Jake McCandless

The City of Pittsfield public schools are facing the possibility of nearly 140 educators and administrators being cut from the district’s rosters to prepare for steep declines in state aid. The Berkshire Eagle reports Superintendent Jake McCandless told the school board Wednesday night that the district does not intend to cut all of those positions, but the reductions have been set in motion to pr

You may have heard by now that the Pittsfield School Committee has decided to remove “Columbus Day” from the Pittsfield Public Schools Calendar and replace it with “Indigenous People’s Day.”