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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.
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.
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."
Teachers at Liberty Academy Charter School in the Jersey City Heights refused to work yesterday morning, taking a stand over health insurance changes, according to The Jersey Journal.
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.
WORCESTER - Yesterday afternoon's hearing on two proposed charter schools was similar to others held in the city in 2005 and last year except for one thing: The supporters outnumbered the opponents 25-6.
A South Side nonprofit organization that operates five charter schools in Allegheny County now owns a building in Braddock Hills to open a sixth school.
Bigfork teachers are making headway on a curriculum realignment process that will span the school year, they told Bigfork School board members last week.
Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal Teachers and staff at Liberty Academy Charter School in Jersey City have insurance gripes.
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