The Healey-Driscoll Administration has announced $5 million in grants to expand early childhood mental health consultation services for children, families, educators and early education providers across Massachusetts. Through the Department…
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Governor Baker signs FY16 Budget
…that are raising concern include funding for early education and care programs, and the full day Kindergarten development grant program. According to Senate President Stan Rosenberg, D-Amherst, “We have serious…
MOEC Highlights Work of Collaboratives to Support Student Mental Health
…$249,300 Supporting Students’ Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Behavioral & Mental Health, and Wellness through Multi-Tiered Systems of Support grant from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The purpose of…
My Turn: Our educational landscape: Charter schools’ negative impact in area
…Hampshire counties. The Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) and the superintendents of most of the school districts in Franklin and Hampshire counties have been examining the data about enrollment trends…
State Senate OKs study on rural school aid
…struggling, small school districts. The so-called “sparsity aid” formula is aimed at providing additional financial aid to rural districts like those in Franklin County. The idea, proposed by Mohawk Trail…
A different kind of meals on wheels: Franklin County Technical School delivers food to students
…prepared, healthy meals are delivered to Franklin Tech students and children in other districts. Bouchard explained she has tried to leverage Franklin Tech’s National School Lunch Program financial reimbursement to…
School transportation costs a burden to Mohawk Trail
…$2.34 million in promised state transportation reimbursements, adding to the financial burdens of running a district across nine sparsely populated and relatively poor towns, whose geographic footprint is larger than…
Caucus of superintendents makes $60M in rural school aid top priority
…needs they wanted to prioritize in their legislative agenda. Surprisingly, despite superintendents and school committee members for years saying the solution to the financial challenges rural schools are facing is…
Connecticut Valley Superintendents Roundtable Hosts Massachusetts Legislators
…with state senators and representatives about topics of vital importance to their districts. Of particular concern were the timing and number of unfunded educational mandates in Massachusetts, and their impact…
New principal to join Granby Junior Senior High School
…has created financial uncertainty. With an increasing number of families using school choice to leave the district, or deciding to attend the Granby-based campus of the private MacDuffie School, Sullivan…