The Boston School Committee will vote next month on a proposal to close three Boston schools, including two small high schools in Dorchester and Hyde Park .
At a School Committee meeting Wednesday night, educators at each school in question asked the committee to save their small schools, arguing their environments lend extra support to students of color and high needs students.
“We don’t know what to tell our students. Our students don’t know what is happening to them next, and these are decisions that are being made,” teacher Meghan Desmond told the committee Wednesday. “We’re finding out less than 48 hours later that we need to come and fight for our schools.”
As the district enters the next phase of the district’s ongoing plan to close nearly 20 schools by 2030, the School Com

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