BOSTON (WWLP)–Youth substance use prevention programs across the state will receive grant funding through a state health initiative. The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) and the Department…
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School Readiness Institute
The School Readiness Institute: Strengthening Pre-K and K Experiences to Support School Readiness Increasingly teachers, early childhood coordinators, principals, special education directors and superintendents have concerns related to kindergarten readiness….
Safe and Healthy Schools Summit draws educators in discussion of how to manage race, polarizing conversations in schools
…be a problem,” Beverly Daniel Tatum, interim president of Mount Holyoke College and president emerita of Spelman College, said Thursday. To help support educators and administrators in seeking racial healing,…
Massachusetts DESE Responds to USED Request for Certification
…release from the U.S. Education Department. We understand that local education agencies also received the certification message. Today, Massachusetts sent this letter to the U.S. Education Department in response. It…
STEM@Work: a unique paid internship program for high school students
Matt Rigney, Director of Alternative Youth Services at the Collaborative for Educational Services and organizer of the STEM@Work internship program for students in Franklin and Hampshire Counties, along with Hannah…
Career Skills Workshop at the Amherst Survival Center
…to a panel discussion of strategies for successful job searching and interviewing. Joining the group were Tracey Levy, Program Director of the Survival Center, Matt Rigney, Alternative Youth Programs Director…
Community leaders support local program for young children and families
…the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) in Northampton; and the Executive Director of CES, Bill Diehl. Ms. Susan Clopton and her husband, John Levine, donated $10,000 in a matching grant…
Dozens of lawmakers asking for education aid increase beyond Baker budget proposal
More than one-third of lawmakers have requested that House and Senate leaders increase by more than $20 million local education aid beyond what had been proposed by Gov. Charlie Baker…
U.S. Education Secretary Statement on Passing of Disability Rights Leader Judy Heumann
…implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that bars discrimination against disabled people in federally funded programs. “Judy Heumann’s devotion to public education for all students was second…
Allan Blume
Allan Blume is an educational consultant who works with schools across Massachusetts regarding a variety of topics in education. He has guided school personnel with understanding and implementing individualized education…