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The five turbines of the Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Local Coverage

Jun 25, 2024

Mass. high schoolers to get a jump start on offshore wind job training

Up to 125 students from across five high schools are expected to participate next school year in a program to provide hands-on learning geared towards jobs in the renewable energy sector. Massachusetts wants to electrify heating and cooling, personal vehicle travel and more, but will need more than 30,000 new...

The Cost Of Child Care

Child care is in crisis. Here's what's being done about it

Most child care centers, like this one in Waltham, closed down in March 2020 as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Child care is a problem for employers, too. Now more of them want solutions

One woman's story about affording child care, while working in early education

Teacher Mandy He works on counting with students at the Acorn Center for Early Education & Care at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Why child care in Massachusetts costs so much

Deneen Coren plays with 22-month-old Tsifira. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

How child care can build kids' brains, one interaction at a time

Current and former early educators in Massachusetts. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

We asked 8 child care workers about their joys and frustrations. Here's what they said

Volunteer parents and family members lead children through activities at a parent-child play group at the Mario Umana Academy in East Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

As Boston pursues 'hub' model, city battles memories of segregated neighborhood schools

Education

05:54Jun 21, 2024

The Boston Public Schools headquarters at the Bruce Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Boston Public Schools ends school year early due to Celtics parade

Education

Jun 20, 2024

Yang Cao pushes his sons Zhentao and Yiteng on the swings at Menino Park in Charlestown. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Busing turned a Charlestown school into a Mandarin language magnet. Now that program's closing

Education

04:41Jun 20, 2024

How school segregation survived Boston’s busing

Education

03:42Jun 19, 2024

A box of crayons in a classroom in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Mass. teachers unions explore new strategies to address hot classrooms

Education

How Boston's Eliot School desegregated — and resegregated

Since the end of mandatory busing in 1988, white students in the Boston public schools have tended to 'cluster' once again in a small handful of select schools, due to...

Education

05:28Jun 18, 2024

Police officers break up a scuffle amid demonstrators outside South Boston High School on the first day of a court-ordered busing program to integrate Boston public schools in 1974.(Peter Bregg/AP)

The complicated history of school choice in Boston

Racially diverse schools are still elusive. Boston’s changing demographics have played a role — but so have decisions by city officials.

Education

Jun 17, 2024

Bused Black schoolchildren arrive with police escort at South Boston High School during court-ordered desegregation in 1974. (Spencer Grant/Getty Images)

Timeline: Major events shaping Boston’s school busing era

Take a look at some of the key developments starting in the mid-20th century that shaped this pivotal era in Boston’s history.

Education

Jun 17, 2024

Suzanne Lee and Leola Hampton at WBUR's studios in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

'We were fighting for our life': Former Boston Public Schools student, teacher reflect on busing, 50 years later

Nearly 50 years after the ruling mandating Boston desegregate its schools, two people who lived through that history joined WBUR's Morning Edition to look back on what happened and how...

Education

06:46Jun 17, 2024

Harvard Medical School in Boston's Longwood neighborhood. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

After morgue thefts, Harvard avoids accountability

A year ago, Harvard Medical School announced its longtime morgue manager had been arrested for harvesting skin, organs and other parts from deceased donors who'd pledged their bodies to science....

Local Coverage

Jun 13, 2024

A teacher leads her class through a hallway of Garfield Elementary School in Revere. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Report notes segregation patterns in Massachusetts schools

A new report from the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Advisory Council highlights the correlation between highly segregated schools and student outcomes.

Education

Jun 11, 2024

Vito Perrone, at the time the interim school superintendent in West Springfield, interviewing for Easthampton's school superintendent job on March 23, 2023. (Easthampton Media screenshot via NEPM)

A year after losing Easthampton position, Perrone offered Hampshire Regional superintendent job

The regional school committee voted to hire Vito Perrone to replace outgoing superintendent Diana Bonneville. Last year, Perrone almost got the superintendent position in nearby Easthampton, Massachusetts, until his offer...

Local Coverage

Jun 10, 2024

Burlington Police Department headquarters at One North Avenue in Burlington. (Elodie Reed/Vermont Public)

'Like a prank': Burlington, Vermont police terrify high school students with fake shooting

Burlington police said that the department apologized “to any students in attendance who were upset by the specific scenario and crime scene portion of the presentation.” But police also appeared...

Local Coverage

Jun 7, 2024

LaTonia Monroe Naylor, center, is surrounded by her family during a press conference June 6, asking for Warwick’s resignation after he made disparaging comments about the Manroe and Naylor families. (Elizabeth Román/NEPM)

Springfield superintendent resigns amid criticism over disparaging remarks made against an elected official

Springfield Superintendent Daniel Warwick has resigned following backlash over disparaging remarks he made about a member of the Springfield School Committee. The announcement came after a Thursday morning press conference...

Local Coverage

Jun 7, 2024

The Massachusetts State House. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Fed funds backing summer food aid for families in Mass.

Roughly 600,000 school-aged children in Massachusetts this summer will benefit from a $70 million federal food program that's designed to help low-income families buy groceries. Families enrolled in SNAP, certain...

Local Coverage

Jun 6, 2024