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State education officials say an annual ranking of projects that is used by state budgeters to determine which public schools get renovated may be prejudiced against small, rural school districts, including ones that are attended predominantly by Alaska Native students. Each year, the Alaska education department approves a list of maintenance and construction projects that…

The Alaska State Board of Education moved to establish a special committee to review ongoing issues and make recommendations to improve operations at the state-run boarding school, Mt. Edgecumbe High School. After a turbulent year of budget cuts, staff and administrative changes and more than 100 students disenrolling this year, a delegation of lawmakers made…

The Lee County School District is doing a lot of construction right now. Some of that is due to hurricane damage, other projects are to keep pace with the growing number of students, and some encompass both reasons. At least one building, Cypress Lake Middle School, needed to be completely rebuilt. Crews were about 80…

In the small town of Indian Springs, about 45 minutes from Las Vegas, the local school isn’t just a building: it’s a community gathering space.   Indian Springs Schools serve students from Pre-K through 12th grade. “Our elementary school currently has 124 students, our middle school has 73 students, and our high school has 74 students,…

In a 7 to 2 vote, Spring Cove School Board members rejected a proposal for repairs to the Central High School track, instead opting to purchase a kit that will be used by maintenance staff to repair the track in-house. The repair proposal — conducted by ATT Sports — was for $5,170, while the kit…

Jefferson County Public Schools will not have enough money in its building repair fund to cover its own cash needs in 2027, Chief Financial Officer Brenna Copeland told the school board last week. The district will have to borrow from the state. The warning caps years of deferred repairs and shrinking transfers. The fund, essentially…

The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) continues attending to nearly 300 work orders for storm damage to campuses statewide, and in one case where Konawaena High School will be doing distance learning next week. In the aftermath of the Kona low storm that impacted the islands with heavy rain, flooding and strong winds, HIDOE…

The Coronado Unified School District has earned about $830,000 in facility rental fees from 2021 to 2025, according to a report shared at the March 12 school board meeting. The total includes rentals by organizations ranging from after school arts programs like Monart, to local sports organizations and churches. “The Civic Center Act requires that…

The Oak Harbor School District may seek voters’ support funding either the construction of a new elementary school or major improvements to existing school buildings.  Those are the two recommendations of the district’s Capital Facilities Advisory Committee, which reviewed data, organized physical evaluations of existing facilities and solicited community feedback to formulate potential capital projects.…

Denver Public Schools has carried more obligations than unrestricted assets since at least 2005 — limiting the district’s financial flexibility for nearly two decades, a Denver Gazette analysis of district audits has found. In practical terms, when the unrestricted net position is negative for a long time, it means most of the district’s resources are…