July 20, 2010

BLUE HILL School board members from nine towns working to create an alternative organizational structure (AOS) and satisfy the states school consolidation law abandoned the effort Monday.

Construction on several projects at Madeira High School is slated to finish just before the start of classes.

With construction costs coming in under budget, Downers Grove school officials are pitching more projects with the left over $3 million rather than rebating the money to taxpayers.

The Washington School Board will determine Wednesday whether to accept a bid for grading and utilities at the new Washington High School site that came in about $130,000 under the estimate and a sharing program that can be worth over $480,000 over the next three years.

LINDON — A previously little known charter school, Karl G. Maeser Preparatory Academy, was published in Newsweek as the best school in the state, ranking it 232 in the nation. Humbly housed in a form

BREAKING NEWS / UPDATED School District 47 is not reneging on its commitment to contribute to the proposed new community track. “We’re committed to fully funding our portion.” Jay Yule, superintendent of schools, told the Peak in a phone interview on Monday, July 19.

The pre-eminence of Iowa State Universitys veterinary college is being given a major boost with a $25 million infusion of I-Jobs funding, university officials told Iowa First Lady Mari Culver Tuesday morning when she visited the Ames construction site.

BECAUSE the Department of Education’s (DepEd) school buildings in Cebu City are allegedly overpriced, Vice Mayor Joy Augustus Young read more

Laborers and heavy equipment operators in the Chicago region have ended their strike against construction companies after coming to terms on a tentative three-year contract. Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers and Laborers’ District Council of Chicago & Vicinity reached the tentative agreement Monday evening with the Mid-American Regional Bargaining Association, which …