Madison Park, the city's only vocational high school, hasn't gotten the improvements the mayor and the school superintendent promised, the Globe reports.
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By adamg - 4/24/13 - 11:36 am
Johnson discusses the Marathon and her decision to resign.
Boston School Superintendent Carol Johnson announced today she will leave at the end of the school year, due in large part to her husband's death last month:
This has been a difficult decision, but as you aware, the loss of my husband and best friend Matthew last month has been life-altering for me and my entire family.
Johnson has served for six years:
We have improved our high school graduation rates and MCAS performance; we have brought hundreds of students back who had dropped out of school, and are closing achievement gaps. We have expanded academic support for our English Language Learners and students with disabilities, and we have increased the number of quality school choices through our turnaround, in-district charter and innovation schools.
By adamg - 3/12/13 - 11:40 am
BPS reports Matthew Johnson, husband of Superintendent Carol Johnson, passed away late yesterday in Memphis:
Matthew Johnson, her husband of nearly 40 years, was also an educator. Together they have three children. Their family shares a powerful sense of civic responsibility, educational equity and a commitment toward creating better opportunities for all.
The Superintendent has asked Chief Financial Officer John McDonough to serve as Acting Superintendent while she is away.
By adamg - 9/24/12 - 5:58 pm
Boston Public Schools officials formally released five possible plans for re-aligning assignment zones for elementary and middle-school students today, but promptly said three of the proposals - for 11 or 23 zones or pure neighborhood schools - were too extreme for the goals of ensuring quality education with a diverse student population.
By adamg - 8/2/12 - 6:39 am
The Globe reports School Superintendent Carol Johnson is now investigating whether Rodney Peterson, late of the O'Bryant School, abused his sick time - he may have even been marked as present even on the day he was being arraigned for choking and punching his wife.
By adamg - 7/21/12 - 1:24 am
The Globe reports a teacher at the Joyce Kilmer School is under investigation by police and school and state child-protection officials for "inappropriate contact with students" and that the school's principal has been removed from his position.
By adamg - 7/16/12 - 10:18 am
At least three school officials used their city e-mail to encourage BPS employees to attend a weekend rally in support of School Superintendent Carol Johnson - under fire for the Rodney Peterson affair.
By adamg - 7/14/12 - 4:37 pm
JohnsonThe Globe reports on a rally in Jamaica Plain this morning for School Superintendent Carol Johnson.
By adamg - 7/11/12 - 8:21 pm
WBUR talks to Mary Tamer, a member of the School Committee who says she cannot believe how Superintendent Carol Johnson was going to just let former O'Bryant co-headmaster Rodney Peterson get away without any punishment after pleading guilty to beating his wife.
Her outrage is unusual on a committee hand-picked by the mayor.
By adamg - 7/10/12 - 6:47 pm
The Dorchester Reporter talks to at-large Councilor John Connolly, who says the Rodney Peterson case - especially the revelation that Johnson did nothing to discipline him even after he pleaded guilty - is just the latest in a string of "bad decision
By adamg - 7/10/12 - 10:12 am
School Superintendent Carol Johnson appeared on WBUR this morning to discuss the Rodney Peterson case, several days after the Globe reported she'd promised Peterson she'd take no action as long as the case stayed out of the media.
By adamg - 7/8/12 - 10:48 am
The Globe details how School Superintendent Carol Johnson did nothing after then O'Bryant co-headmaster Rodney Peterson pleaded guilty to domestic violence and applied for a new job in Memphis - and may have promised to keep that up as long as news didn't leak out (which it did). But the kicker to the whole thing is in the very last two paragraphs:
By adamg - 5/17/12 - 8:19 pm
Jackson: Not happyA skeptical group of city councilors urged school officials today to reconsider a school-moving plan that would send a Mission Hill elementary school to Jamaica Plain. The full council could vote on the issue at its regular meeting next week.
At a hearing on the proposal today, City Councilor Tito Jackson (Roxbury) said the $19 million school BPS wants the city council to approve for loans - down from an earlier $21-million estimate - could be used to leverage additional state school construction money to simply build a brand-new school, reducing the number of students in 19th and early 20th-century buildings. State officials are currently sitting on payments for the renovation of Hyde Park High School, because BPS shut the school not long after renovating it.
"It really makes me angry that we've been given miserable choices amongst horrible options," Jackson said of the plan, in which Fenway High School would move to the Mission Hill K-8 building, the Boston Arts Academy would take over the Ipswich Street space it now shares with Fenway, the New Mission High School and Boston Community Leadership Academy would move to Hyde Park and a new Margarita Muniz Academy would move into the Agassiz School in JP along with Mission Hill.
By adamg - 3/28/12 - 7:30 am
City and BTU negotiators last night threw up their hands and decided there's nothing more they can say to each other, so they'll be seeking state help to mediate a contract.
The declaration comes 21 months of negotiations; firefighters still hold the modern Boston record for going without a contract, at four years.
By adamg - 11/16/11 - 7:12 am
The Globe reports the School Committee gave its pro-forma approval last night to Superintendent Carol Johnson's school musical chairs.
By adamg - 3/23/11 - 10:36 am
Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson is sending letters home with students to tell parents that the food their kids get at school is "safe and healthy."
By adamg - 3/22/11 - 11:27 am
City Councilor John Connolly launched a scathing attack on Boston Public Schools this morning, charging the school system's cafeteria system is rife with waste, poor planning and a warehouse in Wilmington full of expired frozen food.
At a hearing this morning, Connolly charged students at 48 public schools were served frozen food past its expiration dates and that school food officials have so screwed up the food requisition process they were ordering frozen chicken patties even as the federal government was giving BPS chicken patties for free.
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