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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...

By KELLY NORRIS

Lately I am not thinking much about curriculum. I’m not thinking about standards, or using technology, or planning assessments. I’m mostly thinking about gratitude.Maybe it’s my age: I’ve been in the classroom for over 25 years now. Retirement looms...

By CHRISTINA ROYAL

Monday, March 13, marked the third anniversary of my message to the Holyoke Community College community, announcing that, following spring break in 2020, all academic courses (and soon nearly all campus services) would go fully remote due to the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — Clare Higgins, the executive director of Community Action Pioneer Valley, was blunt when describing the current crisis in retaining and finding early education staff.“They can’t pay the rent or feed their families with gift cards and...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Greenfield Community College (GCC) is developing a paraeducator training program that administrators hope will address vacancies in the field across the state and locally, while also reconceptualizing the role as a first step in a career....

By CHRIS LARABEE

BUCKLAND — As Mohawk Trail Regional School District presented its fiscal 2024 budget with several new student initiatives last week, Plainfield officials are raising concerns about the impact of their town’s increasing assessment. Superintendent...

By ALANIS BROUSSARD

Even though child care is an essential need for families in the United States, a history of limited government support prevents many families every day from getting the adequate child care they need.For years, the American child care system has...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The School Committee will interview three superintendent candidates in March to succeed Allison LeClair, who will retire in June.The finalists are Jonathan Bruno, director of learning and teaching at Berkshire Hills Regional School...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Tamera Sullivan-Daley, interim principal at Fort River School for the past two school years, is assuming the leadership position on a permanent basis.Families were notified by Superintendent Michael Morris last week that Sullivan-Daley, a...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTH HADLEY — The school department is looking to cement the legacy of the late Plains Elementary School Principal Henry Skala by having the school renamed in his honor.Skala, who went by “Hank,” was named the principal of Plains Elementary in 2016,...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Four classroom teachers and 10 paraprofessionals may lose their jobs at the town’s three elementary school based on an expected cut of almost $900,000 from a so-called level services budget presented to the Amherst School Committee on...

By MOMODOU SARR

I am fascinated by the ecosystem of a classroom. When I was invited to fill in for two middle school teachers back-to-back during the pandemic years, I jumped at the invitation. I was curious to see what the social, political, and cultural nature of...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — A high school student is advocating that the city require all of its employees to undergo training on microaggressions after she and others in the district have had their “ethnic hair” touched by others without consent.The Easthampton...

By Emily Thurlow

NORTHAMPTON — Navigating on a pedal kart through a makeshift dirt obstacle course marked off with cones and LED lights indicating which direction to take wasn’t too challenging for 17-year-old Madison Gorrell, that is, until she strapped on a pair of...

By STEVEN C. SHAREK

It’s no longer a secret that Massachusetts vocational-technical and agricultural high schools are a great option for students of all backgrounds who want to learn a trade and pursue a career. Unfortunately, there simply isn’t enough space in these...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — With their backs against pillows and their outstretched legs crossed side by side on the floor, two kindergarten students read books out loud to one another in the corner of Jessica Sico’s classroom. All the while, their fingers follow...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTH HADLEY — After a particularly contentious contract negotiation cycle that began in the fall of 2021, the school district and the South Hadley Education Association have solidified their contract agreements.Members of the 270-member union of...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTHAMPTON — A Southampton woman has shattered the glass ceiling at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, becoming the first woman from the school to receive her master plumber’s license.Becca Walunas, who graduated from Smith Voc in 2019,...

By SYDNEY KO

BOSTON — The number of students choosing to attend post-secondary education in Massachusetts has dropped significantly in recent years, a trend that started nearly a decade ago and has only been exacerbated during the pandemic.“The pandemic’s impact...

By EMILY THURLOW

SOUTH HADLEY — The chairperson of the School Committee was recognized this month by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees for her commitment to putting students first. Allison Schlachter, who has served on the School Committee for the...