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The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District is getting another magnet school. The District 191 School Board on Thursday, Nov. 19, approved a new Gifted and Talented Magnet Program at Eagle Ridge Junior High in Savage.
Some adversaries of the charter school movement argue that low teacher-to-student ratios in charters hurt the traditional public schools they often outperform.
At their meeting yesterday, their first since the death of board president Michael Scott, the Chicago Public Schools Board of Education moved forward with business, approving five new charter schools that will open across the next two school years. CPS had originally proposed six but withdrew one: the Chicago International Charter School. Opening in 2010 : Noble Street Charter School - Englewood ...
In a dramatic, emotionally charged meeting, the Santa Barbara School Board agreed to allow Cesar Chavez Charter School, Santa Barbara’s only English and Spanish dual immersion elementary school, to remain open through June, but its fate beyond the end of the school year is still a mystery.
An attempt by outgoing Pittsburgh Public Schools board member Randall Taylor to preserve the name Frick in the district's newest magnet school in Oakland was rejected Tuesday night by the school board.
The Marco Island Charter Middle School board is in the process of filling three board slots - one parent position and two non-parent positions. The candidate application process ended last Friday, but a Thursday night board meeting had been scheduled to approve the slate of candidates.
Alabama's two Democratic candidates for governor are divided sharply over whether the state should allow publicly funded charter schools that operate without many of the rules that public schools must follow.
Four charter schools overseen by the Orleans Parish School Board have been put on probation while receiving permission to operate for one more year.
State legislators gathered for their annual luncheon with the Mobile County school board had mixed feelings about whether Alabama should allow the formation of charter schools.
Love it or hate it, the class size amendment will go into full effect starting next school year.
NAMPA -- A Nampa charter school learned Monday morning that it is in more trouble with the state. Nampa Classical Academy had already tallied up three warnings from the state charter commission, and Monday added numbers four and five. Before the school year started, the state told Nampa Classical Academy it could not use religious texts in the classroom. The school filed a lawsuit to get that ...
OWOSSO - The Owosso Public Schools Board of Education Monday night discussed a number of cost-saving measures for the 2010-11 school year, including moving all sixth-graders to Owosso Middle School and changing Washington Elementary School to a kindergarten-early learning center.
The Delano School Board is strongly encouraging district residents to attend a Monday, Nov. 30, forum on the status of school funding during "very challenging economic times."
Bigfork teachers are making headway on a curriculum realignment process that will span the school year, they told Bigfork School board members last week.
NEW ORLEANS -- Four New Orleans charter schools are now on probation, according to Orleans Parish School Board spokesman Steve Majors. Majors said Benjamin Franklin High School, Robert Moton Charter School, New Orleans Science and Math, and Priestley School of Architecture now have permission to operate for one more year. During that time they must remedy problems of student performance or ...
Kentucky doesn't have charter schools, so that puts the state at a distinct disadvantage for billions of dollars in education grants. The Obama administration supports these public schools and has tied grant awards to states that have good ones.
Patterson Academy for the Arts is located inside this office building on Arlington Expressway. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- At a special Duval County School Board meeting Monday morning was called to determine the future of Patterson Academy of the Arts, the board voted to terminate the charter school's contract and close the school.
BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Public Charter School Commission on Nov. 23 reprimanded the publicly funded Nampa Classical Academy over the use of religious texts in the classroom, saying it violates the state constitution.
The King George Board of Supervisors agreed again last week, as it had at a meeting on Nov. 5, to put off whether to grant a request by the School Board for some of the surplus money Superintendent Candace Brown was not able to spend last school year. The decision was postponed because Donita Harper, Deputy County Administrator & Director of Finance, told supervisors she received some additional ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ---- A group that wants the public school year to start later in Sioux Falls says it has 3,000 letters supporting its cause. The group appeared Monday before the Sioux Falls School Board....
Millcreek School Board voted unanimously Monday to renew the charter for the Montessori Regional Charter School for five years, through June 2014. The board did not reconsider the school's plan to open a second campus at the former St. Andrew School in Erie.
Title I Monitor has a roundtable with a lot of useful perspective ...
Social entrepreneur Alan Khazei is gaining momentum in the MA Senate ...
Today’s speech and announcement by New York Mayor Bloomberg ...
Well, probably not in these edujobs at Tennessee Score , the EAO ...
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