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OSWEGO — Budgets and state aid are up. Taxes are down, flat, or up slightly. And overall, things are looking brighter than perhaps expected for Sandy Creek, Mexico, and Phoenix school districts after a year like no other of a worldwide pandemic. Each of the superintendents of these districts spoke recently on their district’s budget and upcoming school board elections. Kyle Faulkner is superintendent of the Sandy Creek School District. “We’re pretty pleased with the way things ended up,” he said. “The legislature and the governor obviously realized that we needed...

Second state cohort of trauma-informed schools includes several from East Tennessee The Tennessee Department of Education announced that 176 schools were chosen for the cohort, more than doubling the size of the last one. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 5:25 AM EDT April 30, 2021 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Several East Tennessee schools will receive training and resources for trauma-informed approaches to teaching students, according to state education leaders. The Tennessee Department of Education announced that 176 schools across the state were chosen for the second co...

An online reading held at an art festival in Yakage, Okayama Prefecture. (Nami Hamada) In January this year, the small, scenic town of Yakage, Okayama Prefecture, was decked out with modern art pieces at its historic buildings and along its streets. Special nighttime programs ran for nearly two weeks for an art festival titled “Workation Resort Bitchu Yakage” in the rural community, once the home of a post station along the Sanyo Road in the Edo Period (1603-1867).  The hope was that it would lure in visitors to the town for overnight stays. But this art festival, held during the pande...

Applicants put forward this photograph to illustrate the cabins planned for new school at Wilburton - Credit: ECDC Described as “education ready”, a school for children with autism could open in 2021 and housed in four wooden cabins at Wilburton  Fiona D’Arcy has put in a planning application to East Cambridgeshire District Council to site the cabins at Twentypence Road on a 2.5-acre field.  She says the field was previously used by The Phoenix School as a playing field. The former independent school was based at Willow Tree cottage nearby and the field used for a variety of activitie...

woodruff. on the newshour tonight, marcia coyle of the "national law journal" walks us through today's decision. and we look at the effect in arizona and other states with similar laws on the books. >> ifill: plus, we sort through two other high court decisions today, on life sentences for juveniles and campaign spending. >> woodruff: in the first of two global election reports, jeffrey brown updates the egyptian results as newly elected islamist president mohammed morsi begins to form his government. >> ifill: and from mexico, margaret warner previews the upcoming contest there. tha...