Boston Public Schools will be closed tomorrow due to the cold. Superintendent Mary Skipper says: Read more.
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By adamg - 1/25/23 - 1:13 pm
The Boston City Council could decide Feb. 15 whether to seek approval from the state legislature for a plan that would shift the Boston School Committee from a board appointed by the mayor to one elected by residents - plus a student member who would be able to vote on school business. Read more.
By adamg - 12/26/22 - 10:09 pm
NBC Boston reports officials could make an announcement by the end of the week as a possible answer to recent Covid-19 numbers in the city - for both Boston public schools and public indoor spaces.
By adamg - 12/16/22 - 1:18 pm
Don't be like Kevin here and get behind the wheel, video warns.
Starting Jan. 1, teenagers who take driver's ed in Massachusetts will have to sit through a 25-minute AAA video about the dangers of driving under the influence of marijuana. Read more.
By adamg - 12/15/22 - 1:13 pm
Revere school officials ordered a "hold in place" at Revere High School this morning to let State Police and local drug-sniffing dogs go through the school. Read more.
By adamg - 11/10/22 - 2:38 pm
Parents of two former students at the Mission Hill School, which the School Committee ordered shut as unfixable earlier this year, are suing Boston, the school's onetime principal and two teachers for the unconscionable treatment they say their kids received from not just students but the principal and her staff. Read more.
Citizen complaint of the day: Pushy toddler parents need to dial it back at Jamaica Plain playground
By adamg - 11/6/22 - 3:53 pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about parents of toddlers forcing kids over 8 to leave the playground at the Lawndale Garden Terrace Park off the Southwest Corridor Park so their rugrats can play there: Read more.
By adamg - 10/11/22 - 12:20 pm
School Superintendent Mary Skipper told Lyndon K-8 Pilot School parents yesterday that she's appointed school Co-Leader Catherine Carney, who only started this summer, to take over as full School Leader after the other school co-leader, Andre Ward, suddenly went on leave. Read more.
By adamg - 10/9/22 - 1:34 pm
New playground map, from Parks and Rec.
Replacing the playground at Millennium Park in West Roxbury was always going to take longer than similar jobs elsewhere because it sits atop a former landfill, which meant the new walkways and concrete pads for equipment would have to have time to settle first, but even with that, plans called for kids to be playing this summer. Read more.
By adamg - 10/6/22 - 8:54 pm
The Ohrenberger School on West Boundary Road went into "safe mode" this afternoon after somebody began firing a gun nearby. Read more.
By adamg - 9/19/22 - 9:34 am
BPS alerted parents this morning that "an adult member of our BPS community has been diagnosed with monkeypox." Read more.
By adamg - 8/31/22 - 4:09 pm
A federal judge in Boston today dismissed a lawsuit by parents of several special-needs students in greater Boston alleging their children were unfairly singled out by the rapid shift from in-person to online learning as Covid-19 tore through the state in 2020 and 2021. Read more.
By adamg - 8/24/22 - 3:17 pm
A four-year-old who fell from a fourth-floor window at 12 American Legion Highway, near Blue Hill Avenue last Wednesday died today, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
By adamg - 8/10/22 - 11:13 am
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed part of a lawsuit by the family of a Cambridge fourth-grader suspended from school for something he didn't do, because the family first alerted the city school superintendent it planned to sue, rather than the mayor or city manager. Read more.
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