GRANBY, MA — The School Committee voted 4-1 Thursday night to offer the job of superintendent to Agawam High School Principal Steven Lemanski. The school board still must negotiate a…
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Mount Tom alternative learning program graduates 10 area high schoolers
…was no hope of graduating. The social factors were demanding and made it hard to concentrate on schoolwork. “It was hard to be yourself,” Levesque said. But then Levesque enrolled…
Swift River School forum on standardized testing draws large crowd
The Swift River School School Committee hosted a public forum on standardized testing Thursday evening. Sharing information about standardized testing was one of the goals of the forum during the…
Franklin County Technical School receives grant for tree nursery
…Greenfield and Montague tree committees wrote a grant proposal for the project, which resulted in an $18,000, five-year grant from the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts to create a tree…
Gateway’s ‘blizzard bags’ cut makeup days in sunny June
…School District, however, will be on the other side of those windows, basking in the sun. The reason for the earliest end to school for Gateway students in recent memory?…
Deepening Paraeducator Skills at Erving Elementary School
The day begins at Erving Elementary School, and Principal Jim Trill’s team of educators are ready. As students leave their cars and buses, they run for the school entrance, where…
State education secretary takes to airwaves with a message: make school attendance ‘a priority’
…school districts combat absenteeism across the commonwealth. Meanwhile, Jeff Riley, the state’s K-12 education commissioner, has proposed holding districts accountable if they fail to increase their rates of consistent attendance. As…
Hawlemont sees new principal, new programs
CHARLEMONT — Hawlemont is a school where everyone does farm chores, so it’s no big deal for the school principal, on a summer afternoon, to feed the school’s 19 chickens…
Greenfield mulls how to fund school technology needs
…What prompted an involved discussion of technology and how to pay for it, was part of a conversation about potential money left over from the building of the high school….
William Evans named Easthampton High School’s new principal
EASTHAMPTON — William Evans, outgoing principal of North Brookfield High School, will take over as principal of Easthampton High School on July 1. “It seems like a terrific school,” Evans,…