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Teachers in Boston were out on the picket lines on Thursday morning as part of an informational picket as they seek a new contract.

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Dozens of Boston Public School teachers are planning an information picketing line at every school in the district Thursday, taking action after nearly a year of contract negotiations.

Boston Public School teachers were out on informational picket lines at schools across the district Thursday morning, taking action after nearly a year of contract negotiations. The picketing happened 20 minutes before school started and wasn’t planned to disrupt the actual school day. Union leaders said Charlestown High School would be one of the key locations, and there were dozens…

Boston educators say they’re frustrated as they work without a contract.

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Boston Public Schools announced plans to close three school buildings at the end of the next school year.

Boston Public Schools officials are proposing closing four schools and merging others as part of a larger plan for the future of the district. Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper and Mayor Michelle Wu presented the plan to the media on Tuesday. They will be formally recommended to the school committee on Jan. 22. The proposal is part of their…

A significant announcement is expected on Tuesday regarding the future of Boston Public Schools.

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Two elementary schools in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood are merging, but parents and teachers are frustrated by plans to move students around during the school year. The Philbrick School and the Sumner School will join to become a single school serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, with a new setting in the former Washington Irving School on Cummins Highway. Fifth- and...

Students are being relocated from a school under renovation to a community center during the school year.

A Dorchester woman going to night school in Boston turned to NBC10 Boston for help after a classmate allegedly assaulted her — and Boston Public Schools banned her from campus. A police report says Rashedi Hassan was the victim of an assault outside her adult education program in Roxbury last Thursday, with one of her classmates listed as a suspect….

Late school buses have been a problem in Boston this year, and now, they led a basketball team to miss its first game of the season. The boys’ basketball team at East Boston High School was set to play Friday in Fall River, Massachusetts. The bus there never showed up. Student athletes told NBC10 Boston Tuesday that they were upset…

The first game for the season was called off when a bus never showed up to take the East Boston High School boys’ basketball team to Fall River.

A custodian at a Boston public school assaulted three colleagues, leaving all three with broken bones, in October, prosecutors said Wednesday, announcing that he’d been in court. Two other school custodians told investigators that Gregory Watford approached them while they were raking leaves outside the Mildred Avenue School in Mattapan on Oct. 10 and attacked them while saying, “You all…

It’s now been nearly two months since Boston Public Schools unveiled new technology intended to improve the reliability and on-time performance of the buses that transport thousands of students. As NBC10 Boston reported in September, the bus-tracking mobile app, Zum, had a rocky rollout when the school year began. On the first day of class, two-thirds of the buses...

New technology was meant to improve the reliability of school buses, but the district continues to struggle with transportation.

Shelby Hewitt’s case was continued until Oct. 22.

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says that, following a rocky transition to a new system, city school buses’ on-time rates are back to where they were last year, but some city councilors are asking for the state to intervene.

Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy are asking DESE to conduct a thorough investigation into the root causes of school bus delays that began on the first day of school, when only about a third of buses made it on time....

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Two Boston City Council members say the morning pickup and afternoon drop off delays involving Boston school buses to start the school year have reached a breaking point, and they went before the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday to demand something be done about it. This after claiming their initial efforts went unnoticed. City councilors Ed…