Schools

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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Capital Plan Designates $39.1 Million for New and Expanded North End Schools

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The Eliot School and the New School Assignment Plan [Commentary]

Posted on Author Bruce Kiernan

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