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LIVERMORE FALLS -- RSU 73 directors voted unanimously Thursday to have Bunker & Savage of Augusta do a building analysis and feasibility study on the high schools in Jay and Livermore Falls.
Both schools named Spruce Mountain High School.
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Middle and high school students needing to repeat courses during the summer will attend a combined program at Southaven High School under a plan approved by DeSoto County Schools board members Thursday.
The board unanimously approved the plan that calls for a high school program beginning June 6 and running through July 20.
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The Board of Public Education approved a $91.6 million budget Tuesday evening that would eliminate about 50 positions in the city's schools but avoid major cuts to adult education.
The board acted unanimously despite last-minute adjustments in anticipated revenue and expense accounts that complicated its decisions and increased the amount of money that the board will seek from the City Council and, ultimately, from taxpayers.
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State officials have said yes to two new charter schools that aim to open next fall in Passaic and Paterson.
On Tuesday, organizers of the John P. Holland Charter School in Paterson were celebrating approval for a school that would start serving kindergarten to seventh grade and eventually teach 198 children through eighth grade.
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The Utah State School Board last month approved three new public charter schools -- a record annual low for the reform movement.
Two of the schools, Utah Connections Academy and Aspire Online Charter School, are online schools. They will both open in the fall of 2011. Good Foundations Academy, which will be located in Riverdale, will start offering classes in the fall. A fourth charter school, Baer Canyon High School for Sports and Medical Sciences, is still under scrutiny.
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SALT LAKE CITY -- Districts across the state will have the option of cutting five days from next year's school calendar to save money, the State Board of Education decided Friday.
It's a budgetary measure in difficult times," said State Deputy Superintendent Martell Menlove.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Unlimited Justice* campaign, a national effort to end corporal punishment in public schools led by education reform advocate Marc Ecko, is calling upon the New Mexico Senate to consider House Bill 172 before the legislature adjourns this Saturday. While New Mexico is one of the 20 states where corporal punishment in public schools is still legal, legislation to end this practice has already been approved by the House of Representatives and it is that bill which awaits action in the Senate. The Senate had previously voted on its version of the bill, which ended in an 18-18 tie vote, which tabled the Senate version. Since its passage, the House bill is on the Senate calendar and a vote in the Senate would be on the House measure.
The ...
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