Northampton Public Schools

Vaillancourt named NHS principal

Posted on Monday, December 23rd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Greta Jochem, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 12/22/2019
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON — After an independent investigation found that the principal search committee’s work was “proper,” Lori Vaillancourt will be the new principal of Northampton High School, subject to contract negotiations, Superintendent John Provost announced Friday. After more than a decade at the high school, Principal Bryan Lombardi left over the summer for another position. This fall, two… [Read More]

NHS graduating class makes itself heard

Posted on Monday, June 3rd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Jacquelyn Voghel, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 6/2/2019
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NORTHAMPTON — From activism to academic achievements, the Northampton High School Class of 2019 has never sat quietly, speakers reflected Sunday afternoon. “When we felt unheard, we screamed louder,” class vice president Cailin Young said to the audience. “When we felt small, we became bigger together.” Around 220 graduates crossed the stage at Smith College’s… [Read More]

Leeds Elementary principal announces departure

Posted on Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Great Jochem, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 5/7/2019
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON — This school year will be Sal Canata’s last as principal of Leeds Elementary School. He announced Tuesday that he is leaving to be principal of Holyoke STEM Academy, a public middle school, starting July 1. “I weighed the decision. I wavered quite a bit,” Canata told the Gazette. “I came to the conclusion… [Read More]

Northampton students build computers in new digital literacy program

Posted on Friday, February 22nd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Greta Jochem, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 2/21/2019
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON — On Friday morning, R.K. Finn Ryan Road School third-grade students were playing Minecraft on small computers. But they weren’t using an average laptop — they were computers the students had built themselves. As part of a new technology education initiative in Northampton elementary schools, third-graders are building simple computers in small groups and… [Read More]

NHS Latin teacher wins national honor

Posted on Thursday, January 17th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Greta Jochem, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 1/16/2019
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON — Northampton High School Latin teacher Thomas J. Howell recently won national recognition for his work from the Society for Classical Studies, a major academic group focused on ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures and civilization. At the group’s annual meeting in early Janurary, Howell was given one of two awards for Excellence in… [Read More]

Sixteen schools in five Western MA school districts awarded Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants

Posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: July 24, 2018

Western Massachusetts schools will receive just over $480,000 of the $3.8 million dollar Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants awarded last week by the Baker-Polito Administration. Sixteen schools within Belchertown, Gill-Montague, North Adams, Northampton and Leverett School districts were awarded between $1,641 and $120,464 towards improving their technology infrastructure. The Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants are… [Read More]

School Committee passes transgender student policy

Posted on Monday, August 14th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Crhistensen, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 8/13/2017
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON — School Committee here voted on Thursday to approve a policy that expands protections to transgender and gender nonconforming students and employees of Northampton Public Schools. “The policy you are asking about was drafted by the rules and policy subcommittee and serves to formalize what already has been the practice In NPS for quite… [Read More]

Early childhood educator Barbara Black named Gazette’s “Person of the Year”

Posted on Tuesday, March 7th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Christensen, Hampshire Gazette
Date: 3/6/2017
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON, MA — Amid the piles of brightly colored building blocks, Barbara Black, 66, kneels comfortably among several 4- and 5-year-olds on the floor of a Bridge Street School classroom. “What’s this one?” she asks each child, her seeing-eye dog, Ms. Pie, wagging its tail patiently at her side. “What are you making?” For Black,… [Read More]

Charter school debate looms over raising state caps

Posted on Monday, December 21st, 2015 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dave Eisenstadter, The Gazette
Date: 12/19/2015
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON, MA — As government officials debate whether to lift a cap on the number of charter schools allowed in the state, the local chapter of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts is doing research of its own on the subject. The nonpartisan organization will likely take about a year to research its position… [Read More]

‘School Local’ aims to promote city schools, will kick off with rally on steps of City Hall

Posted on Monday, October 19th, 2015 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Gena Mangiaratti , The Gazette
Date: 10/20/15
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON, MA — In a city where patrons are encouraged to eat, bank and shop locally, residents are not surprised that a phrase they have been hearing more and more of is, “School Local.” School Local Northampton is a campaign started by parents to encourage city families to send their children to the Northampton Public… [Read More]