…in our budget proposal significant increases for education and are pleased to now take this step to support those districts that need it.” “The Massachusetts Association of Regional Schools (MARS)…
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Holyoke voters being asked for $54 million to replace aging middle schools
…on Nov. 5 approve building two 550-student middle schools. The project would receive up to $75.8 million in funding from the Massachusetts School Building Authority, but residents would have to…
Lani Blechman
…more than 13 years, she’s worked across the urban/rural divides of Western Massachusetts for racial and gender justice. She holds the 2017 MA School Library Association’s President’s Award – West….
Governor Baker outlines plans for local aid increases
…least $20 per pupil to all of the state’s 322 school districts. Chapter 70 aid and local property taxes are the chief sources of funding for K-12 education in Massachusetts….
CES After School program receives grant for Dexter Park Elementary in Orange
…After School program for Dexter Park Elementary School within the Orange Public Schools. A highly competitive process, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education received funding requests totaling more…
Blended Learning Issue Brief released and available for download
NORTHAMPTON, MA – An Issue Brief, ‘Connecting to Possibilities: Integrating Technology in Juvenile Justice Education’ is available for free download from the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES). Focusing on the…
Baker-Polito Administration Signs Criminal Justice Reform Laws, Proposes Additional Reforms
BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker today signed An Act Implementing the Joint Recommendations of the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Review and An Act Relative to Criminal Justice Reform. After careful review…
Gail Healy retires after 39 years in Franklin County
…get older, they get older, too.” Four Corners was also one of three training sites in western Massachusetts for “Reading Recovery,” an intensive one-on-one remedial program for first-graders who had…
Area students salute veterans for their service
…themselves. There were service members from Westover Air Reserve Base and University of Massachusetts Amherst Reserve Officer Training Corps, in addition to officers of Hale-Clapp Veterans of Foreign Wars Post…
Districts team up on county’s first public therapeutic day school
…by a board representing 36 member school districts in Hampshire and Franklin counties. It also provides services to other districts and education programs throughout Massachusetts and New England. Among its…