May 2010

School crowding and cohesiveness continue to top concerns among Accokeek Academy parents as they await construction of a new Henry G. Ferguson Elementary School.

Lincoln Elementary School students have good reason to celebrate, and summer break has nothing to do with it. Frederick county commissioners and school board members agreed last week to move up by two years the long-awaited $31 million renovation of the 88-year-old school.

Village trustees have rejuvenated a long-stalled project for the residential development of downtown School Street by granting necessary zoning approvals to make it a reality under a new developer.The Village Board originally approved construction of 31 townhomes and the conversion of school District 70’s Central School into 12 “affordable” condominiums in 2006. The Hummel Group began …

DeKalb County’s former school superintendent faces charges for allegedly scheming to bilk the district out of millions of dollars. Crawford Lewis and three others allegedly conspired to funnel school construction contracts to co-defendant Anthony Pope’s company.

Lake Oswego High School students will have a longer summer than their peers at other schools. The high school will finish finals on Wednesday, June 16, and be released for the summer a day early. While the teens will be rejoicing, teachers and administration will be frantically packing and moving …

Hamilton Southeastern Schools has passed the necessary paperwork to ask the public to approve about $62 million in building projects, but a big challenge lies ahead.

The Republican / Dave Roback Longmeadow residents vote on an early amendment to the school high school project in the gym of Longmeadow High School on Tuesday. More than 2,000 people attended the town meeting at the high school.

Three students were killed and 21 injured after an under-construction wall of a primary school collapsed in China, Xinhua reported.

Central High School officials have planned a colorfulgroundbreaking ceremony, set to officially kick off a multi-milliondollar, two year construction project that has been turbulent sinceits outset.

Former DeKalb County School System Superintendent Crawford Lewis and two school district workers were indicted Wednesday, May 26, in a racketeering scheme that involved school construction projects.