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The New Bedford School Committee approved Supt. Dr. Pia Durkin's proposed $120.4 million budget Monday night 6-1. However, the mayor will not support it.

A former congressman and current chancellor of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell is taking over the entire five-campus UMass system.

The New Bedford Public Schools released a survey this week seeking feedback from the community regarding the state of the city's schools.

Dads just keep coming up with more and more clever ways to keep an eye on their daughters.

The New Bedford School Committee is giving the Alfred J. Gomes Elementary School the green light to take steps that could result in longer and additional school days. The School Committee Monday approved a memorandum of agreement with the New Bedford Educators Association to allow the school to apply for an Extended Learning Time (ELT) Grant from the Massachusetts 21st Century Community Learning C

New Bedford superintendent Pia Durkin has high expectations for the next school year. At last night's school committee meeting she presented the preliminary 2016 Fiscal Year Budget, requesting $125,771,768. Among the priorities are English Language Learner services , with student language barriers playing a major role in the school system's under achievement...

The Dartmouth School District will be making a concerted effort to remove a word from the vocabulary of the students. The Town Select Board Monday night went on record in support of the "End the R-Word" movement, which discourages the use of the words "retard" and "retarded"...

There will be no school on Monday for students at Old Rochester Regional Junior High School and Senior High School after officials became concerned that a section of the building's roof may have been compromised.

Street congestion around city schools has been a serious issue for years. The City Council discussed some ways to alleviate some of those problems during Thursday's meeting.

The first of three scheduled community conversations took place last night at New Bedford's Roosevelt Middle School. Parents and community members were invited to attend and take part in the discussion regarding the improving school system...