Boston Public Schools will close two high schools in West Roxbury in June. The school committee voted Wednesday to shutter West Roxbury Academy and Urban Science Academy, both located in the West Roxbury Education Complex.
“I want to acknowledge how difficult this recommendation is. This situation is not ideal,” Laura Perille, the interim superintendent, told the school committee before the vote. “It was accelerated by the poor physical condition of the West Roxbury Education Complex.”
Officials laid out plans to relocate high school seniors together and maintain the graduation requirements from West Roxbury Academy and Urban Science Academy, so as not to disrupt students’ path to graduation. They also plan to keep students in special education programs together, as well as students who are still learning English, who will be kept with students who speak the same first language.
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