Boston Public Schools

When it comes to college admissions, Weston High may not be quite all that

adamg — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:01:08 -0400

Larry Davidson, who lives in Dorchester and teaches at Weston High, takes a look at where kids in the Crimson Summer Academy, an intensive summer-school program for Boston and Cambridge public-school students, have been getting in:

... Harvard admitted 3. That's 10% of the class — can’t beat that at Weston. ...

Should Boston schools resegregate - by gender?

adamg — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:17:00 -0400

Ms Bart reads this Globe article about some sex-segregated middle-school classes in Boston and declares herself in favor:

... As long as the academic matter is identical, this could be a great opportunity!

It had been a quiet couple of weeks at the Irving Middle School

adamg — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:19:21 -0400

The Roslindale middle school is back in the police blotter this week:

... Officer Younger responded to the Irving Middle School in which two juvenile females had a fight in the cafeteria. The victim, whose hands, nails and head were injured, was taken to the hospital by her mother. ...

Bomb threat empties Boston Latin Academy

adamg — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:50:27 -0400

Nothing found, of course, after somebody called and said they "had stuff all over the building."

Three more reasons I'm glad I don't have to worry about sending my kid to the Irving Middle School in Roslindale

adamg — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:55:36 -0400

Jesus. This week's police blotter in the Roslindale Transcript has three separate reports from the school:

Four girls calling themselves Die to Kill were found beating up another girl.

The relatives of a student showed up at 7 a.m. to confront her harassers - who them promptly tried to beat up the relatives (unclear if the two incidents are related).

A girl, 13, was arrested after allegedly leading 30 other students into the cafeteria to beat up another student. Fortunately, police were already in the school because of "a recent increase of student fights at the school."

All this and a possible MCAS cheating scandal.

NOTE: The column also mentions a girl getting beaten up at Catholic Memorial and the West Roxbury Educational Complex fight at the Spring Street Dunkin' Donuts, but neither of those schools get into the blotter week after week.

Roslindale principal develops novel MCAS study technique

adamg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:47:33 -0400

Sorta old news, but I was reminded of it this morning because the kidlet's taking Yet Another MCAS Test: The principal of the Washington Irving Middle School is under investigation for allegedly giving teachers parts of the test the day before so they could help their students get better scores.

Silver lining: It might take people's minds off the school's weekly appearances in the Roslindale Transcript's police blotter.

Budget woes not over for Boston Public Schools

adamg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:04:02 -0400

Chris Lovett examines some of the challenges faced by new Superintendent Carol Johnson: Costs keep going up even as enrollment continues to shrink. And while some officials (hello, Councilor Tobin) keep harping on/looking at school transportation costs, the systems also has a number of "underutilized, underperforming" schools, according to the Boston Municipal Research Bureau.

News for monied Boston-area women

bobmetcalf — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:24:21 -0400

Above the fold, in today's Boston Globe,
we have a story about "monied Boston-area
women" building a girl's achool in Rwanda:

Meanwhile, Boston English is looking at losing it's
accreditation, and Menino had to find $10m this week
to keep schools in exotic places like Mattapan
and East Boston running.

Hey ladies, when you get home and have a few spare
minutes, could you take a look at some place like
the Jeremiah E. Burke?

And maybe that description of the Globe as "owned
by moguls written by interns" needs to be amended.
Owned by moguls, who are written about by interns.

Roxbury elementary school locked down after shots fired outside

adamg — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:20:55 -0400

Emerson School, around 2 p.m. today.

Boston won't close any public schools - at least, not in the next school year

adamg — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:02:08 -0400

City finds a spare $10 million to close school budget gap.