Draud Urges Investment In Ky. Education
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If Kentuckians are going to overcome the challenges of the 21st century and realize the standard of living they desire, the commonwealth’s leaders must realize that investment in the state’s public educational system is the only way to be successful.
That was the message Kentucky Education Commissioner Dr. Jon Draud delivered as he spoke to about [...]
Teachers Compete To Represent Southeastern Area
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Two teachers – one current and one retired – are waging campaigns to unseat former teacher Shelia Jackson on the San Diego school board in the campaign to represent District E and the southeastern portion of the city.
The June primary comes in the midst of a statewide budget crisis for education spending. The San Diego [...]
Alternative Education To Get Boost
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Baltimore school administrators unveiled a plan yesterday to reduce violence and the dropout rate by overhauling alternative education, nearly doubling the number of alternative school slots by August and creating morning and evening programs for working students.
The plan calls for the creation of two new alternative schools and the redesign of existing alternative schools, where [...]
Technology comes to lunch
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Juan Diego Catholic High School is serving lunch with a touch of French defense technology.
The Draper school, along with St. John the Baptist elementary and middle schools at its Skaggs Catholic Center campus, is using fingerprint technology to better move kids through the lunch line, [...]
LiVely health tour teaches students
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Tell adolescents that soda contains too much sugar and you get blank stares. Show them a clear measuring cup with the 10 teaspoons of the granular substance and there’s an audible murmur in the crowd.
Tell a teenage girl that with anorexia nervosa she may lose [...]
Tillman will be new Eagle Mountain principal
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AMERICAN FORK Vineyard Elementary School Principal Tom Tillman will lead Alpine School District’s new elementary school in Eagle Mountain, district officials announced Wednesday morning.
Tillman, 37, of Saratoga Springs, has been at Vineyard Elementary for seven years. “I’m looking forward to the new opportunity,” Tillman said.
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