…four through eight, remembers seeing teachers with sweat soaking through their shirts on the first day of school this year. And her thoughts jumped to how students felt in that…
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Mass. Early Educators Will Get A Raise After State Board Vote
Early educators are getting a raise after the Board of Early Education and Care voted Wednesday for a $20 million rate increase to be put toward improved programming and higher…
Teaching Disability History: How the Civil War Changed Disability and American Government
…disabled Massachusetts Civil War veterans and nurses. The Civil War left more than 600,000 dead and half a million injured. An unprepared nation strained to nurse soldiers during the war…
HCC Receives $1 Million Grant To Build New Engineering Program
…intended to improve undergraduate education in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. HCC has been a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution, or HSI, since 2016. Colleges and universities are…
Massachusetts House restores $17.5 million for kindergarten expansion grants to state budget
…said the fund was being used by communities for years after they added kindergarten to maintain it – which is not why the fund was created. Early education advocates and…
How Children Can Become Caring Community Members
…the Collaborative for Educational Services and another organization called Camp Kindness Counts are stepping in to lend their support, with funding from the Greater Good Science Center’s parenting initiative. These two programs are…
Food policy council wins grant to turn hunger stories into policy advocacy
…and spin those stories into advocacy for improved public policies. Since 2022, the Hampshire County Food Policy Council, a resident-led coalition supported by the Collaborative for Educational Services, has been…
For the Hampshire County Food Policy Council (HCFPC), community leadership is at the heart of their work.
…socially just. The group received funding from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission through the Moving Massachusetts Upstream Investment Program to establish the council. The initial partners for the program included…
Officials sound off to legislators on broadband, schools
…listening tour and began their day in the Conway Town Hall. Speakers from regional planning agencies tried to explain some of the interrelated problems rural towns face, including: Declining populations…
Tech AP program wins honor
…named to the honor roll, which consisted of more than 370 school districts across the United States and Canada. FCTS offers AP courses in English language and composition, computer science…