Turners Falls, MA - In a vocational school, arts are not always the focus. At Franklin County Technical School, days are already packed with traditional subjects and the student’s vocations, and beyond that, many find after school outlets in sports. Yet, five years...
GILL — Students from Gill Elementary School lined the hallways with posters and cheers on Monday morning to send the school’s Destination Imagination team off to global finals. Principal Conor Driscoll said the send-off started with the six sixth-graders from the...
SOUTHAMPTON, MA — Like most youth of her generation, Rylie Simmons, 8, is adept at using today’s technology to watch gymnastics on YouTube or to research do-it-yourself projects like how to make such as how to make slim foam. But, like many youngsters — and adults...
NORTHAMPTON — Seventh-graders in the community room of JFK Middle School scoot their chairs toward the front of the room as three uniformed boys appear on a large screen. “Hello! Hello! Hola!” pipe voices from the screen. The American students wave in slow circles...
GREENFIELD, MA — On the same day the Senate released its first draft of its budget, a group of experts gathered to discuss the state of local public education. Education experts advocated both at the state and local levels for sufficient funding for rural public...
NORTHAMPTON -- Efforts to prevent drug and alcohol use among young people will expand in middle schools in Easthampton, South Hadley and Hadley as well as in Amherst–Pelham and Hampshire Regional schools next year thanks to a $20,000 grant from the state Attorney...
BERNARDSTON, MA — Eight students hurried around the Bernardston Elementary School gymnasium, throwing bean bags, crawling through plastic tunnels and wheeling around on scooters. With upbeat music playing, the students’ classmates, teachers and parents encouraged...
HEATH — Faced with declining enrollment and rising per-pupil costs at the Elementary School, annual town meeting voters passed an emotional 94 to 10 vote Saturday in favor of permanently closing the school’s doors. “We, as a town, are in a difficult situation and...
West Springfield, MA – A local legislator and several school administrators convened today at the Cowing School in West Springfield to learn more about the work being done at the Reading Recovery Training Site located there. Senator Jim Welch and W. Springfield...
CHARLEMONT, MA — Mohawk science teacher and “Science Educator of the Year” award-winner Samantha B. Rutz has been hired to serve as Hawlemont Regional School principal, starting this July. According to School Superintendent Michael Buoniconti, Rutz has more than 10...
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