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Boston Teachers Union is calling for audit amid payroll debacle that is short-changing thousands of teachers
BPS owes about 9,000 current and former union members a hefty sum of money — totaling more than $16 million — but hasn’t cut the pay checks yet.
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Consultant says Boston should consider bringing back school police, among other safety recommendations
Boston Public Schools should consider forming an internal police department that would place officers back on campuses, according to a recommendation made by an outside consultant that is likely to draw strong opposition.
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MCAS scores for schools across the state
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Massachusetts students hit 19-year low on national reading, math exams
Massachusetts is no longer top of the class on national report card, falling behind Wyoming in fourth grade math and New Jersey in eighth grade reading.
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Nation’s Report Card spells out urgency for local, state leaders to address learning lossesReading and math scores fell district, state, and nationwide in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, made public Monday. State and district leaders said the scores reinforce the need to work quickly to catch students up.
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New MCAS data underscore missed learning of the pandemic. What if kids can’t catch up?With the MCAS reinforcing prior data indicating many students are more than half a school year behind, the state and districts risk moving too slowly to make up that time.
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New special education report raises questions about bias against Boston’s Black and Latino boys
The disproportionate representation of Black and Latino males in special education is a symptom of a much larger problem facing Boston Public Schools.
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How have Massachusetts school districts spent their $2.5 billion in federal COVID funds? Mostly, they still haven’t.
Among the 78 districts and independent charter schools that have received over $5 million, the Atlantis Charter School in Fall River stands alone as the only one to have spent more than 90 percent. Only five others have spent even half.
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Wu to launch a new era of school construction, pledging $2 billion to revamp city’s school facilitiesThe facilities dashboard will give each school building an overall rating so that parents can figure out how their children’s school stacks up against others in the city and why some school projects are being prioritized over others.
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