81. The Board of Education should embrace this opportunity to make city schools safer and more conducive to learning. 82. The city schools, however, do not pay overhead, and they do not pay for bookkeeping and other services provided by the central office. 83. The city schools not only appear to be, but are collapsing. 84. The city schools were expected to revert to their normal timetables Thursday. 85. The enthusiasm for such programs is striking at a time when city schools are under intense pressure to prepare students for increasingly rigorous standardized tests. 86. The fallout among Boston city schools will be felt for years. 87. The incident became the first shooting inside a city school in nearly eight years. 88. The next school year, his parents transfer him from a city school to one out in the county where Godfrey starts fourth grade all over again. 89. The poor condition of city schools is a result of decades of deferred maintenance in which aging buildings were allowed to deteriorate. 90. The shooting, which occurred on the fourth day of the school year, graphically illustrated the safety concerns facing many city schools. |