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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — School Committee members joined Superintendent Karin Patenaude on Tuesday evening for the inaugural meeting of its new Community Engagement Subcommittee. The new government body, chaired by School Committee member Stacey Sexton, will meet...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — During a time of rising costs, stagnant state aid and declining enrollment, the 2 District, 8 Town Steering Committee, or 2D8T, has selected five options of possible reorganization for the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont Regional school...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — On Election Day, voters will have the opportunity to determine the future of high school graduation requirements in Massachusetts with a vote on Question 2.The measure, which has been spearheaded by the Massachusetts Teachers Association,...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — School Committee members voted 5-2 against a proposal from Mayor Ginny Desorgher to study the possibility of stationing a school resource officer in one of the district’s schools.The proposal was brought to the committee last month after...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — After hearing from more than a dozen speakers Tuesday night, as well as submitted written comments, Frontier Regional School’s policy regarding homeschooler participation in extracurricular activities will remain the same.Following...

By CHRIS LARABEE, MADISON SCHOFIELD, ANTHONY CAMMALLERI, ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN and DOMENIC POLI

The MCAS scores for 2024 have been released, showing that approximately 30.1% of Franklin County and North Quabbin students met or exceeded expectations, 48.5% partially met expectations and 21.5% did not meet expectations in the math and English...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WARWICK — In just a few weeks, a new school bus will be on the roads of Warwick.That bus, though, is not just any yellow school bus — it will be a blue Kia EV9 Wind adorned with the Warwick Community School & District’s logo, perhaps the first fully...

By DOUG SELWYN

Bessel Van Der Kolk, author of the extraordinary book “The Body Keeps the Score,” shares research that shows that the more traumatic experiences (often labeled as Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs) a young person has, the more likely they will...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Community College is hosting its first-ever graduate program after the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) moved its part-time Library and Information Science master’s degree program to GCC this...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

DEERFIELD — Love them or hate them, political parties play a big role in American government. But how do they work? In a bipartisan educational effort, Massachusetts party leaders Amy Carnevale (Republican State Committee chair) and Steve Kerrigan...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Although Joseph Lubold now sits on The Literacy Project’s board of directors, he first became involved with the nonprofit as a student.Lubold, who spent most of his career working as a machinist, lost his job during the 2008 recession,...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ROWE — What started as weekly hikes around Pelham Lake Park has evolved into a school in the forest where Rowe Elementary School students learn English, science and social studies.Principal Bill Knittle said outdoor education has been a fundamental...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — A Mohawk Trail Regional School senior has been recognized as one of the top-scoring PSAT takers across the nation and named as a National Merit Scholarship Program semi-finalist.Eliza Crowell, a senior from Buckland, took the PSAT...

By ALEXA LEWIS

Without greater investment in salaries for faculty and staff at community colleges in Massachusetts, a free tuition program launched this summer to great fanfare may be “doomed to fail.” That’s the alarm some education leaders are sounding as they...

By SAM DRYSDALE

The program meant to give students a head start on their college enrollment is expanding, which officials say will save students money, make them more likely to attend college than their peers and increase lifelong earning potential.University of...

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — How can a school’s institutional practices and physical spaces position a district to better serve teachers and students alike? A team from the Pioneer Valley Regional School District is taking a trip to Kentucky in October to see how...

By ALEXA LEWIS

AMHERST — “Growing up poor, all I’ve ever wanted was financial freedom,” said Beatrice Rogers, a third-year psychology and holistic health major at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. But that freedom might be far away for Rogers, whose college...

DEERFIELD — The Deerfield Elementary School community came together before school Friday morning to celebrate the completion of the school’s entryway improvement project.Superintendent Darius Modestow said the $340,379 project was funded by a $114,538...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A new financial aid initiative announced by Deerfield Academy will see all qualifying families earning less than $150,000 pay $0 in tuition and fees at the private school.The move, announced publicly by the school last week alongside an...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

BUCKLAND — Thanks to a $300,000 grant from the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Mohawk Trail Regional School is looking to hire one full-time and one part-time mental health clinician through the Bridge for Resilient Youth in...