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Six Boston educators are among a group of 15 selected as the second cohort of a fellowship program that aims to equip leaders with tools to improve the high school experience for students and staff.

Arthur Jemison was attending Amherst Regional High School in western Massachusetts when his parents, who had migrated from Detroit, split up. His father James, an instructor at the nearby UMass campus, had been bringing in most of the family’s income.

Taneshia Nash Laird has been appointed as an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music’s Africana Studies Department in Boston.

Massachusetts residents with an income below 200% of the federal poverty level can now apply for reduced MBTA fares under a new program launching this week.

In Revere, a mile-and-a-half stretch of the six-lane-wide Squire Road cuts past clusters of shops, a couple of grocery stores, and rows of residential streets. Hidden behind those six lanes, a shopping center and some broad asphalt parking lots is the Rumney Marsh Reservation, and, beyond it, the ocean. But the roadway, with its dark surfaces and extensive pavement, traps heat and makes it hard for anyone outside of a car to traverse from one end to the other or to get to the natural resources on the other side, said Tom Skwierawski, the city’s chief of planning and community development.

The Urban League of Springfield’s board of directors announced the appointment of Yvette Frisby as the organization’s new president and CEO. Frisby, a seasoned senior executive, is the first woman to lead the organization in its 111-year history.

Derrick Ciesla, an educator with 24 years of experience as a teacher, administrator and mentor, joined Codman Academy Charter Public School in Dorchester as its new head of school, the third in the institution’s 23-year history.

With ongoing extended shutdowns for track work, the MBTA continues to be the transit system people love to hate.

Even as officials look to shore up gaps in health care that will be left by the closure of Carney Hospital, local advocates said they worry efforts will still leave residents’ care lacking.

This week, many Democratic voters are laser-focused on their party’s national convention in Chicago. But while the party’s nomination of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz is a foregone conclusion, local Democrats in the Boston area face competitive races in the often-overlooked state primary, which this year takes place Sept. 3.

Located on Martha’s Vineyard, The Cottagers, Inc. is a philanthropic volunteer organization of 100 African American female homeowners whose mission is to support charitable, educational and community service projects that improve the quality of life on the island.