"Boston scrambles to accommodate an influx of kindergartners" by James Vaznis |
Globe Staff, August 24, 2012
More than 300 kindergartners in Boston do not know which school they
will attend this fall as the city’s school system confronts rising
demand in some neighborhoods and a shortage of seats.
The predicament, just weeks before classes begin, prompted the Boston
School Department this month to add two kindergarten classrooms in East
Boston and one each in Dorchester and the South End, as well as to
hire several teachers at the last minute....
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