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Minnesota Public Radio - Wed Nov 25, 6:27 pm ET
A charter school in St. Paul plans to close next month because of financial problems.
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New York Post - Wed Nov 25, 6:41 am ET
The city's Department of Education yesterday agreed to let five more charter schools open next year -- raising to 15 the number of approved schools awaiting state authorization. If the State Board of Regents votes in favor of the proposed charters...
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Wed Nov 25, 5:56 am ET
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.
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Pioneer Press - Wed Nov 25, 1:04 am ET
One of Minnesota's oldest charter schools will close at the end of the calendar year.
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Ventura County Star - Mon Nov 23, 7:34 pm ET
Officials at a new Ventura County charter school have named a Camarillo High School administrator as their first principal.The Architecture, Construction and Engineering Charter High School, or ACE High, will open in fall 2010 at a site to be renovated at the Camarillo Airport, according to current plans. It will accept students from across the county, starting with about 150 10th-graders.The ...
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KTVB Boise - Mon Nov 23, 3:43 pm ET
BOISE -- The state Public Charter School Commission has reprimanded the publicly funded Nampa Classical Academy over the use of religious texts in the classroom. The agency Monday sent the charter school a notice of defect -- the first step in a lengthy process that could result in closure -- after reviewing an academy reading list for high school students. The list included the Bible. The ...
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Greensboro News & Record - Wed Nov 25, 8:51 am ET
RALEIGH (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. read more
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The Fayette Citizen - Tue Nov 24, 5:01 pm ET
$348 million must be cut from this year’s Ga. budget; school funding least hardest hit so far; frank talk by Seabaugh to Coweta teachers It was like a classroom in reverse Nov. 19 as Georgia Senate Majority Whip Mitch Seabaugh (R-Sharpsburg) presented information on the reality of the current and upcoming state budgets to nearly three dozen Coweta County educators. Seabaugh in the data-heavy ...
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The Vail Trail - Wed Nov 25, 9:42 am ET
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 ...
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Berkshire Eagle - Wed Nov 25, 8:53 am ET
Wednesday, Nov. 25 GREAT BARRINGTON -- The Selectmen agreed to consider a resolution against the establishment of a charter school in town, following a discussion with officials from the Berkshire Hills Regional School District and proponents of the new charter school at their meeting on Monday night.
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The Appleton Post-Crescent - Wed Nov 25, 5:25 am ET
APPLETON Odyssey-Magellan Charter School, for gifted third- through eighth-grade students, will host an informational meeting about the school at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 8, at Highlands Elementary School gym, 2037 N. Elinor St.
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Mon Nov 23, 10:21 am ET
Pittsburgh Public School board members received a B- for their performance this school year from an independent watchdog group.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer - Tue Nov 24, 7:18 pm ET
Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor called Tuesday for a state ethics investigation into alleged financial mismanagement at Nia University Community School, a charter school in Mount Auburn that teaches 120 students in grades six through 12.
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Rogers Morning News - Sun Nov 22, 4:14 am ET
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.
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The Durango Herald - Wed Nov 25, 1:31 am ET
Mountain Middle School, a proposed Durango charter school, will not open until 2011 at the earliest. The school's organizers, led by Nancy Heleno, withdrew an application for charter approval they had submitted to the Colorado Charter School Institute.
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The News & Observer - Tue Nov 24, 11:04 pm ET
Public school leaders across the state, and especially in the Triangle, are recalculating their budgets to figure out how many millions they owe charter schools to comply with a state court ruling.
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The Lufkin Daily News - Tue Nov 24, 9:39 pm ET
The public will soon have its chance to speak out about a new charter school being formed by the Burke Center at the Peavy Switch Recovery Center, as discussed at Tuesday's board of trustees meeting.
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Herald & Review - Wed Nov 25, 1:59 am ET
DECATUR - The relationship between Robertson Charter School andthe Decatur School District has improved greatly over the lastyear.
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The Daily News - Wed Nov 25, 7:36 pm ET
Woodland School Board is asking voters to approve a 4 percent levy increase this February. The two-year proposal will replace a four-year maintenance and operations levy that expires next year.
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St. Catharines Standard - 1 hour 43 minutes ago
A new cafeteria at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School could be a bastion of greenness by the time it's built. The District School Board of Niagara hopes the Ministry of Education sees the eco-potential of the planned addition to the St.[...]
