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A new report for Tracy Unified School District outlines just over $499 million worth of school improvement projects needed to modernize or replace aging buildings around the district. The Facilities Master Plan Needs Assessment, a report that the TUSD Board of Education accepted on a unanimous vote on Tuesday, was prepared by K12 Partners/Urban Futures,…

Students returning to school next week in the Pasadena Unified School District still won’t have access to certain areas on more than a dozen campuses because of toxins in the soil, seven months after the Eaton Fire. In May, the district released soil test results, which found elevated levels of lead and toxic metals at…

Revere has begun construction on its new high school, the largest public school project in Massachusetts, located on the former Wonderland Greyhound Park site. "Over the next three years we will water the seeds of Revere's future prosperity, because we care to leave this city better than we found it," Mayor Patrick Keefe Jr. said.…

The City of Fountain has received a $1.93 million EPA Brownfield Cleanup grant to demolish and redevelop the former Lorraine Elementary School property. The funds will be used to clean up the site after lead paint was discovered in the building, paving the way for new development in the area. redevelop former elementary school site…

The Bainbridge Island School District is taking advantage of the summer break to retrofit Commodore Options and Ordway Elementary schools, which were identified in a 2021 Department of Natural Resources report as needing seismic safety upgrades. Construction has reached 50% completion for both schools, said Dane Fenwick, BISD director of facilities operations & capital projects.…

A multimillion-dollar effort to cool the state’s school classrooms has fallen well short of its goals due to rushed planning and poor decision-making, the state Office of the Auditor found in a damning report released Tuesday.   The one-off Cool Classrooms Initiative, launched by then-Gov. David Ige in 2016 and meant to air-condition over 1,000 classrooms…

Emily Pugliese has been a Henry H. Houston parent for eight years, and couldn’t be happier with her children’s education. At C. W. Henry, J. S. Jenks, Houston, and Emlen — Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy’s public elementary and middle schools — Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) and Home School Associations (HSAs) help run the volunteer…

As Wilson County’s population has risen over the past decade, so has the need for more classrooms. “This is my sixth year here, and it seems like we’re rolling off a new school seemingly every year,” Bart Barker, Public Information Officer for Wilson County Schools, told News 2. Wilson County rebuilt two schools — West…

Scissors in hand, Hispanic moms in the Hegewisch neighborhood sneak into their children’s schoolyard and snip herbs from the garden to season food and put a twist in their mole. The verdolaga, or purslane, is part of a variety of vegetables and plants entrusted to the care of students and teachers at Grissom Elementary School.…

An audit has revealed significant delays in the El Paso Independent School District's (EPISD) maintenance department, with many repair projects taking weeks longer than the district's two-week goal. The audit, which examined work order efficiency, cost-tracking, and operational effectiveness, found that out of 22,113 work orders from 2023 to 2024, 14,185 failed to meet the…