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The end of the ESSER program, along with large and costly district priorities, make this an uncommonly complicated and painful budget. The Boston School Committee voted 5-2 Wednesday evening to advance the budget.

Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper assured school leaders that the district won't close half its buildings.

As of Oct. 1, the district enrolled 45,742 students, a slight dip of more than 250 students. The decline would have been more stark had it not been for an increase in migrant students.

Ease into the spooky season with these Halloween books for all ages.

Following her first year on the job, the Boston School Committee gave Superintendent Mary Skipper her first performance review at Wednesday night's School Committee meeting -- giving the new hire generally tepidly positive feedback on her first steps in the position.

The Boston public schools system has allegedly fired a dozen Black administrators who used their positions to advocate for Black students.

Current and former administrators claim Boston Public Schools’ discharge efforts concentrated on administrators of color close to the top of […] The post Boston schools system investigating complaints that top Black administrators are being forced out appeared first on TheGrio.

Among the questions left unanswered: Which schools will close to accommodate the staggering growth of both of those schools?

A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to ban race-conscious admissions at colleges could apply more broadly to a handful of federal cases that center on efforts to diversify selection at elite K-12 schools. “What cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion in the […]

About twenty community members joined to create the "Dorchester Weather," a play celebrating activism in climate change.