Community Partner Breakfast: A Focus on Health & Wellness
Today, City Connects hosted our annual spring gathering of community partners. The meeting, “Creating Dynamic School Partnerships to Increase the Health and […]
Category: Boston Public Schools
“Getting In” Series Continues
The Boston Globe ran another installment in its “Getting In” series about the Boston Public Schools’ lottery, this time concentrating on two […]
Globe Continues Series on Boston Public Schools’ Lottery
The Boston Globe has published the second article in its “Getting In” series about the Boston Public Schools’ lottery, “Relief, dismay, even […]
Emerson Students Meet the Globetrotters
The Harlem Globetrotters were in town last weekend and put on a show for fifth graders from Roxbury’s Emerson Elementary at the […]
Boston Globe Debuts Multimedia Series on School Lottery
The Boston Globe recently unveiled a new series, “Getting In: Inside Boston’s School Assignment Maze,” which follows 13 families through the Boston […]
ReadBoston & Farragut Elementary Celebrate African-American Heroes
Our last blog post described Sacha Pfeiffer’s interview on WBUR with Rick Weissbourd, the founder of ReadBoston. This literacy initiative has offered […]
City Connects’ Partner ReadBoston Featured
In a recent story on elementary school students’ reading achievement, “Making Sure Mass. 3rd Graders are Strong Readers,” WBUR interviewed the founder […]
Boston Globe Editorializes about City Connects
On Saturday, the Boston Globe ran an editorial in support of City Connects: Students can achieve more when they come to school […]
City Connects in the Boston Globe
City Connects was featured in today’s Boston Globe–read the full story here: Hub Student Social Services Group Girds for a New Task: […]
Third-graders Embrace Healthy Lifestyle with “Chop Chop” Magazine
This month, with the support of the New Balance Foundation, City Connects site coordinators distributed the health-focused kids’ magazine “Chop Chop” to […]