Here's what our neighbors to the east are doing

The problems we're facing in Worcester are of course being faced statewide. Boston officials yesterday presented what their city is doing to face their $30.7 million school budget shortfall:

Averting imminent school closings and deep classroom cuts, Boston will bail out the cash-strapped school system by giving it a one-time infusion of $10 million from city reserves, school and city officials said yesterday.

Read the rest of the Boston Globe report here.

You'll note that Boston is also facing declining enrollment, it's implied among the middle class, and the superintendent is ordering her spending in that direction. They've also made school closings a later measure to look at.

And of course, as the student representative rightly notes, $10 million isn't going to fend off cuts in Boston, either.