Students and educators from seven Pioneer Valley school districts are going to Boston on Feb. 28 to ask state lawmakers to increase funding for rural schools. The students were supposed…
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Kevin Courtney
Kevin Courtney is a consultant to the Executive Director at CES, whose responsibilities include serving as a liaison to the Franklin County school districts and working with school leaders, primarily…
Experts discuss state of local education at GCC
…experts advocated both at the state and local levels for sufficient funding for rural public school districts and championed opting out of state “high-stakes testing,” at an event hosted by…
Donate to Strong Foundations for Young Children Fund
Home E Search query for: blog blog 2020 06 06 prepared for anything franklin tech seniors bid school farewell aatech3 2 ( Page 42 ) Strong Foundations for Young Children…
Early Childhood Focuses on Social-Emotional Wellbeing as the Foundation of Learning
…education and care, family child care provider, and public school preschool programs. After the devastating effects of the pandemic, the importance of resilience was outlined in sharp focus for both…
Youth Policy and Advocacy Summit 2025
…was co-planned by adults and youth in Hampshire and Franklin Counties over the course of seven months. The purpose of the Summit was to provide local youth with useful information…
Tobacco Free Community Partnership
…tobacco, prevent youth from starting, and protect everyone from secondhand smoke. Home E Search query for: blog blog 2020 06 06 prepared for anything franklin tech seniors bid school…
Schools end blizzard bag program after state cancels initiative
…end of the year. A few school districts in Franklin County recently started the blizzard bag program: Mohawk Trail, Hawlemont, Ralph C. Mahar, Orange and Petersham. The remaining districts —…
Community Foundation Grants given
…schools, will help the Mohawk Trail, Frontier, Pioneer, Mahar, Gill-Montague and Franklin County Technical school districts, as well as Greenfield schools, develop more “trauma-informed” cultures. An outcome will be to…
New Title IX Rule Has Explicit Ban on Discrimination of LGBTQ+ Students
The new rule expands the definition of sex discrimination but doesn’t address transgender athletes’ participation in school sports LGBTQ+ students will receive explicit legal protection from sex discrimination and harassment…