Boston Public Schools

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…

Boston Public School families experienced significant school bus delays during the first week of the new school year. On the first day of school, 66% of buses were late, according to data provided by BPS. (See the chart below.) This comes as BPS implements a new bus-tracking technology called Zum, a mobile app allows parents to track their child’s rides…

A woman allegedly pointed a weapon and yelled crude comments as she repeatedly sped by Wakefield’s inaugural Porchfest, where children were in the crowd.

The Boston School Committee’s chair person helped kindergarteners on their first day of school Monday — 70 years after she started kindergarten at the very same school. Jeri Robinson remembers her first day at Hale Elementary School clearly — and credits it as the spark that led to her decades-long career in education. “I remember going home on the very…

We got a sneak peak at the food that will be cooked up at Boston Public Schools this school year, and it’s a far cry from the mystery meat of the olden days. This year’s menu, aimed at highlighting the school district’s diversity, includes kelp meatballs, jerk chicken and chicken tikka masala. 

When students at one Boston elementary school return to class, they will still not have something a lot of people might take for granted: walls and doors in their classrooms. For years, families at Blackstone Elementary School have heard various promises from district leaders, but have not seen results. Built in the in the 1970s as an open-concept design, parents…

The classrooms at Blackstone Elementary School in Boston do not have walls or doors, leading to concerns about safety and education.

A teenage girl was shot Thursday as she was leaving her high school graduation.

A teenager who’d just come from her Boston high school graduation at the Institute of Contemporary Art was wounded in a shooting Thursday morning. Police were still looking for the gunman.