…School, Warwick Community School and Bernardston Elementary School, and also oversees Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s Special Olympics program. Scott organized the inaugural Special Olympics Young Athletes event last spring,…
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Orange: state shortchanges its SPED funding by $3.5 million
ORANGE — It’s not just rural schools feeling left behind by the 25-year-old formula for state aid, it’s schools with a high number of special education students too. Unfortunately, Orange’s…
Stretched too thin: Rural school districts go on the offensive for legislative help
…establish rural school aid. The Massachusetts Rural Schools Coalition, led by Michael Buoniconti, the superintendent of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional School districts, went to Boston on Thursday to…
Orange pushing ahead for more state school aid
…schools and schools with a high percentage of special education students. Orange is both. Reinig has presented to the Selectboard her assessment that the town’s elementary schools are grossly underfunded,…
State hopes to hire new education czar by end of the year
…age of 65 from cancer, and Deputy Commissioner Jeff Wulfson has been leading the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education since then on an acting basis. The Board of Elementary…
Lessons learned, problems solved at engineering camp
…at the week-long engineering program held in Whately Elementary School. Around Magnus, foam pipe insulation snaked under classroom chairs, over tables, directing marbles into fan switches and matchbox cars. “I…
Northampton schools eye ‘science of reading’ model, backed by $323K in grants
NORTHAMPTON — At Ryan Road Elementary School, students in Diana Ramsden’s first grade class work on reading and writing using a mixture of phonics lessons already included in the school’s…
In face of homework bans, local educators a voice for moderation
…to bed early.” This year, a growing number of schools are following the “no-homework” trend. Kelly Full Service Community School in Holyoke banned homework after the school’s district extended the…
Taking Our Data to the Next Level
…development in the executive function and reading proficiency in elementary grades? If one examines the strategic plan design requirements for Preschool Expansion Grants, it becomes apparent that both the departments…
South Hadley names David Gallagher principal of middle school
…1996, where he began his career in the district as a school counselor at Mosier Elementary School. He assumed an assistant principal role at the elementary school around the year…