Alcorn and his wife, Kathleen Wang, opened the school in 2007.
The number of 10th-graders receiving a proficient or higher score on English Language Arts and Math on their 1st try has nearly doubled since 2001.
The equipment is valued at $48,000.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan met with parents, teachers and administrators during a community forum at High School of Commerce
WNEC encourages parents to leave new students alone for four to six weeks so they can get acclimated to college life.
The bus orientation helps ease students’ fears about riding the bus on the first day of school.
The funding will cover salaries for an estimated 100 Springfield teachers and 50 Holyoke teachers.
Springfield will receive $13.7 million, Holyoke will get $4.9 million and Chicopee will get $1.8 million.
Each school will adopt one of four federally developed turnaround programs indicated in their proposal to win the grant money.
The students split time between learning projects from the Boston Museum of Science’s “Engineering the Future” curriculum.
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