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By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — With the search for a permanent superintendent currently on hold, the School Committee has instead set its sights on finding an interim leader for the next school year and is beginning the process of replacing two members who resigned in...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Following a review of a complaint accusing the School Committee of violating Open Meeting Law when it rescinded its offer to hire Vito Perrone as superintendent in March, the Attorney General’s office ruled last week that although the...

By MADDIE FABIAN

EASTHAMPTON — Interim Superintendent Maureen Binienda will lead the school district for another year after the School Committee agreed this week to extend her contract by one year, contingent on waivers from the state, in a 6-1 vote.Committee members...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — A group of residents is now looking to recall Mayor Nicole LaChapelle for her role in the search that failed to produce a permanent superintendent this spring.In the weeks after the School Committee rescinded its job offer to...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Two former School Committee members will fill vacancies on the committee for the rest of the year, and they’re already hitting the ground running. Sarah Hunter and Laura Scott were sworn in to their new roles Wednesday night after being...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — As the School Committee looks to find a temporary chief to lead the district’s schools, soon-to-be retired Superintendent Allison LeClair sent a note to families this week indicating that her leadership team was ready to work with...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The School Committee has scheduled meet-and-greet sessions for the community to meet the five interim superintendent candidates next week.The committee agreed last week to offer interviews to external candidates Roland R. Joyal Jr.,...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The City Council and School Committee will jointly decide who will replace the two School Committee seats vacated by Shannon Dunham and Laurie Garcia, who resigned in the wake of the failed superintendent search.“The City Council and...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The School Committee has announced that four external candidates have expressed an interest in becoming the interim leader of the city’s public schools next school year.In working with the Massachusetts Association of School Committees...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — A second School Committee member has resigned on the heels of a tempestuous superintendent search.On Saturday morning, Laurie Garcia submitted her resignation to her colleagues via email. The resignation comes two weeks after former...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — A former three-term School Committee member has filed a complaint with the state accusing the School Committee of violating the Open Meeting Law when it rescinded its offer to hire Vito Perrone as superintendent in late March.Debora...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — After a tumultuous month in which the search for a new school superintendent made national news, the School Committee on Tuesday agreed to put the search on hold and seek an interim leader for next school year.In a 5-1 vote, the...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Shannon Dunham announced more than a week ago that she was resigning from her role on the School Committee to give herself time to recover from a medical procedure. While her statement via social media certainly was true, Dunham has...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Superintendent finalist Erica Faginski-Stark has withdrawn her candidacy after city students voiced concerns about the Ludlow educator to Mayor Nicole LaChapelle.The mayor, a member of the School Committee, told the Gazette that students...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Just as the School Committee was getting ready to select Erica Faginski-Stark as its new superintendent on the evening of April 10, a member of the high school’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance Club reached out to the mayor’s office with...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Following a particularly contentious discussion before a virtual audience of nearly 1,000 people Monday night, the School Committee agreed not to reenter into negotiations with superintendent finalist Vito Perrone and instead selected...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — A week after the School Committee’s decision to rescind a job offer to superintendent finalist Vito Perrone because he used the salutation “Ladies” in an email, Chairperson Cynthia Kwiecinski spoke out for the first time on Thursday,...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The city has adjusted its Zoom subscription to accommodate the hundreds of people who are looking to attend the city’s School Committee meeting at which it will discuss its superintendent search. That meeting is now scheduled for Monday...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — One of the two women whom superintendent finalist Vito Perrone addressed as “ladies” in an email last week is seeking to distance herself from mudslinging that has erupted after the news broke last weekend.“I want to be clear, I am a...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — A School Committee meeting Tuesday night to discuss the search for a new superintendent of schools went off the rails and was canceled after hundreds of people attempted to sign into the Zoom session and were cut off when the meeting hit...