The annual Massachusetts Department of Edcuation Schools Report Card, issued today, shows Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech scored better in 2017 than any year since 2012 in nine of 11 categories.
NEW BEDFORD - After three teachers at Keith Middle School resigned in public fashion at Monday night's New Bedford School Committee meeting, Dr. Pia Durkin is responding. The teachers expressed their displeasure with what they claim is the administration's lack of response to chronic problems within the school, including understaffing of teachers.
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FAIRHAVEN - The towns of Fairhaven and Acushnet are exploring the possibility of regionalizing their school districts.
Fairhaven Superintendent Dr. Robert Baldwin says there are several methods to regionalizing, but the ultimate goal would be to bring parts or all of both districts under one umbrella...
The mother of a student at Hayden-McFadden School in New Bedford has hired a lawyer after she says her daughter was stabbed with a hypodermic needle on school grounds.
The claim stems from an incident on August 22, when Michelle Farland's six-year-old daughter came home from school and told her mother another child had poked her in the hand with a needle allegedly found on the playground earlier t