…is greater for poorer kids, and the effect is cumulative,” said Chris Smith, executive director of Boston After School & Beyond, which works with Boston Public Schools to organize the…
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Forum with legislators explores rural school aid, recreation tax and more
…school aid. Mark explained how last August, Gov. Maura Healey signed a budget for fiscal year 2024 that provided an extra $9.5 million for rural school aid compared to fiscal year 2023’s…
Children/Youth/Families
…04 16 kristen smidy named gateway regional school district superintendent smidy super ( Page 45 ) We believe everyone can learn and succeed. CES specializes in programs and services that…
Franklin County Technical School starts year with student-built computers
Turners Falls, MA – Students in the Franklin County Technical School’s computer programming and web design program started the school year with 26 new computers, but the students themselves were…
Easthampton high school hosts “Transforming Education for Social Justice” conference
…Transforming Education for Social Justice conference, to find out how to make their schools more racially and gender inclusive. Mishie Serrana from Holyoke High School said the school is taking…
Rural School Aid in State Budget
…school aid provides additional funding for an estimated 62 school districts – mostly in Western Massachusetts – that have enrollment of fewer than 21 students per square mile and per…
Belchertown administrator to become South Hadley middle school principal
SOUTH HADLEY — The superintendent of schools has chosen Douglas Daponde, assistant principal at Belchertown High School, to be principal at Michael E. Smith Middle School effective Nov. 6. Daponde…
Lenox schools to explore alternative ways to structure district
…shared services with other districts, superintendency unions with other schools and regionalization, in order to “know what the opportunities and the threats of the different options might be.” Through 2020,…
Tech school adds college-prep, AP courses
TURNERS FALLS, MA — Classes started this week at Franklin County Technical School for the 38th time, but for the first time with advanced college placement classes. The Technical School…
US Dept of Education announces webinar “Two Approaches to Improve Student Achievement in Rural High Schools”
…Co-Director of the Building Assets, Reducing Risks Program Jim Boothby (BARR) – Superintendent, Bucksport School District, to explain how the model has affected his rural school in Maine. Register here…