Supporting Our Schools

Top Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate unveiled legislation Thursday they said would help make early education and child care more accessible and affordable at a time when the cost of care has posed a financial hurdle for families statewide. The bill would make permanent grants that currently provide monthly payments directly to early education ...

Harvard’s interim president has condemned an antisemitic cartoon posted to a social media account for a pro-Palestinian university faculty and student group, among others. The cartoon showed two men, one Arab and one Black, with nooses around their necks being held by a hand bearing the Star of David, the symbol imprinted with a star, interim...

With a teachers strike shutting public schools for a third day in Newton, Massachusetts, the local library was packed with families looking for something to do to keep kids occupied. More than 12,000 students were missing out on classes again, all over a long-unresolved dispute between teachers, seeking higher wages and better benefits, and the cit...

Harvard University has submitted a new set of documents to the House committee reviewing allegations of plagiarism from former President Claudine Gay, a committee representative confirmed to NBC10 Boston Friday.

Boston Public Schools announced a new jobs pipeline partnership with the state’s largest health care system, funded by a $37.8 million donation, the biggest in the district’s history. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper made the announcement Wednesday morning at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Museum of ...

It turns out Harvard University‘s Taylor Swift era is popular. So popular, in fact, that this coming semester’s English class on the world-famous singer-songwriter is expanding — and may need your help. Stephanie Burt, the professor teaching the class, posted to social media Wednesday that she needs more qualified teaching assistants fo...

Claudine Gay’s resignation Tuesday followed weeks of mounting accusations that she lifted language from other scholars in her doctoral dissertation and journal articles.

Taylor Swift-mania has reached Harvard University, which is set to offer a class on the billionaire singer-songwriter next semester. The “Maroon” songstress is getting the Crimson treatment thanks to English professor Stephanie Burt, who is also a poet and podcast host, in the spring, where the class is listed alongside ones on Toni Mor...

Travis Scott is a Grammy-nominated rap star who travels the world playing sell-out concerts and festivals. But his dream is to move to Boston for four years. Why?

More than half of Boston Public Schools’ English Learners Task Force have resigned in protest over a plan to place students who are learning to speak English into general education classrooms where English is the primary language, they said Tuesday. Those students will still receive English as a Second Language, or ESL, services but will not ...

Two of the state’s top elected officials are newly encouraging colleges and universities in Massachusetts to find new approaches to “advance diversity, break down barriers, and increase access for historically underrepresented groups” in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling that restricted the use of race by college administr...

A high school cheerleading program in Londonderry, New Hampshire, has been reinstated following a month-long suspension, even after an investigation substantiated instances of bullying and discrimination on the varsity squad. Londonderry School Superintendent Daniel Black first announced the team was suspended back on Sept. 8, saying in a letter to...

Battle lines have been drawn over what may become one of the most hotly contested issues this session — whether or not Massachusetts should maintain a high school graduation requirement tied to students passing a statewide standardized test. The discussion of whether or not to keep the MCAS exam mandate in place has already grabbed headlines ...