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Chang replaced Carol Johnson as Superintendent of Boston Public Schools in March 2015, who had announced her retirement in April 2013. His candidacy had been favored by Boston's mayor, Marty Walsh until multiple controversies saw the mayor's support drop until his resignation in June 2018. [ 3 ]
BPS is the oldest public school system in America, founded in 1647. [13] It is also the home of the nation's first public school, Boston Latin School, founded in 1635. [13] The Mather School opened in 1639 as the nation's first public elementary school, [14] and English High School, the second public high school in the country, opened in 1821. [13]
Towards the end of 2014, Walsh proposed and negotiated a 40-minute extension to the school day of Boston Public Schools, [101] [102] which was implemented. [103] A 2020 state audit of Boston Public Schools found the city to lack any, "clear, coherent, district-wide strategy for supporting low-performing schools."
The West Roxbury Baseball Team won the 2015 Boston City Championship for the first time since 2002 under Coach Cliff Wilson. The West Roxbury Football 1984 Team was the first Boston Public School to win a state title. The West Roxbury Boys Baseball Team won the Boston City South championship in 2008.
William James Leary (October 1, 1931 – May 19, 2018) was an American school administrator and academic who served as superintendent of schools in Boston and Broward County, Florida. He oversaw the Boston Public Schools during the early years of the Boston desegregation busing crisis.
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In 1976 the Peter Faneuil School, located in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, changed use and housed a joint transitional studies program of the Boston Public Schools and the University of Massachusetts named Another Course To College, commonly known by the acronym ACC. The program provided two years of traditional and intensive college ...