Former Romney HQ could become city's newest K-8 school

By adamg on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 2:44pm

The Boston Business Journal reports the city is looking to buy the furniture store turned failed-presidential campaign headquarters at 585 Commercial St. for use as a K-8 school.

The possible purchase comes with the Eliot school bursting at the seams, Back Bay and Beacon Hill residents clamoring for a school of their own and downtown becoming an increasingly popular residential neighborhood.

Ed. note: Wouldn't it be something if they named the new school after Scott Prouty, the bartender who took the infamous 47-percent video and somebody who grew up in Boston?

Neighborhoods:

North End

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Comments

Great!

By JohnCostello at Work on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 2:52pm.

This means the City will control the waterfront from the Charlestown Bridge to the Coast Guard. Let's hope Chapter 91/Walkway 24 hour access is enforced on school grounds.

Nice job by parents turning the screws to the City on this. This will allow more Boston based families to have options for schools that don't involve the words Hingham, Hopkinton, or Lynnfield.

Mindy and Tripp

By Kathode on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 4:04pm.

Will be so thrilled.

Ed. note: ...named the new school after Scott Prouty

By anon on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 3:01pm.

Could be?

By Judge Garrity on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 11:17pm.

It is going to be.

This is because of the new

By anon on Fri, 03/15/2013 - 3:43am.

This is because of the new ruling that children can go to school in their own neighborhoods. 40 plus years ago, the liberal hypocrites in Beacon Hill and Back Bay worked behind the scenes before busing was enacted to close all of the schools in their neighborhoods. Not until this monstrosity of institutional racism was pulled could they then become such forceful advocates of busing black children across the city but fortunately not into their neighborhoods which now did not have any schools into which students could be bused. You litlerally can't make this stuff up. Hypocrites, one and all. The roster of who was in on this fix reads like a who's who of liberal Boston but Christopher Lydon was front and center.