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The School Committee meeting on Monday held in downtown Springfield to discuss how the vetting of the three finalists to be the successor to current Superintendent Dan Warwick will play out.
A group of adults were having an altercation outside of a high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Monday, when one of them allegedly forced their way...
The Massachusetts Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Springfield Public Schools toured Brightwood-Lincoln Elementary School in Springfield.
Min It’s been almost a year since Massachusetts public schools closed their doors to prevent community spread of COVID-19. Recently, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley announced plans to “take remote and hybrid learning models off the table” by April. It’s about time. For months, we have known that the risks of harm to students from school closures far outweigh the risks from COVID-19. It was clear last summer not only that students are at low risk from COVID-19, but that transmission from students to staff is rare, particularly when ris...
Springfield Looks to Identify and Provide Skills Students Need to Thrive But maybe an adjective is in order to get the complete picture, pun intended. Indeed, what the Springfield Public Schools are focused on now is creating a portrait of a successful high-school graduate, through an initiative designed to gain feedback from a host of constituencies regarding the skills — as in all the skills — that young people will need to not only earn a high-school diploma, but thrive in an ever-changing, technology-driven economy. And this portrait will become a valuable blueprint of sorts as sc...