School board recognizes Golden Shamrock winners (This Week Dublin)
Tyler Wolfe, principal at Olde Sawmill Elementary, and Karen Brothers, a guidance counselor at Dublin Coffman High School, were honored at the Nov. 13 Dublin Board of Education meeting as the October recipients of the Golden Shamrock Award.
Education summit stresses importance of preparing students for destinations other than college (The Longview News-Journal)
High school education must go beyond preparing students for college, a board of panelists agreed during an education summit held Tuesday in Longview.
School board alters high school courses (Wisconsin Dells Events)
The Wisconsin Dells School Board unanimously approved plans to alter English courses for high school freshmen as well as offer biology to those freshmen students who score well on standardized tests and earn good grades in science at the middle school. The district is also diversifying its courses next year by offering the course, exotic small animal science, by popular student demand, and an ...
Board approves Bullis middle school (San Jose Mercury News)
Despite pleas from Los Altos parents and a school board member to reconsider or delay their decision, the Santa Clara County Board of Education approved Wednesday an expansion of the Bullis Charter School to include seventh and eighth grades. According to the charter proposal, the school will begin teaching up to 50 seventh-graders in the 2009 school year and will add eighth-graders in 2010. Up ...
School board discusses changes to graduation requirements | By Shelley Widhalm Loveland Reporter-Herald (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Loveland High School junior Evan Burnett does not like the idea that a semester of civics and economics could be dropped from the Thompson School District’s graduation requirements.
MacMenamin’s files for Chapter 11, cites culinary-school license delay (The Journal News)
NEW ROCHELLE - The state's delay in granting a license to expand the culinary school at MacMenamin's Grill and ChefWorks forced the business to seek bankruptcy protection, the owner said.