The three-year initiative known as the Amherst Wellbeing Alliance will bring together community members, organizational and governmental stakeholders to create a community-wide plan for health AMHERST, MA — The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), in partnership with the Amherst Public Health Department, has received $375,000 over three years to complete a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) for Amherst, Massachusetts. The Amherst Wellbeing Alliance (in Spanish: “Alianza para el Bienestar de Amherst”) will engage the community and strategic partners, collect and analyze data,...
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May
2017
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State Senate OKs study on rural school aid
A provision to study how rural schools might get more state aid has been included in the Senate budget that was adopted this week. That’s good news for Franklin County’s struggling, small school districts. The so-called “sparsity aid” formula is aimed at providing...
May
2017
27
Mount Tom alternative learning program graduates 10 area high schoolers
HOLYOKE — A few years ago, Julia Levesque didn’t think she would graduate high school. But on Friday, she was dressed in a black cap and gown along with nine other students who completed their high school studies through an alternative learning program. “Be somebody...
May
2017
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It Was Hard This Year to Keep Politics Out of High School Yearbooks
A high school yearbook is a keepsake. Like an Instagram filter, it’s meant to bathe recent memories in the warm, soft-focus glow of nostalgia. As an object, it evokes affection and community; you hope to show it to your children and grandchildren someday. A yearbook...
May
2017
23
Franklin Tech steps away from musicals
Turners Falls, MA - In a vocational school, arts are not always the focus. At Franklin County Technical School, days are already packed with traditional subjects and the student’s vocations, and beyond that, many find after school outlets in sports. Yet, five years...
May
2017
23
Gill Elementary Global Finals team gets schoolwide send-off
GILL — Students from Gill Elementary School lined the hallways with posters and cheers on Monday morning to send the school’s Destination Imagination team off to global finals. Principal Conor Driscoll said the send-off started with the six sixth-graders from the team...
May
2017
17
The brains behind computers: Family code night at Norris School in Southampton
SOUTHAMPTON, MA — Like most youth of her generation, Rylie Simmons, 8, is adept at using today’s technology to watch gymnastics on YouTube or to research do-it-yourself projects like how to make such as how to make slim foam. But, like many youngsters — and adults —...
May
2017
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Bringing STEM to life: In cross-pond collaboration, JFK students team up with counterparts in England
NORTHAMPTON — Seventh-graders in the community room of JFK Middle School scoot their chairs toward the front of the room as three uniformed boys appear on a large screen. “Hello! Hello! Hola!” pipe voices from the screen. The American students wave in slow circles to...
May
2017
17
Experts discuss state of local education at GCC
GREENFIELD, MA — On the same day the Senate released its first draft of its budget, a group of experts gathered to discuss the state of local public education. Education experts advocated both at the state and local levels for sufficient funding for rural public...
May
2017
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The Collaborative for Educational Services awarded Youth Opioid Prevention Grant
NORTHAMPTON -- Efforts to prevent drug and alcohol use among young people will expand in middle schools in Easthampton, South Hadley and Hadley as well as in Amherst–Pelham and Hampshire Regional schools next year thanks to a $20,000 grant from the state Attorney...
May
2017
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Eight athletes show their skills at Pioneer Special Olympics
BERNARDSTON, MA — Eight students hurried around the Bernardston Elementary School gymnasium, throwing bean bags, crawling through plastic tunnels and wheeling around on scooters. With upbeat music playing, the students’ classmates, teachers and parents encouraged them...
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