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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.
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.
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.
As President Obama pushes for more charter schools, the education world craves a report card on an experiment nearly two decades old. How are these independent public schools doing? The safest and perhaps most accurate reply -- it depends -- leaves many unsatisfied.
Bear Creek Community Charter School Chief Operating Officer Jim Smith has a bit of a bone to pick with the Pennsylvania Department of Education: His school doesn’t get listed with other public schools when the state announces “Keystone Achievement” award winners.
Charter schools can be public or private, for-profit or nonprofit, but in all legislation planned for Alabama, they would be nontraditional public schools.
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."
MERRILL -- The Merrill School Board on Monday voted 9-0 in favor of $825,000 in budget reductions for the 2010-11 school year during a special meeting.
TAMPA The path to opening a publicly funded charter school in Hillsborough County appears to be getting steeper, with a committee recommending the denial of applications backed by two companies who want to open schools next fall.
Charter schools receive public funding but are not subject to the same stipulations, such as tenure laws, curriculum requirements and length of the school day and year.
Nash-Rocky Mount Public School district officials don’t believe they will be forced to shell out millions of dollars to local charter schools as other districts in the state have in the wake of a court ruling.
HARTFORD — The state Board of Education may vote Wednesday on a legislative proposal that would lift caps on charter school growth in Connecticut.
WAYCROSS, Ga. -- The closing of Ware County's lone magnet school has parents and students up in arms.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the case of a young man who — finding himself in dire economic straits — declared bankruptcy on his debts, which included a student loan. Then, 17 years after a court first approved his bankruptcy, the lender contacted him and said that he still owed them money.
A Minnesota Senate panel will hold a hearing next week on possible changes to a key funding source for charter schools.
H1N1 vaccinations have made their way into public elementary and middle schools via the Mollen Immunization Clinics, but most students living in Ahwatukee Foothills who attend charter schools will have to rely on their family physicians for the H1N1...
By JOHN CHAMBLISS The Ledger LAKELAND | The Central Florida School Board Coalition is sending a letter to Florida Department of Education officials outlining their concerns about how they will find money, space and teachers to comply with the state's class size amendment.
Charter schools are different things to different people. Supporters see charter schools differently than their critics see them. Maybe that's the problem.
The Sioux Falls School Board has expelled a student for one year after they brought a weapon to school.
The Los Altos School District has for the most part met its legal obligations to give Bullis Charter School adequate facilities, a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled last week in the latest lawsuit between the charter school and district.
The papers for next Monday’s AEI conference on the demand ...
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