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By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — Smith College President Kathleen McCartney plans to step down as the school’s leader in summer 2023, a decade after arriving on campus.In an announcement Friday, the college said that McCartney — Smith’s 11th president — will leave her...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — The morning announcement may have indicated that it was school day 75, but when middle school students returned from their holiday break on Wednesday morning, many admitted that it felt more like the first day of school. And students...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — One of Holyoke’s own has become the next leader of the city’s public schoolsOn Wednesday, the state’s education commissioner appointed Anthony Soto as the receiver-superintendent of Holyoke Public Schools (HPS) — a role he had held on an...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A project that would bring 800 beds for University of Massachusetts students to new apartment-style developments along Massachusetts Avenue remains on track to open by fall 2023.UMass officials this week announced that Balfour Beatty Campus...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Students at Amherst Regional middle and high schools will begin their school days later in the mornings when the next school year begins in the fall, when most of them will return for in-person education for the first time since last March.A...

By GRETA JOCHEM

NORTHAMPTON —About 200 people gathered outside JFK Middle School on Wednesday, some holding signs in support of Principal Desmond Caldwell or with messages like “Hate has no home in our school,” and “yes there is racism here.” Several high school...

By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — After more than a decade of the topic being in the public eye, the School Committee voted Thursday night to push back the time the school day starts for high school students.“Every School Committee who’s faced this issue has agreed...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Bomb manufacturers and defense contractors. Fortune 500 beverage and chemical corporations. Communications and technology behemoths.These are some of the industry giants with which the University of Massachusetts Amherst has struck sponsored...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Dora Tseng still remembers the day last year when she brought her newborn baby home to North Village Apartments, the University of Massachusetts family housing complex. She didn’t need to buy much for her son, Fafa, because her neighbors...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

AMHERST — Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have published three lists detailing the 100 worst air, water and greenhouse gas polluters in the country.The lists — the Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index, Toxic 100 Water Polluters Index...

By GRETA JOCHEM

NORTHAMPTON — Advanced Placement chemistry will not be offered at Northampton High School in the fall.In a July 11 letter sent to AP chemistry students and their parents and guardians, interim principal Lori Vaillancourt wrote, “We have a change in...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

This article was updated to reflect that the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education received documentation in December 2012 from the state Department of Children and Families determining that allegations of neglect of a student by...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — The history of the Clarke School provides a window into the longstanding controversy over deaf education in the United States.Clarke was the first oralist school in the country and played a leading role in promoting that educational...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

SOUTH HADLEY — The Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter School is looking for a new director after trustees voted Monday to fire head of school George Simpson. The board’s decision comes a month after Reading police arrested Simpson on...

By SARAH ROBERTSON

NORTHAMPTON — The crowd at Smith College Friday night had a 10-year-old to thank for a visit from civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who in 1960 became the first black student to attend an all-white public school in the South.Responding to a request...

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...