"We still have a lot of work to do. says #BPS Superintendent Carol R Johnson to #BostonHerald

Submitted by Judy Meredith on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:00am

 

Boston Heralds final part of a five-day Herald series focusing on four successful Boston public schools and efforts to improve urban education, the city’s superintendent unveils a new initiative. And so we move forward with a renewed and hopefully transparent effort to close the acievement gap.
 
Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol R. Johnson is reaching out to prominent minority community leaders for advice on what may be behind an achievement gap between the city’s black and Latino students and their white and Asian peers, and what can be done about it.
 
“We still have a lot of work to do,” Johnson told the Herald during an interview this week at the North End’s Eliot School.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
HIGH EXPECTATIONS’: Boston School Superintendent Dr. Carol R. Johnson meets Dionna Sturkey, left, and Dounia Amar, both 11, at the Eliot School in the North End.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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