Boston Latin Academy

The young women of Boston Latin Academy and the young men of Charlestown High School are the new city champions of high school basketball following impressive victories over New Mission and Jeremiah Burke in their respective finals.

Former graduates of Boston Latin Academy and its predecessor, Girls’ Latin School, have filed a legal action with the Supreme Judicial Court, alleging they were “denied, driven away or discouraged” from leadership positions after attempting to make a joint alumni association more inclusive.

When José Valenzuela started teaching history at Boston Latin Academy nine years ago, there was not a single person on the wrestling team. In fact, the exam school did not even have a wrestling team.

The Boston School Committee voted last Wednesday in favor of a new policy for entrance to the city’s three exam schools in which students will be selected from eight tiers, divided by socio economic factors including income of families in a student’s census tract, the number of households in which a language other than English is spoken and the educational attainment of individuals in the tract.

A recent poll showing public support for the return of elected school committees in Boston causes great concern among those who remember the 1970s.

Graduates of Boston Latin Academy say a group of Girls Latin grads have shut them out of the school’s alumni association.