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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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Opening of Eliot Upper Innovation School Pushed to “Late Winter, Early Spring” [Video]

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North End Architect James Alexander Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

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Parents Frustrated by Large Wait Lists for Kindergarten at Downtown Boston and Charlestown Public Schools

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It is that time of year, when parents find out Round 1 lottery results for their children in the controversial Boston Public School assignment process for Kindergarten classes. For North End / Waterfront, Downtown Boston and Charlestown parents, the news this year is extremely disappointing with increasingly large numbers of students being placed on wait Read More…