Yet for all the money BPS is spending, many education advocates, parents, and students are bewildered at how little the district generally has to show for it.
District leaders Wednesday reiterated to the School Committee the plan to merge Dorchester and Mattapan’s Shaw and Taylor schools in September 2024 and Roslindale’s Sumner and Philbrick schools in September 2025.
Boston Public School officials held a virtual community meeting last Tuesday (April 4) to discuss the district’s proposed merger of the Shaw and the Taylor schools in Dorchester and Mattapan, respectively. More than fifty people were present, including teachers and parents. The goal of the meeting, said the district’s Chief of Capital Planning, Del Stanislaus, was to discuss