Press

October 2024

September 2024

  • Boston Globe: Why cellphones don’t belong in Massachusetts classrooms


August 2024

  • Boston Globe: The case for sending every kid to summer school

  • Dorchester Reporter: Commentary—Eliminating the MCAS test is a bad idea

  • Boston Globe: Fewer kids are applying to Boston’s exam schools. It’s a sign of a larger problem for the city.

July 2024

  • Boston Globe: As enrollment and state aid plummeted at a Boston charter school, operating losses mounted

June 2024

  • Boston Globe: ‘We do not have the luxury to wait.’ With delayed school closure plan, Mayor Wu draws criticism, sympathy on tough issue.

May 2024

April 2024

February 2024

January 2024

  • Boston Globe: Closing Boston school buildings: What BPS can learn from D.C.

  • Dorchester Reporter: Columbia Road’s Frederick School to phase out grades, close as middle school

  • CBS Boston: Half of Boston schools could close under new plan being considered

  • NBC Boston: Multiple Boston schools could face closures under new citywide plan

  • Boston Globe: Up to half of Boston Public School buildings could close, according to new district plan

December 2023

  • Boston Globe: Influx of migrant students slow enrollment decline in BPS

October 2023

  • What's @ Risk? Podcast: CEO Will Austin discusses the state of education and unique ways to improve the quality of childhood learning.

September 2023

  • Boston Globe: Globe tossed out 7 education ideas. Readers lob back some of their own.

  • Boston Globe: Déjà vu all over again for the Boston Public Schools

  • Boston Globe: New survey shows nearly half of K-8 parents are dissatisfied with Boston Public Schools’ high school options

July 2023

June 2023

  • Boston Globe: Hooked on phonics? Not at Massachusetts higher ed institutions.

  • Boston Globe: ‘What exactly is fair about this?’: Great high schools aren’t available to all Boston kids.

  • Press Release: Boston Schools Fund announces $400,000 in grants for improving literacy in five Boston Public Schools

March 2023



February 2023

  • Boston Globe: Fuzzy math from Boston Public Schools

  • Boston Globe: Boston Public Schools routinely overestimates future enrollment. Here’s why it matters.



December 2022

  • Boston Globe: Boston Public Schools’ enrollment drops for 8th consecutive year




November 2022

  • Boston Globe: Boston Public Schools receives over $2 million in funding to improve student outcomes

  • NBC Boston: Boston Public Schools to Receive $2.3 Million in Grant Money

  • Boston Herald: Three Boston schools receive educational equity grants

  • Press Release: Boston Schools Fund announces millions in PEAK Grants for education equity in Boston Schools




October 2022

  • Boston Globe: How are Mass. gubernatorial candidates planning to address widespread student learning losses? Mostly they aren’t.

  • GBH News: BPS may close more schools. Parents say it’s past time for a detailed plan.

  • Boston Globe: Focused federal relief fund spending can help avoid long-term harm to BPS students

August 2022




June 2022

  • Boston Globe: Where have Boston’s children gone?

  • Boston Globe: With BPS in crisis, pressure mounts for Wu to become the ‘education mayor’




May 2022

  • GBH News: Mayor Wu offers ambitious plan to rebuild BPS in a decade

  • Boston Globe: Wu to launch a new era of school construction, pledging $2 billion to revamp city’s school facilities

  • Boston Globe: Boston School Committee votes to shutter Mission Hill School

  • Boston.com: Committee votes to close Boston’s Mission Hill School




April 2022

  • NBC 10 Boston: Positive News for Boston Students Fighting for Walls, Doors in Classrooms

  • Boston Globe: New Boston city budget includes $788 million for school capital projects over five years — but will it be enough?

  • Press Release: Boston Schools Fund awards $90,000 grant to 12 Boston elementary schools to support at least 20 new sixth grade classrooms opening in Fall 2022




March 2022




February 2022

  • Boston Globe: Most of Boston’s schools lack fully functioning libraries. The superintendent vowed to change that — but will her successor?

  • Boston Globe: Big challenges confront Boston schools amid leadership shakeup: ‘We don’t want things to move backwards’

  • CommonWealth Magazine: 3 policy pathways for the Boston Public Schools

  • Boston Herald: Cassellius proposes $1.3B budget for Boston schools, $40M hike over current year

  • Boston Globe: BPS unveils $1.3 billion budget, pumping an additional $40 million into schools, programs




January 2022

  • Boston Globe: BPS may have overstated graduation rate for five of last seven years

  • Dorchester Reporter: Online school finder offered as tool to help BPS parents




December 2021

  • East Boston Times-Free Press: Re-Centering Implementation Grants at Eastie’s PJ Kennedy Elementary School a Much Needed Lifeline

  • Dorchester Reporter: Commentary: What can be done to halt the drop in Boston’s school-age population?

  • Authority Magazine: High Impact Philanthropy: Will Austin Of Boston Schools Fund On How To Leave A Lasting Legacy With A Successful & Effective Nonprofit Organization




November 2021

  • WBUR: Enrollment in the Boston Public Schools dropped by 4% for the second year in a row

  • Boston Herald: Boston enrollment down 2,000 students even while state numbers stayed the same




October 2021

  • Boston Globe: One of the biggest fights Boston’s next mayor will face: keeping control of the public schools




September 2021

  • CommonWealth Magazine: Boston’s long-unfulfilled promise to high school students

  • Boston Globe: ‘I was expecting a plan’: Boston students see few signs of federal recovery money

  • The 74 Million: Boston’s Next Mayor Will Inherit Schools Beset by Poor Performance and Admissions Controversies — and That Was Before COVID




August 2021

  • Boston Globe: Boston Superintendent Brenda Cassellius is no longer licensed to run school system

  • Boston Globe: Many Boston students miss out on summer school opportunities, leaving the most vulnerable further behind

  • Boston Globe: ‘We’re being set up for failure’: Massachusetts’ hard line against remote learning this year has left some families feeling hopeless




July 2021

  • CommonWealth Magazine: Let’s resolve to make Boston schools work for all

  • Jamaica Plain Gazette: Exam School Admission Task Force Puts Off Test for This Fall: Embroiled in Further Controversy on Recommendations

  • Boston Globe: Boston Public Schools releases preliminary plan for spending $123m in federal relief funds

  • Boston Globe: After record-breaking heat, more than half of the Boston schools used for summer learning do not have air conditioning

  • Hechinger Report: OPINION: A lot more federal money is on the way to help schools post pandemic — Let’s spend it wisely




June 2021

May 2021

  • Education Next: Give a child a book, or teach her to read?

  • CommonWealth Magazine: 5 principles that should drive Boston’s enormous federal school aid

  • Boston Globe: How should Boston Public Schools spend $400 million in federal funds? The district launched a commission to figure it out

  • NBC 10 Boston: How Much Coronavirus Relief Money Will Your School Get?

  • Jamaica Plain Gazette: Principal Bott doubled down on equity when Mendell School changed demographically




April 2021




March 2021

  • Boston Globe: Boston Public Schools are getting more than $400 million in stimulus dollars — how should the money be spent?




September 2020

  • BNN News: School Advice for Reopening and After




April 2020

  • Dorchester Reporter: School shutdown seen as right call by educators who are making do for now, but who are anxious about the fall

  • Boston 25 News: With students still at home, new guidance on remote school learning

  • Boston Herald: Coronavirus crisis to spur big changes in education, local teachers and experts say




March 2020

  • BNN News: Boston School Finder Helps Navigate Shutdown

  • Boston Globe: Boston students, parents, teachers anticipate six weeks at home due to coronavirus




February 2020




January 2020

  • Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra: Nuevo sitio web facilita inscripción de niños en Escuelas de Boston

  • El Mundo Boston: Padres Latinos tienen un recurso gratis para buscar la escuela ideal para sus hijos

  • BNN News: Website Helps Parents with School Choices

  • The Boston Sun: Easing the Nightmare: Online Resource Helps Parents Navigate the Schools

  • Dorchester Reporter: Boston School Finder, a parental-led digital platform, offers way for parents to navigate enrollment with BPS




December 2019

  • BNN News: School Finder Helps Parents Make Choices

  • CBS Boston: Mom Creates Website To Help Parents Navigate Boston School Options

  • Boston Globe Magazine: Frustrated by Boston’s public school registration process? You’re not alone




October 2019

  • Boston 25 News: City, education leaders discuss issue of inequity in Boston Public Schools

  • Comcast Newsmakers: With Latoya Gayle Of Boston School FinderBoston Online School Search Tool




September 2019

  • BNN News: Helping Parents Find Quality Schools

  • CityLine: Boston School Finder

  • GBH News: Starting The School Year Right: A Parent's Guide

  • Boston 25 News: Boston School Finder: Parents using database to navigate tricky registration process




December 2016

  • WBUR: The High School Of The Future — Right Here In Boston