All Boston Public Schools will be closed on Friday, Feb. 5th due to a snowstorm.
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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is expected to talk about how public schools can thrive in the city during his 2016 State of the City Address on Tuesday night. But a coalition of families, students, educators, community members and groups will be outside before Walsh’s address protesting forecasted school budget shortfalls.
There will be no school closings. Charter schools will not supplant public schools.
Boston’s Chief of Education Rahn Dorsey and Boston Compact Chief Collaborator Rachel Weinstein made those two statements clear at the sixth in a series of neighborhood meetings this fall to test out the idea of uniform enrollment and receive feedback from parents.
Every single high school student in Massachusetts got results of their MCAS about a month ago — except for the students of English High School in Jamaica Plain. But finally this week the Department of Elementary Second Education finally released the test results. The Boston Globe reports that state officials have not said why they held back the results, only saying that there were some anomalies with the results.
The state withheld math MCAS scores for English High School.

Isabella Baez-Giangreco, a 10-year-old JP resident who goes to the Manning School, took third place in the Boston Center for Youth and Families City-wide Spelling Bee on Saturday.