The Power of Attendance andConsistent Learning This fall, Massachusetts voters made a pivotal decision: the MCAS test will no longer be required for future students to graduate. As superintendent, I want our community to know that Springfield Public Schools is steadfast in its commitment to what we believe is most essential—teaching students the skills they…

I am proud and honored to serve as Superintendent of Springfield Public Schools, the best school district in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As a product of Mary A. Dryden Veterans Memorial School, Arthur T. Talmadge Elementary, Warner Elementary, M. Marcus Kiley Junior High, and Classical High School, I am living testament to the excellent education…

No matter where you live in our Country, you undoubtedly live within a walk, bus ride, or car ride to a school, daycare, homeschool, or learning center, and in some locations, to a community center or two.

Urban education continues to face the same self-defeating dilemma in that there are two truths that those of us in the field consider to be evidence-based facts. Students of color have better outcomes when they have even one teacher who looks like them during their K-12 education. Teachers of color continue to be underrepresented in…