Schools
Stand-out student and club member: Mishaliz Melo with her grandmother, Maribel Pereira, at the New England Women's Leadership Awards in May.Mishaliz Melo was about to take the stage at the 2015 New England Women’s Leadership Awards event, and, as usual... Read more
As students at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School began and ended their Monday this week, five days after 17-year-old Raekwon Brown, a junior at the school, was fatally shot less than a block away, they entered the tall brick building to greetings from men... Read more
Community members stood outside the Burke school on Tuesday afternoon to greet exiting students with cheers of solidarity. The afternoon event follower a similar action staged this morning, in which men and women gathered to welcome students back to... Read more
The Epiphany School broke ground on its new expanded campus Tuesday morning at a celebration attended by city and state officials, including Governor Charlie Baker. The approximately 2-acre campus will include an early learning center, expected to serve... Read more
On Tuesday, the night before the City Council was scheduled to take its first vote on the city budget, which includes $1.027 billion for the public schools, a few dozen students gathered with school officials in the Bruce C. Bolling Building in Roxbury to... Read more
On the field, Liam Ryan wasn’t a late bloomer – it just took people a little while to notice he’d already blossomed.
The 20-year-old Neponset native and lacrosse standout at Rivier University in Nashua, NH, scored 35 goals and racked up 55 points in 17... Read more
Calling for more funding and less standardized testing, about 200 Boston Public School students walked out of their classes on Tuesday afternoon to attend a rally at City Hall. The scene was in marked contrast to a rally on Boston Common in March when 3,... Read more
Supporters of the Catholic Schools Fund, led by Fidelity’s Peter Lynch (shown above) visited the Lower Mills campus of Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy last Thursday, May 5. The visit was 50 part of the annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Bus Tour. The... Read more
In November there will likely be a referendum question on the state ballot proposing to lift the cap on charter schools. I believe that approval of this referendum will bleed our public schools dry and can only hurt the great majority of families in... Read more
The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department is now recruiting high school students to participate its Summer Enrichment Program. Established in 2014 by Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins the program provides summer employment for Suffolk County teens who are... Read more
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