Education
Reporting on local school districts, education policies, and educational initiatives within the state.
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ITHACA, N.Y. — Students throughout the Ithaca City School District will be able to eat lunch and breakfast for free at school when the school year begins this fall. The district announced Friday it had received additional funding from the U.S. Depa…
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The president of the University of Vermont is the only finalist for the job of University of Arizona president and the Arizona Board of Regents said Thursday that they will interview him on Friday and potentially open contract negotiations if all goes well. The board will talk with finalist Suresh Garimella during a closed-door executive…
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ITHACA, N.Y. — Dozens of Lehman Alternative Community School (LACS) families and teachers met last Thursday to air concerns about impending budget and staffing cuts to the school. Like other […] The post Lehman Alternative Community School families concerned about pending budget cuts appeared first on The Ithaca Voice.
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Contentious ‘Project 2025’ plan uses Arizona as education model is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona’s only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting. Project 2025, a controversial polic…
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Arizona reinstates waitlist for families seeking state child care aid is reporting published by Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Arizona’s only nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide investigative reporting. Arizona will reinstate a wait…
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Local non-profit childcare provider Coddington Road Community Center is set to double its student capacity next year after receiving a state grant worth some $4.2 million. The funds will offset construction costs for the community center’s long planned expansion project.
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A group of 29 alumni last month sued the association. In its response, the association maintains that it is a private entity and so could not have stymied members’ right to free speech. The post In response to lawsuit, VMI alumni association says it didn’t violate alumni civil rights appeared first on Cardinal News.
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In his 2018 campaign, Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would create 500,000 new apprenticeships in the decade after taking office. So far, the state has registered more than 180,000 new apprenticeships. Many of them are firefighters.
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By Thomas Robertson The Prince George’s County Board of Education has asked for an investigation into former member David Murray, who resigned earlier this month, several months after he’d taken a job with a school system in Missouri and started working in that state. The board said in a letter dated Wednesday that it has…
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Des Moines University will offer free physicals and other medical services later this month for students returning to school this fall, a service the university has offered for more than 10 years. Parents and guardians can bring their students in for back-to-school physicals from noon-5 p.m. July 30-31 at the Des Moines University Olsen Center,…