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As you likely know, we’ve had an unusually high number of school closings this winter due to weather and road conditions here in Pittsfield. (I’m hoping that we’ve seen the last of snow for a long while!)  In fact, we closed school for seven days this winter.  These closings would delay the final day of…

Paul Finnegan Dickinson, who graduated from Pittsfield High School and is a retired educator, has donated 527 books from her professional library.  We are so grateful for the donation of these books, which will become part of the Pittsfield School District’s professional library, potentially of benefit to over one hundred educators.  She has meticulously organized…

2018 VOTER’S GUIDE 2018 Sample School District Ballot 2018 Delibrative Session Meeting Minutes 2018 MS-27 2018 Default Budget 2018 Warrant 2018 2019 Budget Book 2018 – 2019 Proposed Budget 2018 – 2019 Projected Revenue Default Budget Summary 2018 Absentee Ballot Application – School Election  

It’s a tired cliché: that teachers are so lucky because they have the summers “off.” The notion conjures images of educators lazing away the days and weeks in chaise lounges and hammocks while the rest of us slog through the summer in our cubicles and storefronts. In Pittsfield, nothing could be further from the truth….

JCA-Change of School or Assignment JEA – Compulsory Attendance Age JEB – Age of Entrance JEC – Change of School or Assignment – Manifest Educational Hardship JFA – Residency JFA-R – Residency Legal Requirements JFAA – Admission of Resident Students JFAB – Admission of Tuition and Non-Resident Students JFAB-R Non-Resident Tuition Agreement JFABA Open Enrollment…

The school corridors had been more crowded than usual at PMHS in mid-November as our Student-Led Conferences (SLCs) have been in full swing.   As PMHS parents know, since the beginning of the last school year, PMHS replaced the traditional—and sometimes dreaded—parent-teacher conference with a relatively new model of understanding and appreciating student progress.  Every fall…