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Pittsburgh Public Schools administrators tonight recommended that the school board vote down two proposed charter schools for the second time.
NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings expects to rate the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency Series 2009-1 FRN student loan asset-backed notes, series 2009-1 class A-1 as follows:
Susquehanna Twp. School Board members this week elected Michael S. Ferguson as president for 2010, succeeding Ray E. Landis. Ferguson works as legal counsel for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
Planning continues in preparation for the scheduled Jan. 12 presentation of the Hanover County Public Schools budget proposal. Assistant superintendent of business and operations, Dr. Michael Thornton, provided the School Board an update of the process Dec. 9.
Midland Public Schools Superintendent Carl Ellinger says the discussion about closing school buildings has evolved this year as the community has recognized the seriousness of the state's school funding problems.
Because of a Journal error, a headline for a story in Wednesday's edition gave incorrect information about action taken at Tuesday's Salina School Board meeting. The board voted for a resolution to ask the Kansas Supreme Court to reopen the Montoy school funding lawsuit.
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.
Nashville Mayor Karl Dean is hoping to encourage the growth of charter schools. Monday he announced what he calls a charter school incubator.
PERRY — The Houston County Board of Education approved the name for a new career academy that will open as a charter school during the 2010-11 school year and appointed representatives who will serve on the school’s board of directors.
A question of whether charter schools perform as well as traditional public schools is an ongoing debate.
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 ...
Virginia's charter-school law is the second-weakest in the nation, earning an F in a new report by The Center for Education Reform. But the state might not be at the bottom of the list for long, if Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell, a staunch supporter of charter schools, gets his way.
New Jersey's charter school law has earned a "C" from the Center for Education Reform, ranking it 17th among the nation's 40 charter laws. The center's ranking, released today, notes that the state has no limit on the number of charter schools allowed, and the schools have some autonomy.
CHARLESTON, W.Va.--A majority of West Virginians say they want more public school options, but more than half say they dont know enough about charter schools to have an opinion, according to a new report released by the charter school advocacy group West V...
Virginia’s charter school law is the second weakest in the nation, earning an “F” according to a new report by the Center for Education Reform.But the state might not be at the bottom of the list for long, if Gov-elect Bob McDonnell, a staunch supporter of charter schools, gets his way.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ben Adams and Sallye Clark say with charter schools, teachers and students wont get bogged down by red tape and paperwork like public schools do. Adams and Clark are members of West Virginians for Education Reform, a group that wan...
Drury University will be offering Dallas County residents their first local opportunity for higher education. KSMU's Chasity Mayes reports.
‘US News & World Report’ has just released their latest rankings on the top public high schools in the US. They looked at 21,786 schools. Again, for the 3rd consecutive year, Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School is ranked in the top 100. Davidson is the only school in Georgia to achieve that ranking. For this year, 2009, they were ranked 100.
The state Board of Education will allow Idaho's public universities to seek tuition or fee increases higher than the 10 percent allowed each year.
The State Board of Education is considering four proposals that would overhaul the law governing charter schools, including one that would shift the cost of tuition to local school systems.
The Boulder Valley school board on Tuesday rejected an application for a new charter school for gifted students, agreeing with a staff finding that the application was incomplete and failed to show how the school would follow through on its goals.
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New report from McKinsey coming out of their Singapore meeting ...
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