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Mayor Michelle Wu on Friday evening released her effort to redraw the lines of the City Council’s nine district seats, coming days after a federal judge nixed a previously enacted map and upended Boston’s political sector.

Boston Public Schools and the Police Department are formalizing an agreement that would clarify when officers should be called to respond to violence and other safety incidents occurring on school property.

This year, the issue has flown under the radar, fading into the background behind a run of major pieces of legislation, drama over council redistricting, and acrimony among members of the divided council.

The district is looking into purchasing new, more sophisticated ones to prevent guns and knives from entering the classrooms.

The council has less than three weeks to come up with and approve a new district map for the city. Mayor Michelle Wu is offering to help.

A federal judge has told the City Council that it has to redraw the map of the political boundaries of its nine district seats that councillors had approved last fall after sparring over its outlines for months.

Mayor Michelle Wu sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the Reporter in her City Hall office this week as she prepares to launch a multi-week tour of neighborhood parks, beginning in Fields Corner’s Town Field on Fri., May 12, at 10 a.m. The Reporter will publish a series of articles based on our conversation with her. We begin with her thoughts on safety concerns in the

The school committee has an executive session on security steps scheduled Wednesday, before city councilors are set to meet to discuss school safety and the role of police Friday.

The City Council must make another attempt at redrawing the political boundaries of its nine district seats, a US federal judge ordered on Monday. Councillors verbally sparred for months last fall before a 9-4 vote on a map that sliced up Dorchester-based District 3, particularly the Neponset area. Opponents of the map “demonstrated a likelihood of success” in their lawsuit

Police do not believe the incidents are connected.