SPRINGFIELD —Nine-year-old Ery Perez Gutierrez focused last summer on sharpening his academic skills at Boland Elementary School, under a program that provides additional education to the children of migrant farm and fishery workers. The jobs, which require families to move across the state and country due to seasonal employment, can take a toll on their children’s education — a challenge the program aims to address. This summer, however, Ery, a US-born citizen whose Guatemalan mother previously worked in tobacco fields across three states, won’t get the chance to learn science lessons or...
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Jun
2024
10
Mount Tom Academy awards diplomas to eleven
Eleven students were awarded diplomas Wednesday morning at Mount Tom Academy’s commencement ceremonies. Mount Tom Academy is a program of the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), and is located on the Holyoke Community College (HCC) campus. The...
Jun
2024
7
BEACON Students Explore GCC Pathways
Nine high school students from the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) BEACON and Mount Tom Academy programs explored Greenfield Community College's career pathways in health careers, outdoor leadership, manufacturing and HVAC, on a visit led by the GCC...
May
2024
14
Hadley Elementary School cited for STEM focus
A national nonprofit organization, Project Lead the Way, is recognizing Hadley Elementary School for a focus on making every child successful in science, technology, engineering and math. The school recently was named as a 2023-24 Project Lead The Way...
May
2024
13
Building an Innovative Community for Special Education Team Leaders
CES Curriculum and Instructional Specialist in Special Education Laurel Peltier has been part of the team leading the statewide Special Education Team Leader Institute (SETLI) in Massachusetts since 2016, funded by the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary...
May
2024
1
Massachusetts Migrant Education Program provides support across the Commonwealth
In the fall of 2020, the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) took on the management of the Massachusetts Migrant Education Program (MMEP). CES has a strong programmatic core of supporting students that aligned well with the MMEP work, and it was the plan...
May
2024
1
US Department of Ed Selects HEC Academy as Green Ribbon award winner
HEC Academy has been selected one of 55 national 2024 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon award winners. The U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) is a public engagement initiative for school sustainability. The ED-GRS is a recognition of...
Apr
2024
29
50 Years of Belonging and Community for Students with Disabilities
In 1974, the Massachusetts special education law Chapter 766 was passed, which required that all school districts provide education in a new and more inclusive way for students with special needs residing in their communities. The Collaborative for Educational...
Apr
2024
22
New Title IX Rule Has Explicit Ban on Discrimination of LGBTQ+ Students
The new rule expands the definition of sex discrimination but doesn’t address transgender athletes’ participation in school sports LGBTQ+ students will receive explicit legal protection from sex discrimination and harassment under a long-awaited revision of Title...
Apr
2024
17
Two local school advocates tapped to lead state’s new Small and Rural Schools Committee
As rural schools and their challenges continue to become a more prominent topic at the state level, two local champions of Franklin County’s schools have been tapped to serve as co-chairs of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees’ (MASC) new Small and...
Apr
2024
4
Supporting Access to Educational Technology
In 1987, schools and districts were not commonly thinking about educational technology as a means to level the playing field for student opportunity. But CES (then named HEC) Executive Director Earl Batchelder was already testifying about it at the state hearings...
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