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Monday was the first day of the new academic year for more than 24,000 first through twelfth grade students at Springfield Public Schools, but it was also the first day for a brand-new elementary school.

Summer is over for the more than 24 thousand students in Springfield Public Schools as it is back to the classroom next week.

The Holyoke Public School system is one of the latest districts in western Massachusetts to lock up cell phones as they look to cut down distractions in the classroom.

Year after year, spending to have students set for that first day is climbing to astronomical numbers.

Students are preparing to return to class at UMass Amherst and following last year’s shortage of on-campus housing, which resulted in some students placed at a nearby hotel, we’re getting answers on what’s being done this year.

Ever since the start of the pandemic, schools across the country have been struggling to fill teacher vacancies.