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Students to ask state for more education funds
Students and educators from seven Pioneer Valley school districts are going to Boston on Feb. 28 to ask state lawmakers to increase funding for rural schools. The students were supposed…
Mitchell Chester, State’s Longtime Education Commissioner, Dies At 65
Longtime Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester died Monday evening after a short illness, the state’s education board chairman announced at a Tuesday meeting. He was 65. “We were…
State hopes to hire new education czar by end of the year
MALDEN — The state education board is embarking on its first search for a new elementary and secondary education commissioner in a decade, with top officials hoping to land on…
State politicians battle Tech culinary students in good-natured food fight
TURNERS FALLS, MA — “Lemons! I need some lemons!” shouted state Rep. Stephen Kulik, pacing the culinary arts program kitchen at Franklin County Technical School Friday afternoon. “Did somebody already…
‘A really big part of our lives’: State commits $15.5M to early education and care programs
…young children. These programs are designed to support child well-being, development and school readiness, in the state’s most rural towns. “What you’ve built here is so incredible,” Kershaw said. Gillian…
Union 38 asks for state transportation funding
DEERFIELD — District officials from Union 38 schools are calling on state legislators to uphold their end of the bargain and fully fund regional transportation costs. “I write to respectfully…
Rural schools develop state aid proposal
…a draft proposal that seeks more Chapter 70 state aid for rural schools with the highest enrollment declines, the lowest per capita income and flat-level state aid to education. The…
State Pre-K Funding 2016-17 Fiscal Year: Trends and opportunities
…50 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) shows continuing support from both Republican and Democratic governors, legislators and state boards of education. In the 2016-17 budget year, 30 states…
Rural School Aid in State Budget
BOSTON — Massachusetts’ new budget includes $1.5 million for a new “rural school aid” account championed by Sen. Adam Hinds, D-Pittsfield. Nearly one month into the state’s new fiscal year,…