“The community of Roxbury had high hopes for its newest public school back in 2003. There were art studios, a dance room, even a theater equipped with cushy seating.
“A pilot school for grades K-8, Orchard Gardens was built on grand expectations.
“But the dream of a school founded in the arts, a school that would give back to the community as it bettered its children, never materialized.
“Instead, the dance studio was used for storage and the orchestra's instruments were locked up and barely touched.”
A recent NBC Nightly News report examined the process that is transforming Boston’s Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School into one that is meeting the hopes the community once had for it.
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