schools Archives

The rainbow crosswalk at Amherst Regional Middle School. Photo: Art Keene. Used with permission.

Judge Orders Reinstatement Of Counselor Fired For Discrimination Against LGBTQ Students

“Gay and transgender students and their caregivers reported significant distress that led to depression, suicidal thoughts, post-traumatic stress disorder, and school withdrawal”

ART KEENE July 22, 2025

How The Boston Federation Of Teachers Begat The Boston Teachers Union

A sidebar to “Grace Lonergan Lorch Fought Back From Dorchester To Little Rock, And Paid Severely”

JACOB SCHLES March 20, 2025

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: INSCRUTABLE SCHOOLS

How bureaucratic dysfunction prevents a reckoning with physical student restraint in Boston Public Schools

DANIEL DEFRAIA July 5, 2021

FOR SOME SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS, “IT’S JUST NOT WORKING”

“I feel like as parents we are not being heard enough when it comes to our special needs kids.”

GRACE SYMES August 12, 2020

ANYWHERE BUT THERE: MEMO REQUIRING SOME STUDENTS TO RETURN TO CAMPUS SPARKS OUTCRY

“There is no care in the way we get this important information and it shows that our work is undervalued by the university.”

ALEX SUMAS July 1, 2020

TEACHERS AND CITY YEAR TEAM UP TO MANAGE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM CHALLENGES

“Quite honestly, a whole group discussion in the classroom was hard for some kids, so a whole group discussion on a Zoom session is like impossible.”

JORDAN FRIAS May 6, 2020

A MODERN METCO

After more than 50 years of addressing racial disparities, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity recommits and reexamines its approach

BRENDAN MCGUIRK May 29, 2019

Meet the brilliant, warped minds of Boston comedy who are teaching your children by day Nearly every comedy club offers classes to teach people how to be funny, or at least how to do stand-up. Most are taught by accomplished, seasoned industry veterans; still, there’s another whole side to the

DENNIS MALER February 18, 2018

THE HURRICANE CONTINUES

Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class Nicholas Glass of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22 (HSC 22) leads residents to an MH-60s Sea Hawk helicopter for evacuation following the landfall of Hurricane Maria. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sean Galbreath/Released) The perils of being ‘foreign in a domestic

MICHELLE SANTIAGO CORTES February 1, 2018

WAITING FOR RECIPROCITY

Nurses, teachers, other Puerto Ricans in Mass struggle to get professional licenses When Hurricane Maria devastated her area of Isabela, Puerto Rico, 52-year-old Brenda Trujillo traveled to Holyoke in search of a more stable life and employment. Trujillo has been a nurse for nearly 30 years, but since arriving on

SARAH BETANCOURT January 17, 2018