by tjohnston | Jul 25, 2018 | Local News
Western Massachusetts schools will receive just over $480,000 of the $3.8 million dollar Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants awarded last week by the Baker-Polito Administration. Sixteen schools within Belchertown, Gill-Montague, North Adams, Northampton...
by tjohnston | Aug 14, 2017 | Local News
NORTHAMPTON — School Committee here voted on Thursday to approve a policy that expands protections to transgender and gender nonconforming students and employees of Northampton Public Schools. “The policy you are asking about was drafted by the rules and policy...
by tjohnston | Mar 7, 2017 | Local News
NORTHAMPTON, MA — Amid the piles of brightly colored building blocks, Barbara Black, 66, kneels comfortably among several 4- and 5-year-olds on the floor of a Bridge Street School classroom. “What’s this one?” she asks each child, her seeing-eye dog, Ms. Pie, wagging...
by tjohnston | Dec 21, 2015 | Local News
NORTHAMPTON, MA — As government officials debate whether to lift a cap on the number of charter schools allowed in the state, the local chapter of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts is doing research of its own on the subject. The nonpartisan organization...
by tjohnston | Oct 19, 2015 | Local News
NORTHAMPTON, MA — In a city where patrons are encouraged to eat, bank and shop locally, residents are not surprised that a phrase they have been hearing more and more of is, “School Local.” School Local Northampton is a campaign started by parents to encourage city...
