Jill Kaufman
Reporter/Producer/HostJill Kaufman has been a reporter and host at NEPM since 2005. Before that she spent 10 years at WBUR in Boston, producing The Connection with Christopher Lydon, reporting and hosting. In the months leading up to the 2000 presidential primary in New Hampshire, Jill hosted NHPR’s daily talk show The Exchange. Right before coming to NEPM, Jill was an editor at PRX's The World.
She can be reached at jill_kaufman [at] nepm.org.
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This week Massachusetts education officials announced the most results of the most recent standardized assessment exam known as the MCAS. Only 13 districts saw students meet pre-pandemic learning levels in both Math and English Language Arts. Massachusetts Education Commissioner Patrick Tutwiler told NEPM, the results are both understandable and to some degree predictable. -
The list of Massachusetts colleges and universities offering free tuition — to qualifying students — is growing. Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley announced this month it would do this for any U.S. family with an income of up to $150,000. -
This year's parade theme is "Afro-Boricua" in honor of the deep African influences that shape Puerto Rican identity from music, dance, and art — to language, spirituality, and traditions. -
Western Massachusetts lawmakers testifying at a hearing on Beacon Hill Tuesday said they want to strike surprising language from a state law that limits travel expense reimbursements for members of the Governor’s Council. -
A 19th century landscape by Thomas Cole of a view of the Connecticut River from the top of Mt. Holyoke was the inspiration for a group art show, installed along steep trails. Viewers had to be sure footed. -
In Hampshire Superior Court, in Northampton, Mass., a judge denied an emergency motion by the the Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools to stop a former employee from being reinstated to a job she was fired from. -
After what might feel like a fleeting summer break, most Massachusetts schools start the new year this week. In Holyoke, Mass., students started Monday and after a decade of state receivership, decisions about the district are once again back in the hands of school committee members. -
Two Palestinian American women have become the second generation of their family businesses. One is a restaurant owner in Brooklyn, New York. One is a book publisher in Northampton, Massachusetts. They're connected through their culture, their families — and through the publishing of a new Palestinian cookbook. -
Elected members of the Holyoke School Committee were only advisors to the state for a decade, when the district was under state receivership. As of July 2025, they are once again the decision makers on matters impacting the district. -
Residents and visitors to Great Barrington can now take a seat on a marble bench, next to a life-size statue of the post Civil War scholar W.E.B. Du Bois. Organizers who brought the bronze likeness of Du Bois to life hope it creates a new curiosity about the co-founder of the NAACP — one of the town's most famous native sons.
