After a financially disastrous year that ended with layoffs and an estimated $50.3 million loss from health care operations, the Cambridge Health Alliance expects improved results in the next 12 months but still anticipates losing money.

The City Council voted 5-4 recently to ask the city manager for additional money to go toward the budget of the Cambridge Math Circle founded in 2018.

Students at the Winter Hill Community Innovation School in Somerville will not return to their school next fall, Starting Aug. 30, the community will be split across campuses at the Capuano Early Childhood Education Center and Edgerly Education Building.

Public meetings this week take on budget decisions (including the budget-trimming “cut night”), preservation and repairs to an 1892 building and more.

Cambridge faces many issues, some quite divisive. Municipal broadband is one that unites Cambridge through our shared values of social justice and equity.

Public meetings this week look at details in the 2024 fiscal year budget and energy code changes that arrive July 1, and introduce city climate ambassadors.

Cambridge passed an $884 million operating budget Monday with discussions focused on putting more money into affordable housing and, to a lesser degree, public health staffing and facilities. There was also a digression into the ShotSpotter gunshot surveillance system used by police.

The loss of five nurse-educators by July dominates a press conference, and city councillors ponder Cambridge Health Alliance real estate and public health.

The Winter Hill Community Innovation School building in Somerville will close for the rest of the school year, displacing more than 400 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade, after a piece of concrete fell on a stairwell.

School was canceled Friday for the 422 students at Somerville’s Winter Hill Community Innovation School after concrete fell onto an inside stairwell, leaving families protesting that they had long warned of such dangers.