Author: Karyna Cheung
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BPS offers pipelines to classrooms for would-be ESL, special education teachers
Melvin Caballero was once a boy picking coffee fields with his 10 siblings in Honduras while dreaming of an opportunity to pursue his passion to become an educator. Against the odds, he hitchhiked to America alone, found a family to…
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Frustrations abound over T silence on rehab of Mattapan trolley line
The trolley rumbles up to the Ashmont/Peabody Square platform on a shallow incline before it creaks and rattles to a stop at the eastern terminal of the Mattapan Line. The doors open squeakily to let out a stream of passengers.…
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Electrified Fairmount Line hailed as next step for transit equity
It has been nearly 30 years since Marvin Martin stood on an overpass by Erie and Washington streets in Dorchester and watched as a Fairmount commuter train whizzed by underneath him without stopping. Martin, who is Black, could see that…
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Despite the emphasis on pedestrian safety, Dot, Mattapan residents still don’t feel safe
Dorchester resident Dean Toulan says that in the seven years he has lived in and walked around his Armandine Street neighborhood, close to Tech Boston High School (formerly Dorchester High School) and the Dorchester YMCA, he has had around 20…