Mayor Wu was riding in a Boston police car when it collided with another vehicle on Tuesday, her office confirmed.
Wu was a passenger and “no one sustained any major injuries,” a spokesperson for Wu’s office said in an e-mail.
“The Boston Police Department will conduct an investigation of the incident as they do with all crashes involving departmental motor vehicles,” the e-mail said.
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The spokesperson did not provide the time and location of the crash.
Officials at the Boston Police Department referred inquiries about the crash to Wu’s office.
A video obtained by Fox25 shows the police car the mayor was in had flashing blue emergency lights when it was T-boned by an oncoming vehicle traveling in the opposite direction.
The station, as well as the Boston Herald, were among the media outlets that first reported the crash. The outlets reported the crash occurred as the police vehicle carrying Wu was turning left onto Hyde Park Avenue from Blakemore Street.
According to Wu’s schedule, her only public event Tuesday was an 11:30 a.m. school related announcement at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School and John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, at 75 Malcolm X Boulevard in Roxbury.
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At that event, Wu joined Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper to unveil a multi-year plan to overhaul the city’s high schools, starting with Madison Park and the O’Bryant, which now share a campus, the Globe reported.
Tonya Alanez can be reached at tonya.alanez@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @talanez.
The success rate of applicants receiving invitations to attend Boston exam schools next fall varied widely based on the socio-economic conditions of where they live, according to data released by Boston Public Schools Wednesday night.
Overall, 976 applicants for the seventh grade out of a total of 1,348 received admission offers, which were sent out two weeks ago, while 440 applicants for the ninth grade out of a total of 666 got into Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy, and the O’Bryant School for Math and Science.
Students entering the exam schools this fall are the third group to be admitted under a three-year-old admission policy that aims to increase student diversity at the city’s exam schools, especially its flagship Latin School.
How were admission decisions made?
BPS divides applicants into eight tiers based on the socioeconomic conditions of where they live. Admission decisions are then made by tier based on grades and standardized test scores. Many applicants also receive up to 10 bonus points if they attend a high-poverty school, or 15 points if they are homeless, live in certain public housing, or are in the care of the state Department of Children and Families.
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The policy, which aims to increase the racial, socio-economic and geographic diversity of those admitted, has led to great variation in outcomes per tier depending upon the number of applicants received.
Wednesday night’s data did not include a demographic breakdown by race, ethnicity, or income status —that is expected to be released in the coming weeks as part of a more comprehensive data analysis.
How did admission offers vary by tier?
In tier 1, where the greatest concentration of low-income students reside, all 115 applicants for grade seven received an admission offer to one of the exam schools. In tier 8, where there were 270 applicants for grade seven — the most of any tier — 45 percent, or 123 applicants, got in.
In grade 9, where the applicant pool is much smaller, only 55 applicants in each tier received admission offers, although the number of applicants per tier varied. Tier 3 had the lowest number of applicants with 75 and tier 8 had the largest number of applicants, 99.
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How did the composite score vary by tier?
Not surprisingly, there were big differences in average composite scores among the applicants who received invitations.
In tier 8, the most competitive tier, seventh-grade applicants who got into Latin School had an average composite score of 98.8; for Latin Academy it was 97.1; for the O’Bryant, it was 96.5. Tier 8 had the highest average composite scores across the board.
By contrast, seventh-grade applicants in tier 1 had an average composite score of 80.5 for Latin School; 65.6 for Latin Academy; and 64.6 for the O’Bryant. Tier 1 had the lowest average composite score for Latin School and Latin Academy and the second lowest for the O’Bryant.
For grade 9, composite scores for applicants receiving invitations to Latin School ranged from 100 in tier 6 to 93.7 in tier 3; for Latin Academy the average composite score ranged between 97.6 in tier 8 to 85.7 in tier 3; and for the O’Bryant it ranged between 89.2 in tier 8 and 70.2 in tier 5.
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Any thing more about the bonus points?
BPS revamped its distribution of bonus points this year for applicants who attend high-poverty schools. For the past two years, all applicants from those schools received 10 bonus points, which proved problematic in tiers with the stiffest competition that made it difficult or impossible for applicants with no bonus points to get into exam schools.
Under the new system, bonus points for seventh- and ninth-grade applicants ranged between 2 points in tier 8 to 10 points in tier 2. More than 60 percent of seventh-grade applicants in tier 8 received bonus points while more than 90 percent did in tier 2.
Why doesn’t BPS expand exam schools?
The School Committee raised that question Wednesday night. Both Chair Jeri Robinson and member Brandon Cardet-Hernandez wondered whether BPS could create satellite campuses for the exam school’s junior high programs in an effort to increase capacity.
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“It is heartbreaking year after year to seek kids who have the qualifications and desire to go to a school or schools that they cannot go to when we know we have other schools that are struggling and the goal is to move all of our students into high-performing seats,” Robinson said.
Superintendent Mary Skipper and Mayor Michelle Wu had proposed adding about 400 seats to the O’Bryant as part of last year’s plan to relocate that school to a would-be renovated facility in West Roxbury, but that proposal fell apart this winter amid community opposition.
James Vaznis can be reached at james.vaznis@globe.com. Follow him @globevaznis.
Dinner parties at residences and supper club events are back, fueled by pandemic lockdowns that kept people out of restaurants and away from connecting with others. How do you feel about it?
Dinner parties at home, at event spaces, and sometimes at restaurants — like the one seen here at Grill 23 — are back in Boston. How do you feel about the resurgence? Brian Feulner/Boston Globe
With the worst of the pandemic behind us, one thing is clear in the dining world right now: More than ever, people want to connect over good food, and not just at restaurants.
It seems the dinner party is back, reborn a couple of years ago in order to bring people together in a comfortable space.
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This isn’t your parents’ dinner party. Dinnerware is sometimes mix-matched or chipped, they take place in cramped apartments without dining rooms, and maybe it playfully calls for a theme around a particular food, like soup or tinned fish.
Some people in Boston and other cities have made a business out of it. Supper clubs are not a new concept and are slightly different from dinner parties — though these words are sometimes used interchangeably depending on the organizer. Both dinner parties and supper clubs can be as casual as a potluck-style setting, or maybe the host is in control of a more elaborate menu. Sometimes supper clubs are helmed by professional chefs, cooking up prix fixe menus in a rented space.
Also depending on the event and the host, they’re an opportunity to meet strangers.
The Harvard Crimson reported from the scene of a supper club in December called Dinner with Friends in Boston, in which its host typically charges $30 for the seven or eight guests to attend the intimate dinner.
There’s also the Aperitivo Society, which does a mix of assisting people hosting dinner parties at their homes and holding private supper club events at restaurants. The latter is often organized in a way where guests who do not know each other come together.
Then there are chefs like Kendall DaCosta, who hosts a monthly supper club called Out of Many One People, a way to cook creatively without a brick-and-mortar space.
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If paying for someone else to do the work isn’t what you’re looking for, there are plenty of tips out there right now for how to throw your own dinner party, from simple to elaborate. There are even stores and TikTok accounts all about helping people get the aesthetic of a dinner party just to their liking.
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Heat scored a franchise playoff record 23 3-pointers against the Eastern top seed, as Thunder sank Pelicans in the West.
The Miami Heat unleashed a barrage of three-pointers to score a series-levelling 111-101 upset over the top-seeded Boston Celtics in their NBA Eastern Conference playoff duel.
Eighth-seeded Miami, playing without the injured Jimmy Butler, produced a battling performance on Wednesday to tie the best-of-seven series at 1-1 as the teams head back to Florida for game three on Saturday.
Tyler Herro led the Miami scoring with 24 points, part of a balanced offensive effort that saw all five Heat starters post double-digit points.
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But the key to the Miami victory was their accuracy from long range, with the Heat draining 23 three-pointers from 43 attempts compared with Boston’s 12 of 32.
Herro knocked down six threes while Caleb Martin added five to his tally of 21 points.
Bam Adebayo also finished with 21 points while Jaime Jaquez Jr added 14 and Nikola Jovic 11.
Boston, meanwhile, were led by 33 points from Jaylen Brown, with Jayson Tatum finishing with 28 in a losing effort.
The win was all the more unexpected given Miami’s 20-point drubbing by Boston in game one on Sunday – something Herro said had motivated the Heat for game two.
“We lost badly in game one and everybody responded tonight, and that’s all you can ask for from a group of guys,” Herro said afterwards.
It was another trademark display of defiance from Miami, who are aiming to emulate their playoff run of last season when they reached the NBA Finals after entering the postseason via the play-in tournament.
“We don’t even want to mention last year, this year is a whole new year,” Herro said.
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Boston star Tatum, meanwhile, said the Celtics had expected a backlash after their comfortable game one victory.
“We knew it wasn’t going to be easy,” Tatum said.
“There’s a lot of history between these two franchises, especially recently.
“Regardless of seeding or who’s in or who’s out – it’s the playoffs … we’ve got a chance to play another one on Saturday – should be a fun one.”
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander shows full command of the floor and leads the @okcthunder to a 2-0 series lead!
While the Eastern Conference top seeds were left licking their wounds, there were no such problems for Boston’s Western Conference counterparts Oklahoma City.
The number one ranked Thunder took a commanding 2-0 lead in their first-round series against the eighth-seeded New Orleans Pelicans with an emphatic 124-92 thrashing.
The Thunder took the lead early in the first quarter and were in complete control throughout, holding a double-digit advantage from the second quarter onwards which reached 34 points at one stage late in the fourth quarter.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the scoring for Oklahoma City, finishing with 33 points from 13-of-19 shooting from the field.
Chet Holmgren added 26 points while Jalen Williams chipped in with 21. Luguentz Dort added 15 points including four three-pointers.
The result was in stark contrast to game one, which went down to the wire before Oklahoma City prevailed 94-92 on Sunday.
“Within a seven-game series, we’ve just got to take it day by day and try to get better every day,” Gilgeous-Alexander said afterwards.
“And I think that’s what we did tonight. We definitely had a better performance than we did in game one and that’s our goal. So we’ll take it.”
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The series now heads to game three in New Orleans on Saturday.
Oklahoma City Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander celebrates after scoring against the New Orleans Pelicans during game two of the first round for the 2024 NBA playoffs [Alonzo Adams/USA Today Sports via Reuters]
