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Last Week of School Brings Sweltering Heat to Eliot K-8 School [Video]

Posted on Author Matt ContiComments Off on Last Week of School Brings Sweltering Heat to Eliot K-8 School [Video]

Friday, June 28th, is the last day of school at Boston Public Schools, including the North End’s Eliot K-8 School. It can’t come a day too soon for the kids that had a sweltering week in the building without air conditioning and temperatures reaching over 90 degrees. CBS Boston interviews Eliot Principal Traci Walker Griffith and some of the students in this video report.

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Downtown View: Here Comes Summer

Posted on Author Karen Cord Taylor

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passes muster with the Constitution. Mitch McConnell and company have had their chance to sputter, spit and go spastic over Justice John Roberts’s betrayal. So summer can now begin. Summer, at least in the way New England celebrates it, is the season Read More…
Community Schools

Eliot Students Come Together for Giving Tree Project

Posted on Author Eliot K-8 School

At the Eliot K-8 Innovation School students have been learning about the power of philanthropy, and the value in giving our time and talents to help show others care and compassion. As a school we came together to practice this mission by participating in our first “Giving Tree Project”. Students had engaging discussions about ways to Read More…
Schools

Eliot K-8 Innovation School Selected for Extended Day Program

Posted on Author NorthEndWaterfront.com

Boston Public Schools has announced that the North End’s Eliot K-8 Innovation School is one of three BPS schools selected to have an extended school day as part of the TIME Collaborative. Expanding the typical 6 hour school day, the initiative will start in the 2014-2015 school year by adding 300 hours of learning time Read More…