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The Duval County Public Schools’ (DCPS) Master Facilities Plan returned to the school board last month, under a new name, for board approval of years one through five. Duval Reimagine: Investing in Impact is a comprehensive initiative designed to address key challenges within the school district based on four focus areas: enrollment and capacity, educational…

Counties in Montana will receive $46.5 million in federal payments this year to cover a lack of property tax revenue coming from federal lands. The payments are part of more than $644.8 million that will be distributed to 1,900 state and local governments this year. According to the Association of Montana Counties, this is the…

Today, Council Members Gale Brewer and Kevin Riley celebrated their legislation that expands public access to school playgrounds and basketball courts automatically becoming law, after inaction by the mayor within 30 days of their passage. Introduction 566-B, sponsored by Council Member Gale Brewer, will increase public access to school playgrounds on weekends and during after…

As the school year nears, Waldron’s Middle and Elementary schools are still under renovation after being impacted by storm damage earlier this year. A hailstorm on April 5 damaged the exterior and interior of both schools, as well as a couple of smaller buildings in the district. “It was an overnight storm. And so, we…

The Lewis County C-1 School District in Missouri celebrated the start of construction for a FEMA project at Highland Elementary School on July 30. This project is more than 12 years in the making. The superintendent says it has been the number one thing the community has asked of him. This is more than just…

After working late into the night Monday, senators returned to session Tuesday to continue the debate on Bill 70-38 by Sen. Joe S. San Agustin, which would authorize the Guam Department of Education to lease property within its jurisdiction. The measure states that by allowing GDOE to lease properties in strategic locations, "it can ensure…

As a new school year dawns, North Carolina’s charter sector is poised for robust, continued enrollment growth. Yet experts point to increasingly high hurdles for new charter schools, with facility acquisition and increased competition for students topping the list. Established, rather than new, charter schools are the primary drivers of enrollment growth now, as obstacles…

Members of the Mountain Views Supervisory Union have formed a working group to push their plans for a new Woodstock Union Middle and Highschool. It comes after the large education reform law was passed at the end of the last legislative session. The law will change school districts, and those new districts will be funded…

Atop a hill on Spring Run Drive overlooking more than a dozen yellow excavators, loaders and dump trucks, several shovels on Tuesday were planted in dirt, side by side, in anticipation. Six elementary-aged student ambassadors took hold of the shovels and broke ceremonial ground on the construction of the Yellow Springs Elementary replacement school. The…

A glance at the agenda for Oakland’s first school board meeting last August reveals nothing out of the ordinary — the introduction of new student board members and parent advisory committees, an update from then Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell on enrollment numbers, a discussion of school year work plans.  But when the meeting opened up to…