by tjohnston | Jul 15, 2019 | Local News, State/National News
The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education canceled the “blizzard bag” initiative late last month, citing concerns about equal access to the program. Blizzard bags are educational materials allocated to students to complete at home on snow days. Each...
by tjohnston | Jun 28, 2017 | Local News
ORANGE — A Ralph C. Mahar Regional School student will represent her school and her state at the Global Youth Summit on the Future of Medicine at Brandeis University. Kacy Ninteau is one of 230 delegates selected from hundreds of applicants for the program taking...
by tjohnston | Nov 30, 2016 | Local News
ORANGE, MA — Orange schools will be experimenting this winter with using “blizzard bags” to make snow days count. Mahar Regional and Orange school committees have approved a pilot project to use online learning in place of classroom learning on days school is canceled...
