Inspectors were “literally hammering the walls” of Somerville’s Winter Hill Community Innovation School when they discovered asbestos in some concrete .

Students won’t be returning to the Winter Hill Community Innovation School in Somerville anytime soon, and district officials are working on crisis communication after as many as five fights broke out at the high school, School Committee members heard.

Let us teach math the way we teach music so every child can achieve their potential. In practice, this will mean providing small-group pull-outs that would mean hiring more teachers. If any district can do it, it is Cambridge Public Schools. 

Cambridge Health Alliance is struggling to fill nursing vacancies, particularly in psychiatric units and emergency department where work can be dangerous.

Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler has been working on legislation to help reduce child care costs, strengthen funding for families and add wage supplements for child care workers – policies we can bring to Cambridge to ensure that all families have access to affordable child care and after-school programming.

A bike bus is just the first step in growing children into confident urban cyclists and autonomous young adults, followed by using Cambridge’s network of protected bicycle lanes to travel to school, attend sports practice and finally explore their city independently.

Fixing the Winter Hill school is high-priority for Somerville despite its lack of a plan if the state doesn’t offer funding, officials said. State funding, though, also comes with a multiyear process of up to seven years.

The Covid vaccination rate for children 5 and under is relatively low, but Massachusetts children in that age group have the second-highest rate of infections per 100,000 population, after people 80 and older.

Plans to offer specialized tutoring to eligible Cambridge Public Schools drew School Committee questions about how students are selected, how hiring is progressing and how to encourage students to study after the day’s final bell rings.

Public meetings this week look at the city-owned lots in and around Central Square, allowing the keeping of backyard chickens, changes along Massachusetts Avenue in North Cambridge, student behavior in our middle schools and whether to allow conversion of former Lesley offices in lodging houses.