The Boston School Committee heard the district’s proposal to close three schools and reconfigure three more, as some in the schools’ communities kicked off an impassioned campaign to keep them open.

“I wanted to start tonight’s conversation by acknowledging that conversations about school closures are never easy,” said BPS Chief of Capital Planning Delavern Stanislaus at Wednesday’s session.

“They reach far beyond buildings and budgets. They touch our students’ daily lives, our staff’s sense of stability, and the identity and history of neighborhoods they serve,” Stanislaus said. “I know that many who have joined us in person in this room and virtually tonight are worried, frustrated or grieving the possibility of losing a place that has meant so much to them. Those feelings are real and

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