Boston Public Schools posted a record 81.3% graduation rate, with gains across all student groups. City leaders credited expanded supports and re-engagement efforts for the increase.

Massachusetts urban districts are converting spaces like banks and churches to expand and modernize schools. Leaders say these creative fixes are vital while they await state building aid.

Massachusetts school districts from Boston to Pittsfield are facing budget deficits and weighing educator layoffs, citing millions in spending shortfalls.

Criticisms of DEI programming as antisemitic are mounting in the months after Hamas' Oct. 7 assault on Israel. Many parents believe Jewish students aren't safe amid rising antisemitic harassment in the schools, and others claim DEI programs foster anti-Israel extremism.

Inside her cramped office at the Henderson Inclusion School in Boston, Caitlin Serna scrambles to help her students get into college, and even more importantly, find ways to pay for it. But this year the federal government's new and "improved" Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, isn't helping.