Metropolis and state officers are pointing fingers at one another for the last-minute faculty cancellation bulletins that left households scrambling in Boston final week amid planning the Celtics championship parade.
On Wednesday, town despatched out discover that simply 4 colleges would cancel lessons on Friday, every one on the parade route.
Then on Thursday, BPS introduced faculty can be canceled district-wide. It was solely scheduled for a half day, anyway.
Mayor Wu blamed state officers for the last-minute adjustments.
“We really didn’t get confirmation until the day before the parade that we had authorization to close schools, and then there was no notice for families that the last day of school would actually be canceled for safety reasons,” Wu mentioned on WBUR’s Radio Boston on Monday.
However state officers mentioned the district, in truth, had all of the authority it wanted.
A spokesperson for the state Division of Elementary and Secondary Training informed the Herald Tuesday that the “decision was ultimately up to (BPS) Superintendent Skipper” and directed questions again to BPS.
Wu mentioned town determined “earlier in the week” that the appropriate factor to do can be to shut all BPS colleges Friday, however the state solely initially approved 4 colleges to shut.
“We had been working to try to get some state approval to be able to not hold school, given the extraordinary delays and traffic and everything that would be of concern whenever the parade would be,” mentioned Wu. … “Because it’s not just the district’s decision on their own and does involve lots of coordination, it was very difficult to get that. We’re used to, I think, the city and the state in these conversations, are used to a much longer time frame to have them.”
“It took a while to get that conversation settled,” Wu added. “And left us less time than we — than anyone would have liked for families to make arrangements.”
