…are truly beginning to receive needed attention.” Gov. Maura Healey’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 includes $7.5 million in proposed rural aid, which represents a $2 million, or 36%,…
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Northfield Elementary sees uptick in enrollment, adds teacher
NORTHFIELD — When preparing this school year’s budget, Northfield Elementary School Principal Megan Desmarais was anticipating another year with declining enrollment, a steady trend for more than a decade. But…
Senate panel rejects Trump’s proposed federal education cuts
…proposed a budget for the Education Department that represented a nearly 14 percent cut, or $9.2 billion, in spending, some of it for programs popular with Republicans. Members of the…
‘A really big part of our lives’: State commits $15.5M to early education and care programs
…from the state budget, though, there would be challenges for families, Budine said, as there are only four licensed child care options in the five communities. Budine said that all…
HEC Academy students add nutrition education to their weekly schedule
…the space, and completing an inventory of tools. They also researched vegetable growing conditions, drew up a budget, purchased seedlings, and planted the garden.” The students’ new knowledge led to…
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…
Mohawk supt. seeks ‘rural school aid’
…aid to schools for the budget year that begins July 2017. If the state were to adopt Buoniconti’s plan as written, it would generate $1 million per year more in…
Amherst-Pelham school district devises new funding formula
…is a compromise for the four towns as it is not the best method for any community, and it stays within budget guidelines set by Amherst, where the tax increase…
How do you use iPads and tablets?
…classroom, they are seeing that the cost to purchase this hardware is not within their current budget. One way teachers have purchased the hardware is to apply to organizations like…
Miguel Cardona chosen as Secretary of Education
…to discuss potential layoffs as a result of budget cuts. Rather than talking about overall positions, Cardona talked about individual teachers, lamenting that any of them may lose their jobs….