A standardized test debated for more than a quarter-century gets an online-only forum Thursday that will try to pack a lot into a mere hour and a half.
The 60th anniversary celebration of Tutoring Plus has Bar Enza food, themed tables and honors for local educator Khari Milner to help a nonprofit teaching and mentoring children for free since its start in 1964.
Perceptions of Cambridge Public Schools among faculty and administrators, families and students are stuck in the doldrums and in some cases quite bad, according to a survey that compares districts nationwide. A town hall will discuss it.
Working with disengaged kids is about relationships, but attendance policies allow for disengagement without prioritizing connections that might turn it around.
Leaving children and educators in inadequate swing space for more time than necessary, with no apparent solution for the next building failure, should not be an option.
Public meetings this week look at potential community benefits from development at Somernova and a Historic Preservation judgment of three homes on Winter Hill and Spring Hill dating back to 1900 and 1920 and facing demolition.
School council members who don’t want to be identified or contacted at personal email addresses. Parents who fear retaliation at an elementary school. An underway investigation into a principal and Open Meeting Law complaints. Welcome to Graham & Parks.
Limited overnight hours had caused problems for residents of the overflow shelter at the Registry building, particularly families with kids newly enrolled in Cambridge schools, whose children could not go to the shelter after school.
Nataliya Yufa’s experiences growing up in an oppressed Ukraine and dazzling but economically out of reach New York shaped her work as a founder and leader of the nonprofit Cambridge Math Circle, which aims to widen access to the sciences.