…and has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic. She has worked as a program director for educational non-profits in the Boston area and at the New…
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Massachusetts Senate passes Breakfast After the Bell legislation
BOSTON (WWLP) – Several schools in the western part of the state already offer what is known as the Breakfast After the Bell program, which makes sure students aren’t hungry…
Northampton Receives $50,000 Mass in Motion Grant to Promote Public Health
NORTHAMPTON, MA – Mayor David J. Narkewicz today announced that the City of Northampton has received a $50,000 Mass in Motion Grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to…
ESE to hold five public forums on PARCC – first is Tuesday April 28 in Fitchburg
MALDEN, MA – The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will hold a series of public forums across the Commonwealth on the upcoming decision on whether to sunset the Massachusetts…
Isolda Ortega-Bustamante named as Development Director at CES
…State and Federal Programs for Holyoke Public Schools, overseeing $17 million dollars in public grant programs, and leading the district in securing a $300,000 state grant to bolster enrichment activities…
State education secretary takes to airwaves with a message: make school attendance ‘a priority’
…that persistently high rates in Massachusetts and nationwide will hold back the ongoing academic and emotional recovery. Before taking the helm as the state’s education secretary, Tutwiler led the Lynn Public Schools. During his…
Leeds Elementary principal announces departure
…Holyoke and self-described “Holyoke guy,” he said he hopes to make an impact there. Many students leave the Holyoke Public Schools district for charter schools or school choice, he said….
State’s education secretary gets an earful from educators, politicians in Northampton stop
…city and school officials, one student inquired whether he was the president. Tutwiler, the Massachusetts secretary of education, visited the school as part of a larger tour of public schools…
Announcing the CES Center for Emerging Educational Practice website launch
…administrators, particularly those in small and mid-sized districts. This dynamic new website, emergingedpractices.org, provides free, practical, research-based resources to address some of the most pressing challenges in public education today….
Classrooms: Teachers to be honored with excellence awards
…among other items. Here are this year’s award-winning teachers in Hampshire and Franklin County public schools: Amherst-Pelham schools — Richard Eckart, Amherst Regional High School; Kelly Carlisle, Pelham Elementary; Tiffany…