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GREENFIELD — The School Committee voted Wednesday to accept the School Department’s revised fiscal year 2024 budget of nearly $22.79 million, with extra funding allocated by City Council effectively restoring the Strings for Kids music program, middle...
GREENFIELD — School Committee members will consider next month whether to censure Mayor Roxann Wedegartner for an opinion piece she wrote last month that disclosed her vote in an executive session.“Executive session is confidential until the minutes...
GREENFIELD — In the wake of what local school officials have described as “the most challenging years” in education, administrators across the state and locally experienced one of the sharpest declines in teacher retention rates this year compared to...
The Recorder on April 14 quoted the School Committee member Susan Eckstrom as saying, “In our attempts to sustain our schools, our budget is cut yearly by a single person.”Dare I say this but we live in a democratic republic and besides mob rule it...
GREENFIELD — The long-awaited approval of union contracts was overshadowed Wednesday evening by what School Committee members described as “devastating cuts” to the proposed School Department budget. “We should have been celebrating we signed the...