…with longstanding federal law, Massachusetts will continue to promote diversity in our schools, because we know it improves outcomes for all of our students, and we have more work to…
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Alison Noyes
…English Language learners and high school history and worked for many years with international students and college study abroad as a program director and assistant dean before returning to focus…
State board rejects Hadley Chinese charter school expansion
…“exemplar” of what the charter-school movement is about. But Michael Morris, acting superintendent for the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District, told the board that adding students would be transferring funds from…
Mount Tom Academy awards diplomas to eleven
…Leaphart and Max Fripp spoke of each student’s gifts before diplomas were handed out. Graduating students came from eight different schools within Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties. Mount Tom Academy…
Massachusetts Senate passes Breakfast After the Bell legislation
BOSTON (WWLP) – Several schools in the western part of the state already offer what is known as the Breakfast After the Bell program, which makes sure students aren’t hungry…
CES After School Program celebrates twenty years
…from 13 students up to 27 students. The Greenfield High School 21st CCLC program, the ‘Green Room’ was recently awarded DESE’s SPED 245 grant to enhance services for students on…
Follow 15 of America’s teachers on a day of frustrations, pressures and hard-earned victories
…10 students are proficient in reading and math. That may be explained by the fact that 87 percent of the students are poor and one in five have a diagnosed…
Warwick Community School Improv Club puts creativity to test with annual performance
WARWICK — Warwick Community School students let their imaginations run wild on Tuesday, pretending to be animals and creating spontaneous stories during an Improv Club performance at Town Hall. The…
State education formula out of whack, Commission: Health insurance, special ed underfunded
…underestimates the cost of educating the state’s students by at least $1 billion per year. “Districts today are really laboring under a formula and laboring under assumptions that are incorrect,…
From “flat Earth” to climate change denial, kids are deluged with fake science. Now teachers are fighting back
…grade students filed in and took their seats. “Hey guys, you need your papers from yesterday, and a pencil,” said Lau, launching into the day’s lesson. “So, how can I…