Boston district is underreporting amount of empty school space

From The Boston Globe: Boston school officials — under pressure by financial watchdogs to cut operating costs but hesitant to close schools — have not made public the full number of empty classroom seats across the city. Their most recent tally of 5,758 empty seats counts only the excess capacity in classrooms staffed by teachers, officials say. It does not account for the surplus space that exists in no-longer-used classrooms or those that have been converted into storage and meeting rooms as student enrollment has dropp