Massachusetts four-year high school graduation rates climbed for the ninth year in a row in 2015 with some of the largest gains recorded by some minority groups and students from…
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Miller announces she’ll leave Pioneer school district
…provide for the students in the way I thought I’d be able to.” “I said ‘I think working out my contract makes the most sense,’” Miller continued, “and I wasn’t…
Two candidates remain in running for Frontier, Union 38 superintendent
…School District in New Hampshire. Clark holds a master’s degree in education from Boston College. Before coming to Springboard in 2015, she was an elementary school principal in the Danvers…
School transportation costs a burden to Mohawk Trail
…in January 2015 that Mohawk’s $1,183,021 transportation budget represents more than 6 percent of the overall budget. Yet Mohawk is hardly alone. Last year, when the reimbursement was 73 percent,…
$23 Billion Funding Gap Exists Between White and Nonwhite School Districts, Report Finds
…wealthy communities benefits the few at the detriment of the many,” the report said. The report, which looked at state and local funding for school districts in the 2015-16 school…
Orange pushing ahead for more state school aid
…Orange gets and what it actually needs, Reinig said. “We really need to fight for this,” Reinig said. Reinig has been contacting local representatives, including state Sens. Jo Comerford, D-Northampton,…
‘I’ve learned that things have a cost.’ Meet the migrant children working long hours in factories and fish plants across Mass.
…labor laws. Now 19, and a high school senior, Walter feels stuck. “Sometimes I just feel like there is no way forward,” he said in Spanish through a translator. (Walter…
G-M schools have higher enrollment
…an increase of 33 from last spring’s 2016-2017 enrollment. Last year, the district had 951 total students enrolled, and the previous year they had 947. From 2012 to 2015 the…
State’s new rural policy commission meets in Greenfield
…policies didn’t recognize some of the unique challenges in rural communities,” Partnership Senior Adviser Rita Farrell told the new commission at the John W. Olver Transit Center. Among the issues…
Now available: Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation
Available from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council – April 1, 2015 Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace…