"These are not just seats that we're talking about. We are talking about children and families, staff and school communities," Superintendent Mary Skipper said. "The goal is to get our students into better experiences, ones that will fulfill our commitment to them. Not just the students that are in the seats today, the students who are to come up through the BPS."
"At a School Committee meeting Wednesday night, educators at each school in question asked the committee to save their small schools, arguing their environments lend extra support to students of color and high needs students. "We don't know what to tell our students. Our students don't know what is happening to them next, and these are decisions that are being made," teacher Meghan Desmond told the committee Wednesday. "We're finding out less than 48 hours later that we need to come and fight for our schools."
The Boston School Committee will vote on Dec. 17 on a proposal to close three Boston schools and reconfigure others, advancing a plan to close nearly 20 schools by 2030. If approved, Lee Academy Pilot School (Dorchester), Another Course to College (ACC) (Hyde Park), and Community Academy of Sciences and Health (CASH) (Dorchester) will close effective June 30, 2027. Educators urged preservation of small schools, saying those environments provide extra support to students of color and high-needs students and expressing uncertainty and concern about students' futures. The proposal would merge Henderson Inclusion School from K-12 to preK-8 and eliminate grades 7 and 8 at Tobin Elementary, making it PreK-6. The plan frames changes as a way to place students into better educational experiences while noting impacts on children, families, staff, and school communities.
Read at Boston.com
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