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JUNE WWW.FENWAYNEWS.ORG 2020 FREE COVERING THE FENWAY, AUDUBON CIRCLE, KENMORE SQUARE, UPPER BACK BAY, PRUDENTIAL, LONGWOOD, AND MISSION HILL SINCE 1974 • VOLUME 46, NUMBER 6 • MAY 29, 2020 - JULY 3, 2020 City Reinforces Mass. Ave. Bike Lane HOUSING KEEPS CHANGING HANDS IN MISSION HILL, DESPITE CORONAVIRUS BY ALISON PULTINAS Appeal in March. CAMH voted 12-11 in favor of parking, and he pandemic hasn’t stopped real estate sales the ZBA also approved it. in Mission Hill. Larger transactions in the 97B Calumet St. sits cheek by jowl with three other past 12 months include two six-family, 19th- properties that all have backlot houses, an unusual century buildings. Mission Hill native Eric Alden cluster near Calumet Square. The former owner David purchased 775 Parker ALISON PULTINAS PHOTO: Julier had also owned 99 Calumet St. at the corner of Alleghany St. for several decades. He retains PHOTO: TWITTERPHOTO: @COPLEYSCOTT17 USER T and will potentially develop two other student rentals, 91 the adjacent parking lot. The Hillside St. and 33 Calumet St. vacant six-family at the dead Public listings of real estate end of South Whitney Street transactions come from the sold in March to Anthony A. A. Warren Group, which publishes McGuiness for $2 million. The the weekly Banker & Tradesman. previous owner of 3-5 South Another resource is the Boston Whitney had obtained approval Globe’s website, realestate. for a demolition without a public boston.com, and the Sunday hearing from the Landmarks Gobe listings. Mission Hill is not Commission and had plans for a its own neighborhood in either nine-unit, six-story building. source—some sales appear under At the end of April, real Roxbury and occasionally, by estate investors Michael and mistake, under Jamaica Plain or Janice Ye purchased a three- the Fenway. Not all transactions family at 97B Calumet St.—a are reported publicly. hidden house behind 99 Calumet More $1 million-plus sales St. near the corner of Calumet in 2019 and 2020 included 6 and St. Alphonsus—for $1.24 Bucknam St.; 8 Cherokee St., million. Less familiar to neighbors sold to Ellie Li of Keystone With its concentration of restaurants than some other landlords, Management; 24-26 Lawn St., and coffee shops, the bike lane on Janice Ye came to the Community sold to Aihui Zhu of Lexington; the west side of Mass. Ave. between Alliance of Mission Hill (CAMH) a 32 Fisher Ave and 724 Parker St., Haviland Street and Church Park has few months ago seeking support sold to Fenway’s Lee Guzovsky long drawn double-parking delivery for variances to pave the back doing business as ABW Rentals. drivers and other motorists. The City yard at 17-19 Sunset St. before Alison Pultinas lives in recently added concrete curbing to going to the Zoning Board of Mission Hill. create a barrier alongside the lane, 3-5 South Whitney St. sold for $2 million. which should keep the lane clear. The Power of Dual-Language Programs in Boston’s Schools at a scrimmage debate for the Boston Debate to implement no later than March 1, 2019. students to function in the classroom setting EDITOR’S NOTE: Boston Public League—all in Spanish. It is with people like A new system to help students who learn if they continue to preach the separate nature Schools closed on March 17 Gomez in mind, that McDonough works so English in the classroom is necessary in order of the two languages, both academically and and won’t reopen this school diligently to educate Boston Public School for these students to have successful academic socially? (BPS) districts on legislation that will propel careers. I myself grew up in a Hispanic McDonough and others within BPS year. Many educators, parents, English learners forward academically. household, where everything I learned in my believe that bilingual students and ELLs and experts are thinking about English language learners (ELL), or mother tongue was only useful in a social deserve the opportunity to thrive in the what schools will need to look students who are unable to communicate setting. The older I got, the more I longed for classroom. Under the LOOK Act, people like like when they do reopen and fluently or learn effectively in English, are an education system that could bring me up to Gomez can thrive, starting from the early among the most diverse of all students in speed with my age-counterparts in my parent’s ages of Pre-Kindergarten all the way through envisioning how they could Massachusetts. In Boston alone they make country of origin. elementary, middle, and high school. be transformed. This article, up 30 percent of all students. According to Graduate Professor of Urban Education “We were really excited that the LOOK about English language the Center for English Language Learners at the City University of New York, Ofelia Act was passed in 2017, because it brings at American Institutes for Research, Garcia says that bilingual people are back bilingual and biliterate opportunities learners and bilingual approximately 12 percent of the students constantly reverting back and forth between for our students,” McDonough said, “I know education was written last who began as ELL did not achieve English their native and learned languages throughout particularly for the office of English Language year. proficiency statewide by the end of the study the course of their lives. Learners we’re really excited about that period. The Boston public-school system When she spoke at the Multilingualism because it takes away the mandate that all throws bilingual students into a classroom & Diversity Lectures in 2017, Garcia recalls students have to learn sheltered English in BY LAURA RODRIGUEZ with the hope that they figure out the nuances when she started to truly understand the immersion environments.” eady to start her day, Genevieve of academic language eventually. But in benefits of bilingual education. A student McDonough turns the corner reality, it takes up to seven years to pick up the brought it to light in her classroom, back when From sheltered immersion to of the Boston Public School academic language, and even then, their brains she taught in a bilingual school. ‘translanguaging’ district office to the Dudley don’t process language the same way a native “When I asked one child one day, ‘What he goal of Sheltered English Immersion Cafe, and orders an Americano. speaker does. is happening here?’ he said to me, ‘well programs is to provide English learners RShe sips her coffee with a smile as she sifts In November 2017, Massachusetts even though Spanish runs through my heart, Twith a comprehensive curriculum in all through the paperwork she’s brought, clips it passed the Language Opportunity for Our English rules my veins,’” Garcia said. content areas, as well as develop a student’s all into the clipboard in her hand, and adjusts Kids (LOOK) Act, which aimed to provide The issue is really multifaceted—how English language skills. Students come out of a name tag that reads “Boston Public Schools districts with more flexibility in their language can we incorporate both languages into a the classroom having mastered how to speak, Instructional Specialist.” Her smile widens acquisition programs. The Massachusetts child’s academic life and disprove the myth of read and write in English. as she recounts the story of Willie Gomez, a Department of Elementary & Secondary separateness? The way that Diana Weiner, a bilingual high school graduate of the Margarita Muñiz Education was supposed to establish Considering that two-thirds of the teacher from Long Island, New York, Academy. McDonough recently saw him benchmarks, guidelines, and English learner English language is similar to Spanish, how describes English immersion programs is that articulate the benefits of bilingual education success templates by Sept. 1, 2018, for districts can teachers in the public school system expect “a new kid comes from a different country, they’re thrown into a classroom and are • The Fenway News continues publishing continue to offer takeout service expected to figure out the academic language online only this month. even though the state’s phasing plan eventually,” she says, “but they’re basically CORONAVIRUS • A doesn’t let them reopen until later in not learning anything from ages five to seven statewide ban on eviction cases and foreclosure proceedings remains June. Visit www.fenwaycdc.org/ and because they’re still trying to pick up both in effect until 45 days after the state click the “We are Open” tile for a list. social and academic cues in each language.” & THE FENWAY According to Garcia, there are two of emergency is lifted, or mid-August, • Lifeboat Food Bank continues at the perspectives—one is the external societal whichever comes first. We’ve got more Seventh Day Adventist Church, at the perspective, which states that there are two information on page 6. corner of Jersey & Peterborough streets. main languages that can be connected back • Many restaurants in the Fenway Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3-5pm. DUAL LANGUAGE on page 2 > 2 | FENWAY NEWS | JUNE 2020 Goodbye, Tony C’s. Hello, SOJUba. With the sole exception of Domino’s Pizza, PHOTO: STEVE CHASE commercial tenants in the first block of Boylston Street in the West Fens have emptied out in preparation for the site’s redevelopment. Built as automobile showrooms in the early 20th century, the block at one time housed two landmarks of Boston’s gay community, the Ramrod and the 1270. SOJUba, formerly located at 1260 Boylston (the old Sweet Caroline’s) has found a larger home just across the street in the old Tony C’s space at 1265 Boylston.