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Council’s Ways and Means opens FY26 Boston Public Schools review; multiple housing and workforce grants filed
Summary
The Committee on Ways and Means held four budget hearings on Boston Public Schools priorities tied to FY26 budget dockets; the council also received multiple grant messages from the mayor’s office for HUD and other federal/state funds and referred them to committee.
The Boston City Council’s Committee on Ways and Means launched the FY26 budget review for Boston Public Schools this week with four hearings that the committee chair described as a “deep dive” into investments, equity goals and long-term facilities and capital plans.
The hearings, tied to dockets 0822 through 0833 and discussed on the council floor, examined inclusion and multilingual learner supports, wraparound services, school facilities planning (including closures and consolidations), and central-office operations and partnerships. School leaders and district staff briefed councilors on topics including expanded bilingual programs (Cape Verdean and Spanish at Blackstone), inclusion investments, central kitchen plans to reduce food waste, school staffing for nurses and psychologists, and a placeholder $20 million capital allocation for the Blackstone School rebuild.
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