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In a data-driven pursuit of “high quality seats,” the Boston School Committee voted on March 20 to close or uproot six schools. Two have alternative education programs. It takes effect June 2026.

A new college pathway initiative being launched by Boston Public Schools will aim to connect its students with those opportunities. The program, called “Beyond Possible,” will offer students hands-on experience in computer science with college-level classes.

As Boston Public Schools looks to electrify its fleet of school buses it’s setting its sights on a new horizon: transforming existing diesel-powered and other internal combustion engine buses into electric ones.

First Tee Massachusetts, an organization dedicated to teaching life skills and character values through golf, has partnered with Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center (the Reggie) to launch an innovative indoor golf program aimed at serving students across the Boston area.

On Friday, July 12, the Mildred Avenue K-8 school in Mattapan hosted a launch event for the Boston Public Schools’ annual Summer EATS program, which helps to dismantle food insecurity across the city.

The College Board and Boston Public Schools have just concluded their first year of piloting Advanced Placement African American studies courses in 10 Boston schools, with plans to add the curriculum to four more schools in the 2024-25 school year.

Boston Public Schools parents, students and educators are led on a dizzying merry-go-round when it comes to their schools.

After teaching in the Boston Public Schools for four years, I left the system this summer. I witnessed how the system poorly responded to students during a pandemic that led to unimaginable loss, hurting communities that had already been dismissed for too long.

The Boston Public Schools has told the City Council that the district does not maintain a list of people who shouldn’t be hired or rehired, a practice that a former employee and the teachers union indicated they suspected was in place.

The mayorally appointed School Committee gave Superintendent Mary Skipper a mark of “proficient” upon completing her first year. But the formal evaluation’s results did not incorporate the many voices who testified to the broken promises of communication and community engagement, rash building decisions, persistent transportation disasters and a budget process that was embarrassingly uninformed.

The inconclusive findings of an investigation into Boston Public Schools’ treatment of senior administrators of color have left critics frustrated.

A prolonged investigation into allegations that a dozen Boston Public Schools administrators of color have been pushed out of their jobs has left the former administrators and their allies frustrated and concerned.