Students, councilors turn up heat over broken payment promises by nonprofits
WELCOME BACK!
Late buses, fiscal mismanagement, and administrative legal woes as BPS reopens
THE BATTLE OF FORT HILL
They rebuilt their Roxbury home from ruin, so now why won’t the city let them sell? Even among the magnificent mansions that stagger along the Highland Park skyline in Roxbury, the six-bedroom attraction at 88 Lambert Ave is distinguished. Occupying two-thirds of an acre in the shadow of the Nathan Hale Continue Reading
WHEN SLOGANS REPLACE BIRTHRIGHTS
How corporate ed reform threatens democracy April 25, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Over the last couple of decades, it has become fashionable for Americans to attack our public education system. Behind these attacks is that most un-American of attitudes: elitism. This is problematic for a number of reasons — the main Continue Reading
COMMON GROUND
Meet the students from the most important school in Boston you’ve never heard of BY PRESS PASS TV AND THE STUDENTS OF COMMUNITY ACADEMY Introduction by Chris Faraone Public schools in Boston have seemingly made more headlines than usual lately. Some stories have covered the fight over department budgeting and allocations, Continue Reading
HOW MASS BECAME GROUND-ZERO FOR CORPORATE ED REFORM
With a statewide referendum looming in November, Massachusetts voters will have to decide just how much school privatization they’re willing to bear. What happens when charter schools begin to proliferate in traditional public school districts? In Massachusetts, where K-12 alternatives have had more than two decades to metastasize, it means Continue Reading
UNACCOMMODATING: A BLS STORY
The Hub’s most elite high school has been under growing scrutiny for its apparent neglect to properly address a culture of racial intolerance. While federal investigators probe that issue, this story of a former Boston Latin School student with special needs raises additional points of concern about another minority population Continue Reading
BPS STUDENTS TAKE TO THE STREETS, MAYOR WALSH FEELING THE HEAT
Photos by Chris Faraone March 10, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS With their schools facing up to a $50 million deficit next year, over 2,000 Boston Public School students from all over the city marched on the Massachusetts State House and Boston City Hall this week to demand that BPS Continue Reading
THE BARBARISM OF CHARTERISM
New year, new theater in the war over corporate ed reform Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson was smiling. Not the ordinary cheery ear-to-ear look his constituents have come to expect from the ebullient official, but rather a modest show of relief dashed with giddiness because the side of Boston’s education Continue Reading