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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 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.
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."
Love it or hate it, the class size amendment will go into full effect starting next school year.
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.
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.
Tax troubles are still looming over Frederick County's only charter school, even though it does not have to pay $18,000 in county property taxes this year.
Tax troubles are still looming over Frederick County's only charter school, even though it does not have to pay $18,000 in county property taxes this year.
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 election isn’t until April, but preparations for candidates looking for a spot on the school board in the School District of Beloit are already under way.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina public school leaders are reworking their budgets after a court ruling that could force them to pay charter schools millions of dollars.
The state Public Charter School Commission has reprimanded the publicly funded Nampa Classical Academy over the use of religious texts in the classroom.
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 ...
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.
Broward School Board members took themselves off a once-coveted health insurance advisory committee this week following criticism over climbing health insurance rates and ongoing scrutiny over how the district does business.
The Jackson City Council confirmed two of Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr.'s picks for the school board on Wednesday in hearings that said more about the educational priorities of council members than those of the nominees.
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 ...
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 ...
WEST GOSHEN — Monday night's West Chester Area School Board meeting was the last for four of the nine board members, and the moods on display ranged from sentimental and laudatory to critical and fearful.
The North Little Rock school board met Nov. 19 and it was a time for teachers to shine.
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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