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After facing a budget shortfall in a difficult economy, the Anchorage School Board looked at a suggested upper limit Monday night -- the most money the school district can expect for next school year.
Does President Obama prefer charter schools to public schools?
The Derry Twp. School Board voted tonight to go to a two-tier bus schedule next year, which will include changing the start and ending times for all three schools.
Does the York City School District have a charter school magnet? That's what school board member Gerry Turner said he would like to know.
MENOMONIE - The Menomonie school board agreed Monday that it won't consider cutting Student Achievement Guarantee in Education classes or a construction project to address an elementary classroom shortfall for the 2010-11 school year.
This year's earlier due date is tied to the district's effort to improve its own forecasting of enrollment for the following school year, an official says. The application deadline for the popular local magnet-school program is three weeks earlier this school year. Parents will have until Dec. 18 to turn in applications for their choice among 173 magnet programs in the Los Angeles Unified School ...
The Memphis school board received a record 18 applications for new charter schools this fall, and Monday night, Supt. Kriner Cash recommended all 18 be denied, essentially sending them back to the drawing board for revisions. The city currently has 15 charter schools. Last year, the board received fewer than 10 applications. Only a handful of this year's applicants are expected to meet ...
A new look at the state charter school law could result in colleges and universities being able to approve charter schools, more accountability for charters and increased ability for such schools to occupy a district's unused buildings.
Former Ann Arbor school board member Kathy Griswold, a leader of the opposition to a countywide school enhancement millage, chats with Ann Arbor teachers union President Brit Satchwell during a school funding rally in Lansing this morning. David Jesse |......
Tuesday's elections in Virginia swept a staunch supporter of charter schools into the governor's mansion, raising hopes for advocates in a state that has been skeptical of the publicly funded, privately run alternatives to regular public schools.
Erie School Board will hear an update on Montessori Regional Charter School litigation today.
Saying they don't want school funding to come to a lawsuit, Wichita school board members voted unanimously Monday to spend more than $89,000 to join a coalition of schools whose previous lawsuit forced a massive increase in state funding.
JONESBORO — The Jonesboro School Board is set Tuesday night to decide on a construction manager for a planned project at the International Studies Magnet School using federal stimulus dollars.
New York State plans to market $100 million of tax-exempt fixed-rate student loan bonds this week under a new program. The New York Higher Education Finance Authority will offer the debt to retail investors tomorrow, with institutional sales beginning on Thursday.
WAVERLY – School District 145 school board members set the number of option enrollment students the district would accept for the 2010/2011 school year at their Nov. 2 meeting.
LEWISTOWN - Mifflin County School District faced an extra surprise cost this year - transportation for nine students to a new charter school satellite site in Juniata County. The Tuscarora Blended Learning Charter School opened a satellite site in Juniata County at the beginning of the school year, transportation director Nancy Craig told the school board during a workshop meeting Thursday.
A new elementary school opens in northeast Bismarck next school year, but it`s still not clear which students will attend there. The Bismarck School Board discussed potential attendance boundaries for Sunrise Elementary tonight. It`s being built to relieve crowding in northside schools.
The issue: The Napoleon School Board considered adopting the first revised budget for 2009-10.What happened Monday: The board approved a revised budget of $13,389,143 for the 2009-10 school year, an increase of $240,233 from the original budget of $13,148,910 approved...
The Wausau School Board will meet tonight to discuss the budget for the 2010-2012 school year.
COLUMBIA — The Columbia School Board will vote on how to use Field Elementary School and the property at 4600 Bethel Rd. during its meeting Monday. On Jan. 4, Field Elementary School students will transfer to Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary School. The board will soon close on the purchase of the Bethel Road property, which will provide more space for district programs. Columbia Public Schools ...
WARE COUNTY, Ga. -- A tight economy is putting the future of a southeast Georgia magnet school in question. School officials in Ware County said financial problems may force them to close the school, something many parents don't want to see happen.
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