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It was a big day for Hermiston School District’s youngest students as kindergarteners and first graders spent a day in person with their teacher for the first time on Wednesday,

District leaders emphasized their commitment to bringing students back by showing off an...

Updated on February 17, 2021 at 6:39 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Its still unclear when San Francisco students will return to the classroom, but the school district on Wednesday showed the work it has done to make sure children are safe when they do return. At Sunset Elementary School, there is a new setup ready. The school is one of the first six elementary schools to have been inspected by the department of public health, which must sign off on any school before it reopens. "Desks that are again s...

“I want to come back every single day,” first grader Fabian Aguilar said. He and his brother Damian, also a first grader, were among the dozens of children greeted by a parent as they trickled out of Sunset Elementary School after a morning of learning inside. The afternoon shift of students would arrive about an hour later, after classrooms were sanitized. Fabian said his favorite part of his first day was the math. “You have to draw something and tell your partner,” he sai...

Feb 15, 2021 ∫ The Alpena Public Schools Board of Education’s Property Committee recommends the board award an asbestos abatement contract to Total Environmental for the district’s asbestos abatement projects in the amount of $198,200. The district will be doing asbestos abatement at Hinks, Besser, Ella White, Sanborn, and Wilson elementaries, the former Sunset Elementary School, and Central Office as part of the $33.9 million property tax voters approved in March. The majority of the as...

Editor’s Note: This article updates the financial picture of the Moffat County School District. Previously, the Craig Press erroneously reported that the district was operating at a deficit. The Moffat County School District’s Board of Education adopted an amended budget during the Jan. 28 meeting, which showed the budget increase by more than $385,000. Much of that increase comes from CARES Act funding, which the school district received in 2020 but will spend in 2021. “We are spending ...

By deciding to sue its own school board and district, San Francisco has opened up a new front on the battleground to open schools for in-person instruction. The city filed suit in the San Francisco Superior Court Wednesday for what City Attorney Dennis Herrera alleges are violations of a state law requiring districts to adopt a clear plan during the pandemic “to offer classroom-based instruction whenever possible,” as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, The operative term here i...

Board member Luciana Corrales San Ysidro school teachers delivered petitions at a school board meeting Thursday signed by a vast majority of the District’s 225 teachers demanding that a Board member resign immediately. Board member Luciana Corrales has come under increasing pressure to resign from teachers and parents alike.  Thursday’s meeting became so contentious that San Diego Police officers were called in after a few community members and teachers began shouting at each other. “We ...

On this day in 1995, 1970, 1945, 1920 Written By: Loren Else | × 1995 – 25 years ago A treaty was signed today ending the 3 1/2-year Bosnian war. NATO troops have been committed to enforcing the peace agreement. Thirty-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 7.15 percent this week, down from 7.18 percent last week. 1970 – 50 years ago Dover-Eyota High School will present a production of “South Pacific.” Forty students are cast in the production, with Vicki Markham and Larry Whitcomb taki...