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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.
Love it or hate it, the class size amendment will go into full effect starting next school year.
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.
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.
East Allen County Schools will let the owner of a community arts organization keep the former Village Woods Middle School as long as he doesn't turn it into a charter school. Otherwise, district officials will exercise their right to buy the building back for $1.
One of Minnesota's oldest charter schools will close at the end of the calendar year.
The state Public Charter School Commission has reprimanded the publicly funded Nampa Classical Academy over the use of religious texts in the classroom.
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.
AVON - Stone Creek Charter School will stay put just past The Home Depo for until 2011. Avon Town council extended its lease on the school property until June 30, 2011, Avon Mayor Ron Wolfe said. The extension will buy the Stone Creek Charter School time to search for a permanent home, Board Member Russell Molina said. "We have time now to go and evaluate what options we have and continue to ...
Though the prospect of additional cuts in State Aid to local school districts won’t be certain until Friday, members of the Manchester Community Schools Board of Education began planning budget revisions for the current school year at its meeting Monday.
SOLEBURY — A Lambertville businessman must step down from his seat on a Bucks County school board now that he has won a term on the Solebury Township Board of Supervisors.
A strong showing in Clark County propelled incumbent Steve Madsen to a narrow victory over Patricia Stepp in the race for a Woodland School Board position, pending a hand recount that will take place Monday.
The Marshall school board received a report on the 2008-2009 audit, which was fine, and on the budget outlook, which was not so fine, at its meeting Tuesday, Nov. 24.
CHESTERFIELD, VA (WWBT) – Despite millions less next year, Chesterfield County Public Schools is looking into what it would take to give Meadowbrook High's curriculum a major update.
WISE — The Wise County School Board will meet in a special session at 6 p.m. Monday to discuss the school division’s next moves involving high school consolidation.
A higher percentage of California's Latinos and African Americans value college education as a necessary path to success, compared to their Asian and white counterparts.
MADISON — The Madison Central School Board of Education Workshop will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. at the school, Route 20 with an extended executive session.
Detroit -- Detroit Public Schools filed a lawsuit Monday in Wayne Circuit Court against witnesses who school officials say are refusing to testify in investigative hearings on how $1.5 billion in bond money was spent.
Associated Press - November 23, 2009 1:24 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The state Public Charter School Commission has reprimanded the publicly funded Nampa Classical Academy over the use of...
Detroit -- Detroit Public Schools filed a lawsuit Monday in Wayne Circuit Court against witnesses who school officials say are refusing to testify in investigative hearings on how $1.5 billion in bond money was spent.
BRAMPTON - Parents and others in the community are being asked to help the public school board select its next education director. The Peel District School Board is in the process of looking for someone to head its administrative and instructional operations.
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