Browse past news stories for John P Holland Elementary School in Dorchester, MA.

• City targets 14 schools for overhaul (Boston Herald)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 11:16:31 pm
  Fourteen chronically underperforming schools mainly in Roxbury and Dorchester are slated for dramatic overhauls - including possibly closing and replacing them with charter...
• 5 Hub schools to add metal detectors (Boston Herald)
  posted on October 2, 2009 at 04:31:55 am
  Metal detectors will be installed in five more Boston Public Schools next week. Meanwhile, three Dorchester schools were locked down yesterday while police scrambled to find...
• 3 Dorchester schools put on safe mode (7 News Boston)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 04:23:45 pm
  BOSTON -- Three public schools went into safe mode Thursday morning in Dorchester while police searched a gunman in a drive-by shooting.
• 3 Dorchester schools briefly locked down as police searched for gunman (Boston Globe)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 01:41:19 pm
  By Globe Staff Three public schools went briefly into lockdown this morning in Dorchester as police searched for a gunman who fired several errant shots at a car, police said. The gunman opened fire just before 9 a.m. near the...