October 2010

The Tulare City School District has received word from the state that it will receive match funding for new school construction once funding becomes available.

A conservative group sued Gov. Ted Strickland, his chief of staff, the Ohio School Facilities Commission and others yesterday, alleging that they engaged in a pattern of corrupt activity by favoring unions in school-construction contracts.

The new school will combine Clay County High School and Lineville High School. “It’s exciting,” said Garey Reynolds, county schools superintendent. “The work that goes into it and you’re at the point of starting, I don’t have the words to describe it.”

In McCracken County, it’s time to regroup. Unexpectedly high bids sent a local school board scrambling to open a new high school on time.

Stock Photo: While Frisco ISD has no plans to open schools next fall, the district is looking into classroom additions for current high schools as well as construction projects for new schools starting in 2012.

Chicago’s Board of Education , stung by delayed aid from Governor Pat Quinn and a credit-rating downgrade, is paying almost twice as much as comparably rated schools for taxable Qualified School Construction Bonds.

Three of six Charleston County Consolidated School Board candidates gave different answers when asked whether they would vote in favor of a 1 percent sales tax to support school construction.

BREA – The Brea Olinda Unified School District will start construction on a new elementary campus later this month.Groundbreaking for the school – which will encompass 13 acres, have 19 classrooms and house more than 450 students – is scheduled…

The Washington School Board approved hiring Dan Culp, the construction manager from Carl Nelson Construction who is overseeing the new high school construction, to do preconstruction work on the renovation of the 1918 Washington High School into a middle school.

The Washington School Board approved hiring Dan Culp, the construction manager from Carl Nelson Construction who is overseeing the new high school construction, to do preconstruction work on the renovation of the 1918 Washington High School into a middle school.