BOSTON — School committee members, administrators and students with the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont regional school districts, along with elected officials from member towns, converged on the State House earlier…
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Follansbee announces retirement as Easthampton school superintendent
ASTHAMPTON — After 26 years working in Easthampton schools, Superintendent Nancy Follansbee will retire at the end of the school year, in June 2018. In response to Gazette inquiries, Follansbee…
Children of migrant farm workers lose vital education services amid funding freeze
…between different school districts or miss school altogether because of the moves or to work alongside their parents. The program provides additional academic support for children who might be struggling…
Westhampton Elementary School wins national honor
…Westhampton Elementary School is among 362 schools designated as National Blue Ribbon Schools this year, and the only school so designated in Hampshire County. In total, six such schools from…
Local 21st Century Learning Centers approved for funding for this coming school year
…communities. Programs include Memorial Elementary School in West Springfield, Greenfield High School in Greenfield, Maple School and Pepin Elementary School in Easthampton, and Converse Middle School in Palmer. The out-of-school…
New Easthampton superintendent to shine spotlight on academics, consolidated school in design
…issues.” LeClair worked in the Agawam public school system as assistant superintendent since 2012 before being hired as superintendent by the Easthampton School Committee this past spring. Across the district,…
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…
Interim GHS principal steps into permanent post
…in a principal’s office at Greenfield High School at the outset of the school year. She can now call this office her own. After nearly a full school year as…
With prospect of more charter schools, rural educators see greater risk
…who oppose lifting the cap. For local school superintendents, more charter schools mean more students leaving their home district, taking much-needed revenue with them. In Franklin County, where school districts…
Hinds and Blais say launch of Rural Schools Commission ‘a big win’ for region
…enrollment factor in the existing rural school aid formula. The state provided rural school aid of $1.1 million to schools in Franklin County and the North Quabbin area this year….