NPHS Public Relations Blog

After a long and sometimes rocky search, Boston's superintendent search committee has recommended Rochester superintendent Manny Rivera as Boston's next superintendent of schools. Rivera comes highly recommended and has had quite a bit of success in Rochester which is a somewhat smaller district than Boston, but has a very similar student population.

Among his many other qualifications, Rivera is an expert in bilingual education which is great news for the Hurley School. For more, read the Globe article about Rivera's hiring, the BPS press release, and a Globe bio.

On September 19th the Broad Foundation (pronounced "brode") announced that The Boston Public Schools have won the 2006 Broad Prize for Urban Education. The Broad Prize is considered the most prestigious award for urban school districts. The award is given annually to the urban school district that demonstrates "the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students."

Boston has been a finalist for the award for the last four years and has now won a total of $1 million from the Broad Foundation for college scholarships.

 For more, read the BPS press release or the Boston Globe article about the prize.

School Clips is a newsletter published by the Boston Plan for Excellence. BPE is  a non-profit that works closely with the Boston Public Schools on improving  instruction. The newsletter is a good way to keep up with what's going on at the BPS, especially around school reform. One funny thing about School Clips is that they've fallen several months behind but are determined to catch up. The latest issue, which was sent this month, is dated May 06. You can read School Clips here.

Los Angeles is considering giving the mayor more control over the school system.  The LA Times is advocating a system like Boston's based on the success the BPS has had under the appointed School Committee. They've published a set of four editorials that describe the great success Boston has had over the last decade.

Welcome to the NPHS Public Relations blog. Rather than starting with the obligatory introductory post, I'll get right into it. School starts on Thursday, 9/7 for grades 1-12 and Monday, 9/11 for kindergarten.  This will be a great year at the Hurley School with a lot of exciting things going on (more on that in later posts). We expect at least 10 students recruited by NPHS to start Kindergarten this year (see our candidates page).