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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield School Department will begin the 2024-2025 school year with Stephen Sullivan as its new assistant superintendent of teaching and learning.Sullivan is currently serving his third year as superintendent of schools in Granby...

By DOUG SELWYN

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka recently stated that she was hearing from senators around the state that schools within their districts were badly underfunded and so it was time to re-examine the state’s approach to funding, which is welcome news. I hope that President Spilka and her colleagues take the time to listen to and take seriously the stories that those actually working in the schools have to tell about the impact of underfunding on the children and education workers across the state. It is one thing to look at funding formulas, and quite another to realize that the numbers on the page carry a real impact on the lives of real children. That became very clear to me at a recent Zoom on educational funding.