…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…
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Smith School names interim superintendent
…year. Farr, a longtime technical school educator, was one of two finalists interviewed by the trustees. Also a candidate was James M. Laverty, former superintendent of Franklin County Regional Vocational…
Mohawk Trail grads: On to something new and exciting
…Harrison, a 1988 graduate from Mohawk Trail, now a professor in the sociology department of Virginia Tech. Harrison was born in Ghana, and was brought to western Franklin County just…
Gill-Montague school officials ready to determine uses for $110k regionalization grant
…Superintendent Michael Sullivan. The grant was announced last week and would allow Gill-Montague schools, Franklin County Technical School, and Pioneer Valley Regional School District to find ways to collaborate. Sullivan…
Rural schools to push for millions more in state aid
…receive the most aid, of $300 per student. Among the local school districts, those to benefit the most in new rural aid dollars would include: the Franklin County Technical School…
Les Edinson
…Springfield and Holyoke and in rural Franklin and Worcester Counties — all in Massachusetts. An experienced staff developer, he served in that role in the Cambridge, MA Public Schools and…
Turners Falls Schools to see all new administrators
…worked as assistant principal at Greenfield High School for five years, a history teacher at Pioneer Valley Regional School for eight years and, most recently, a substitute teacher at Franklin…
Youth substance abuse prevention programs get state funding
…Berkshire Regional Planning Commission City of Springfield Collaborative for Educational Services (Amherst, Northampton, Easthampton, South Hadley, and Hadley) Franklin Regional Council of Governments Northern Berkshire Community Coalition Railroad Street Youth…
Hinds and Blais say launch of Rural Schools Commission ‘a big win’ for region
…enrollment factor in the existing rural school aid formula. The state provided rural school aid of $1.1 million to schools in Franklin County and the North Quabbin area this year….
State Senate OKs rural school aid for county districts
After years of state, school and town officials beating the drum for rural school aid, rural districts, including Mohawk, Frontier, Pioneer Valley, and the 19 member-town Franklin County Technical School…