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The North Little Rock School Board could settle on an official site plan for the district’s new middle school as soon as Thursday. The middle school project, which is estimated to cost $68 million by the time of completion, is being funded with $20.8 million in state partnership funding and $70 million generated from a…

An 11th-hour Portland Public Schools Board resolution to prioritize seismic safety in the district’s $1.83 billion bond may have helped it find success among Portland voters, as parents whose children attend school in dangerous brick buildings rallied behind the tax measure. Now, in its first update to the School Board as required by that resolution,…

Shelby Carlson, School Facilities Division Administrator for the Wyoming State Construction department says, "that building (East High School) is over capacity currently and is projected to be over capacity for a number of years." A three phase study was conducted and completed by the FEA for the State Construction Department, School Facilities Division to address…

The Winchester school board has approved issuing up to $7 million in bonds to replace the heating and air conditioning and fire suppression systems at Winchester High School, along with making other renovations. The resolution to cover the renovation costs passed unanimously, Superintendent Kevin Blankenship said. The $7 million would cover the purchase and installation…

Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month is in May, and it presents a timely opportunity to consider the factors that influence asthma, which is one of the most common chronic diseases among children. Nearly five million American kids live with asthma today—a figure that has increased by 160% since 1980—and, according to the Asthma and Allergy…

Philadelphia is getting its first new charter school in nearly a decade — a major milestone for a district that had not granted a new charter since the days of the state-run School Reform Commission. Early College Charter School of Philadelphia will give about 800 sixth through 12 graders early college and career exposure and…

A school district in northern North Dakota is looking toward a mill increase vote with the goal to relieve pressure on its general fund to pay for building maintenance and a 20-year bond payment for previous renovations. North Border School District Superintendent Seth Engelstad said the increase will not only assist the district in maintaining…

Back in 2022, lawmakers allocated $5 million for school districts to explore consolidation. No one took the lawmakers up on it in the first year. But the following year, 16 districts got money to study consolidation. Still, no local district has actually consolidated. K-12 enrollment in public schools is declining amid lower birth rates in…

Planning to demolish up to 60% of Hartford High School and Hartford Area Career and Technical Center is on hold while the school district further investigates the presence of toxic building materials and develops a strategy for how the contamination might be removed. The decision comes after school and state Department of Conservation officials met…

Pennsylvania’s Financing Authority announced that 25 Philly-area schools and community colleges have received grants of up to $500,000 for solar installations, as part of the $22.6 million in state funding distributed across Pennsylvania. The funding comes from the Solar for Schools Program, originally introduced as a bill by state Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler, D-Philadelphia, and signed…