Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers — and transforms elementary school
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 01:00
in Mathematics & Economics
By Katy Tur, Correspondent, NBC NewsROXBURY, Mass. — The community of Roxbury had high hopes for its newest public school back in 2003. There were art studios, a dance room, even a theater equipped with cushy seating.A pilot school for grades K-8, Orchard Gardens was built on grand expectations.But the dream of a school founded in the arts, a school that would give back to the community as it bett...