




Mayor Wu hailed her “state of the schools” address on Oct. 28 as a “historic” first, but it followed a series of high-profile moves by her predecessors to exert leadership over Boston’s public education.
The Madison Park Technical Vocational High School girls volleyball team powered its way over East Boston at Friday’s City Championships in the Boston Latin Academy gym, topping off a 17-0 regular season and earning a high seed in this week’s Division 5 state tournament. Madison Park will kick off their state tournament season as the number two overall seed.

Boston College High School celebrated with the recipients of the 2025 St. Ignatius Award and William Kemeza Global Leadership Award during a ceremony and Mass held at the McNeice Pavilion in Dorchester on Oct. 16.

The Madison Park Technical Vocational High School girls volleyball team powered its way over East Boston at Friday’s City Championships in the Boston Latin Academy gym, topping off a 17-0 regular season and earning a high seed in this week’s Division 5 state tournament. Madison Park will kick off their state tournament season as the number two overall seed.

For the first time in school history, the Codman Academy Girls Soccer team is heading to the state tournament and their head coach, Maldini Bantefa, couldn’t be more pleased.

Boston College High School celebrated with the recipients of the 2025 St. Ignatius Award and William Kemeza Global Leadership Award during a ceremony and Mass held at the McNeice Pavilion in Dorchester on Oct. 16.

The Madison Park Technical Vocational High School girls volleyball team powered its way over East Boston at Friday’s City Championships in the Boston Latin Academy gym, topping off a 17-0 regular season and earning a high seed in this week’s Division 5 state tournament. Madison Park will kick off their state tournament season as the number two overall seed.

Laughter, hip-hop, and the smells of soul food filled the air behind Epiphany School on Sunday as more than 200 people gathered to celebrate the unveiling of a mural celebrating Black joy and youth. The mural, “Breathe Life: 8piphany” by Boston artist Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs, stretches across the school’s rear façade.

Parents of students in the Sumner and Philbrick schools in Roslindale were ambivalent in 2022 when Boston Public Schools officials announced the school communities would merge. The district has merged and closed dozens of schools over the last 20 years and the processes have often left parents and students angered and disillusioned.
UMass Boston (UMB) reports that more in-state freshman enrolled this fall than in at least a decade, with a record number of freshman reporting to the Columbia Point campus mostly in response, officials say, to a new state funding plan, upgrades to the campus, and the quality of the institution’s educational offerings.

A rowing club on the Neponset River that was once open only to teens from Milton High School is looking for new crew members from Boston’s neighborhoods to join in its fun, adventure, and fitness activities.

New studies show a Greater Boston population becoming more racially diverse, but also more disconnected by income, and by shifting educational choices following the Covid-19 pandemic. As multiple figures show, the “big sort” declared more than twenty years ago is diverging into new patterns, whether in high-income suburbs or in Boston schools.

New studies show a Greater Boston population becoming more racially diverse, but also more disconnected by income, and by shifting educational choices following the Covid-19 pandemic. As multiple figures show, the “big sort” declared more than twenty years ago is diverging into new patterns, whether in high-income suburbs or in Boston schools.

The Boston Teachers Union (BTU) welcomed thousands of Boston families to its 12th Annual Back to School Fair at its headquarters in Dorchester on Sat., Sept. 27.

For the first time in school history, the Codman Academy Girls Soccer team is heading to the state tournament and their head coach, Maldini Bantefa, couldn’t be more pleased.