Parents and guardians in Sheffield have paid more than £685,000 in council fines relating to school absences over the last five years, The Star has found. Statistics obtained from Sheffield City Council under the Freedom of Information Act have shown that since the start of the 2019/20 school year, 12,370 term time absence fines have been issued in Sheffield - amassing £687,720. These fines are issued when parents and/or guardians of school age children take their child out of school without...
Aquapark Doncaster is set to reopen just in time for the bank holiday and school half term. The floating inflatable aquapark is based at Hatfield Outdoor Activity Centre, Doncaster, which challenges visitors to slide, climb and make a splash on an obstacle course featuring climbing walls, slides and runways. It will reopen on Saturday, May 25, and stay open throughout the school holiday. It will then only open on weekends until July 24, before running daily again throughout the summer until...
Robert Scoboria will leave his post at Wyomissing on June 30 and be replaced by the district’s assistant superintendent.
K-pop star Sandara Park and her former teacher had an emotional reunion when she visited her former school in Pasay City.
A school board in rural Virginia voted to reinstate the names of Confederate generals for two schools.
Like dozens of school districts across Vermont, Kingdom East, St. Johnsbury and Caledonia Cooperative haven't yet gotten voter approval for their budgets for next school year. As the three public districts — none of which operates its own high school — sought to reduce their spending plans, their superintendents asked the independent high schools where they send the majority of their students for a tuition reduction. But those schools, St. Johnsbury Academy and Lyndon Institute, rebuffed...
A Montgomery County high school is on lockdown as police investigate an alleged threat, according to the Montgomery County Police Department.Officials said the
Video of previous coverage of Springfield's Yondr pouch purchase DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) -- Gov. Mike DeWine has signed House Bill 250 into law, requiring school districts to develop guidelines around cellphone use during school hours. The Ohio Senate and House of Representatives unanimously passed the bill. DeWine was joined by Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, State []
Eighth graders at the Bruceton School were able to get some lessons in personal finance on Monday as the “School of Hard Knocks” simulation came to visit.
A school board in Virginia voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders at two schools in Shenandoah County. The vote followed a heated meeting of the school board and comes several years after the schools were renamed during a nationwide reckoning with racism. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor reports.
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2024 The Shenandoah County School Board early Friday approved a proposal to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools. The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a 2020 decision by the board to change the names of schools that had been linked to Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson, […]
The change comes four years after the schools had removed the names during the national racial reckoning sparked by George Floyd’s killing.