Category Archives for Local News
A Teacher’s Response
On March 13th The Boston Globe ran this article that touched on some of the issues surrounding UP Academy, an in district charter school opening this fall. A teacher from the Gavin, which will be closed and re-opened as UP … Continue reading
1st Annual Social Justice Educators Conference for Boston-area educators
Date: Saturday, May 21st, 2011 Event Name: Social Justice Educators’ Conference for Boston Area Educators Sponsor: Boston area Educators for Social Justice & Teacher Activist Group (TAG) Boston Type of Event: Conference Location: Curley K-8 School Time: 10:00 AM – … Continue reading
This Moment of Pres.Obama’s visit to the Dorchester Education Complex is pregnant with significance
The following was written by Dorchester Academy teacher Andrea Doremus Cuetara (adoremus@rcn.com) and is shared with her permission: ******************************** This moment of President Obama’s visit to the Dorchester Education Complex March 8th is SO PREGNANT WITH MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE for our … Continue reading
President Obama to Visit TechBoston
President Barack Obama, joined by Melinda Gates, will be visiting  TechBoston in Dorchester today, a school where over 80% of it’s students receive free or reduced lunch and is overflowing with private invenstment. The White House issued a press release … Continue reading
Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against Boston Public Schools
Filed on January 25th, 2011, by the Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association, the complaint alleges that the school department’s plan to close and merge schools is … Continue reading
BPS Student Assignment (in a nutshell)
So, as you probably already know, the Boston Public Schools is soon to revisit the issue of student assignment and is likely to propose a new student assignment plan sometime in the Spring. Naturally, we suspect it might be a … Continue reading
Video on School Closings
Boston filmmaker Robert Lamothe has condensed more than 20 hours of testimony on school closings into a short video called “TEACH: The People Behind the Curtain, What’s Happening to Our Public Schools.” View the video here. Share your thoughts!
Eliminating School Integration Policies-Can Boston learn from Wake County, N.C.?
With the help of a $241,680 grant from the Department of Education, Boston Trench Public Schools (BPS) has taken on the task of creating a new student assignment policy to serve its 56,000 students. Grant details from the DOE can be found … Continue reading
