Fifty educators from across the Commonwealth gathered at the Hotel Northampton to celebrate completion of the first Special Education Team Leader Institute (SETLI) program. Participants shared capstone work, received certificates and heard keynote speaker Russell...
Northampton, MA - National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects across the country in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. Included in this announcement is an Art Works...
NORTHAMPTON - "I'm here because we value young people and their development," said Heather Warner, speaking to members of the Massachusetts Alcohol Task Force at Northampton City Hall on Tuesday. Warner, a member of the Strategic Planning Initiatives for Families...
Amherst, MA – Over seventy-five families spent Monday morning learning about nature at the Hitchcock Center in Amherst. Children and their adults enjoyed nature play, creating, and exploring the educational offerings throughout the center’s “living building.”...
Northampton, MA -- In ceremonies held this morning at Smith College’s Sage Hall, seven area students from HEC Academy in Northampton graduated from high school. Keynote speaker James Arana, Associate Director of Men’s Resource International, praised the students’...
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...
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...
West Springfield, MA – A local legislator and several school administrators convened today at the Cowing School in West Springfield to learn more about the work being done at the Reading Recovery Training Site located there. Senator Jim Welch and W. Springfield...
AMHERST, MA - Children clapped, danced and growled happily as members of the Enchanted Circle performed two stories at Saturday’s Reading Alive, presented by the Early Childhood Department of the Collaborative for Educational Services at the Grace Episcopal Church....
EASTHAMPTON, MA — In the face of another demonstration that drew about 200 people in advance of a School Committee meeting Tuesday night, school officials defended their actions in dealing with incidents of bullying and harassment at the school and vowed to keep...
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