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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.
The dotting of Is and the crossing of Ts for this week’s referendum vote took place at the Nov. 23 meeting of Central School District School Board as both board members and visitors spoke about the referendum.
Erica Hinchcliffe hasn't decided on a major when she goes off to the University of Minnesota next year, but she got a big boost toward her college education Thursday from the Greeley Centennial Rotary Club. Hinchcliffe, a senior at Greeley West High School, was named the first winner of what will become an annual Rotary Better School Better Community $3,000 scholarship funded by the club. A ...
SCRANTON - Paul O'Malley was elected president of the Scranton School Board at its reorganization meeting Thursday night. "I think the Scranton School District is headed in the right direction," said Mr. O'Malley, the dist
The nine-member Council Rock School Board reorganized its leadership Thursday night electing a new board president and vice president.
OWOSSO - The Owosso Public Schools Board of Education Monday night discussed a number of cost-saving measures for the 2010-11 school year, including moving all sixth-graders to Owosso Middle School and changing Washington Elementary School to a kindergarten-early learning center.
By Canda Harbaugh, The Western News At the suggestion of an attorney defending the school district against an appeal by one of its own trustees, Troy School Board passed a motion last week to publicly acknowledge that the board is not liable for a trustee’s individual actions.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- PA Cyber Charter School is a prime example of the educational innovation intended when the state charter school law was passed in 1997, said State Sen. Jeffrey E. Piccola.
The Loudoun County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to adopt Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick's Capital Asset Preservation Program that complies with fiscal guidance from the Board of Supervisors, and took its first look at two versions of a Capital Improvement Program outlining construction plans for new facilities.
Board is recipient of 2009 Georgia School Board of Distinction. Read on to see what they had to do…
Oklahoma's higher education chancellor said Thursday that there are no plans to repeat this year's tuition freeze at the state's 25 colleges and universities but that it is premature to predict tuition ...
The R-1 School District School Board met on Tuesday evening, November 17. Board members Ken Truska and Patrick Martin were absent. The agenda included bids from several companies for roof repairs; refurbishing the parking lot at the Intermediate School, fencing and the downspouts at the high school.
It was a night of recognition for four departing school directors, a former administrator and a member of the district’s support staff at the Hamburg Area School Board meeting on Nov. 23.
A $1,195 legal bill was brought into question at a recent Owen J. Roberts School Board meeting because a board member had consulted a lawyer not authorized to work for the district.
Old Forge School Board reorganizes OLD FORGE - The Old Forge School Board met Wednesday and reorganized, electing Katherine Stocki president and Lawrence Enderline vice president. The board also agreed to meet the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m.
The Springfield Township School Board welcomes two new members Tuesday, re-elected its leaders and voted to establish a wellness committee.
Diane Lloyd, who was re-elected chairwoman of the public school board last night, said she plans to help usher schools into a new era of technology while keeping student achievement a top priority. "I'm very excited to be chair of the board again," she said.[...]
ROCKFORD — A new charter school policy in the Rockford School District could establish a deadline for charter applications in an effort to organize and streamline the process for district officials. MORE ON ROCKFORD CHARTER SCHOOLS Sept. 24: Rockford charter school picks its principal Sept. 8: A new school, year: Galapagos a go July 24: District nervous about charters' silence July 31: Teacher ...
SALISBURY -- The Maryland Court of Special Appeals has ruled in favor of the Somerset County Board of Education in a case involving the Somerset Advocates for Education, a group that hoped to start a charter school in the county.
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.
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.
Now he’s all over the Partnership for 21st Century Skills ...
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New CEP report looks at what’s happening with stimulus dollars ...
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