BOSTON: Mayor Menino, BPS Officials Surprise Louis Agassiz Elementary School 3rd Grade Students

Targeted News Service | March 15, 2007 | Copyright

Boston Public Schools issued the following news release:

On national Absolutely Incredible Kids DayTM, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Superintendent Michael Contompasis and School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger paid a surprise visit today to the Louis Agassiz Elementary School in Jamaica Plain to congratulate the winner of the first Boston Public Schools "Absolutely Incredible Kid" contest.

Students and staff at the school believed they were attending an assembly this morning about a technology announcement. Instead, the Mayor and district officials called to the stage nine-year-old Brenda ...

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