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By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — After eight hours of combing through the mayor’s proposed fiscal year 2024 budget — and debating certain line item reductions for almost an hour at a time — City Council’s vote to add nearly $1.18 million back into the School Department...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

ERVING — Elementary School Director of Finance and Operations Caitlin Sheridan has projected a fiscal year 2023 deficit of roughly $300,000 as the start of the next fiscal year approaches, a figure that alarmed town officials this week.According to...

By JENNIFER MARKENS

For the past five years, serving as a representative to the Mohawk Trail Regional School District School Committee, I’ve witnessed both past decline but also the sustained effort of district educational leadership and increasingly outstanding...

By BELLA LEVAVI

CHARLEMONT — Hawlemont Regional School’s Hawlemont, Agriculture, and You (HAY) program will host its sixth annual HAY conference this Saturday where a variety of new and repeating workshops will take place throughout the day.  The event will be held...

By Sam Drysdale

BOSTON — As the House and Senate prepare for budget negotiations to get underway in a few weeks, a coalition advocating for “debt-free” public higher education is making a final push for historic investments into the sector with the advent of newly...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

ERVING — Annual Town Meeting voters approved an amendment Wednesday night to raise the proposed Erving Elementary School budget back to the $3.87 million amount proposed in January, prompting the Selectboard to reconsider funding options.Warrant...

By BELLA LEVAVI

BOSTON — School committee members, administrators and students with the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont regional school districts, along with elected officials from member towns, converged on the State House earlier this month to further advocate for...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — In the Pioneer Valley Regional School library and on the trails behind the building, Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler got a lesson in rural education.Tutwiler, along with two assistant secretaries and his...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — In the wake of what local school officials have described as “the most challenging years” in education, administrators across the state and locally experienced one of the sharpest declines in teacher retention rates this year compared to...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — In the wake of the mayor’s proposed $1.5 million cut to the School Department’s fiscal year 2024 budget, Superintendent Christine DeBarge is emphasizing to councilors that she is concerned not only about the coming school year, but also...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — After working with several administrations, completing the Deerfield Elementary School roof project and navigating a global pandemic, a longtime School Committee member is stepping away from the role.With his term ending on May 1, Ken...

By JULIAN MENDOZA and MAX BOWEN

Turners Falls and Athol high schools will benefit from the state’s expansion of its Innovation Career Pathways internship program, adding new fields of study for students with professional aspirations.The announcement came on April 13 from the office...

By BELLA LEVAVI

The Mohawk Trail Regional School District School Committee has asked its eight member towns to add three articles to each of their Annual Town Meeting warrants that would amend the town assessment formula outlined in the regional agreement. However,...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — As schools continue to help students work through emotional and behavioral challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, a new grant is set to bolster the Frontier Regional and Union 38 school districts’ efforts.The schools...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — There will be 33 School Choice seats open at Pioneer Valley Regional School for the 2023-2024 school year, but discussion will continue around the Pioneer Valley Regional School District’s two elementary schools.The School Committee voted...

By MARY BYRNE

ORANGE — Chronic absenteeism of the district’s youngest pupils has resulted in a higher number of kindergarten students than usual being recommended for retention, according to school administrators.Superintendent Elizabeth Teahan-Zielinski recently...

By Sam Drysdaleand Sophie Hauck

BOSTON — The University of Massachusetts has agreed to increase tuition, room and board next academic year, as leaders on Beacon Hill disagree over creating a “tuition lock” system and how much to invest in public higher education.The UMass board of...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — The long-awaited approval of union contracts was overshadowed Wednesday evening by what School Committee members described as “devastating cuts” to the proposed School Department budget. “We should have been celebrating we signed the...

By MARY BYRNE

ORANGE — Parents and teachers are urging town and school officials to consider factoring at least one additional teacher and paraprofessional, but ideally several, into the proposed elementary school budget to help accommodate growing class sizes. “We...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

ERVING — With the Finance Committee and Selectboard unable to find an alternate route to a balanced budget, Erving Elementary School is facing staffing cuts as its proposed $3.5 million budget heads to the Annual Town Meeting floor.Following a March...