North Adams Holding Forum on Greylock ClosureStaff Reports, iBerkshires
02:50PM / Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The public schools are holding a forum on the closing of Greylock School and the resulting grade configuration for Brayton and Colegrove Park elementary schools. The forum will be held in person onand via Zoom link here. Parents and guardians are encouraged to ask questions and provide feedback. School officials are considering an accelerated consolidation of two of the three elementary schools. The School Committee last fall had approved a grade configuration of a prekindergarten through Grade 2 early education program, a Grades 3-6 upper elementary program and a Grades 7-12 middle and high school level. That decision had been >> Read More |
Summer Course Registration Now Available at MCLA | 08:00AM / Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass.—Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) announced that registration for summer class sessions is now open. Registration is open to MCLA students, interested community members, high school students, those pursuing a master's degree, and college students wishing to transfer credits back to their home institution. MCLA is offering two summer sessions, held in-person and online. Session A runs May 20 through June 28, 2024, and Session B runs July 8 through August 16, 2024. The College has more than 50 online courses to accommodate the schedules of working adults, undergraduates, and high school students. Summer classes are >> Read More |
State Wants to Give Clarksburg $1.2M for a Safe Route to the SchoolBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:43PM / Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | |
 CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Clarksburg School asked the state for a $400,000 grant to develop a safe route from the school to the Community Center. The state came back with a different offer — how about $1.2 million and a sidewalk along the entire road? "I have never submitted a grant where they've came back and said we'd actually like to give you more money. We'd like to expand this and we'd like to triple it," Assistant Superintendent Tara Barnes told the School Committee last week. "Never. I've never seen this so I honestly take this as a signal from the state and from the leadership in the state that they would like to >> Read More |
MCLA to Host Two Graduate Program Information Sessions| 03:08PM / Monday, March 11, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA will host a virtual information session on Thursday, March 14, and an in-person session on Wednesday, March 27 for its Graduate Programs: Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Education (MEd) as well as the Leadership Academy. Potential students will have the opportunity to meet with faculty and staff to learn more about how to continue education in three of MCLA's programs that are designed to support the rising workforce needs here in the Berkshires and beyond. The MBA program offers a broad-based, multidisciplinary education that combines the strengths of MCLA business faculty with those of practicing managers actively >> Read More |
Drury High School Honor Roll | 08:00AM / Monday, March 11, 2024 | |
Drury High School's honor roll for the second quarter of the 2023-2024 school year. Grade 12 Bailey, Abigail Lyn Bishop, Brooke Yvonne Bordeau, Danni Mary Brothers, Marley Elizabeth Catelotti, Daphne Erin Cohn, Anthony Isaac Lee Herrmann, Rachael Lyn Klein, Mackenzie Elizabeth Liang, Jessalyn NMN Merrick, Abigail Rose Miksic, Ferris Alastair Mongeon, Kaitlyn Emily Moresi, Melanie Sage Patenaude, Olivia Marie Wood, Michelle Lynne Worthington, Chandler David Beagle, Jasmine Jade Brulé, Grace Margaret Ciempa, Tatum Leigh Dukes, Mearra Renee Goodermote, Elijah Bowen Hurlbut-Morgan, Emma Jo Kerkhoff, Elise Marie Kingsley, Hailey Patricia Kozik, Kaelyn Deanna Matys, >> Read More |
North Adams Schools Plan Forum on Grade ConfigurationBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:38AM / Wednesday, March 06, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — School officials are planning a forum for parents on the proposed accelerated reconfiguration of the grades in the elementary schools. The School Department is looking at a $2.2 million deficit in the fiscal 2025 budget, driven largely by contractual obligations, out-of-district special education and the loss of of federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds provided during the pandemic. "Both [Business Administrator Nancy Rauscher] and I have been participating in a number of state level meetings regarding the governor's budget because our state aid is determined through the governor's budget," >> Read More |
NA School Building Committee Considers Fields, Emergency ShelterJack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
04:46AM / Thursday, February 29, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Building Committee saw some alternative design options for the Greylock School project, including relocating Fallon Field to Noel Field and enhancing the emergency shelter capacity of the building. Barbara Malkas, superintendent and committee member told the full committee Tuesday that over a series of working group meetings some new design options have come into the conversation "We have had a number of meetings. Many members of the committee have been involved in all of those meetings at various levels. The meetings have been very informative and have really brought us to where we are to date. We are starting to get to that >> Read More |
MCLA Announces 2024 Commencement Speaker and Honorees| 12:22PM / Saturday, February 24, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The keynote speaker at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' 125th commencement exercises will be Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. This year's commencement will be held Saturday, May 11, at 11 a.m., in the Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts sits on the ancestral land of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. In addition, MCLA will confer honorary doctorates to four individuals: President Holsey, state Sen. Paul Mark, Mass Humanities Executive Director Brian Boyles and former president and CEO of Child Care of the Berkshires Anne >> Read More |
McCann Passes $12.1M Budget for Fiscal 2025By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
12:37PM / Wednesday, February 21, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northern Berkshire Regional School District is looking at a 5 percent increase for fiscal 2025. The total budget is $12,092,886, up $593,820 over this year. Superintendent James Brosnan noted that the net school spending for the communities in the regional district has also increased, putting the total over minimum assessment at 1.9 percent. "I want you to notice at the very bottom it says the budget is gone up $593,000, or it's up by 5.16 percent," Brosnan told the McCann School Committee on Thursday. "But I want you to look at the next one, the net school spending was up $340,331. The delta between those two is >> Read More |
FEMA Awards Funds to Massachusetts for COVID School Testing Costs| 11:42AM / Saturday, February 17, 2024 | |
BOSTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending almost $13.5 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse it for the cost of providing testing at public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. The $13,450,826 Public Assistance grant will reimburse the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) for contracting with Trans Med USA Inc. and Merrow Medical to provide test kits at schools between July 2022 and May 2023. The department purchased and distributed 1,089,354 COVID-19 antigen tests to students, faculty and staff at schools statewide during that time period. "FEMA is pleased to be able to assist >> Read More |
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