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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.
Superintendent Steve Joel will once again review statistics on College Street at Thursday night's school board meeting, when board members may decide whether they want to submit a request to close a portion of College Street.
State Sen. Andy Dinniman, D-19th, of West Whiteland has introduced legislation that would ban school-board candidates from running in primary elections.
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.
The Council Bluffs school board could vote Tuesday to award a $5.8 million remodeling contract for Longfellow Elementary School.
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.
The Nov. 4 Englewood School Board meeting agenda included swearing in board members Scott Gorsky, Michelle Gonzalez and Gene Trumbull and time for the members to elect Gorsky as board president for the next two years.
A student was stabbed in the hallway of a D.C. charter school on Friday afternoon. A fellow student was arrested. The assault happened at the Young America Works Vocational Charter School on Chillum Place in Northeast Washington.
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A 14-month-old charter high school slated for closure after a Nov. 10 public hearing by the county School Board has filed a lawsuit seeking to stay open and keep public money flowing to educate its 125 students while waiting appeal.
The Bremerton School District’s resurfacing project at the Bremerton High track was done cheaper and more quickly than planned and, now we learn, incorrectly. As a result, it will figuratively limp to the finish line. The school board meets Monday to discuss how outstanding debts with contractors will be negotiated, whether legal action will be necessary, and how to find a fix for the lanes that ...
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.
Some school board members said Monday that Jackson Public Schools' budget deficit could be wiped clean if only the district's unions switched insurance carriers.All employees are insured under the Michigan Education Special Services Association — the health-care wing of the...
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.
CAMP POINT, Ill. -- The Central School Board approved a total property tax levy of $2.3 million at its recent meeting, which represents an increase of about 3.3 percent over the previous year.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Tuition and academic fees will be frozen for the second straight year at Missouri's public four-year colleges and universities, Gov. Jay Nixon announced Tuesday.
The Japhet School board has elected three new trustees to three-year terms and elected four new officers for the 2009-2010 school year.
The city's middle schools need to be safer and offer a higher quality of education, several parents said during Wednesday's school board meeting.
The Williston Public School District 1 School Board voted 3-2 Thursday evening to pay the meal and lodging expenses for hockey coaches and bus drivers, along with substitute teacher costs that are needed in a coach's absence, to further clarify a memorandum of understanding with the Williston Basin Skating Club Inc.
School board trustees have scheduled a subcommittee meeting Dec. 2. The meeting is being held to discuss changes to school board procedures, which board president Donna Smith hopes will be brought to a vote early next year. The board has been meeting to revise their procedure manual.
The board of trustees voted to raise tuition to $30,000 a year for the 2010-11 school year, about a 30 percent tuition increase during the past five years. During the 2006-07 school year students paid $22,980. Chancellor Victor Boschini said the 6.2 percent increase over the tuition in 2009-2010 will go to increasing financial aid and the number of professors on campus.
Students at Carver High School will be moved to Baker Middle School and Baker and Marshall Middle School students will share one campus beginning in the 2010-2011 school year.
This CA withholding ruling (pdf) is potentially a big deal. ...
David Whitman writes speeches for Arne Duncan at the Department ...
Sawchuk writes-up the Gates “deep dive” sites. ...
In the WaPo Michael Alison Chandler takes a look a portfolio assessments ...
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