The Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents (MASS) has launched a new rural caucus with five established legislative priorities, chief of which is securing $60 million in rural school aid. Sheryl Stanton, superintendent of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont...
Massachusetts education officials have released statewide guidance urging schools to use the technology thoughtfully, with an emphasis on equity, transparency, academic integrity and human oversight. “AI already surrounds young people. It is baked into the devices...
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...
In a message from Interim Commissioner Patrick Tutwiler and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) on April 9, 2025, the Department responded to the recent USED Request for Certification. Following is the DESE message to Superintendents,...
As uncertainty looms over the future of the Department of Education, school administrators across the state are bracing for impact. With budget season in full swing, many are preparing for deep cuts to crucial programs like special education and Title 1 services...
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...
Judy Heumann’s death last year was deeply felt in the disability community. Often called “the mother” of the disability rights movement, her activism had a lasting impact on millions of Americans. Yet many people don’t know her name. “She was a really strong...
GREENFIELD — At the Joint Committee on Ways and Means’ fiscal year 2025 state budget hearing on Friday, the focus was on statewide education and local aid. At the regional level, though, legislators, school officials and community members from up and down the...
Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley plans to step down on March 15 after six years leading Massachusetts' K-12 school system, according to a letter he sent to the state's education board on Thursday. Riley plans to recommend Deputy...
Nearly four years after COVID-19 first shuttered schools, students are still missing class at rates unprecedented in the past two decades. In an effort to reverse that trend, Patrick Tutwiler, the state’s education secretary, will make his television debut this...
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