Somerville must show leadership in the climate crisis by reducing emissions by all means available and protecting the future of our youth. The children of Somerville deserve ambitious action. Please do not let them down.

Nearly a year after the Winter Hill Community Innovation School shut its doors indefinitely, Somerville Public Schools is moving toward a new building to house its prekindergarten-to-eighth-grade community and maybe another school. 

Kathy Greeley, who spent 37 years in schools, experienced the fundamental change inspired by the No Child Left Behind law and its ripple effects.

The Cambridge School Committee dodged a self-imposed deadline to evaluate superintendent Victoria Greer, but paused long enough in passing a $268.3 million budget to call the president of the Cambridge Education Association a liar and slanderer.

Educators and parents marked the roughly quarter-century since the MCAS standardized test was introduced with what was essentially an online teach-in.

Public meetings this week look at an evaluation for embattled schools superintendent Victoria Greer and the state of policing in Cambridge. There’s also the first of two town halls run by an organization looking into the term’s City Council agenda on housing.

Threshold is the rare program teaching neurodiverse young adults the skills needed to enter the workforce, have social lives and operate independently. Now, upon celebrating its 40th anniversary, Lesley is rolling out Threshold Lifelong Support.

A third vote by faculty members of no confidence in Lesley University president Janet Steinmayer accompanied by tuition hikes is bringing protests back to the Cambridge school, with students, alumni and community members saying they will rally Saturday.

Asserting an arbitrary standard of “decorum” while prohibiting the naming of names not only intimidates the public but violate the School Committee’s own rules and a ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court.

I strongly believe that supporting an open, public process is the key to combating inequity, and I am deeply upset that caregivers, teachers and staff are being excluded from sharing their voices about principal Kathleen Smith.