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By STEVE PFARRER
Can the arts help us reexamine our past and come to terms with injustice? Can music, film and other mediums become instruments for social change by helping us look differently at our history and our beliefs?Those are questions the Power of Truths Arts...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — On a Friday morning filled with music, ceremony and speeches by state leaders to inaugurate Javier Reyes as the 31st leader of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the first Hispanic chancellor of the flagship campus, protesters...
By EMILEE KLEIN
WESTHAMPTON — After over a year of contentious negotiations and 224 days without a contract, Hampshire Regional Education Association and the School Committee have agreed to a contract.The tentative contract between the school district and the...
By SAM DRYSDALE
BOSTON — More Massachusetts families would become eligible for subsidized child care and “transformational” grants that kept the early education system afloat during the pandemic would be made permanent, under a bill the Senate unanimously passed late...
By MADDIE FABIAN
WESTHAMPTON — As Hampshire Regional School District teachers approach five months of working without a contract, over 115 community members showed up to an online forum Thursday night in support of the union’s fight for a new deal.The forum was held...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Education Foundation has announced its latest round of grants for the city’s school district and vocational school, featuring projects including a new 3-D mapping program, a course in speculative fiction and a celebration...
By CHRIS LISINSKI and SAM DRYSDALE
HOLYOKE — At Holyoke Community College this fall, 3,706 students are enrolled and receiving credits for classes they are taking. That’s a 4.4% increase over the 3,550 students at the college in the fall of 2022.The jump in enrollment mirrors what is...
By PHYLLIS KEENAN
The promise of Massachusetts’ community colleges is high quality, affordable education that’s accessible to everyone. At Greenfield Community College, where I’m a professor, our goal is to ensure there’s opportunity available for all residents,...
By SOPHIE HAUCK
AMHERST — A group of local college students, along with a handful of Massachusetts lawmakers, are advocating to tax nearly a dozen elite Massachusetts colleges and universities, whose multibillion-dollar endowments they say should fund early and...
By SAM DRYSDALE
BOSTON — There are significant gaps in the expectations parents have for their children’s futures after high school, divided sharply by race and income demographics, according to poll results released earlier this month.The statewide poll of...
By SAM DRYSDALE
BOSTON — A third of all UMass students will qualify for free tuition paid for by the new income surtax on the state’s highest earners, under a plan the Healey administration rolled out Wednesday on an expansion of state financial aid.The governor...
By SOPHIE HAUCK
After watching enrollment decline for years, local community college officials are feeling optimistic about rising numbers of students signing up for classes, in part thanks to MassReconnect. The new state financial aid program covers the cost of...
By JAMES PENTLAND
HOLYOKE — University of Massachusetts researchers have landed a $1.1M grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to research ways to help lower-income households and neighborhoods make the transition to a clean-energy future.Residential buildings...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
LEVERETT — Upon moving to Shutesbury in 2017, Samantha Spisiak discovered a weekly story time at M.N. Spear Memorial Library, often bringing her toddler to the get-together with other families.“This has been a really big part of our lives,” Spisiak...
By SOPHIE HAUCK
AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has won bragging rights for having the best campus food in the country for the seventh consecutive time, the Princeton Review determined, based on feedback from college students across the country.The...
By Sam Drysdale and Sophie Hauck
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey moved Wednesday to update the state’s sex education guidelines for the first time in 24 years. The updates are “inclusive, medically accurate and age appropriate,” Healey said at a State House press conference about the...
By Sam Drysdale
BOSTON — Over the past decade, the Senate has passed a bill that would remodel what sex education looks like in Massachusetts on four occasions — but House Democrats have never taken it up.With a new governor who may be more amenable to the measure...
By Naylynn Tañón Reyes, Swaha Bhattacharya, and Tint Tha Ra Wun
NORTHAMPTON — Chuck Bayliss, now an Ada Comstock scholar at Smith College, started her own woodworking business in 2006 in Leeds via a trade program at Seattle Central Community Colleges in downtown Seattle. Due to health concerns, however, Bayliss...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — City educators are accusing the school district of illegal hiring practices after the city schools contracted registered behavior technicians through the Fields Center.At Tuesday’s virtual School Committee meeting, members of the...
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 ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
HOLYOKE — For Christina Royal, the power to help students realize their full potential is just like magic. In front of a group of former graduates, state dignitaries and city officials gathered at Holyoke Community College last week to bid Royal...
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