…around the world for Friday. Jordan Winsor, co-coordinator of Sunrise Movement Northampton, estimates there will be 500 people from western Massachusetts, most of them young, making the trek to the…
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Area lawmakers active in crafting landmark education bill
BOSTON — It was a joyous atmosphere on Beacon Hill Wednesday as the state Legislature unanimously passed the $1.5 billion Student Opportunity Act school funding bill. And western Massachusetts lawmakers…
Community Foundation Grants given
Just Roots, Clinical and Support Options and the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts are among seven organizations awarded $300,000 in competitive “innovation” planning grants from the Community Foundation of Western…
Expressing What Matters to Youth in the DYS Program
…Services (DYS), the students showed what mattered to them in paintings, sculptures, videos, song and dance. The Massachusetts program has had a long commitment to incorporating the arts into youth…
Interns gain experience in life sciences, and a paycheck
…at the Collaborative for Educational Services. “We have to treat them like adults if we expect them to act like adults.” The internships are being offered through the Collaborative for…
For the Hampshire County Food Policy Council (HCFPC), community leadership is at the heart of their work.
…socially just. The group received funding from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission through the Moving Massachusetts Upstream Investment Program to establish the council. The initial partners for the program included…
Afterschool and Out-of-School Programs Woefully Underfunded
A release from the office of State Senator Brendan Crighton: The Legislature’s Afterschool and Out-of-School Time (ASOST) Coordinating Council has found that years of underfunding have left too many Massachusetts…
State education formula out of whack, Commission: Health insurance, special ed underfunded
…the number of in-district special education students and the cost of out-of-district special education,” the report found. Its authors recommended increasing the in-district enrollment rate and out-of-district cost rate to…
A meeting of the minds: Sunderland sixth-graders interview UMass graduate students for podcasts
…plan to be finished around Friday, March 13. “It’s a pretty extensive project,” Copeland said. After encouraging the students to pick a subject that interests them, Copeland invited graduate students…