Submitted by ANGELA PASCOPELLA on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 4:29pm
Backing down from a previous ultimatum, County Executive Ken Ulman has proposed an alternative option for funding artificial turf fields at county high schools. But the school board has yet to weigh in on either option — or even if they want turf fields at all.
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Submitted by Marion Herbert on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 10:44pm
The Litchfield (Conn.) Board of Education, among other educational entities, will have to wait longer for a possible state mandate transferring the burden of proof from school districts to the moving party.
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Submitted by Marion Herbert on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:49pm
A prolonged effort to clarify the state's special education regulations has hit a stumbling block. Many members of the state Board of Education don't understand some of the proposed changes or the impact they would have on a student's ability to get needed services.
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Submitted by Marion Herbert on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:24pm
Under a plan approved unanimously by board of education members, San Diego Unified will consider school consolidations, which is a significant curtailing of a process that could have closed or consolidated more than a dozen schools across the district next fall.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 3:01pm
Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro has asked the Kansas City school board to consider giving up control of the district Jan. 1.
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Submitted by Judy Hartnett on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 12:32pm
<p>Education Secretary Arne Duncan was in Wake County, N.C. yesterday promoting President Obama's jobs plan. He visited Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, where he talked about the importance of community colleges to the economic recovery.</p>
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 3:01pm
About 29 percent of school districts statewide changed superintendents during the previous school year, according to a recent report published by the New Jersey Schools Boards Association (NJSBA).
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 2:23pm
The Florida Board of Education got a glimpse of continued improvements at Miami Edison Senior High on Tuesday, just three months after board members decided to keep the struggling school and Miami Central Senior High open.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 3:05pm
An unusually divided state Board of Education couldn't agree Tuesday on how to advise the Michigan Legislature on a package of bills that would allow an unlimited number of charter schools to open statewide, among other changes.
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Submitted by Courtney Williams on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 2:46pm
The Pinellas County School Board decided Tuesday to cut ties with an educational program affiliated with the Boy Scouts.
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