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The pouring rain didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of Troy City Schools supporters as the district held a groundbreaking Thursday for a new elementary school on the site of Hook Elementary School. The symbolic event celebrated the coming construction of three new elementary schools, one new intermediate school and an update to Troy High School. The…

There’s a lot of music in the air in Washington Heights. That’s because there was a concert celebrating the opening of a new building for a charter school for the musically gifted. Anthony McGill, the principal Clarinetist at the New York Philharmonic, attended the opening of this new $44 million Washington Heights and Inwood Music…

Three Portland Public Schools board members have drafted a resolution to earmark almost all unspecified spending from its proposed $1.83 billion bond for seismic upgrades at elementary and middle schools. The eleventh-hour resolution comes amid a firestorm of questions about the specifics, or lack thereof, in the bond proposal, the bulk of which is dedicated…

Albuquerque Public Schools celebrated a week of progress on capital projects, with groundbreakings for two schools and a grand opening for another. On Tuesday, APS leaders joined the Corrales Elementary School community for a groundbreaking to expand the school into a K-8 facility. The $56.7 million project includes new buildings, renovations and site redesign. The…

The Sandwich Public Schools proposed budget tops $40 million for fiscal year 2026 but School Superintendent Joseph Maruszczak has warned that deferred maintenance has caused infrastructure across the district to deteriorate and more money is needed. "There are critical points where you need to make major investments in capital projects," said Maruszczak on Tuesday, April…

Waukesha is known as the birthplace of electric guitar pioneer Les Paul, but when it comes to the future of its schools, this community is striking the same chords as many others across Wisconsin. Declining enrollments are forcing tough decisions, and administrators on Thursday presented a plan to adapt by reducing the district's building space…

At the start of the legislative session, Hawaiʻi school officials came to lawmakers with a bold request: stop funding pet construction projects and let the Department of Education take control of its budget instead. The department receives an average of $454 million in capital improvement funds each year. But over the past decade, more funding…

Nine public schools in Baton Rouge are closing, four are relocating, seven are getting new grade configurations and 12 will have redrawn attendance zones under sweeping action taken Monday by the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board. The school board, without opposition, approved Supt. LaMont Cole's long-in-the-making realignment plan. The vote sets off a three-month…

A new structure that would house all the students in Santa Rosa public schools from pre-kindergarten to high school senior is the recommendation of the Facilities Master Plan committee. The committee’s five-year plan received unanimous approval on April 16 from the Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools District board and now awaits approval from the state Public…

Decades of deferred maintenance at more than 200 Memphis-Shelby County Schools total more than a billion dollars of major overhauls and replacements, reports from MSCS say. This comes after a top-to-bottom assessment by an outside consulting agency. The reports, thousands of pages of them, were just received by WREG on Tuesday. One of the buildings…