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Pittsburgh Public Schools administrators tonight recommended that the school board vote down two proposed charter schools for the second time.
African-American contributions shortchanged in class, state task force says Florida schools may have been desegregated 40 years ago, but the curriculum still is not integrated, says a statewide panel studying how African-American history fits into the classroom.
Being in Carl Hobbs’ classroom at Belvidere High School isn’t always easy, but students say they feel like they’re being taught solid business skills and are never far from a challenge.
Sumner Academy of Arts and Science has received a gold medal ranking by U.S. News & World Report. The school in Kansas City, Kan., ranked 62nd on the magazine’s list of top 100 schools. The annual report, part of the Dec. 9 issue, is designed to provide an unbiased report of how public schools are preparing students for college.
X-Factor judge Simon Cowell has spoken out about the facebook group aimed at getting Rage Against The Machine’s 1992 track ‘Killing In The Name’ to the number one spot over Christmas.
We learned a lot this semester. So our Bursar's account shows.
In addition to transparency regarding tuition, transparency about Kent State's investments is also necessary. In a personal quest to attain information regarding Kent State's investments, I have found that information is not easily available.
Del Rey Oaks, CA-- Late Thursday night, the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District approved plans to close Bay View Elementary School. It will close after the 2010-2011 school year.
BASCOM - The ratification of bylaws and policy proposals was not automatic at the Hopewell-Loudon school board meeting Wednesday evening. Twenty-two bylaws and policy proposals became 21 when board member Steven Dandurand asked the final revision, policy 8800, regarding religious/patriotic ceremonies and observances be separated from the others and acted on independently.
BY TEd RECKAS Ketta Brown took her place as the 2010 president of the school board, which met this past Tuesday. She succeeds Jan Vickers, who has served three different stints on the board including as its president in 1994, 2005, and 2009. Theresa O’Hare succeeded Brown as clerk, and thus is set to take up the gavel when school board members rotate the job a year from now. read more
The Royal Oak school board voted Thursday night in favor of continuing its relationship with the International Academy in West Bloomfield, despite concerns over a loss of funding for Royal Oak schools.
For many people trying to figure out just how much passage of a $99.5 million bond issue for Enid Public Schools will cost them, it’s not as exact as just getting out a calculator.
North Carolina schools could get an extra $400 million in federal stimulus money if the state is selected for a special education reforms program.
It is a sad commentary on the foresight of our Bristol Va. School Board that it has voted to discontinue the International Baccalaureate program at the high school.
We've all heard it from our mom or dad. "Bundle up so you don't catch a cold." Which has us wondering, does the cold really make you sick?
ROXBURY TWP. – An ethics complaint lodged by one school board member against another has resulted in an acquittal of the accused, and a hefty fine for the accuser.
Students at the four state-related universities find themselves caught up in the middle of a legislative dispute over table games that could wind up raising tuition bills for the spring semester.
ROXBURY TWP. – More than 500 teachers, supervisors, paraprofessionals, secretaries, custodians and administrators participated in the Roxbury Township Schools Oct. 12 “Professional Development Day.”
Local school employees and elected officials voiced opposition to a new charter school in Salem that would serve at-risk teens from Salem, Peabody and Lynn and mdash; calling it and quot;mimicry, and quot; and quot;segregationist and quot; and and quot;wholly inadequate, and quot; among other criticisms.
BRADENTON — Any employee at Vanguard Advanced Pharmacy Systems can make a difference.
The CSUS Board of Trustees voted Thursday to raise tuition at all four state universities.
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