…added that 18 of the highest residential property tax rates in the state belong to towns receiving rural school aid, which was budgeted at $15 million this year, and action…
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Franklin County Tech principal picked
TURNERS FALLS, MA — Shawn Rickan of Phillipston is to take over for Franklin County Technical School Principal and Assistant Superintendent Richard Martin when Martin moves into the superintendent’s office…
South Hadley names Bonneville interim schools chief
…budget shortfall. Earlier this month, the School Committee unanimously selected Bonneville as the district’s acting superintendent following the sudden retirement of former Superintendent Nicholas Young, who announced on Nov. 26…
Staff shortages ‘adding a layer of stress’ at area school districts
…when we accept that transfer request, we create a vacancy in another place,” Greenfield School Department Superintendent Christina DeBarge previously noted. Elizabeth Teahan-Zielinski, superintendent of Ralph C. Mahar Regional and…
Chris Appy
…National Identity (Viking, 2015); Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides (Viking, 2003), and Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). Patriots won…
Charter school debate looms over raising state caps
…tuition for about 200 students while receiving about $359,000 in aid during fiscal year 2015. She said she and fellow League of Women Voters member Margie Riddle have already spent…
Becoming money smart: At Fort River Elementary in Amherst, 5th-graders learn about finances by working and paying rent through mock program
…of high school students can be considered financially literate, according to a 2015 Massachusetts report on financial literacy, and that Massachusetts is one of 12 states across the country that…
As Massachusetts charter schools enroll more students with disabilities, who exactly are they serving?
At Lawrence Family Day Charter School, which caters to poor and minority students, fewer than 7 percent of students have special needs – far below the statewide average. Director Ralph…
Karen Albano
Karen Albano began working with the Emerging America program in 2015. She is currently the editor of the weekly History eNews, and has contributed to many facets of the Emerging…