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By ANDY CASTILLO
SOUTH DEERFIELD — “I’m not getting up until I find something good,” announced one youngster earlier this month while sifting through sand at The Rock, Fossil and Dinosaur Shop on Greenfield Road.Six students used shovels and screens to search for...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
As enrollment or funding — or both — drop in their districts, leaders of rural schools are starting to organize and push back against the downward spiral.Some hope that important fixes are on the way.“I decided to stand and fight rather than bail on...
By JACK SUNTRUP
SOUTH HADLEY — After months of controversy surrounding its head of school, a South Hadley charter school welcomed a new leader earlier this month.George E. Simpson, 45, started July 3 as head of the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter...
By Nyssa Kruse
NORTHAMPTON — The school district is moving ahead with new training, reporting and curriculum strategies to address concerns about sexual harassment in JFK Middle School following three recent student-led demonstrations on the issue.Superintendent...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
SOUTHAMPTON — Voters on Thursday shot down a $110,000 override for funding additional staff and curriculum materials at the William E. Norris School.The proposed tax levy failed by a 435-350 vote, according to Town Clerk Janine Domina. The override...
By Nyssa Kruse
NORTHAMPTON — Demonstrations to raise awareness of sexual harassment continued Friday at JFK Middle School. As about 100 seventh-graders walked to Look Park for a school trip, about 10 in the group held signs with messages like “Our bodies, our...
By NYSSA KRUSE
NORTHAMPTON — More than 30 students held a sit-in Thursday morning at JFK Middle School to raise awareness about sexual harassment they say students have experienced from their peers.Those involved said participants — boys and girls — sat in a hallway...
As communities confront the opioid epidemic in their homes, on the streets and in treatment centers, a new program aims to widen the prevention effort to middle schools through a public-private partnership.Attorney General Maura Healey this month...
By EMILY CUTTS
SOUTH HADLEY — Berkshire Hills Music Academy hosts 140 music lessons a week. That’s 28 a day, all done in four hours. That’s a lot for five practice rooms.With the ribbon-cutting of the new Bernon Music Center on the school’s campus Thursday...
By ANDY CASTILLO
SOUTH DEERFIELD — Parents of Elementary School students feel disenfranchised and unheard by the administration — that was the consensus among the roughly two dozen parents who publicly voiced their concerns at Wednesday night’s School Committee...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
HADLEY — Just a month after her son had begun first grade at Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, Shoshona King says Dimitri was already being pushed out the door.Dimitri, who is on the autism spectrum, started classes at the school in...
By CHANCE VILES
AMHERST — Families filled white tents at Hampshire College Saturday to watch the 306 graduating students finish a four-year trek to getting a degree.Mild warmth and a light breeze kept the shaded tent temperate, raising spirits of students, faculty...
By CHANCE VILESFor the GazetteAMHERST — Amherst College was bustling with graduates and their families Sunday for the school’s 196th commencement.The excited sounds of a graduating crowd filled the campus’ main quad as about 480 seniors filed into...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
SOUTHAMPTON — 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 —...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
AMHERST — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren took aim at Donald Trump and his administration during Friday’s keynote address at the University of Massachusetts Amherst commencement ceremony, where she pushed students to engage in politics.Making jokes at...
By JACK SUNTRUP
SOUTH HADLEY — Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School trustees voted Tuesday to place Head of School Scott Goldman on paid administrative leave after staff leveled three grievances and two petitions against him.Now, a select panel from...
By CAITLIN ASHWORTH
LEEDS — Just about everyone at Leeds Elementary School knew Phyllis Ryan.Always the first person at school and the last to leave, Ryan was there to greet the early-bird students with a hug at 7 a.m. and say goodbye to the after-school students at 5...
By JACK SUNTRUP
NORTHAMPTON — More than two months after the cancellation of High-Five Friday rattled Northampton, the school district announced Monday a permanent police liaison to its elementary schools.The four district elementary schools have lacked a steady law...
By EMILY CUTTS
SOUTH HADLEY — For Sen. Elizabeth Warren, this is the moment the country is being tested.“It’s a moment about what kind of people we are, what kind of country we are going to build … It’s like a test of character and this is what I believe,” she told...
In the wake of parking lot violence and complaints of racism and harassment, Easthampton High School administrators have work ahead to improve the school’s climate and rebuild trust with students and parents.The walkout staged by hundreds of high...
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