As schools across the country face the daunting challenge of making up ground lost due to the Covid disruptions, one of the most promising strategies for doing that is an approach launched in Boston 20 years ago – on the top floor of a former auto parts store.
Click here to read the full story on the history of Match’s tutoring program and how this type of intervention can help schools address learning loss from the pandemic.
Match Charter Public School will be participating in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program. As part of this program, all schools will offer healthy meals every school day at NO COST to the students due to the implementation of the Community Eligibility Provision for school year 2023-2024. Students will be able to get breakfast and lunch at school without having to pay a fee or submit a household application.
Click here for the full press release.
Match High School’s Class of 2022 valedictorian, Charlotte Cano Polanco, was featured in the Boston Globe. A daughter of immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic, Charlotte shares her life story before she heads off to study at Stanford University this fall.
Click here to read the article.
In its 2022 rankings, US News & World Report named Match High School the 17th best high school in Massachusetts, as well as 120th charter school nationwide.
Rankings were based on six factors: college readiness (proportions of 12th graders who took and passed at least one AP or IB exam); college curriculum breadth (proportions of 12th graders who took and passed AP and IB exams in multiple areas); state assessment proficiency; state assessment performance (includes all students); underserved student performance (only Black, Hispanic and low-income students); and 4-year high school graduation rates. For underserved student performance, Match High School ranked 3rd in the state.
To review Match High School’s full profile, click here.
This press release is to inform the Match community that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Language Acquisition will conduct a Tiered Focused Monitoring Review of Match Charter Public School. The Office of Language Acquisition reviews each district’s and charter school’s English learner education (“ELE”) program every six years to monitor compliance with federal and state ELE laws and regulations. Match’s review will take place on March 18, 2022.
Kareem, who was valedictorian for Match Charter Public High School’s class of 2021, said trips to the Dominican Republic, where her parents grew up and extended family still lives, piqued her interest in sustainability. Since then, she has participated in learning programs in Idaho, Chile, and at Philips Andover Academy, and she will continue searching for sustainable solutions next year at Brown University, where she plans to study agricultural or environmental engineering.
Click here to read the full profile from The Boston Globe.
In this opinion piece, Boston Globe columnist, Scot Lehigh highlights innovative charter school practices, including the Match Corps tutoring program, that can be roadmaps for schools across the Commonwealth as leaders decide how to use the influx of federal funds to help accelerate student learning after the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Fortunately, there are dozens of idea factories of innovation and enterprise, in the form of the state’s charter-school sector. Indeed, there’s a lot of overlap between the changes parents want and the services charters provide.”
Click here to read the full article.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors in the Class of 2021 have faced many challenges: remote learning, balancing schoolwork and jobs to support their families, and keeping up with the stressful and lengthy college process. One part of the process—the completion of a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA—is an early indicator of whether a student intends to go to college following high school graduation. When schools closed last spring, the number of students completing the FAFSA nationwide dropped significantly, and the lower rates have persisted, especially for Black and brown students. Massachusetts is no exception, but at Match Charter Public High School in Boston, we’ve learned that by taking certain steps, schools can buck that trend.
Click here to read the full Education Post article by our Director of College & Career Counseling, Ashley LaCavalla.
Malaky was born with amniotic band syndrome, and had his right leg amputated when he was 2½ years old. Now an 18-year-old graduate of Match Charter Public School in Allston, Malaky is a budding wrestler with a passion for coaching.
“I love wrestling because of the community it gives you. Wrestling is all inclusive, you meet good people,” Malaky said. “Other sports, it’s not as common where you have an amputee playing, there’s a lot more caution around it. Wrestling, it’s a different feeling. When I step on that mat, everything that happens stays on that mat.”
Click here to read the full article from The Boston Globe.
Match Charter Public School’s Chief Academic Officer, Emily Stainer, is writing a weekly blog about the lessons learned during remote learning. This week’s post is able using students and family feedback to inform our school’s remote learning plan. She writes:
While students and their families have always been at the heart of our work, being remote has reminded us that they can and should give input and advice on our plans all the time, and at the very least underscored that it can and needs to happen more frequently than we’ve typically done so.
Click here to read the full post that was published on Education Post.
Recently the Bates College student newspaper published a piece, interviewing alums currently working in education, and therefore doing remote learning with students. They interviewed our very own Andrew Jarboe, AP US History teacher at Match High School, who stressed Match’s focus on maintaining connections with students.
“The first week after the school building closed its doors, the faculty rushed to establish contact virtually with students and families, making sure they were ready for the new learning environment and handing out Chromebooks if they needed them. Academics were secondary to connecting with kids, and rightly so.”
Click here to read the full article.
Andrew Jarboe, the AP US History teacher at Match High School, authored a guest blog for Education Post in which he describes how and why he started a British Parliamentary Debate League for Boston public charter high schools. He notes, “The skills kids learn from debate—public speaking, critical thinking, forming logical arguments, creativity, confidence—are important, if not necessary, for every facet of their lives.”
Click here to read the full post.
The Match Foundation, Inc., part of Match Education, has been awarded a competitive AmeriCorps grant for the fifth consecutive year by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency for volunteering and service. During the 2019-2020 school year, Match Education will oversee 45 AmeriCorps members who will serve full-time in Match Charter Public School in Boston and in Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys in Baltimore. In the last four years that Match Education has partnered with CNCS, AmeriCorps members have tutored over 2,700 economically disadvantaged students in Boston, New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and Baltimore.
Click here to read the full press release.
From May 6-7, 2019 the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Public School Monitoring (PSM) will conduct a Tiered Focused Monitoring Review of Match Charter Public School. The Office of PSM visits each district and charter school every three years to monitor compliance with federal and state special education and civil rights regulations.
Click here to read the full press release.
On February 14th, Boston’s WCVB 5 News team visited Match Community Day to see the amazing work of the ForsythKids program that “works with schools and community partners to make certain it is easy for children and their families to get high quality dental care.” The story was featured in WCVB’s 5 for Good Series on February 28th during the evening news segment.
Click here to watch the video on Channel 5’s site, and click here to read the scripted version on Match’s site.
In mid January, a group of Match High School juniors traveled to Maine to visit and learn from the internationally ranked Bates debate team, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council. The day started off with workshops and partner practice, and then students got to test their new skills in two rounds of British Parliamentary Style debate. All of the students who participated hope that this trip will mark the start of a robust debate program at Match High School.
Click here to read the article.
About 1 in 8 public school teachers leave their jobs in Massachusetts every year. Among charter schools, that number is even higher. WBUR recently did a story on the innovation ways Massachusetts charter schools are trying to retain their teachers in response to teacher feedback. Match Charter Public School was featured.
Click here to read the full article.
Match Charter Public School will continue its policy to operate the USDA Community Eligibility Program (CEP) under the National School Lunch and Breakfast program for the 2018-2019 school year.
Click here for the full press release.
After writing a 4-part series on a group of seniors who graduated from Match High School in 2017, Liz Willen followed up with Daniel Inoa after he finished his freshmen year at Dartmouth College.
Click here to read the article.
The Match Foundation, Inc., part of Match Education, has been awarded a competitive AmeriCorps grant for the fourth consecutive year by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps programs.
Click here to read the full press release.
Match Community Day (PreK-5)
100 Poydras St.
Hyde Park, MA 02136
P: (617) 983-0300
F: (617) 272-3581
Match Middle School (6-8)
215 Forest Hills St.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
P: (857) 203-9668
F: (857) 203-9666
Match High School (9-12)
1001 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
P: (617) 232-0300
F: (617) 232-2838
