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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.
A Colquitt County schools report on student dropouts shows a more than 90 percent decrease for the first three months of the school year compared to four years ago.
A movement is underway to repeal the class-size amendment passed seven years ago.
The Bainbridge Island School District and Rep. Christine Rolfes will host a community forum titled “The Challenges in K-12 School Funding” at 7-8:30 p.m. Dec. 1 in the commons at Bainbridge High School.
Idaho hopes to win $75 million or more in competitive federal grants for public schools, money that officials say could be the state's only opportunity to boost funding for education in the next few years.
The Cheatham County School Board continues to study the possibility of moving from a 4-period block schedule at the county’s three high schools.
The Cheatham County School Board is proposing a four-year contract with no buyout clause for its new director of schools. The board offered the director's job last week to Tim Webb, the state’s commissioner of education. Webb is slated to start July 1.
Lonni Skrentner remained on top after the hand recount with 1,583 votes to incumbent Jeff Johnson's 1,566 votes and will join the school board in January.
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Senate, which steadily has resisted any attempt to overturn or soften state class-size restrictions, is looking more ready to deal. With a $2.6 billion budget shortfall looming and stricter classroom limits poised to kick...
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — School Administrative District 35 School Board members expressed strong but mixed feelings about a proposed policy to allow tuition-paying, out-of-district students to attend Marshwood schools.
Texas' public universities live and die by how many students show up for the new school year. More students bring more money, even if they later drop their classes or fail to graduate.
Leaving no stone unturned, Nevada School Board members spent much of Saturday morning’s annual board retreat discussing a multitude of ways to cut and trim the school’s budget.
Two new members of the Columbia Heights District 13 School Board were sworn in during a meeting Tuesday, Nov. 10. Scott Bardell and Barbara Goodwin will serve on the board until Dec. 31, 2010.
The Grand Island school board voted Thursday night to send a request to the Grand Island City Council to close College Street between Custer Avenue and Lafayette Avenue.
BURLINGTON - The School Board briefly discussed the first reading of the new draft policies regarding the facility developments for all Burlington public school property during last night's committee meeting.
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.
It took school board members two weeks to narrow 50 applicants to one -- Brenda Blackburn of Brevard County, Fla. Less than 24 hours after the three finalists for Montgomery County's open superintendent post arrived for their final interviews Monday, the school board selected Florida resident Brenda Blackburn for the job. Candidates met with school system staff and elected officials during the ...
MARION CENTER - Despite opposition from two newly elected school board members, the board of directors of the Marion Center Area School District voted Monday to proceed with a Section 780 Hearing on Dec. 16.
Nashville's anticipated charter school boom is creating opportunities to volunteer in education.
The debate over charter schools is heating up in Alabama and one of our state representatives is taking a public stance in favor of them.
School board members believe the opening of the additional charter school would produce too great of a burden on an already tight budget.
Social entrepreneur Alan Khazei is gaining momentum in the MA Senate ...
Today’s speech and announcement by New York Mayor Bloomberg ...
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New CER data showing that the total number of charter schools ...
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