by tjohnston | Mar 12, 2018 | State/National News
In 1850, a Catholic orphanage called St. Aemilian was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to take in children whose parents had died in a cholera epidemic. 168 Years later, that same organization — now known as “SaintA” — is still finding shelter...
by tjohnston | Mar 12, 2018 | CES Stories, Local News
EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Hundreds of students attended a conference to learn how to overcome social justice issues at their schools. Zemor Tevah, one of the educators at the event, told 22News students have a hard time feeling comfortable, “I feel like a lot of...
by tjohnston | Mar 2, 2018 | Local News, State/National News
In January, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) filed a report with the Joint Committee on Ways & Means, the Joint Committee on Education and the Commonwealth’s Rural Policy Advisory Commission on Fiscal Conditions in Rural...
by tjohnston | Mar 2, 2018 | CES Stories
Woody Clift, CES Director of Department of Youth Services Education Initiative, was one of five panel experts at the Transforming Education for Youth in Connecticut’s Justice System event. Hosted by the Tow Youth Justice Institute at the University of New Haven, the...
by tjohnston | Jan 30, 2018 | State/National News
It’s official: Jeff Riley will be the state’s next education commissioner. Members of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 8-3 to recommend Riley for the post. Among his supporters, Education Sec. James Peyser, who will make the official...
