Education

The Concord Select Board ramped up pressure on school officials to reconsider naming the Concord Middle School after a local Black woman and Civil War era abolitionist.

Facing hefty tuition bills, parents of student activists criticize administrators for response to encampments

Few parents — and especially Latino parents — have a good understanding of the district's plan to merge or close Boston public schools.

Student sent a list of demands to the mayor, including facility improvements and more educators of color.

The encampment in historic Harvard Yard lasted nearly three weeks.

While scenes of heated pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli clashes have dominated headlines at some colleges, life at a majority of universities carried on this week with a different rhythm.

Suspension or expulsion from an Ivy League university can have dire academic consequences.

Concord Town Meeting members overwhelmingly voted in favor of renaming the middle school for Ellen Garrison, a Black abolitionist. The vote was symbolic, but puts pressure on the school committee to reconsider its vote to name the school the "Concord Middle School."

Statewide, nearly half a dozen independent charter schools have unionized.

Residents of Concord who want to see the new middle school named in honor of a Black civil rights heroine bring their case to a community-wide vote.