Two city councilors want BPS to start installing cameras on school buses to help police track down and fine people who ignore stopped buses and any kids who might be getting off or on them. Read more.
By adamg - 1/16/25 - 4:59 pm
Mayor Wu's office today announced a $35-million grant from the soon-to-be-decimated Environmental Protection Agency that will let BPS buy 125 30-sat battery-powered school buses. Read more.
By adamg - 1/6/25 - 11:10 pm
Stanley Staco posts the message BPS sent to Excel students, teachers and parents today, in advance of a more detailed explanation tomorrow about their options after the South Boston school is shut.
Also slated for closing: The Dever School in Dorchester.
By adamg - 12/20/24 - 12:40 pm
BPS acknowledged this month that putting students and teachers in a school building undergoing massive reconstruction and enlargement isn't working - for either the kids or the construction workers. But part of its solution for construction delays at the former Washington Irving Middle School in Roslindale - moving the classes out, some to the basement of the Roslindale Square community center - has some parents outraged. Read more.
By adamg - 12/9/24 - 11:30 am
The US Supreme Court today formally declined to consider a lawsuit by White and Asian-American parents against the way BPS now uses Zip codes as part of its algorithm for determining who gets offered admission to Boston's three exam schools. Read more.
By adamg - 12/6/24 - 5:18 pm
An eight-year-old suffered a leg injury in an incident on Pershing Road at the Curley School involving a BPS school bus ending up hitting a gate at the lower school around 3 p.m.
Jamaica Plain News reports the injuries were not considered life threatening - and that Curley parents have long complained about how buses park on the sidewalk to await students.
By adamg - 12/4/24 - 8:59 pm
A Boston Public Schools janitor with a grudge against two other custodians beat them and a school security officer so badly at the Mildred Avenue K-8 school in Mattapan in October that they all suffered broken bones, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 11/25/24 - 11:15 am
Parents of a student with a learning disability at the Haley Pilot School on American Legion in Roslindale last week sued Boston Public Schools, the company that runs the BPS bus system and two drivers for two incidents in which they say their child was not accompanied by a required school worker on the ride home and then kicked off the bus nowhere near home. Read more.
By adamg - 10/16/24 - 3:43 pm
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a judge's ruling that Boston Public Schools owe nothing to an English High School student left for dead in a snowbank by an angry English High counselor turned gang leader with a gun. Read more.
By adamg - 10/2/24 - 12:42 pm
The state Ethics Commission yesterday announced that former Tobin School Principal Natasha Halfkenny and Assistant Principal Coreen Miranda had both paid $4,000 fines for taking their sons to a performance of "Hamilton" downtown using some of the tickets a local charity had donated to the school for its students and their chaperones last year. Read more.
By adamg - 9/13/24 - 9:20 am
WFXT reports four students from the Mason Elementary School in Roxbury and an adult were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries after a school-bus crash on Southampton Street shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday.
By adamg - 9/11/24 - 2:39 pm
Boston City Councilors ordered up a hearing today at which to press Boston school officials to explain how the new BPS Zum (pronounced "zoom," but for obvious reasons not spelled that way) app that was supposed to make BPS buses run as softly as a cloud instead led to some buses not showing up in the morning for an hour or more - and some kids riding buses home for up to three hours as their poor, befuddled drivers tried to navigate Boston's dropped-bowl-of-spaghetti roads. Read more.
By adamg - 8/7/24 - 10:47 pm
Artist Thomas "Detour" Evans finished his mural on the side of the Joyce Kilmer Lower School on Baker Street in West Roxbury this week. Read more.
By adamg - 8/2/24 - 1:58 pm
A West Roxbury resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about what he or she considers a completely "woke" graffiti mural that just went up on the side of the Joyce Kilmer School on Baker Street, in one of the largest spleen ventings we've seen on 311 in many a year: Read more.
By adamg - 6/21/24 - 12:51 pm
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint about the way BPS only announced it was canceling school today late in the day on Thursday: Read more.
By adamg - 6/21/24 - 10:41 am
On June 21, 1974, US District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity issued his ruling in the case of Morgan v. Hennigan, which changed the city forever, concluding the Boston School Committee had created a segregated school system and that it was past time for a change: Read more.
By adamg - 6/20/24 - 2:46 pm
Boston Public Schools has decided that instead of just closing the BPS schools along the Celtics victory parade route tomorrow, they're closing all schools all across the city, so today is the last official day of school. Read more.
By adamg - 6/18/24 - 10:57 am
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the court order that required Boston to desegregate its schools, WBUR looks at the Eliot School in the North End, which went from having racial parity to becoming mostly white once again - in a school district that is mostly Black and Hispanic.
By adamg - 6/17/24 - 10:56 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the flaming bus carrying students from the Josiah Quincy School in Chinatown on I-93 north in Dorchester this afternoon.
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