The Boston Teachers Union today sued BPS over the way it allegedly refused to grant accommodations to teachers and paraprofessionals with serious underlying health conditions that should have been enough to allow them to continue working remotely during the pandemic even after schools re-opened for in-person learning. Read more.
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Too much snain, sleet, snow to make the trip to and from school safe, BPS says.
A BPS committee this evening rejected a proposal to shut Charlestown High School and use its building for a brand-new "innovation and inclusion" school that would be largely autonomous from BPS and would limit enrollment to students from elementary schools in Charlestown and the North End. Read more
Boston Parents Schoolyard News reports the walkout, called by the Boston Student Advisory Council, starts at 10:30 to call for the state to let schools go online only for two weeks without being penalized due to growing Covid-19 rates. The state's current policy forbids schools from counting remote-learning days towards the 180-day minimum number of required school days.
The Patriot-Bridge in Charlestown, home to Charlestown High School, which Eliot School parents want to remake as an innovation school reports that parents are now upset because of a BPS plan to penalize their kids 10 points on their GPAs to try to level exam-school admissions across the entire BPS district. Read more.
Boston Public School students get their second day off in less than a week. Read more.
In what might be the least surprising snow day in awhile, a BPS system already hard hit by Covid-19, has announced no school tomorrow. Of course, they might have canceled school anyway, given that the bulk of the snow is expected to slam the area in the morning.
Boston Latin School notified parents tonight of a recent spike in Covid-19 cases - 36 over the past week, with most of them being reported just today. Read more.
Mayor Wu announced all Boston Public Schools students will be getting a rapid-result kkt to take home this week. Each kit has two tests.
A former BPS official now living in South Carolina was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday on three counts of aggravated rape of a child and charges of posing a child in a state of nudity, possession of child sexual abuse materials and dissemination of materials harmful to a minor, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man in a suit they say tried to grab a student at the Ellis School, 302 Walnut Ave. in Roxbury, on Wednesday. Read more.
WBUR reports the School Committee voted last night to shut the Irving in Roslindale and the Timilty in Roxbury in June as part of the BPS effort to eliminate middle schools. The committee also voted to shut the Jackson-Mann in Allston, partly for that, partly because the building is physically falling apart.
On a walk to the marsh in front of the closed West Roxbury High School this morning, Mary Ellen noticed one of the BPS buses that had been parked there went up in flames at some point since her last visit a couple weeks ago.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on an incident in a restroom last week at the Henderson K-12 Inclusion School in Dorchester, where Principal Patricia Lampron was attacked last month. BPS is investigating wildly varying stories of just what happened in a boy's room - from a slap on the neck to an assault so hard he was flung across the restroom and into a mirror.
Mayor Wu today re-appointed Lorena Lopera and Rafaela Polanco García to the Boston School Committee, to serve at least through the end of 2023. Read more.
The Curley School in Jamaica Plain is scheduled to re-open for classes tomorrow for the first time in ten days, after school and Boston public-health officials ordered it shut to try to get a handle on a Covid-19 outbreak.