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A network of career academies that is being established in Pulaski County's public high schools will reach a milestone today when the network -- the Academies of Central Arkansas -- is officially designated as a Ford Next Generation Learning Community.
BUCKLAND – The Mohawk Trail Regional School was awarded $450,000 in funding from the Barr Foundation to continue supporting the school’s Trailblazer model.According to a press release from Mohawk Trail Regional School Director of Communications Carla...
jwhittaker@post-journal.com Standardized testing for third through eighth graders is likely to take place this year despite New York education officials’ request for another cancellation. For nearly 20 years federal law has required schools to test third through eighth grade students once each year in math and reading as well as once in high school. The tests were canceled in March 2020 due to COVID-19, and the New York Education Department had sought to again postpone the tests in New York because students in different schools are learning on different schedules due to the pandemic. New ...
The state Education Department is taking steps to cancel third- through eighth-grade testing this spring. The department has drafted requests for waivers to the U.S. Department of Education. The first waiver request seeks to waive state testing requirements at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. The waiver would also allow the state Education Department to administer the state English as a Second Language Achievement Test (NYSELSAT) only to those English Language Learners who are able to attend school in person at least some days of the week. The second waiver request seeks to el...