…up with ways to keep food accessible to families while classrooms are closed. The earliest possible reopening of schools is scheduled for Monday, April 6. In the interim, public school…
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Graduation Rates Up, Dropouts Down in Massachusetts High Schools
…low-income families. The second-largest school district in the state, Springfield, boasted the best improvement of any urban district in the state. Across the state, 87.3 percent of students who entered…
Easthampton adults won’t buy alcohol for minors
EASTHAMPTON, MA – Last Thursday, several teens ranging from 16 – 18 years old stood in the rain in front of Jim’s Package Store. They took turns asking customers, “Excuse…
Special Education Team Leader Institute completes first program year with gathering in Northampton
…this cohort have built. They are truly demonstrating respect, kindness, cooperation and a sense of hospitality toward students, families, colleagues and one another as they lead IEP teams across the…
State education secretary takes to airwaves with a message: make school attendance ‘a priority’
…its peak of 29% in the spring of 2022. Tutwiler has long argued that absenteeism is often driven by the “unmet needs” of students and their families, including stable housing. And indeed,…
How to reach students without internet access during coronavirus? Schools get creative
…because of the coronavirus crisis. But while many districts around the country have moved to remote learning platforms like Google Classroom, Coe was using the school’s copy machine to put…
New principal to join Granby Junior Senior High School
…has created financial uncertainty. With an increasing number of families using school choice to leave the district, or deciding to attend the Granby-based campus of the private MacDuffie School, Sullivan…
Lin Notzelman
…Center and the Parent-Child Home Program since 2007. A mother to four creative children, she is most passionate about working with children and families around the promotion of early literacy….
Unusual Amherst Regional graduation ceremony ‘meant something to us’
AMHERST — As music played and spectators clapped and used various noisemakers, including their car horns, more than 200 Amherst Regional High School seniors made their way across a makeshift…
‘History found you’: Mahar graduates 88 in virtual ceremony, subsequent parade
…of terrible losses,” mentioning families who are grieving the deaths of their loved ones. “Others have lost their jobs, their savings, their plans for the future,” she said. “Many of…