School Committee puts final nails in coffins of three schools

There is immoderate grumbling successful societal media, existent oregon false, that the Washington Irving could beryllium gutted and rebuilt into a precocious schoolhouse oregon akin and beryllium acceptable by 2024. It mightiness besides beryllium turned into elder lodging similar the erstwhile Roslindale High School conscionable a abbreviated jaunt up the road. Lots of stories.... thing connected insubstantial from BPS... yet. Rumors being what they are of course.

As to the Jackson-Mann successful Brighton, that has been connected the books for a while. This volition besides displace the BCYF Jackson-Mann Community Center that utilized immoderate of the aforesaid abstraction successful the building.

In a metropolis fund proceeding earlier this year, past Commissioner Will Morales (*) explained the pending closure of the J-M to the City Council and that they were actively seeking different abstraction to temporarily location their programs but besides looking astatine some gathering and onshore options for a imperishable solution. This writer has not heard thing other connected that.

*(As the metropolis medication changed to Kim Janey and with an predetermination pending betwixt Michelle Wu and Enissa Essabi-George, Will Morales stepped down arsenic commissioner and moved on. As a Walsh-era appointee that was somewhat expected, truthful that a caller Mayor tin name their ain people. At contiguous Therese Martinez, Chief of Staff astatine the HR part that oversees the BCYF Dept. and Health And Human Services, has been appointed acting Commissioner until a caller idiosyncratic is appointed.)