media — underscores why the chapter remains contentious more than 40 years after the fact.

If you’re looking for mofongo and arepas that taste like your grandmother’s, look no further than 100% Delicias Express on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain.

Black officers have often spoken of disparities in how cops are disciplined in the Boston Police Department, but data on suspensions, firings and other sanctions has long remained out of public sight.

At the July 11 BPDA board meeting, planners from the agency will seek approval of a draft request for proposals that calls for residential development on the Blair lot in Dudley Square, with retail and/or community space at ground level.

After an exhaustive search, the board of directors of Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) announced the placement of John Lloyd as their new executive director effective July 8, 2019.