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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.
CHARLESTON, W.Va.--Judy Hale, president of the West Virginia chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, has some concerns about charter school legislation that will inevitably come up in Januarys regular session.Shes concerned that charter schools wil...
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.
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.
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.
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."
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 ...
At a student rally meant to build momentum for the recently slashed Michigan Promise scholarship program, Gov. Jennifer Granholm touched on a less-discussed issue - the state's decades-long divestment in higher education. Years ago, the state gave a bigger slice of funding......
A recent grant that may lead to another four-year university locating in Yuma at affordable tuition is a huge step forward to accessing higher education, according to local educators.
The state has scheduled five public hearings on seven proposed charter schools statewide. Three of the proposals, including two in Worcester, would affect Central Massachusetts.
New Mexico School for the Arts is a residential charter high school that will be located in Santa Fe New Mexico School for the Arts, New Mexico's only statewide arts charter high school, is now accepting applications for the 2010-11 academic school year. High school students entering grades nine, 10 and 11 from around the state are encouraged to apply. The deadline is Feb. 5. New Mexico 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.
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 ...
Students with a desire to learn, an energized staff and supportive parents are among the key factors driving the success of a new charter school in Blaine.
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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