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The Elder-St. X rivalry moves to a new arena: dueling license plates at the BMV Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati Enquirer © Provided/Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles Elder High Schools new Ohio license plate. A new Elder High School Ohio license plate was unveiled Friday during a school assembly, according to a news release from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The plate features the schools purple panther mascot and is one of more than 370 specialty Ohio license plates. Nearly 2...

Graduation rates.  College readiness specifically measures participation and performance on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams, U.S. News & World Report said. The data used was from the 2018-2019 academic school year, and therefore was not affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The top-ranked school in the Hudson Valley is No. 13 Bronxville. Its followed by another high school in Westchester County, Edgemont, at No. 14. The top-ranked school in the Hudson Valley outside of We...

Graduation rates.  College readiness specifically measures participation and performance on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams, U.S. News & World Report said. The data used was from the 2018-2019 academic school year, and therefore was not affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The top-ranked school in the Hudson Valley is No. 13 Bronxville. Its followed by another high school in Westchester, Edgemont, at No. 14. The Top 10 ranked schools in New York are: 1. Townsend Harris ...

Staten Island Tech ranks third in list of top 2021 N.Y. high schools Updated 10:06 AM; Today 10:06 AM Staten Island Technical High School in New Dorp is third in a new best public high school in New York ranking.(Staten Island Advance/Bill Lyons)Staten Island Advance Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island public high school is the third best in New York state, according to a new ranking. WalletHub -- a personal finance website -- released its list of the best public high schoo...

NYCs New Schools Chancellor Determined To Create "Amazing Opportunities" For Students arrow Bronx Executive Superintendent Meisha Porter doesn’t officially take the reins of the city’s public schools from Chancellor Richard Carranza until next week. But she is already joining Mayor de Blasio in her predecessor’s place at press conferences, and has begun making the rounds with local media. Porter, the first Black woman to lead the nation’s largest public school system, is from ...

FIRE’s 2020-2021 Free Speech Essay Contest: More winning essays This year’s prompt asked students to draw on current events, historical examples, personal experiences, or other FIRE resources to pen “a persuasive letter or essay [to] convince your peers that free speech is a better idea than censorship.”  Below, we’re printing the essays from our second and third place winners. And if you’re a high school student or teacher, find age-level resources on free expression, civil libert...

Did you go to the same Teesside school as someone famous? IF you went to school on Teesside, you could have sat next to one of these famous faces.  These days its hard to remember what you had for breakfast or did last week, never mind who you sat next to in school or partnered with science class. But you never know who might have gone on to be a trend-setting model, create musical masterpieces or represent Great Britain at the Olympics. Here are some of the famous faces that attended...

New London — He will always be known as one of the Bulkeley boys. New London native Harold Arkava was many things in his life, but friends say his tenacious efforts to protect and pay homage to his high school alma mater, The Bulkeley School, is likely to be remembered for generations. Arkava died over the weekend at the age of 94. “He was a piece of work. They don’t make em like him anymore,” said longtime friend Joseph Heap, who served with Arkava on the city’s Planning and Zoning ...

COVID vaccine inequity frustrates Massachusetts diverse, lower-income cities hardest hit by virus Hadley Barndollar, USA TODAY NETWORK How COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting people of color Replay Video UP NEXT For New England’s only majority Black city, the closest COVID mass vaccination site is 23 miles away — a one-hour round-trip drive with no public transportation.  Brockton has seen more than 11,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus since last March and 372 re...

For New England’s only majority Black city, the closest COVID mass vaccination site is 23 miles away — a one-hour round-trip drive with no public transportation.  Brockton has seen more than 11,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus since last March and 372 related deaths. The city is frequently among the top 10 communities in Massachusetts with the highest percentage of positive cases.  And yet, when the state announced in January the opening of more than 100 vaccination sites for thos...