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Charter schools will have a new place to turn for advice next year when members of the D.C. Public Charter School Board start a nonprofit organization that will research how the schools can best be run.
Utah ranks fourth in the nation for quality charter school laws, according to a study released Tuesday by The Center for...
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.
Laning Avenue School Principal Frank Albano presented a review of the district’s performance in standardized tests for the 2008-09 school year at the Nov. 24 school board meeting.
Claiming that charter schools drain dollars and students from Buffalo's traditional schools, the Board of Education voted, 6-2, Wednesday evening to seek a state moratorium on new charter schools in and around the city.
CAMDEN -- The New Jersey Education Department has denied much of an appeal from the Freedom Academy Charter School to repay $415,938 in aid due to violations of state regulations.
NIBLEY — Enrollment at the south Thomas Edison Charter School just keeps growing, and the school itself will soon grow too. The school’s governing board voted last week to begin seeking bids from companies to build a six-classroom addition to the school, said Principal Eldon Budge.
Members of the East Aurora School Board are gearing up for a difficult budget process. At a Nov. 18 meeting, the board and Superintendent James Bodziak discussed priorities for the 2010-2011 budget. The budget for the current school year included cuts in many areas, which helped to avoid a tax increase. Several board members and administrators who spoke at the meeting said that further cuts ...
Mayor Karl Dean is forming a nonprofit to help increase the number of charter schools in Nashville by finding and training new leaders and offering upstart schools support as they prepare for opening day.
D.C. officials have decided to give charter schools the same police protection as regular D.C. public schools after a two-month-long spate of violence near a charter school in Northeast Washington.
Graeme Smith, 17, left, and Tyler Lewis, 15, right, work on a rocket for a science project at InTech Collegiate High in North Logan Monday. According to a report from The Center for Education Reform, Utah is the fourth-most accommodating state in the union when it comes to charter schools.
All schools in the Two Rivers Public Schools system will be closed on Wednesday, Dec. 9.
An educator who wants to open a charter school for troubled middle-schoolers in Watsonville has withdrawn her petition, saying she intends to raise more money before pursuing the matter again.
Two more people filed Tuesday to run for school board seats in the Tulsa area.
Blairstown The Ridge and Valley Charter School recently held its third annual Autumn Olive Festival.
Governor-elect Chris Christie says he will call for an audit of all school boards when he becomes governor and wants to move school board elections to November.
After nearly a year and a half of debate, the Cheatham County School Board approved a controversial five-year plan Monday night.
The North Platte Telegraph Tonight's meeting of the North Platte Board of Education has been postponed one week. The school board will meet instead on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. at the McKinley Education Center.
Rounds has proposed that total spending per pupil remain unchanged next year, but the state would save $4 million by shifting more of the school funding burden to local school property taxes.
Signing on to the state's application for a piece of $4 billion in federal stimulus money did not come easily for some Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board members.
A new chapter in Vallejo education begins tonight with the introduction of a new school board member, the presentation of the first interim budget report and the announcement of school closure decision day.Community organizer Adrienne Waterman, who finished third in the Nov.
Wow, just in case you actually thought there was a big consensus ...
Over at the National Journal education blog they’re debating ...
The lede of this piece might catch your eye but the entire thing ...
Seems like this Troops to Teachers story appears in a big paper ...
