Education

School expenditures account for roughly 50% of Manchester’s total operating budgets. This is typical for a community with percentages running even higher in some municipalities. …

Massachusetts has 50 cities and 301 towns across 14 counties, and this week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey swore in Manchester resident and Manchester Essex Regional High School Junior Summer …

The Friends of the ME Performing Arts congratulate the Cast and Crew of MERHS's Drama Fest team.   The team had a great performance last week during t he Massachusetts High School Drama …

Nine grants totaling $27,000 to fund programs spanning art education, robotics, library collections, and extracurricular enrichment, among others have been awarded to Manchester Essex Regional School …

After better-than-expected savings on health insurance trimmed $280,000 from its working budget, the MERSD School Committee at its last meeting approved a $30.13 million FY25 budget, a 2.99% …

The Manchester-Essex Rotary Club is partnering with Manchester-Essex Regional High School’s Comfort Cases club to collect gently used or new adult-size backpacks for The Grace Center now …

Three Manchester Essex Regional High School students have had their works of art featured in the Emerging Young Artists (EYA) 2024 Juried Exhibition. The EYA is hosted annually by the College of …

More than 100 individuals gathered on Tuesday for a school committee public hearing at Essex Elementary School and online to discuss the ME Regional School District’s proposed FY25 budget, …

Manchester Essex Regional School District announced that it has hired Michelle Cresta as the district’s new director of finance and operations.  She will officially begin in her position …

Local students enrolled in college are now returning to school after the holidays but now is the time for colleges and universities across the country to announce last semester’s successes from …

The University of Massachusetts this week announced the "Community College Advantage Scholarship," a program rewards high-performance community college graduates who plan to continue their education …

Beautifully Said

This past Saturday morning, I found myself in a rather strange circumstance — surrounded by a sea of teenagers who chose, of their own free will, to get up at 5:30 a.m., shower, get dressed in …

MERSD Begins Steep Trek To FY25 Budget

Last week was the first public hearing on the tentative FY25 budget of the Manchester Essex Regional School District, and it’s clear: this will be hard. The proposed education budget for …

Grade 3 Manchester and Essex students learned about the groundbreaking local author and artist Virginia Lee Burton through a hands-on educational partnership with Cape Ann Museum earlier this month. …

At Tuesday’s School Committee meeting, Avi Urbas, Director of Finance and Operations at Manchester Essex Regional School District, announced he will leave the district after 15 years for the …

At a joint public hearing in the cafeteria of the Essex Elementary School on Tuesday, the Manchester Essex School District Committee, the Essex Board of Selectmen, Essex Finance Committee, town …

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