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 Elementary School, in addition to […]
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 one being that America remains […]
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, but a disproportionate heap of […]
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 millions less in annual funding […]