As the school district grapples with an anticipated $11.1 million shortfall, Haverhill city councilors last night took up the call for more state money two school committee members have been championing across the state, including at Beacon Hill. Vice Chairman Paul A. Magliocchetti told councilors a “glitch” member Thomas Grannemann identified in the formula for […] The post Haverhill City Council Takes Up School Committee’s Call for More State Public School Aid first appeared on WHAV.
REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) - The Redmond School District has scheduled two community listening sessions in April to provide updates on the November 2024 bond planning progress and solicit feedback about the possibility of consolidating high schools from community members. The first session is scheduled for Thursday, April 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Redmond High
A council report says an increasing number of parents are refusing school places offered to them.
More children are not going to school because they have health or other issues, or because of their parents’ (religious) principles, putting their rights under pressure, children’s ombudsman Margrite Kalverboer has said in a letter to education minister Mariëlle Paul. Local council figures show some 7,389 children with a physical or mental impairment do not currently go to school compared to 5,077 children in 2014. That year a law obliging schools to provide fitting education to all children was...
The Lehman Trilogy follows three Jewish brothers and the rise and demise of their Lehman Brothers financial conglomerate over 167 years. Let’s explore the Lehman Brothers’ timeline, which spans almost two centuries, from their humble beginnings to their success and fall. 1844-1850s Henry Lehman arrives in America as a German emigrant. He opens a dry […]
School breakfast programs? Has anyone bothered to find out why some children are coming to school without having eaten breakfast? Have their parents been confronted with this unacceptable situation? It is the parents’ responsibility to feed their children, not the school’s. If parents cannot afford to feed them, then grocery vouchers should be provided by […]
Global retail behemoths Amazon and Costco should be subject to the supermarket code of conduct alongside other large Australian companies, according to grocery giant Woolworths. An interim review into the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct released on Monday recommended the guidelines be made mandatory for supermarkets with yearly revenues exceeding $5 billion – which […]
School inspectors say an increasing number of Dutch schools are performing below par and a large group of children are no longer sufficiently equipped with the basic skills. In particular, language, arithmetic and citizenship skills are on the decline, the inspectors say in their latest report on the state of Dutch education. Of the 225 primary and secondary schools chosen for an in-depth inspection, over 20% were found to be failing. Most schools were also given instructions to improve because
A minister has insisted it is for parents to discipline their children after paediatricians called for a UK-wide ban on smacking.
As of about 12:45 p.m. the district confirmed with KGUN 9 that Desert Sky Middle School, Empire High School, and Cienega High School were coordinating evacuations with law enforcement.
Findlay High School went through another swatting situation on Tuesday morning. Police Chief James Mathias, in the video below, says a call came into police dispatch at 9:36 Tuesday morning about a person in the high school with a rifle. The caller said he had an AR-15 style rifle and was holding two students hostage
A Coventry council report warned of the effects of soaring demand for school places