Following the cancellation of the contentious proposal to move the O'Bryant School to West Roxbury, BPS superintendent Mary Skipper said the district will open a dialogue in an upcoming community meeting but did not speak to the potential future of the city's most diverse exam school Wednesday.
It’s the first lawsuit the Emerald Necklace Conservancy has filed in its about 25-year history an action its leadership took reluctantly, but very seriously, they said.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has held that Boston Public School’s exam schools’ admissions policy used during the 2021-22 school year is constitutional, according to a ruling released last week. A three-judge panel unanimously held that that policy, which weighed both student GPAs and their home ZIP codes, did not infringe the constitutional rights of white and Asian
The plan was expressly designed to broaden access to the three public high schools and to boost racial diversity in their enrollments – and it appears to have had that effect. But the appeals court ruled that that alone doesn't make it unconstitutional.
After months of parents pushing back on the new controversial exam school admissions policy, BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper released recommendations to smooth out some of the kinks at the latest school committee meeting.