BUCKLAND — Hoping to boost state money to rural school districts by about $9.5 million, educators at the Massachusetts Rural Schools Coalition voted unanimously Wednesday to back a proposal for…
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Afterschool and Out-of-School Programs Woefully Underfunded
…would enroll if such opportunities were available. According to an Afterschool Alliance survey, 196,562 students are enrolled in afterschool programs but an additional 213,966 are unsupervised during afterschool hours. In…
Sheffield Elementary School celebrates National Poetry Month with ‘poet trees’
…pockets. On Poem in Your Pocket Day — April 30 this year — students in other grades are encouraged to ask the second-graders to read their poems aloud. Students are…
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…
The brains behind computers: Family code night at Norris School in Southampton
…to make such as how to make slim foam. But, like many youngsters — and adults — Rylie, her sister Katherine, 10, and the students at William E. Norris School…
State’s education secretary gets an earful from educators, politicians in Northampton stop
NORTHAMPTON — Even if the students at Bridge Street Elementary School didn’t know who Patrick Tutwiler was, they could clearly tell he was somebody important. Students frequently stopped him during…
Chocolate milk is heading back to school
…the nutrition standards. The language would apply only to the 2017-18 school year. But it mirrors changes to school lunch standards the Trump administration announced Monday as U.S. Secretary of…
Granby offers superintendent’s job to Agawam High School Principal Steven Lemanski
GRANBY, MA — The School Committee voted 4-1 Thursday night to offer the job of superintendent to Agawam High School Principal Steven Lemanski. The school board still must negotiate a…
Turners Falls High School seniors surprised with parade
…Seniors at Turners Falls High School, probably like at most other high schools, are reportedly less than thrilled. “They’re heartbroken,” said Jen Luciano, a seventh-grade teacher at Turners Falls High…
Greenfield mulls how to fund school technology needs
GREENFIELD — How Greenfield should look to fund the school district’s constantly growing technology needs provoked a robust conservation at an afternoon school subcommittee meeting this week. Quickly it was…