"City wants to relocate two high schools; Seeks to create more seats" July 19, 2011|By James Vaznis, Globe Staff
Less than a month after Boston closed the former Hyde Park High School, the city is seeking to reopen the building in fall 2012 as the new home of Boston Latin Academy, under an ambitious proposal being announced today to increase capacity at several popular schools.
The Latin Academy building near the Roxbury-Dorchester line would undergo considerable renovations and eventually house the Boston Arts Academy, which has been sharing a building across from Fenway Park with Fenway High School. Splitting those two popular schools would allow both to serve more students.
The proposal also calls for expanding the Eliot K-8 School in the North End, which has a long waiting list of students, and creating two new in-district charter elementary schools.
School officials say the goal is to provide more high-quality educational opportunities for stu-
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Related: Uproar over Latin Academy move
"Science MCAS stymies seniors; More are failing required test" July 26, 2011|By James Vaznis, Globe Staff
More than 2,500 12th-graders who did not pass the MCAS science section were denied diplomas last month at high schools across Massachusetts, raising fresh questions about the fairness of the graduation requirement and the quality of science instruction....
The results were particularly crushing for the 731 students who passed the English and math MCAS exams, which have been graduation requirements for nearly a decade, but did not pass the science portion, which became a requirement last year....
For many, the science requirement - passing the chemistry, biology, physics, or technology/engineering test - represents a seemingly insurmountable hurdle at the end of a strenuous obstacle course. While students are allowed to retake the test, a failure to pass by the end of high school prevents them from sharing in the graduation celebrations with classmates and moving on to college....
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