Amherst School Committee unanimously adopts $33.8 million budget restoring interventionist and specialist positions. Vice Chair Bridget Hynes and member Andrew Hart advocated strongly for preserving elementary intervention teachers and specialists, citing documented achievement gaps in mathematics

School Committee addresses restraint practices and anti-bullying data over nearly five hours. Superintendent Dr. Xi Herman presented preliminary FY27 budget projections tied to school consolidations and the opening of Chestnut Street Academy, with the Committee identifying top priorities including

Amherst School Committee approves cost-center structure and pursues budget alternatives. The committee voted unanimously to adopt 22 cost centers for FY27 and directed administration to present two budget scenarios at next week's meeting: one showing restorations at approximately 5 percent growth

Amherst School Committee votes to proceed with sixth-grade move to Chestnut Street Academy. In a four-hour meeting dominated by debate over the K-6 restructuring plan, the five-member Committee voted unanimously to advance the planned fall 2026 transition after Superintendent Dr. E. Xiomara Herman