…Hilltowns, Hilltown residents were at a disadvantage in accessing local produce to improve nutrition and food security. In late 2018, Healthy Hampshire was awarded a two-year grant from the Massachusetts…
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Collaborative for Educational Services Executive Director Announces Plans for Reitrement
…26 ESAs can play in supporting the needs of students, educators and schools.?” Innovative programs designed by Schuman and her staff include the creation of federal grant-funded services that support…
Job posting set for interim Northampton school chief
NORTHAMPTON — The School Committee is “entertaining applications for an interim superintendent for the Northampton Public Schools,” vice chair Gwen Agna said during a special meeting held virtually on Tuesday…
It Was Hard This Year to Keep Politics Out of High School Yearbooks
A high school yearbook is a keepsake. Like an Instagram filter, it’s meant to bathe recent memories in the warm, soft-focus glow of nostalgia. As an object, it evokes affection…
Belchertown School Chief to Retire
BELCHERTOWN — Belchertown Public Schools Superintendent Karol Coffin plans to retire from the district after this school year, effective June 30. Coffin submitted a letter of intent to retire on…
Leave no child’s school district behind
…debate. For citizens and their legislative representatives to vote on the expansion of charter schooling we need to understand the true costs and benefits of charter schools and traditional public…
Easthampton Students Dig Into Pepin School History
…brand new building, Mountain View School, the following fall. They wanted to record important school and town history before the buildings were abandoned and the sounds of children playing at…
Sheffield Elementary School celebrates National Poetry Month with ‘poet trees’
…building,” Pitrat said. Instead of reading poems aloud to others, students are posting poems on branches — called “poet trees” — stuck in the ground in front of the school….
Orange pushing ahead for more state school aid
…schools and schools with a high percentage of special education students. Orange is both. Reinig has presented to the Selectboard her assessment that the town’s elementary schools are grossly underfunded,…
‘I’ve learned that things have a cost.’ Meet the migrant children working long hours in factories and fish plants across Mass.
…being kidnapped or raped along the way. Once here, they’re expected to enroll in school. But many lack basic literacy skills and may not get much-needed language assistance. Schools aren’t…