Asheville must pay $791K to 3 schools
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:31:15 -0800

Asheville a judge ordered Asheville City Schools to pay nearly $791900 to three charter schools that sued, saying they were underfunded by the city system. Superior Court Judge Phillip Ginn also censured the city system for trying to retroactively ...

L-Way High Schools facing more tough budget decisions
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:56:02 -0800

By susan demar lafferty january 20, 2012 11:52AM Lincoln-Way High School District Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie said Thursday the school board will have to make decisions in the next 60 days on what budget changes will have ...

New Elementary School Delayed in Budget Plan
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:41:44 -0800

By Sean Sedam A new Richard Montgomery cluster elementary school , proposed for the former Hungerford Park Elementary School site, would be delayed under a plan unveiled by County Executive Isiah Leggett on Tuesday. Lisa Tuvalo A $4.2 billion spending ...

SIATech, a Bay Area Charter High School , Hosts VEX Robotics Competition on ...
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:19:32 -0800

Watch stereotypes shatter as students from a dropout recovery high school host more than 20 traditional schools from around the Bay Area for a VEX Robotics Tournament. On Saturday, January 28, SIATech welcomes teams to its campus on the Treasure Island ...

Texas Schools Invited to Apply for Free Salad Bars
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:53:56 -0800

Washington, Jan 20, 2012 (Business wire) -- Texas schools can apply to receive free salad bars from Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools by applying at www.saladbars2schools.org . Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a public health initiative that donates ...

Rockwood Schools to put $43 million bond issue on April ballot
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:16:22 -0800

Steve Smith, center, president of the Rockwood School Board, listens as people voice their concerns about money Superintendent Bruce Borchers, to the left of Smith, spent to hire a pair of former co-workers from Minnesota during a meeting at Crestview ...

Inside Highland Park schools : Tension, disrepair, secrecy
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:10:36 -0800

com Broken windows at Barber Focus School are covered with boards. Parents say it's a lingering problem that needs to be fixed immediately. No one really knows what's going to happen to Barber Focus School , a K-8 school , in Highland Park next week. ...

NAACP: Gwinnett Schools should fire teachers for 'racially inflammatory ...
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:14:18 -0800

By Steve Kiggins - email Members from the NAACP had tough questions for the Gwinnett County School Board over those controversial math questions at Beaver Ridge Elementary School . One teacher resigned over the scandal, but Thursday night the civil ...

GOP candidates largely ignoring schools
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:53:45 -0800

The only mention of schools came when Santorum charged President Barack Obama with being an elitist because he said the nation needs to get all kids ready for college. Santorum told a crowd gathered around a frozen lake that he would be fine if his son ...

L-Way High Schools facing more tough budget decisions
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:56:02 -0800

By susan demar lafferty january 20, 2012 11:52AM Lincoln-Way High School District Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie said Thursday the school board will have to make decisions in the next 60 days on what budget changes will have ...

Food Allergy Emergencies in Schools Now Better Addressed
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:42:20 -0800

Approximately 15-25% of food reactions happen at schools . Highlighted by recent cases food allergy-related deaths in schools , like the two widely publicized fatalities in Chesterfield County, VA, and Chicago, IL, concerned parents, ...

School bus bound for Lincoln High School hits pickup Friday morning
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:21:29 -0800

The driver of a pickup truck that collided with a Lincoln Public Schools bus complained of back pain following a crash at 18th and L streets Friday morning. No one on the bus reported any injuries, Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood said. ...

Denver school board approves school -start date of late August, seeks heat-days ...
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:03:17 -0800

By Yesenia Robles A calendar pushing Denver Public Schools ' start date later by a handful of days was approved by the Board of Education on Thursday night. "Changing the school start date is not going to be the solution for the heat, we all know that," ...

Don't skimp on school tests
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:02:15 -0800

(Los Angeles Times / June 17, 2011) There are plenty of problems with the school reform movement, but the number of standardized tests isn't one of them. The tests are still the most objective and affordable yardsticks of achievement available. ...

Chester Upland teacher: Who is going to help our schools ?
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:45:28 -0800

By Valerie Strauss There have been some new developments in the sad tale of the Chester Upland School District in Pennsylvalnia, but its future still remains uncertain. I wrote last week that the district had run out of money a result of drastic ...

Shuttered schools become fact of life
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:21:29 -0800

Pocono Mountain School District has entertained the possibilty of closing Swiftwater Intermediate School as part of no-tax-hike budget.Keith R. Stevenson/Pocono Record By David Pierce A poor economy and declining student populations are forcing more ...

Recruit Yuri Wright expelled for Tweets
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:55:21 -0800

Yuri Wright, the 40th-ranked player on the ESPNU 150 who is being sought by schools in the Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC, SEC and Big East, has put his scholarship hopes in up in the air after being expelled from school for sexually graphic and racial Twitter ...

Fairfax School Budget Includes $2 Million to Reduce Mc Lean Class Sizes
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:47:23 -0800

By Bobbi Bowman Dranesville Supervisor John Foust talks with school activist Louise Epstein (L). The woman in the middle is unidentified. (If you recognize her please let us know so we can add her name.) The proposed Fairfax County schools budget ...

Yes, charter schools work
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:58:20 -0800

Further in the same July 15, 2009 study by Stanford, it states, "For students that are low income, charter schools had a larger and more positive effect than for similar students in traditional public schools . English Language Learner students also ...

Denver Public Schools pushes back first day of school to late August to beat heat
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:54:37 -0800

20 2012 at 1:43 PM The school children shall melt no more! Or if they do, they'll do it later in the summer. The Denver Public School board of education has voted to push back the school start-date this coming fall, after a mid-August heat wave ...