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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.
The Lafayette Parish School Board tonight unanimously denied an application to open a charter school at N.P. Moss Middle School.
As Thomas Magnet School approaches the midpoint of its first academic year, the application process has begun for the 2010-2011 school year, according to principal Tim Harwell and Betty Farrar, the...
Claiming that charter schools drain dollars and students from Buffalo's traditional schools, the Board of Education voted, 6-2, Wednesday evening to seek a state moratorium on new charter schools in and around the city.
D.C. officials have decided to give charter schools the same police protection as regular D.C. public schools after a two-month-long spate of violence near a charter school in Northeast Washington.
MISSION VIEJO – Saddleback Valley Unified's superintendent is recommending that the school board deny a petition by two San Bernardino County educators to open a K-8 public charter school for the district's students next fall. The proposed Oxford...
A two-month-long rash of violence near one D.C. charter school is prompting officials to give charter schools the same police protection other public schools receive.
ASHLEY CREWE Today staff The Fort McMurray Public School District is facing a $3.58 million deficit for the 2009-10 school year and while that amount can be covered by current reserves, school board heads say if provincial budget cuts continue, there just won't be enough in the bank to cover it.[...]
Laning Avenue School Principal Frank Albano presented a review of the district’s performance in standardized tests for the 2008-09 school year at the Nov. 24 school board meeting.
A $3.8 million all-boys charter school recently approved by the Prince George's County school board will likely be housed in one of the eight county schools shuttered last year, school officials said.
State Rep. Phil Pavlov attended the November Marysville school board meeting to inform the members what is going on in Lansing regarding school funding and to answer any questions they may have. Subjects discussed included:
Danville Public Schools may need to prepare for a change in its calendar for the 2010-11 school year, which could delay the first day of school until after Labor Day.
Members of the East Aurora School Board are gearing up for a difficult budget process. At a Nov. 18 meeting, the board and Superintendent James Bodziak discussed priorities for the 2010-2011 budget. The budget for the current school year included cuts in many areas, which helped to avoid a tax increase. Several board members and administrators who spoke at the meeting said that further cuts ...
Shane Martin, School of Education dean at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), has been named the new Board of Directors chairman for Green Dot Public Schools, the largest public charter school organization in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles charter school founder has repaid his organization more than $50,000 after an internal review found that expenses he had charged were undocumented or unjustified. The Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site Tuesday that Steve Barr's repayment was disclosed in a tax return filed this year by Green Dot Public Schools. Green Dot chairman Shane Martin told the ...
Saint Paul, Minn. -- As the budget squeeze intensifies at the State Capitol, lawmakers are taking a harder look at how some charter school buildings are financed. At issue are lease-aid payments to charter schools, which have grown at a rapid clip in the past decade.
Ann Arbor school Superintendent Todd Roberts outlined more than $2.6 million in proposed budget cuts for this school year to the school board minutes ago. The board is meeting in a study session to discuss the district's finances, but no......
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."
Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey JournalTeachrees returned to work today at Liberty Academy Charter School on Sherman Avenue in Jersey City after conducting a sit-in yesterday to propose increases in health care costs.Teachers at Liberty Academy Charter School in Jersey...
Nine Idaho charter schools will receive a total of $925,000 from the J.A.and Kathryn Albertson Foun
BOISE -- A private foundation is putting its philanthropic heft behind the expansion and start up of charter schools in Idaho, where waiting lists are 7,000-students long. The J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation announced Friday more than $1 million in spending to create greater awareness and more participation when it comes to choice in education. The foundation will put most of the money ...
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