Misc

Students at Stroudsburg High School returned to class Monday, and they experienced their campus as an active construction zone.

CULBERTSON,MONT — The bang-bang-bang of construction work occasionally interrupted staff during its inservice Tuesday.

A school director is trying to drum up funds for the construction of a bridge across the Ngao River after strong currents nearly swept one of his students away.

CULBERTSON,MONT — The bang-bang-bang of construction work occasionally interrupted staff during its inservice Tuesday.

In a letter to parents this week, Donna McCormick-Miller, principal of Makefield Elementary School, said the school’s new opening day will be Tuesday, Sept. 7, instead of Sept. 1 due to the ongoing renovation and construction at the school.

Turner Construction Company, the nation’s largest builder of education facilities, has completed sixteen K-12 school projects to serve more than 12,450 students in time for the start of the 2010 school year in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

After a brief exchange regarding the difference between the committee of the whole and a regular school board meeting — raising the question of discussion vs. formal action — the Menomonie school board’s first committee of the whole meeting commenced on Monday evening.

We recently upgraded our recommendation on School Specialty Inc. to Neutral with a target price of $14.00.

One bright spot in the down economy? Massachusetts School Building Authority reports that bids for school-construction projects are coming in well below their original estimated cost.

With a week before school starts, construction workers are scurrying through Silverton High School replacing stucco with metal siding and replacing windows and doors because of construction issues with the 1998 Phase I construction of the school.