Drury Biannual End-of-semester Showcase

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On behalf of the Drury Portrait of a Graduate Student Team and Drury staff, North Adams Public Schools families and community members are invited to attend Drury High School’s biannual End of Semester Showcase and Expo taking place on June 7 from 10:55 am-12:55 pm at the school. 
 
The showcase will offer audiences an understanding of what Drury students have learned during their second semester courses and the types of academic content they have explored. End-of-semester work from numerous classes will be presented and displayed by Drury students. This will include traditional academic and elective courses, AP, Early College, and Project-Based Learning classes.
 
The Showcase will take place in the Drury High School gym, library, band room, and theater room. Community members and families are invited to arrive and sign in at the Drury main office between 10:45 and 10:55 am.
 
Upon arrival, families and community members will sign in and out of the building in the front lobby. During the Expo, there will be 3 rotations of the band, theater, and choreography sessions.
 
Times and locations will be posted around the building.
 
Beginning at 12:50 pm, everyone will be called down to the auditorium for the annual student recognition ceremony which will begin promptly at 1 pm. This ceremony will be live streamed and the web address will be posted on the Drury webpage closer to the event. The ceremony will conclude by 2:20 pm, at which time students, families, and community members will be dismissed.
 
Caregivers are encouraged to join in congratulating their students on their success during this academic year, however caregivers are asked not to dismiss their student(s) early.
 

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Clarksburg Students Write in Support of Rural School Aid

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

Mason Langenback calculated that Clarksburg would get almost $1 million if the $60 million was allocated equally.
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Eighth-graders at Clarksburg School took a lesson in civic advocacy this week, researching school funding and writing letters to Beacon Hill that call for fulling funding rural school aid. 
 
The students focused on the hardships for small rural schools and their importance to the community — that they struggle with limited funding and teacher shortages, but offer safe and supportive spaces for learning and are a hub for community connections.
 
"They all address the main issue, the funding for rural schools, and how there's a gap, and there's the $4 million gap this year, and then it's about the $40 million next year, and that rural schools need that equitable funding," said social studies teacher Mark Karhan.
 
A rural schools report in 2022 found smaller school districts cost from nearly 17 percent to 23 percent more to operate, and recommended "at least" $60 million be appropriated annually for rural school aid. 
 
Gov. Maura Healey has filed for more Chapter 70 school aid, but that often is little help to small rural schools with declining or static enrollment. For fiscal 2027, she's budgeted $20 million for rural schools, up from around $13 million this year but still far below the hoped for $60 million. 
 
Karhan said the class was broken into four groups and the students were provided a submission letter from Rural Schools Advocacy. The students used the first paragraph, which laid out the funding facts, and then did research and wrote their own letters. 
 
They will submit those with a school picture to the governor. 
 
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