Supporting Our Schools

After winning a long fight to impose a surtax on the state’s highest earners designed to fund education and transportation, unions and educators from across Massachusetts are making it clear that public higher education is on the top of their priority list for the newfound funds. “This is the perfect moment to send a message to House an...

The Boston City Council is hosting a hearing this week to discuss the Boston Public Schools transportation system, which a group of three councilors says is “unreliable” and “in disarray.” Councilors Julia Mejia, Kendra Lara and Erin Murphy filed an order in June calling for a hearing “to address the unreliability of t...

If you’re a college applicant, you may have fine-tuned your essays and submissions. It’s a good idea to clean up your online profiles, too. “If I was a student applying to college, I would assume that someone may look at my profiles,” said Christine Lilley, director of K-12 institutional partnerships at Kaplan. The company h...

Millions of Americans will soon be able to apply for up to $20,000 in student loan debt relief, and the Biden administration is revealing new information about how many people are expected to be eligible.

As students in Boston settle in to the new school year, the city’s school district is still working to hire teachers to fill stubborn vacancies, an issue plaguing education officials nationwide. There were over 220 teacher vacancies districtwide as of the last week in August of this year, according to data provided by Boston Public Schools. T...

Some parents in Saugus, Massachusetts, are finding it difficult to get their children to school this year because of a bus shortage. For one mother, the situation has left her without safe and reliable options for her twin boys. “With my job, I have to make sure that I have that time free, or they have to walk home,” said…

Here are the richest private schools in Mass. — and what they charge

Many students and teachers are heading back to school this fall with their books, backpacks and several years’ worth of experience adjusting to the pitfalls that the pandemic threw their way. One Massachusetts mom took a lesson she learned during that time and turned it into something that helps kids face daily challenges. Her effort has caug...

After a five-month search that drew two dozen applicants, Massachusetts college and university overseers chose former Pennsylvania Education Secretary Noe Ortega as their pick to be the Bay State’s next higher education commissioner. The Board of Higher Education selected Ortega, who is also a former University of Michigan official and spent ...

Many families have made it a back-to-school tradition to fill out chalkboard signs with their kids’ personal information and then share them online, but some parents are opting out amid warnings from experts, including the Better Business Bureau and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

After scathing reports from state education leaders, Boston Public Schools say they are on track to meet improvement mandates for the coming school year. The city and school district reached an agreement with the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on a plan back in June to avoid a state of receivership. Changes to special educat...

A failing building with a leaky roof was the home of two schools in Allston: The Jackson Mann and the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. On June 27th, the Jackson Mann was closed, but the Horace Mann will remain in the same structure for at least another year. This is a tale of two schools.

There are more than 20 grade configurations in the Boston Public Schools system. BPS is now working eliminate middle schools in order to cut down on confusion, align with exam schools and create fewer transitions for kids.