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By Sam Drysdale and 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 EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The School Committee could approve a contract with a new superintendent Friday if negotiations with finalist Erica Faginski-Stark are fruitful.The committee expects to begin the remote meeting at 4 p.m. in open session, followed by a...

By MICHAEL P. NORTON

BOSTON — Research work at the University of Massachusetts expanded by 23% over the past five years, with almost all of it in STEM fields and a portfolio that’s the fourth largest in New England, behind Harvard University, MIT and Yale University.UMass...

By Sam Drysdale

BOSTON — Though regional school districts could receive more money to pay for student transportation than they’ve gotten in years through Gov. Maura Healey’s fiscal 2024 budget proposal, the Massachusetts Association of School Committees is still...

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 SAM DRYSDALE

Even though he is planning on getting into the technology field after graduation, taking an Advanced Placement language class this year has shown Aiden Costa the power of harnessing language to communicate more effectively, he said.The high school...

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey said this week that she is looking forward to working with the Legislature on ways to fund free community college for Massachusetts residents over 25, after a representative questioned if the $20 million she earmarked for...

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...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Noting that he had a unique skill set that the city’s schools need in a new leader, or what one member called that “special sauce,” the School Committee voted to hire Vito Perrone as the district’s new superintendent in the wee hours of...

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HOLYOKE – Holyoke Community College has announced four finalists to succeed Christina Royal as its next president.The HCC search committee evaluating candidates whittled down a field of 50 candidates to four. All four finalists have many years of...

By MADDIE FABIAN

As the new artificial intelligence model ChatGPT becomes increasingly ubiquitous, educators, students and parents are navigating a new world in which AI can be used to write essays, create lesson plans, brainstorm ideas, generate poetry and even come...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Some Frontier Regional School students got a reality check Tuesday morning.Not in the form of a bad test score or a detention, but a spinning wheel that determined if they earned or lost (fake) money. The wheel and numerous other...

By CAMILLE CAMMACK

Imagine you are a wiggly, bright-eyed kindergartner sitting in a circle with 24 classmates. You have just been encouraged by your teacher to look them in the eye and greet them “properly” saying, “Hello, I’m using my right hand to shake your right...

By EMILY THURLOW

Editor’s note: The Easthampton School Committee this week is interviewing three finalists for superintendent. Erica Faginski-Stark was the second to be interviewed. EASTHAMPTON — As a self-described adaptive leader and “systems thinker,” Erica...

By EMILY THURLOW

Editor’s note: The Easthampton School Committee this week is interviewing three finalists for superintendent. Jonathan Bruno was the first to be interviewed. EASTHAMPTON — In a wide-ranging interview Tuesday night, Jonathan Bruno told the School...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — Massachusetts Superior Court Associate Justice Mark Mason pleaded guilty Monday afternoon before a classroom of Easthampton High School civics students — guilty of his passion for justice.Mason, who sits in Northampton, Springfield,...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Two of four finalists to be the next superintendent of Northampton Public Schools described how they approach school bullying, how they craft school budgets and how they ensure equity at schools in interviews before the School Committee...