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Records from between 1644 and 1689 indicate that, lacking an official school board, Boston had the Boston Board of Selectmen oversee school matters. [1] In 1709, on its own initiative, the city of Boston opted to, "nominate and appoint a certain number of gentlemen, of liberal education, together with some of the Reverend Ministers of the Town ...
Julia Harrington Duff lost her seat on the school board in 1905 when its membership was reduced from 24 seats to five; she ran again for the board in 1906, (and again in 1907 [8]), saying "I shall run not as a representative of any race or creed, but as a representative of the 60,000 mothers of children in the city of Boston."
The district is led by a Superintendent, hired by the Boston School Committee, a seven-member school board appointed by the mayor after approval by a nominating committee of specified stakeholders. [8] The School Committee sets policy for the district and approves the district's annual operating budget.
John J. Kerrigan (1932-1996) was a member of the Boston School Committee from 1968 to 1975, and a member of the City Council from 1975 to 1977. [1] He was one of the leading opponents of the plan to integrate the Boston Public School through busing.
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The Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence originally sued the Boston School Committee in February 2021 on behalf of 14 anonymous students. Lower courts sided with the school system ...
Lee was born in 1901 in Boston. [1] His father, Joseph Lee, was a recreation advocate and Boston School Committee member known as the "father of the American playground". [2] His grandfather, was a founder of Lee, Higginson & Co. He graduated from Harvard College in 1922 and then attended the University of Texas. [1]
During his tenure in Boston, Spillane had to make budget cuts due to shortfalls caused by Proposition 2½. He also worked to improve the district's financial management, implemented new curriculum and promotion standards. [6] In 1982, Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. ended his court's monitoring of desegregation in Boston Public Schools. [7]