FEMA Awards Funds to Massachusetts for COVID School Testing Costs| 08:00AM / Saturday, February 10, 2024 | |
BOSTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $64 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse it for the cost of contracting to provide testing services in public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. The $64,144,440 Public Assistance grant will reimburse the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services for the cost of contracting to provide testing at schools and in public buildings in surrounding communities between February 2021 and June 2022. The contractor provided services which included operations and logistics of pooled testing, training, software, and technical assistance to school personnel. The >> Read More |
Dalton Select Board Approves CBRSD Regional AgreementBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
05:10AM / Thursday, February 08, 2024 | |
DALTON, Mass. — Central Berkshire Regional School District regional agreement update is closer to being completed. The change to the regional agreement should not be a controversial issue because all the changes are to bring the agreement up to date on state law and how the district is currently run, School Committee Chair Richard Peters said during a Dalton Select Board meeting last month. "It's not changing any of our policies or how we're running the district or any of that," he said. The district is awaiting feedback from some of the seven member towns. Feedback received so far does not require another ad hoc committee >> Read More |
BCC's '40 Under Forty' Winners to be Honored| 11:15AM / Tuesday, February 06, 2024 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College (BCC), together with partners 1Berkshire and Mill Town Foundation, will honor the winners of its annual 40 Under Forty Awards on Thursday, March 28 at 5 pm in the Robert Boland theater, located on the main campus at 1350 West Street, Pittsfield. Tickets are $75 per person and may be purchased online at www.berkshirecc.edu/40-tix. Proceeds benefit the BCC Foundation, which manages about 180 scholarships totaling more than $375,000 for BCC students and supports a number of programs at the College. 40 Under Forty celebrates talented people in the Berkshires, under the age of 40, who try to improving >> Read More |
Pittsfield Schools Point to Online Resource for Bullying, Peer Conflict.By Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
05:25AM / Monday, February 05, 2024 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — School administrators are urging families to use an online resource to report bullying and peer conflict. "We're really trying to promote the bullying reporting form, [so] that families use it, and … even if they can't fill it out themselves, we want to really make sure that families understand that they're entitled to an investigation when they make a claim and an outcome," Superintendent Joseph Curtis said during a virtual school safety meeting last week. This online form improves accessibility to reporting and makes it easier to tack student conflict, Curtis said. The school adjustment counselors >> Read More |
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