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By adamg - 3/14/24 - 9:09 am

Boston Parents Schoolyard News reports students and teachers at BLA are petitioning BPS to keep Rajeeve Martyn, who heads the departments of history and world languages, and Jane Victor, science department leader - now scheduled to be laid off as part of an effort to cut costs.

Students and teachers say their losses in particular would be devastating for the exam school.

Martyn petition.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 1:11 pm
FitzGerald

The City Council will consider a proposal to grant handicap parking placards to pregnant people in their third trimester or who have given birth within the past six months.
Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 4:53 pm

The bus driver suffered leg and hip pain in the crash at Wentworth Street and Claridge Terrace off Norfolk Street around 4:40 p.m. One child was also transported to the hospital for observation. Police summoned ISD to check the house's structural integrity.

By adamg - 3/4/24 - 1:29 pm

WBZ reports on the incident involving a special-needs child who was first put in restraints, which were then duct-taped to a chair at the Condon School in South Boston. The teacher and other staffers have been put on administrative leave as BPS investigates.

By adamg - 2/28/24 - 1:37 pm

WBUR reports Mayor Wu and Boston Public Schools have "indefinitely" put on hold plans to rebuild the crumbling former West Roxbury High School into a new state-of-the-art home for the John D. O'Bryant School, after parents, students and teachers raised objections to a school on the side of a swamp about as far away from the rest of the city as one could get.

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 11:16 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports teachers at the Neighborhood House Charter School, which has 800 K-12 students, have voted to form a union and to affiliate with the BTU, which represents BPS educators.

By adamg - 2/8/24 - 11:21 am

Bill Speros posts a copy of an e-mail message from the Chenery Upper Elementary School in Belmont about a disturbing odor in the school: Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 10:56 pm

Word just went out. The Newton Beacon reports that with the teacher strike about to enter its tenth school day, some Garden City non-profits and businesses are offering programming for students.

By adamg - 1/30/24 - 8:59 pm
Stroller taking up good part of sidewalk in Charlestown

An annoyed citizen files a 311 complaint about the parked and locked strollers that block the sidewalks in Charlestown these days, like on Bartlett Street: Read more.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 4:06 pm

Muerl reports the Teamsters sent a semi loaded with speakers drive around Newton school headquarters today blasting "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 12:27 pm

The Boston Registry Division has released the top 20 baby names for 2023.

By adamg - 1/19/24 - 10:06 pm

Fig City News posts a copy of the preliminary injunction a judge in Middlesex Superior Court issued today ordering teachers to return to the classroom on Monday, telling their union to publicly declare the walkout over by 3 p.m. on Sunday and mandating that both the union and school officials get back to the bargaining table for some "good faith" negotiating.

Judge Christopher Barry-Smith did not set down the amount of any fines should the teachers not show up at school on Monday.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 7:05 pm

So no school on Friday. The Newton Beacon has more. Also see Fig City News coverage.

By adamg - 1/17/24 - 12:21 pm

A foundation started by the former mayor of New York today announced a $37.8 million grant to double the size of the Edward M. Kennedy Academy of Health Careers and create a new series of college-level classes and internships aimed at getting graduates careers in the Mass General Brigham system. Read more.

By adamg - 1/12/24 - 2:42 pm
Screen captures of message about safe mode at Boston Latin Academy

Screen captures from one parent's phone of the message parents got.

Police ordered Boston Latin Academy into "safe" mode early this afternoon after a parent reported her daughter had just called her to tell her another student was inside the school with a gun. Read more.

By adamg - 1/5/24 - 3:59 pm

State Rep. Bill MacGregor, who represents West Roxbury and a smidge of Brookline, says he'll send a $5 JP Licks gift card to any young'un in Boston or Brookline who shovels out a hydrant when it's safe to do so after the weekend storm then has a parent take a photo on Instagram, tagged @votebillmacgregor and fills out a form.

By adamg - 1/4/24 - 9:29 am

WBUR reports on a Boston Public Schools document released yesterday that could many of the city's smaller public schools closed as BPS builds out a new system of larger, more modern schools all with the space and equipment needed for a "high-quality student experience." The proposal does not name specific schools; it's meant as a starting point for more detailed discussions this spring with parents and staff.

By adamg - 12/20/23 - 3:15 pm

A federal appeals court yesterday rejected, again, a bid to block Boston Public Schools from changing its previous grades-and-test-score criteria for admissions to Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and the O'Bryant School. Read more.

By adamg - 12/14/23 - 12:31 pm

A crash involving a school bus and several vehicles outside the Henry Grew School, 40 Gordon Ave. in Hyde Park this morning injured a parent standing on the sidewalk as students were arriving for the day. Read more.

By adamg - 12/13/23 - 2:54 pm

A Maine woman today sued a now retired Boston fertility specialist after, she says, she learned that her daughter is actually his, because he impregnated her in his office in 1980 with his own sperm after promising he would use the sperm of a donor who looked like her husband, with whom she was unable to conceive.

Sarah Depoian says she learned of Dr. Merle Berger's deception when her daughter, eager to learn more about her background, had her DNA tested by Ancestry.com and 23&Me: Read more.

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