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AMHERST — Amherst Regional Public School leaders failed to adequately protect LGBTQ+ students from bullying and ... -
While school resource officers in area schools have traditionally been in just high schools, we told you last fall that ... -
In a district that has discouraged school resource officers and uniformed police from being in school buildings, ... -
Face masks will come off in Amherst County Public Schools for those who wish Feb. 22, but some ... -
A trio of Amherst County School Board seats up for grabs ... -
The superintendent's decision last week to close the ... -
“The funding addresses the financial impact of K-12 students who live in tax-exempt housing on campus and attend Amherst schools,” UMass said in statement. Amherst ... -
Amherst schools will be on a delay Tuesday. (Patch Media ) AMHERST, NH — The Amherst School District will ... -
by PATRICK J. NAGY Reporter The Amherst Central School Board agreed to a proposed $60.1 million spending plan for the 2019-20 school year at the April 9 meeting; the board was expected to adopt it at the April 16 meeting. The proposed spending plan, an increase of $1.6 million from this year’s $58.5 million budget, has no gap between revenues and expenditures and does not reduce programs or opportunities for students, said Laura Bosinski, the school’s business ... -
Amherst Regional School Committee member Vira Douangmany Cage and Trevor Baptiste voted against settling a contract dispute with former Superintendent ...Laura Kent, ... -
AMHERST — With the departure of Superintendent Maria Geryk final and details surrounding the discussions that led to her six-figure settlement public, Amherst Regional S ... -
Those were part of the minutes released by the Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee on Tuesday night that chronicled more than 14 hours of executive sessions the committee held in response to Geryk's demand to be released from ... -
AMHERST — While news of former Amherst-Pelham School Superintendent Maria Geryk leaving the district amid controversial circumstances has garnered attention in recent weeks, on Tuesday night parents and administrators were only thinking abo ... -
AMHERST — The annual Amherst, Pelham and regional schools First Day Celebration, which has drawn hundreds in years past, will be held Tuesday beginning at 5 p.m. on the ... -
Amherst School Committee member Trevor Baptiste, left, speaks Tuesday beside Committee Chair Laura Kent, center, and Sarah Dolven after the committee met in an executive session Aug. 9 to discuss the terms of departur ... -
Amherst School Committee Chair Laura Kent, left, speaks before the committee entered executive session Wednesday at Amherst Regional High School. Other members are, from left: Tr ... -
AMHERST — Looking to prevent payment of more than $300,000 severance to departing superintendent Maria Geryk, School Committee member Vira Douangmany Cage has filed a consumer complaint with the state attor ... -
Amherst School Committee member Vira Douangmany Cage, right, speaks Tuesday beside Anastasia Ordonez after the committee met in an executive session to discuss the terms of departure for School Superintendent Maria Geryk at Amherst Regional ...Lawyer for Aisha Hiza wants meeting with Am ... -
AMHERST — Amherst's superintendent wants out — and will leave her position if the Amherst-Pelham Regional and Union 26 school committees approve a financial agreement in executive session Tuesday. A confidential memo regarding Superintendent&nb ... -
MassLive.comAMHERST — An executive session involving members of the Amherst-Pelham Regional and Union 26 school committees and Superintendent Maria Geryk is scheduled for Monday afternoon. A posting for the meeting on the ... -
AMHERST — Another school committee meeting has been cancelled Wednesday night and school officials are hoping to obtain the information they need to reschedule it soon. The j ... -
AMHERST – An executive session in which the Amherst-Pelham Regional and Union 26 school committees were to conduct strategy and colle ... -
AMHERST — A group leading a push to have Amherst County School Board members elected instead of appointed saw the results of its hard work Monday afternoon as Reg ... -
AMHERST — Members of the Amherst, Pelham and Amherst-Pelham Regional school committees will continue an executive session that began Wedn ... -
The Amherst School Board honored six employees at the June 21 meeting who have worked in the district for a combined 175 years. Larry Arbogast, central ma ... -
The building sign in front of Amherst High School and several new scoreboards in the Amherst Central School District will be receiving a facelift in th ... -
JERREY ROBERTSAmherst School Superintendent Maria Geryk speaks during the fourth forum on reconfiguring the Amherst elementary schools Wednesday at Amherst Regional ... -
AMHERST, Ohio-- Detectives discovered a couple stole tens of thousands of dollars in tutoring money meant for their son with special needs from the Amherst Exempted Village Schools, according to Amherst police. A grand jury indicted Jaleh S. Saghafi ...Two parents indicted, arrested for de ... -
Amherst Regional Middle School students want to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People's day movement. From left, Aarti Lamberg, Innis Gallagher, Hillary Atkinson (kneeling) ... -
AMHERST — The Amherst School Committee this week approved with little discussion a budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 which preserves all jobs ... -
AMHERST - Laura Kent and Anastasia Ordonez who had not run for elective office in town before beat out Vincent O'Connor for two seats on the School Committee. O'Con ... -
In what he described as an “emotional†... -
Saying that, she said, it still has to be done within the boundaries of confidentiality and the school's relationship with police. Chief Ian Naylor said Wednesday that police identified a man living in the community who ... -
There were a significant number of students out of class at Spring Street Academy on Wednesday. Parents held their children out of school after an issue concern around several students was identified ... -
The complaint that sparked the agreement between OCR and the school division was filed in spring 2014 in reference to a â&eu ... -
Amherst Schools received bond finance options because of the “great fina ... -
The Amherst Central School District is projected to spend more than it is taking in for the upcoming school year. At the Jan. 20 meeting, School Busi ... -
As expected, a number of school districts around New Hampshire, including Amherst, have begun cancelling classes for Tuesday, Jan. 27, due to an expected ... -
abc40Power was restored to the schools by 5 a.m. by switching around the outage while crews worked to fix the problem, she wrote. "In order to return power back to normal, the schools had to take a brief outage," ... -
AMHERST - Parents and students expressed concerns about the proposed schedule changes at the middle school next year during public comment period at Tuesday night's A ...
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