The Boston Public School’s BuildBPS plan calls for some old schools to close, new schools to be built, and other schools to expand, including growing the amount of K-6 schools. Jamaica Plain’s Manning School wants to be one of the schools to add a sixth grade.
The Manning School submitted a letter to the Boston Public School Interim Superintendent Laura Perille on October 19, proposing the school expand to include a sixth grade for next fall.
“Our community has worked diligently over many years to create an environment in which ALL students, including students identified as having emotional impairments, can succeed,” wrote Ethan d’Ablemont Burnes, principal of the Manning School in the letter. “We therefore want to extend our programming to the 6th grade for the fall of 2019.”
Burnes said Manning School representatives will be offering public testimony in support of their proposal at the Nov. 7th Boston Public School Committee meeting starting at 6 pm at the Bruce Bolling Municipal Building (2300 Washington St., 2nd Floor, Roxbury).