On November 17th, 2022 at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, the SPIFFY Coalition co-sponsored and co-organized the 9th Annual Safe and Healthy Schools Summit: Supporting Schools in Seeking Racial Healing…
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Supporting Access to Educational Technology
…4th Annual Technology in Education (TiE2016) Conference, held at Holyoke Community College. Conference presenters shared a common thread that began with the first conference in 2013: how technology can be…
Local technical schools lead donations to area hospitals
Two local technical schools, Franklin County Technical School in Turners Falls, and Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School in Northampton, have each made donations of supplies to their local hospitals…
Massachusetts to recommend modifying MCAS graduation requirements for Class of 2022
…Riley’s recommendations would change the competency determination requirement in English language arts and mathematics for students graduating next year to reflect missed testing opportunities last spring, when COVID forced schools…
Miller announces she’ll leave Pioneer school district
…news in letters to School Committee members last week, saying she will not be looking to negotiate a new contract once her current three-year contract is up. If nothing changes,…
2016 Parent Guide Now Available for Local Parents
…Coalition’s Heather Warner,about Data-informed parenting, and a quiz to help parents talk and actively listen to their teen. The 2016 Parent Guide can be found at the following link: https://view.publitas.com/p222-4389/parent-guide-2016/page/1…
Baker to file stand-alone education bill
…his annual budget later this month to update the Chapter 70 funding formula and implement the reforms recommended by the Foundation Budget Review Commission. On Monday, the governor said that…
Sixteen schools in five Western MA school districts awarded Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants
Western Massachusetts schools will receive just over $480,000 of the $3.8 million dollar Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants awarded last week by the Baker-Polito Administration. Sixteen schools within Belchertown, Gill-Montague,…
Area lawmakers active in crafting landmark education bill
…will create a special commission to study and make recommendations on the fiscal health of rural school districts that are facing, or might face, declining enrollment. Blais said the rural…
Steering Committee member Kris Hoag featured in SADO.D.
…in the community. In her interview, Kris talks about how crucial it has been for BOAT to have the support of key stakeholders in the town of Belchertown, like the…