Elementary Schools

A few hours after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City area, ravaging neighborhoods and an elementary school in the suburb of Moore, Edie Cordray sent an urgent message to members of her church in nearby Norman. "Please pray for my best...

The 26th annual Elementary Principal’s Citizenship Award Program was held May 16 at Williamsport High School. Students eligible for the award are selected by the principal of each elementary school or a committee appointed by the principal. Each...

Among the expenditures by the city school system that U.S. Department of Education auditors found inappropriate: - $4,352 spent by two elementary schools for dinner cruises at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor - $2,413 spent on fried chicken, potato...

Berkeley Heights Elementary School third-grader Cyrile Ngassa Ngakam told West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Wednesday that he wanted Tomblin’s job. “I asked him if he was going to be a lawyer. He said, ‘No, governor,’”...

The following elementary schools, and one high school program that is part of a school, will be shut down: 1. Louis Armstrong Math & Science Elementary School 2. Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School 3. Arna Wendell Bontemps Elementary School 4....

Twenty volunteers from First Niagara recently participated in Junior Achievement's (JA) "JA in a Day" program at Dr. James H. Naylor/CCSU Leadership Academy in Hartford. "JA in a Day" is a day of activities designed to provide elementary school students...

As part of the second grade curriculum at F.M. Kearns Elementary School in Granby, students recently conducted a week-long food drive to benefit the Granby Food Bank. Lori Hoover, manager of the Farmington Valley VNA's Community Programs Department, which...

For weeks that became months, parents at Garvey Elementary School protested its possible closing at community meetings, signed petitions and hoped against hope that they wouldn't have to send their children to an unfamiliar building in their Far South...

After hearing staff recommendations for school construction priorities for the next decade, the Washington County Board of Education talked about pushing back plans for a new high school and finding more creative ways to address space and program needs....

When a vast tornado ripped into an Oklahoma elementary school, some teachers threw themselves on top of their students to shield them. They put their students' lives before their own. Some quick-thinking teachers huddled children into a bathroom. Though...

Baltimore City's schools are Maryland's oldest, and Baltimore County's are the second-oldest. The problems posed by the aging facilities in the two jurisdictions are different — the city has an overabundance of underused buildings, while the...

A few hours after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City area, ravaging neighborhoods and two elementary schools and killing at least 51 people, Edie Cordray sent an urgent message to members of her church in nearby Norman. "Please pray for my...