The mayor's office is now accepting applications from people who want to fill the remainder of Lorena Lopera's term on the Boston School Committee, which runs through the end of the year.
Lopera recently resigned her seat on the committee, the only school committee in the state that is appointed, rather than elected.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for the guy they say stole a couple's pickup at Geneva Avenue and Leroy Street in Dorchester yesterday afternoon with their two-year-old child still inside. Read more.
Parents, teachers and alumni at the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science tonight urged the School Committee to keep the school in Roxbury rather than moving it to distant West Roxbury, while people affiliated with Boston Latin Academy mostly urged the committee to find a new head of school who won't belittle and ignore teachers and students - although some praised and supported current Head of School Gavin Smith. Read more.
Schoolyard News posts an essay by Aparna Lakshmi, an O'Bryant history teacher and Robert Comeau, an O'Bryant English teacher on how the drawbacks of moving their school to a site about as close to the middle of nowhere in Boston as you can get will outweigh the potential benefits of expanded, state-of-the-art classrooms and labs. Read more.
Some 85% of teachers at Boston Latin Academy voted "No Confidence" in Head of School Gavin Smith.
Mayor Wu and School Superintendent today announced a series of high-school moves they say will dramatically increase educational and career opportunities for students at the O'Bryant and Madison Park school and other high schools. Read more.
City Councilor Julia Mejia (at large), said today BPS appears poised to announce it's moving the John D. O'Bryant School of Math and Science from Malcolm X Boulevard in Roxbury to the former West Roxbury Education Complex, next to a swamp on the edge of the city in a building that BPS officials ordered shut in 2019 because, they said at the time, it was filling with mold due to a roof that could not be replaced, atop a structure that looked ready to plunge to the ground. Read more.
This morning at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. K-8 School, 77 Lawrence Ave. in Dorchester. A teacher promptly seized the gun, which the Herald reports was a BB gun.
WFXT reports State Police have recovered the body of Mohemed Fofena, who disappeared yesterday at Castle Island, on nearby Spectacle Island.
Update: Body found on Spectacle Island.
Police and fire crews began searching the waters off Castle Island Sunday night for Mohemed Fofena, of South Boston, who has autism and is non-verbal. Read more.
The new playground at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, delayed by Covid-related supply-chain shortages (it's not like you can just buy large-scale playground equipment at the Target), could be open by Memorial Day, but definitely no later than 9:30 a.m. on June 10, when Boston Parks and Recreation is planning a formal ribbon cutting, according to project manager Lauren Bryant.
The BU News Service reports the number of books people don't want other people's children to see in school libraries is still small here compared to, say, states shaped like a penis, but that the numbers are growing. One book-banning group, which has two chapters in Massachusetts, says they're not trying to ban anything, but rather trying to "curate" what other people's children can read.
WBUR reports on a Boston Public Schools plan to merge the Shaw and Taylor schools in Dorchester into a single school and a similar proposal to do the same thing with the Sumner and Philbrick schools in Roslindale.
In e-mail tonight, BPS told parents of prospective exam-school students that neither BPS nor an outside auditor initially caught the error at first in the way seventh-grade eligibility is calculated, but that they still expect to send out actual invitations in early May - still on schedule for BPS, but later than other area schools with selection policies. Read more.
John Maconga of Boston Scores, in front of rendering of new fields.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by Boston Scores to build a field house at its existing fields off Westbrook Street in Orient Heights, which will be rebuilt as three soccer fields with artificial turf, two smaller fields, a playground and a community garden. Read more.
Dedham Police report two 14-year-old girls walked out of a residential treatment center for teens with eating disorders on Carematrix Drive, off 128, yesterday afternoon. Read more.
Boston Licensing Board members reacted with shock on hearing that police on a surprise inspection found a 16-year-old at a table - with five other underage people - drinking alcohol at midnight in a Seaport hotel last November. Read more.
Boston today announced the arrival of the first of 20 electricity-powered buses at the BPS bus yard in Readville, which will serve as a pilot with the goal of replacing all of the city's current 620 diesel and propane buses by 2030 - and which will start carrying students after February vacation. Read more.
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