Boston School Committee is reorganized.

(April) An effort led by James Jackson Storrow persuades the Massachusetts legislature to amends the city charter to reduce the committee from 24 members elected by ward to five members elected at-large for staggered three-year terms. The new committee’s duties are to set educational policy, and it is instructed to yield other powers to School Department officials. All five candidates elected to the new committee are reformers backed by the Public School Association.