By Max Larkin, WBUR Reporter
June 9, 2021
Max Larkin, WBUR Reporter
Lorna Rivera resigned from Boston’s school last Friday after critical text messages she exchanged with another committee member were made public.
According the Boston Globe, Rivera, a sociologist, and Alexandra Oliver-Dávila privately criticized white parents from West Roxbury in text messages during the lengthy public debate over exam school admissions last fall.
The texts somehow leaked after being withheld from the Globe’s initial public-records request were sent during the nine-hour meeting last October where the committee voted to suspend the test requirement at Boston’s three selective “exam schools” for one year.
Boston’s six major mayoral candidates took up discussions about exam school admissions, the place, if any, of police in school settings, and the governance of the School Committee during a virtual forum on education held last Thursday (May 27). Mayor Kim Janey, City Councillors Andrea Campbell, Annissa Essaibi George, and Michelle Wu, state Rep. Jon Sanitago, and former city
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