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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.
Even if you don’t have kids in Norwood School, it’s your tax dollars you’re voting to have spent. “If it wasn’t for those tax dollars,” some gained by the mill levy voters approved two years ago, “we’d be in trouble,” said Bob Harris, current school board member and candidate.
The Telluride Foundation — in partnership with its Local Health Initiative, Bright Futures Early Childhood Regional Council and childcare providers and school districts in San Miguel, Ouray, Montrose and Delta counties — has received $301,410 for its Medicaid and CHP+ School and Childcare Based Outreach and Enrollment Program.
In a fairly close election, Norwood school district voters chose Bob Harris and Calvin Calhoun to round out the Norwood School Board for the next two years. Tammie Tabor, Marty Schmalz and Andrya Brantingham have two more years on the Board, and now Harris and Calhoun are in for four.
The holidays are drawing near. Again this year Family Link Center is participating with the West End Home Schooling Group to help make sure that all children in the West End have a good Christmas. The harsh economic situation has many families wondering what they will do this Christmas.
Natrona County High School H.E.A.R.T. students raised approximately $600 last week for child survivors of AIDS in Africa. Students placed a live, caged chicken in a classroom. The class task was to raise $5 to move the chicken to another classroom of students' choice.
The Willard school district is accepting candidates for the school board. The election is April 6.
So, you fail to take a deep breath and to count to 10 — and you post something you probably shouldn’t on Twitter or Facebook, or somewhere else online. Hopefully, it blows over without doing too much damage. For some that's not the case.
Bob Eschliman, Editor “We’re thinking differently now,” superintendent of Van Meter Schools John Carver said. “We’ve stepped through the looking glass, and it’s really pretty cool.”
Eliminate the achievement gap between groups of students. Have every student meet federal benchmarks. Those ideas aren’t on a wish list for Columbia Public Schools to achieve someday. Instead, they are the drafted objectives of a school district long-term planning committee to be achieved during the next five school years.
Gina looks at what happened as a lesson in life.
CHICAGO, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Parents at Chicago's Disney II Magnet school are trying to raise $100,000 just to keep their children in class an extra hour each day, officials said.
Onslow County Schools have 49 pregnant or parenting teens in attendance for the current school year, and Jacksonville’s PEERS Family Development Center is working to keep them in class.
With a convicted bank robber and a former methamphetamine user in charge, John Muir Charter School on Treasure Island is not your typical public school. But the typical public school experience didn't work for the 105 students at John Muir. Among them are...
A story on National Public Radio's Web site about MySpace and Facebook recently quoted students from the Urban School of San Francisco. I teach at Urban, and what stung me was its description as "an elite private school." As a journalist and teacher, this...
CHICAGO—So, you fail to take a deep breath and to count to 10—and you post something you probably shouldn’t on Twitter or Facebook, or somewhere else online.
NEW BRITAIN — The family was about to lose its food stamps and health insurance, couldn’t afford to buy school uniforms for three boys, and was facing eviction. Neither parent was making enough money to support the family. Their 4-year-old had missed 15 to 20 days of kindergarten in the first few weeks of school.
The Wissahickon School Board has honored retiring board members Betsy Cornish and Teresa Williams for their eight years of service.
BERLIN — Mark Winzler, 57, a former Bolton public schools superintendent, has been named interim superintendent of schools in Berlin.
MONDAY, NOV. 30 North Penn School Board's Support Services Committee meets at 6 p.m. at A.M. Kulp Elementary School, 801 Cowpath Road, Hatfield; the Education, Community, Policy Committee meets immediately following.
Parents will soon be making three decisions about the leadership at the Marco Island Charter Middle School. The school board has three open positions -- one parent position and two non-parent positions.
Title I Monitor has a roundtable with a lot of useful perspective ...
Social entrepreneur Alan Khazei is gaining momentum in the MA Senate ...
Today’s speech and announcement by New York Mayor Bloomberg ...
Well, probably not in these edujobs at Tennessee Score , the EAO ...
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