The Globe reports BPS says it won't file to turn the Dearborn STEM school into an "in district" charter school this year, which means the earliest it can try is 2016.
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By adamg - 9/4/14 - 5:52 pm
Around 5:20 p.m. at Walnut and Westminster avenues. The truck turned up on American Legion Highway in Roslindale.
By adamg - 9/2/14 - 10:36 pm
Around 10 p.m. at Academy Road and Weaver Way, at least twice. None of the shots hit.
By adamg - 8/28/14 - 5:12 pm
At 5:05 p.m., Beaz reported signal problems meant a 45-minute trip from Ruggles to State Street.
By adamg - 8/28/14 - 5:04 pm
Blue Hill Avenue is shut in both directions at Woodcliff Street due to a crash around 4:30 p.m. that sent a dirt-bike rider to the hospital in such bad shape the homicide unit was called in just in case.
MBTA buses were also diverted for the investigation.
By adamg - 8/27/14 - 10:38 pm
City Councilor Tito Jackson had some bad news today for Roxbury residents who want to preserve the historic Dearborn school building and move its science-based classes to another location in the neighborhood: State officials told him they would rescind the $36 million grant it awarded Boston for a new school because it's based on a plan calling for tearing down the old building.
By rvillarson - 8/26/14 - 3:49 pm
Roxbury, MA – It is election season for Massachusetts residents! There are so many important issues that need to be addressed. Whether it be violence in the community, education, the economy, or green energy, everyone needs to be heard. For the first time, the Young Professionals Network of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts (YPNULEM) is hosting a series entitled “Candid Conversations”. During this series, the community has the opportunity to speak to candidates directly and learn how each candidate stands on issues that matter the most to them. All are welcome to attend.
By adamg - 8/21/14 - 11:39 pm
The Globe reports on what might not be the culmination of a BPS investigation into possibly unfair treatment of teachers at the exam school on Townsend Street.
By adamg - 8/21/14 - 12:42 pm
Tremont Crossing: This time for real?
P-3 Partners, which has the city nod to build a large mixed-use development on what has become an urban wild across from Boston Police headquarters on Tremont Street, has until Sept. 18 to "articulate a clear funding plan and demonstrate concrete interest on the part of prospective retail, office, and commercial tenants," the BRA says.
After years of ground going unbroken, the BRA in June had given P-3 until last Thursday to come up with this plan for its proposed Tremont Crossing; on Thursday, the BRA voted to give the development group one more month.
By adamg - 8/20/14 - 10:22 pm
Shortly before 9:30 p.m., police arrived on Copeland Street in Roxbury to investigate 10 or so gunshots. They found two cars with bullet holes in the area of 43 Copeland St.
About 40 minutes later, a man showed up at Boston Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the thigh.
By adamg - 8/20/14 - 2:15 pm
City Councilor Tito Jackson (Roxbury) says he will fight efforts by BPS to turn the impending brand-new Dearborn STEM School into a charter school when that would open it up to students across the city, rather than giving Roxbury students preference.
Jackson rejected a request from school officials to lobby state officials to change state charter laws to allow for charters that are not open to kids across the city, not after the council voted to approve seeking and spending money to completely rebuild the school on the assumption it would remain a district school.
By adamg - 8/20/14 - 1:58 pm
An angry Councilor Tito Jackson (Roxbury) today demanded an in-depth audit of finances at the city's only vocational high school.
BPS "should be absolutely ashamed" that the school has 62 staff vacancies just two weeks before school opens, Jackson said today, calling for a hearing to consider the issue.
Councilor Charles Yancey (Dorchester) agreed. "The situation at Madison is really at a crisis level," he said.
"The school is failing because we have failed these kids," at-large Councilor Ayanna Pressley said. "If the school is being set up to fail, the students are being set up to fail. Enough is enough."
By adamg - 8/15/14 - 7:45 pm
In the shoulder, around 7:35 p.m. outside the Marshalls at 280 Martin Luther King Blvd.
By adamg - 8/14/14 - 10:13 am
The Bay State Banner reports on a staffing issue at Madison Park High School.
By adamg - 8/13/14 - 12:43 pm
The hospital went dark shortly after noon. Generators kicked in, non-emergency procedures have been postponed.
By adamg - 8/12/14 - 12:21 pm
Transit Police are investigating a crash shortly after 10:30 a.m. that sent a man to the hospital.
A T spokesman says:
A man crossed in front of a Route 15 bus near Dudley and Albion Streets. He was transported to Boston Medical center with injuries described as non-life threatening. An investigation is underway.
Jordan Martins, who was on the bus, photographed the point of impact on the bus's front right side.
By adamg - 8/11/14 - 7:04 pm
Mayor Walsh at Alvah Kittredge dedication. Photo by Bartlett Events.
City officials this evening formally dedicated the rebuilt Alvah Kittredge House, saved through the work of Historic Boston, which took ownership of the long-vacant early 19th-century structure on Linwood Street in 2011 and rebuilt it as five two-bedroom apartments.
By adamg - 8/9/14 - 6:59 pm
Police are looking for two teens for an armed robbery around 6:45 p.m. on Schuyler Street near Elm Hill Avenue.
They took a Galaxy phone, a pair of sneakers in a red-and-white Nike box and cash from their victim. One was described as a black male, about 5'6" in a black hoodie. The other was a black female, about 5'3" with short hair and a number of tattoos.
By adamg - 8/9/14 - 9:20 am
Firefighters and paramedics rushed to Seaver Street and Elm Hill Avenue around 1:20 a.m., according to Boston EMS Incidents and Stanley Staco.
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