…said Academy Director Sherry L. Smith, referring to two beloved Academy teachers who had passed away during the school year. She went on to express her pride and that of…
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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…
Meal options for students during school closure
Schools continue to think outside the box with meal delivery as well as pick up during this extended school closure. Franklin County Technical School, with the help of FM Kuzmeskus…
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…
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,…
Creating Your AI School Policy
…complete or near-complete draft of district-level policy for school committee consideration; and (b) a guidance statement about AI that district administrators can provide to schools and teachers. “It is not…
Turners Falls High School says goodbye to Class of 2020
…the 2020 class should be proud of what we accomplished here at Turners Falls High School,” Peterson said. Friday’s commencement began at 6 p.m. on the Turners Falls High School…
Hinds and Blais say launch of Rural Schools Commission ‘a big win’ for region
…Education issued a report in 2018 on the fiscal conditions of rural schools across the state and found those schools pay more per student for teachers, aides and transportation. “There…
Les Edinson
…principal who has been successful in both urban and rural environments. Recently retired as principal of the Fitchburg Arts Academy in Fitchburg, MA, he has served as a principal in…
Leslie B. Edinson
…and magnet schools in both urban and rural environments. He was the founding principal of the Fitchburg Arts Academy, and served as a principal in Springfield, Holyoke, Shutesbury and Hubbardston,…