The Pennsylvania school district’s directors have voted on a plan to build a new high school, renovate and convert the current high school to a middle school, and realign the remaining schools, at a cost not to exceed $127 million. Avon Grove school directors have voted on a plan to build a new high school, […]

A Vermont high school board has voted to join a legal challenge mounted by a group of 32 school boards statewide over district consolidations. The anti-merger lawsuit is against Act 46, which encourages consolidation as schools face declining enrollment and rising education costs. A Vermont high school board has voted unanimously to join the legal […]

There is a debate about whether the mayor, who appoints the seven-member school committee, exerts too much power over the 56,000-student system. Is it time for Boston to give control of the school committee back to the voters? And if the city maintains an appointed board, are there ways to improve it? It is arguably […]

Beginning with the 2016-17 school year, the Seattle district moved the official start times for middle and high schools nearly an hour later. The bottom line goal was met. Researchers found that the teenagers used the extra time to sleep in. Many American teenagers try to put in a full day of school, homework, after-school […]

School districts across the country are banning homework, forbidding it on certain days or just not grading it, in response to parents who complain of overload and some experts who say too much can be detrimental. A new policy in Ridgefield Public Schools in Connecticut places nightly time limits on homework for most students. School […]

An early estimate shows Gov. Greg Abbott’s proposal for a school finance fix would provide three times more dollars for property tax relief as it would additional money for school districts in 2020. That gap would widen to five times more by 2021, costing the state an additional $3 billion over that time period, according […]

Working with $211 million, Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ plan includes a 5 percent supplement from the referendum funding for instructional personnel and full-time paraprofessionals in January, ahead of double-digit percentage increases promised by the referendum ready in July. The agreement also comes with about a 1 percent raise for recurring salary adjustments for teachers. After […]

The Detroit school board is asking state education officials to support letting only institutions with elected boards to authorize charter schools in Michigan. Their resolution noted that the Detroit Public Schools Community District is among the state’s 10 active charter school authorizers and the only one governed by an elected board. The Detroit school board […]