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City takes aim at a dozen lagging schools

At least a dozen Boston schools - many in neighborhoods with high rates of crime, poverty, and teenage pregnancy - are being targeted for dramatic overhauls, reinvention, or closing, under a plan that Superintendent Carol R. Johnson is scheduled to ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas M. Menino,  Deval Patrick

State to investigate Gloucester charter process

MALDEN - State Inspector General Gregory W. Sullivan made an unusual appearance before the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education yesterday morning to inform members that his office had launched an investigation of the process that led to ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Bruce Tarr,  U.S. Republican Party,  Deval Patrick

Amendments bog down charter school bill in Senate

Speedy legislative approval of a bill that would expand charter schools appeared to be in doubt last night as the Senate confronted mounting opposition on an array of provisions and 95 amendments to the bill, delaying a vote in that chamber at least ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Deval Patrick,  Ways and Means Committee,  U.S. Democratic Party

Support swells for anti-bully legislation

After years of delays, the Legislature appears poised to crack down on bullying among schoolchildren, with hearings beginning this week on nearly a dozen bills that would force local schools to respond more aggressively to instances of cruelty among ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Rogers,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Microsoft Corporation,  Facebook Inc.

Mass. may get additional $250m from US for education efforts

The Obama administration said yesterday that Massachusetts could reap up to an additional $250 million to turn around failing schools and pursue other education initiatives as part of a new competitive grant fund. Only a limited number of states will ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Race to the Top Fund,  Arne Duncan

New charter schools bill moves to the Senate

A key legislative committee approved a bill yesterday that would allow more charter schools in the state’s most troubled districts while giving the state the power to take over failing schools. The bill, a merger of proposals unveiled by Governor Deval ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Deval Patrick,  Thomas M. Menino,  Barack Obama

Mixed results as confidence in schools appears to erode

City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty Jr., in his quest to unseat Mayor Thomas M. Menino, often rattles off an array of disparaging statistics about the state of the Boston public schools: high dropout rates, too few graduates who finish college, and far ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Thomas M. Menino,  Michael F. Flaherty,  Brown University

State refines how it tracks MCAS scores

The Hugh Roe O’Donnell Elementary School in East Boston doesn’t usually stand out as an MCAS superstar. Scores in English and math at this school, where nearly 90 percent of students are low-income and 26 percent don’t speak English fluently, tend to ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  28 Oct 2009

Hub schools get $750,000 arts grant

Boston public schools will announce today a major step toward offering arts instruction to all elementary and middle school students, even as the district must tighten its budget. The district will be receiving a $750,000 grant from the Wallace ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: VH1,  Thomas M. Menino

Teachers' house calls make pupils, parents feel at home

She was already dressed in her pajamas when her preschool teachers arrived on a crisp night this month with gifts in hand: a coloring book, a dry-erase board, and a baggie full of alphabet-shaped plastic magnets. But 3-year-old Megan Coyne wasn’t ...

From JAMES VAZNIS, Boston Globe,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  National Education Association,  Tim Collins

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