St. Stans Offers Meals at No Cost for All Students

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ADAMS, Mass. — St. Stanislaus Kostka School will be participating in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program.
 
As part of this program, St. Stanislaus Kostka School will offer healthy meals every school day at no cost to the students
due to the implementation of the Community Eligibility Provision for school year 2024-2025.
 
Students will be able to participate in these meal programs without having to pay a fee or submit a household application. The Commonwealth is supplementing National School Lunch Program funds to ensure all students have access to healthy school meals in Massachusetts, regardless of household income.
 
 
For more information, you may call Sara Potvin, senior administrative assistant at 413-743-1091 or e-mail at office@ststansadams.org.
 

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Hoosac Valley Seeks to Prevent 'Volatile' Assessments

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
ADAMS, Mass.— The "volatile" shifts in Hoosac Valley Regional School District's town assessments year to year is hard for smaller towns to absorb; however, a proposed change to the regional agreement would fix that. 
 
During the Select Board meeting last week, Superintendent Aaron Dean presented the proposed change to the regional agreement that would set assessments based on a five-year rolling average rather than the annual student enrollment.
 
"The long-term goal is to make the assessment process a little bit more viable for people from year-to-year," he said. 
 
An ad hoc committee was convened to review the district's agreement, during which concerns arose about the rapid fluctuations in assessments.
 
"I think you have to look short term, and you have to look long term. The goal is to kind of level it off and make planning easier and flatten that curve in terms of how it's going to impact both communities," Dean said. 
 
Every year, it is a little more difficult for one community because they are feeling disproportionately impacted compared to the other, he said. 
 
"The transient nature of this population right now is like nothing I've ever seen," Dean said. 
 
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