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Officials with Covington Independent Schools say that roof damage has impacted Latonia Elementary School. The call about the collapse came in to officials at approximately 11:10 p.m. on Wednesday. On Thursday morning, WLWT captured drone footage of the elementary school that showed that the roof had partially caved in and that damage to the building's…

Students at two Arlington middle schools are urging school board members in the Northern Virginia county to fund and expedite renovation plans. At a school board meeting earlier this month, students at Swanson and Thomas Jefferson middle schools said hallways are overcrowded, sprinkler systems and sinks are broken and major upgrades are needed. Board members…

Built in 1896, Booker T. Washington Middle School is a distinctive redbrick schoolhouse that after mid-century additions consumed most of a city block, growing to educate about 1,000 students a year as the area became a thriving Black middle-class community. Then families started leaving the city, mostly for the suburbs. In 2002, when the current…

Nearly a quarter of Miami residents, and almost half in District Four, do not live within a 10-minute walk of a public park, a gap the city aims to close by opening school playgrounds, fields and courts to the community. The Miami City Commission has authorized the city manager to negotiate and execute a long-term…

The new West Rocks Middle School will have to wait a little longer to open after city officials decided to pause the project for a year to take advantage of extra savings. An affordable housing bill signed by Gov. Ned Lamont in November would increase Norwalk's reimbursement rate for new construction from 60% to 65%,…

The state recently awarded the Watertown Schools a grant to run its farm-to-school program, including its Freight Farm. See details in the announcement from the Watertown Public Schools, below. Watertown Public Schools has received more than $80,000 in state grant funding to continue its farm-to-school efforts, expanding learning opportunities for Watertown’s students while also increasing…

Welcome to KAWC’s Educating Yuma, a new program that takes a closer look at the schools, people and issues shaping Yuma's future. This episode explores Arizona’s long-troubled system for funding public school facilities — the buildings, repairs, and infrastructure students rely on every day. A landmark 1994 lawsuit forced the state to overhaul how it…

Three years ago, a group of educators went before the state charter school commission with a bold proposal. With the commission’s approval and state funds, they would build the first charter school in Hawaiʻi to specialize in artificial intelligence and data science, operating out of a small campus in Kalihi.  The commission was ready to…

As severe weather becomes more of a threat to Kentucky, public schools are taking the extra step to ensure that students are safe. In 2019, Senate Bill 1 stated that any new K-12 facility had to incorporate a safe room. A safe room, according to FEMA, is built to withstand winds up to 250 mph…

The results are in and, by a wide margin, it seems Philadelphia residents want aging school structures throughout the city saved by being renovated or rebuilt, instead of seeing the facilities shuttered. The School District of Philadelphia recently found this out through the results of a "Facilities Planning Process Emerging Themes Survey" that sought input…