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10th Annual Share Your Art, Share Your Voice

Posted on Monday, May 22nd, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Kathryn Laverriere, MA Department of Youth Services
Date: May 9, 2023
Link: Complete Article

10th Annual Share Your Art, Share Your Voice

[BOSTON] – Today, the Department of Youth Services (DYS) held its 10th Annual “Share YourArt, Share Your Voice” Youth Arts Showcase at WGBH Studios. It is the culmination of DYS’syear-round arts programming and included an Art Gallery and sale, and live performances byyouth in the Massachusetts juvenile justice system.The artwork displayed at the event included… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories, State/National News

Education secretary hears about rural school challenges

Posted on Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Chris larabee, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 5/9/23
Link: Complete Article

Education secretary hears about rural school challenges

NORTHFIELD — In the Pioneer Valley Regional School library and on the trails behind the building, Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler got a lesson in rural education. Tutwiler, along with two assistant secretaries and his communications staff, spent Monday afternoon with Pioneer students, staff, administrators and public officials, as he learned about the challenges… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories, State/National News Tagged With: Massachusetts Secretary of Education, Patrick Tutwiler, Pioneer Valley Regional School District, rural schools

State’s education secretary gets an earful from educators, politicians in Northampton stop

Posted on Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Alexander Macdougall, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 5/8/2023
Link: Complete Article

State’s education secretary gets an earful from educators, politicians in Northampton stop

NORTHAMPTON — Even if the students at Bridge Street Elementary School didn’t know who Patrick Tutwiler was, they could clearly tell he was somebody important. Students frequently stopped him during a Monday tour of the pre-K-5 school to say hello, shake his hand and even ask for his autograph. When he entered the cafeteria, flanked… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories, State/National News Tagged With: Bridge Street Elementary School, Chapter 70 Funding, Massachusetts Secretary of Education, Patrick Tutwiler

Statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on New Nation’s Report Card on History and Civics Education

Posted on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Press Office, U.S. Department of Education
Date: May 3, 2023
Link: Complete Article

Statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on New Nation’s Report Card on History and Civics Education

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona issued the following statement on the latest Nation’s Report card showing a decline in history and civics scores for eighth graders: “The latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress further affirms the profound impact the pandemic had on student learning in subjects beyond math and reading. It… [Read More]

Filed Under: State/National News Tagged With: Civics Education, History Education, Miguel Cardona, Nation's Report Card, US Department of Education

‘I’ve learned that things have a cost.’ Meet the migrant children working long hours in factories and fish plants across Mass.

Posted on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Katie Johnston, Boston Globe
Date: 3/26/2023
Link: Complete Article

‘I’ve learned that things have a cost.’  Meet the migrant children working long hours in factories and fish plants across Mass.

Walter was 16 when he started working the overnight shift at a plastics factory in Central Massachusetts. He had come from Guatemala on his own to join his father, desperate to escape a poor, violent country where two of his childhood friends were shot to death. From 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., Walter trimmed plastic… [Read More]

Filed Under: CES Stories, State/National News Tagged With: Massachusetts Migrant Education Program, migrant, migrant children, MMEP, young migrants

U.S. Department of Education Awards Over $60 Million to Strengthen the Teacher Pipeline, Increase Educator Leadership, and Support Quality Teaching and Learning to Further Address Teacher Shortage

Posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Press Office, U.S. Department of Education
Date: September 27, 2022
Link: Complete Article

U.S. Department of Education Awards Over $60 Million to Strengthen the Teacher Pipeline, Increase Educator Leadership, and Support Quality Teaching and Learning to Further Address Teacher Shortage

Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) is announcing new awards to further address the teacher shortage and help ensure long-term investments in teacher pipeline and development programs across the country. New investments under the Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) program, include 22 new three-year grants totaling more than $60 million, bringing the Biden-Harris Administration’s additional support… [Read More]

Filed Under: State/National News Tagged With: Educators, Teacher Pipeline, Teacher Shortage, US Department of Education

Gov. Baker agrees to major spending increase in his final budget

Posted on Friday, July 29th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Colin A Young, WBUR
Date: 7/28/2022
Link: Complete Article

Gov. Baker agrees to major spending increase in his final budget

Signing his eighth and final budget as the state’s chief executive, Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday agreed to a major increase in state spending as he approved the vast majority of a $52.7 billion annual budget, vetoed less than half a million dollars of outlays, and returned 41 sections to the Legislature with proposed amendments…. [Read More]

Filed Under: State/National News Tagged With: Chapter 70 Funding, Commonwealth of MA budget, Early Childhood funding, Fiscal Year 23 Budget, Governor Charlie Baker

Baker-Polito Administration Awards More Than $32 Million to Expand Training Opportunities for High School Students and Adults Through Skills Capital and Career Technical Initiative Grant Funding

Posted on Thursday, July 28th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Terry McCormack, Mass.gov
Date: July 22, 2022
Link: Complete Article

Baker-Polito Administration Awards More Than $32 Million to Expand Training Opportunities for High School Students and Adults Through Skills Capital and Career Technical Initiative Grant Funding

] LEXINGTON — The Baker-Polito Administration today awarded more than $32 million in grants to modernize equipment at career technical programs and expand training opportunities for young people and adults as part of the administration’s multi-year effort to address skills gaps so more residents can pursue careers in growing industries and employers can hire qualified workers to… [Read More]

Filed Under: State/National News Tagged With: Capital and Career Technical Initiative Grant, Career and Technical Education, Skills Capital Grant Program, Skills Capital Grants

MOEC Highlights Work of Collaboratives to Support Student Mental Health

Posted on Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Alia Spring, MOEC
Date: 4/12/22

MOEC Highlights Work of Collaboratives to Support Student Mental Health

ANDOVER — The Massachusetts Organization of Educational Collaboratives (MOEC) wishes to highlight some of the ways that collaboratives across the state work to support the mental health of students and staff. On March 24 and 25, more than 80 educators attended a mental health symposium hosted by the Southeast Collaborative Regional Organization, which represents eight… [Read More]

Filed Under: State/National News Tagged With: CREST, READS Collaborative, Social Emotional Learning, student mental health

Baker-Polito Administration Awards $600,000 in Grants to High Schools to Support Innovation Pathways

Posted on Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: , Massachusetts Executive Office of Education
Date: 4/5/2022
Link: Complete Article

Baker-Polito Administration Awards $600,000 in Grants to High Schools to Support Innovation Pathways

The Baker-Polito Administration awarded more than $600,000 to 22 school districts to help support Innovation Pathway programs, which provide high school students with opportunities to learn and gain experience in a particular industry through career exploration, technical courses and internships. Students are also able to enroll in post-secondary courses, at no cost to them, to… [Read More]

Filed Under: Local News, State/National News Tagged With: Berkshire Hills Regional School District, grants, Hadley Public Schools, Innovation Pathways Program, Northampton Public Schools, West Springfield Public Schools, Westfield Public Schools

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