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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.
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 ...
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.
Kentucky doesn't have charter schools, so that puts the state at a distinct disadvantage for billions of dollars in education grants. The Obama administration supports these public schools and has tied grant awards to states that have good ones.
Patterson Academy for the Arts is located inside this office building on Arlington Expressway. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- At a special Duval County School Board meeting Monday morning was called to determine the future of Patterson Academy of the Arts, the board voted to terminate the charter school's contract and close the school.
Millcreek School Board voted unanimously Monday to renew the charter for the Montessori Regional Charter School for five years, through June 2014. The board did not reconsider the school's plan to open a second campus at the former St. Andrew School in Erie.
SANBORN -- About 50 parents and others turned out at the Niagara Wheatfield School Board meeting last week to support the Niagara Charter School.
ST. LUCIE COUNTY --- Leaders of a proposed charter school aimed at children of employees in a budding Port St. Lucie biotech research park and open to all county students say they will appeal to state officials a Tuesday night denial of their plan by the county School Board.
The Idaho Public Charter School Commission issued two more notices of defect against Nampa Classical
Because charter schools can't access the same kinds of loans that traditional public schools can, they are bracing for a cash flow crunch that could determine whether some survive.
The Pittsburgh Public Schools board will not consider a charter school management company's $350,000 offer to buy a Hazelwood elementary school that closed in 2006.
A new Nampa charter school is continuing to butt heads with the Idaho Public Charter School Commission over the use of religious texts in its classical curriculum
The Pocono Mountain School Board will continue revocation hearings on the charter issued to the Pocono Mountain Charter School today and Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Administration Building on the Swiftwater Campus.
Officials at a new Ventura County charter school have named a Camarillo High School administrator as their first principal.The Architecture, Construction and Engineering Charter High School, or ACE High, will open in fall 2010 at a site to be renovated at the Camarillo Airport, according to current plans. It will accept students from across the county, starting with about 150 10th-graders.The ...
BOISE -- The state Public Charter School Commission has reprimanded the publicly funded Nampa Classical Academy over the use of religious texts in the classroom. The agency Monday sent the charter school a notice of defect -- the first step in a lengthy process that could result in closure -- after reviewing an academy reading list for high school students. The list included the Bible. The ...
Pittsburgh Public School board members received a B- for their performance this school year from an independent watchdog group.
Charter schools can make valuable contributions to our education system, but only if they do something better than traditional public schools. In Arkansas, it’s up to the Arkansas Board of Education to determine which charters are worthy of public dollars and which ones are not.
BOISE -- The state Public Charter School Commission is dedicating a special meeting Monday to scrutinize a publicly funded Idaho school's use of religious texts. Nampa Classical Academy is locked in a dispute with the agency that authorizes and governs more than half of the public charter schools in Idaho. The school sued the commission in September, charging the state with illegally forbidding ...
It’s down to 2. Final voting today so this is your last chance ...
This CA withholding ruling (pdf) is potentially a big deal. ...
David Whitman writes speeches for Arne Duncan at the Department ...
Sawchuk writes-up the Gates “deep dive” sites. ...
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