The state’s 2023 MCAS results released last week show the persistence of a large racial achievement gap in test scores among Brookline students. In third… Read More »MCAS scores show vast racial achievement gap remains in Brookline schools …
Brookline School Committee member Nancy Rhei-Gorer has stepped down, leaving a vacancy for which members of the public can apply. Rhei-Gorer, who was elected in… Read More »Town looking to fill School Committee vacancy after Rhei-Gorer steps down …
A revised timeline for rebuilding the Pierce School will push back demolition of the school until at least next summer, principal Jamie Yadoff wrote in… Read More »Pierce School demolition pushed back as project timeline remains uncertain …
An August hiring spree will allow Brookline’s schools to avoid fully implementing a plan announced last month to eliminate six grades of language instruction this… Read More »Schools restore some K-5 world language classes after August hiring spree …
The Brookline teachers union is asking the Public Schools of Brookline to make Friday a half day because of an unexpected September heat wave. Temperatures… Read More »Teachers union asks for half day Friday amid heatwave …
As Brookline High School English teacher Robert Primmer graded his juniors’ papers last spring, he began to spot a peculiar trend. “There would be these… Read More »‘It’s the Wild West’: Brookline High administrators and teachers scramble to adapt to ChatGPT …
For Brookline High School’s football coach Chad Hunte, the team’s culture and success off the field are just as important as the yards gained on… Read More »Brookline football coach Chad Hunte looks for bounce back year on the field, and lifelong impact off it …
Trash Amnesty week The town is providing a “trash amnesty” pick up during the first week of September. From Sept. 4-9 2023, residents who use… Read More »News in brief: Trash amnesty, free lunch and surveys …
The Brookline school district has hired a new leader for its Office of Educational Equity. Claire Galloway-Jones, who has worked as a teacher and administrator… Read More »Brookline school district hires new leader for equity office …
One sunny morning last week, 12 Brookline High School students spread out across a garden outside Pierce School in Brookline Village to weed, water and… Read More »In gardens across town, summer program teaches BHS students about food justice …
Citing a nationwide shortage of world language teachers, Brookline’s schools are set to implement a contingency plan that will eliminate world language instruction for kindergarten… Read More »Schools announce plan to cut K-5 language classes this year amid teacher shortage …
The wall outside the entrance to the Florida Ruffin Ridley School in Coolidge Corner is a blank expanse of brick. A planned mural would transform… Read More »Planned murals would brighten blank walls at Ridley and Baker schools …
Nearly half the teachers in Brookline’s K-8 World Language Program have quit or taken leave in the past two years, according to a group of… Read More »K-8 World Language Program at “crisis point,” teachers say …
Several Brookline school officials likely violated campaign finance law by sending out emails to parents with information about ballot questions ahead of the May election,… Read More »School officials likely violated campaign finance laws, Town Counsel says …
Brookline paraprofessionals and the School Committee have agreed to a new contract that will increase annual compensation for the bargaining unit’s lowest-paid workers from approximately… Read More »Teachers union, schools agree on new contract for paraprofessionals …
The two staff members of the Office of Educational Equity at the Public Schools of Brookline have announced they are leaving their jobs this summer,… Read More »Brookline schools’ equity office faces a reckoning as two leaders step down …
CAMBRIDGE – The Brookline High School boys’ tennis team came up just short of a state championship for a second straight year. The Warriors were… Read More »Lexington shuts out Brookline for boys’ tennis state title …
Members of Brookline’s Heath School have voted to rename the school after Roland Hayes, a pioneering Black musician who lived on Allerton Street in Brookline… Read More »Heath School to be renamed after pioneering musician Roland Hayes …
In the late 1960s, teachers began to alert Brookline School Superintendent Robert Sperber to a problem in their classrooms. Too many children were entering kindergarten… Read More »BEEP 50 years later: Looking back at Brookline’s pioneering early childhood project …
Rain and clouds did not dampen the enthusiasm of Brookline’s 482 graduating seniors, who received their diplomas on Sunday, putting an end to four years… Read More »Photos: Brookline High School Class of 2023 Commencement …
