Published maps solve the puzzle — By Alain Jehlen Second of two articles Part 1: City and BPS officials present a facilities “rubric” — but no long-term plan Which are the 48 school buildings that can’t be fixed to support any of the four school models preferred by Boston Public Schools and city officials? Green New…

Skipper says the state is fine with that. Some School Committee members are not — By Alain Jehlen First of two articles Part two: Green New Deal team says 48 buildings can’t support a good school model — but which buildings? City and Boston Public Schools officials told the School Committee at their last meeting that they won’t produce a long-term facilities plan by the…

First, BPS administration said it didn’t exist. Then Tidwell quoted from it. Now they’re “reviewing this matter.” — By Alain Jehlen Officials are “reviewing” a request to release the memo that, according to Superintendent Mary Skipper, sparked a year-long investigation into racist disciplinary practices in the BPS central office. That’s more than eight months after we filed a public records request for any memos about racist discrimination in…

“We can’t afford to continue to do that to our kids.” — By Alain Jehlen In emotional comments last night, the chair and vice chair of the Boston School Committee said promises to the Boston Community Leadership Academy of a modern, quality facility at the McCormack Middle School have been broken, and students suffer as a result.

“Will we ever have elected representatives who actually believe in public education?” — Jean Powers has been there before. Her daughter was at the Jackson-Mann when BPS officials insisted repeatedly that they were not going to close the school — until they abruptly announced they would. When she found out last week that her son’s school, Gardner Pilot Academy, will have its seventh…

“We’ll call it the library where we’ll bury the lies” — Two teachers at the merged Boston Community Leadership Academy-McCormack came to the School Committee last week to complain bitterly about what they said were the BPS administration’s broken promises of a “21st-century” building for the new 7–12 school.

“BPS is doubling down on an English immersion strategy that your own reports show is failing over 90 percent of EL students” — John Mudd, one of nine members of the School Committee’s English Learner Task Force who resigned Monday, came to the Committee’s meeting Wednesday to blast the administration’s rationale for rejecting Task Force recommendations. “BPS is doubling down on an English immersion strategy that your own reports show is failing over…

The Task Force wanted BPS to expand native language instruction. The administration decided to do the opposite. — UPDATE November 1: Boston Globe reports that a ninth member of the Task Force, former state Representative Marie St. Fleur, also resigned, separately from the other eight. She’s quoted as saying she quit because of the “constant disregard of the task force recommendations”. — — — Eight members of the Boston Public Schools English Learners Task…

“We wish our parents could be here tonight but most of our parents work long hours.” — John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science students, graduates, parents, and teachers came to the School Committee meeting last week to speak their minds about the proposal to move their school from Roxbury to the West Roxbury Education Complex (WREC). Almost all the speakers opposed the move although a…