Plan to close Boston schools to affect thousands of students Boston 25 News [Video]

BOSTON — Closures, mergers, programs discontinued in some places and adjusted in others. Boston’s latest school consolidation plan may seem like a mishmash — but it’s actually the first, Mayor Michelle Wu said, that’s grounded in real-time data about the condition of the city’s school buildings coupled with community and expert input.

“Now we know for the first time the exact real-time condition,” Wu said. “When the heating system was last replaced. What’s not working or what’s about to not work because it needs replacing. So, for the very first time as a district, we are making decisions based on criteria that’s been vetted and data that is publicly available to everyone based on the standards and dreams of our community.”

Wu said the consolidation plan, announced Tuesday, took three years to put together. If approved by the Boston School Committee it would not take effect for eighteen months — …