…have increased the financial burden for the remaining, aging population to pay for services and schools, and for finding replacement workers, town committee members and volunteer firefighters. Lack of adequate…
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Bridging to Belonging: PLC Summer 2024
…communities and schools. In this PLC series, we frame and explore tensions across differences that are present in our schools as we seek to find ways for all students and…
Leave no child’s school district behind
…schools. While Kenen’s essay contributes to that public understanding, it does not fully address the central points that we were voicing — that charter schools disproportionately impact rural and small…
Graduation Rates Up, Dropouts Down in Massachusetts High Schools
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…
CES Provides 2022 Election Day Professional Development
…Professional Development workshops for educators.. Over 35 workshops were coordinated by the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), and hosted by Easthampton Public Schools, Northampton Public Schools and Amherst College, and …
CES Director Accepts National Award For Innovative Leadership
…schools in positive dialogue about how to improve the lives and education of young people. This past year, CES partnered with the Holyoke Public Schools to manage Dean Technical High…
Stretched too thin: Rural school districts go on the offensive for legislative help
…push for these changes to Chapter 70 state education funding on behalf of rural schools. Across the state, enrollment in rural schools decreased by 14 percent between 2008 and 2017,…
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,…
Sarah Westbrook
…the QFT for a range of audiences, including NCSS, NSTA, NCHE, and ASCD national conferences; Chicago Public Schools; Cincinnati Public Schools; New York State BOCES districts, San Francisco Public Schools;…
Northampton schools eye ‘science of reading’ model, backed by $323K in grants
NORTHAMPTON — At Ryan Road Elementary School, students in Diana Ramsden’s first grade class work on reading and writing using a mixture of phonics lessons already included in the school’s…