…to go this week, but the trip was postponed due to inclement weather. The group has one main request: that legislators add a “rurality factor” to the state’s school funding…
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White Brook Middle School students in Easthampton aim to show power of kindness with Pay it Forward Challenge
…the Easthampton middle school. Students, faculty and staff have been asked by after-school social advocacy group Free the Children to each touch three different people with kindness during thios week….
Baker orders schools to stay closed through end of school year
…epidemiologists and policymakers at the state and federal levels. Against this backdrop, the governor’s suggestion last week that he may reopen schools before the end of the year, in part…
State education secretary takes to airwaves with a message: make school attendance ‘a priority’
Nearly four years after COVID-19 first shuttered schools, students are still missing class at rates unprecedented in the past two decades. In an effort to reverse that trend, Patrick Tutwiler,…
CES Conference Explores How Technology Can Help Students Learn
…from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Over 200 educators, technology specialists, and administrators from Pioneer Valley schools attended the event. As advanced technologies transform nearly every industry, competency with these…
$23 Billion Funding Gap Exists Between White and Nonwhite School Districts, Report Finds
…of students, a new report found. The report, released this week by the nonprofit EdBuild, put a dollar amount on the problem of school segregation, which has persisted long after…
Pioneer Assistant Principal Duprey takes on principal’s position, too
…17 years trying to operate without a leader. It took less than a week for Pioneer Valley Regional School Assistant Principal to change his mind and accept the offer to…
Mahar student attending Global Youth Summit on the Future of Medicine
…Ninteau is one of 230 delegates selected from hundreds of applicants for the program taking place this week in Waltham, where Brandeis is located. School Superintendent Tari Thomas said Ninteau,…
Stretched too thin: Rural school districts go on the offensive for legislative help
…a bus monitor and food-service delivery person. Once a week, she picks up a supply of food for the school from New Hingham Elementary on her way to work. “I’ve…
Sheffield Elementary School celebrates National Poetry Month with ‘poet trees’
…community-building project. Second-graders learn how to read poetry by studying a new poem with their teachers every week from October through June, said Principal Melissa Pitrat. First they read the…