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NYC’s Top Business and Education Leaders Gather to Support Public Schools at PENCIL’s 2011 Annual Spring Gala Students Tell The Story of How PENCIL Is Changing Their Lives Read more on PR Newswire via Yahoo! News

Public schools decide to keep five-day calendar SHIRLEY LIN Today staff Fort McMurray’s public and Catholic schools are going to look vastly different from each other next school year due to calendar changes.[...] Read more on Fort McMurray Today

David Meadows is named interim leader of Tupelo Schools TUPELO – David Meadows was named the interim leader of the Tupelo Public School District on Thursday, the day that Randy Shaver’s term as superintendent officially ended. Read more on Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

Half of pupils are being consigned ‘to the scrapheap’ by schools Secondary schools in England and Wales focus on brighter children and fail to help teenagers prepare for world of work, warns Demos Half of all teenagers in England and Wales are being failed by secondary schools that focus on brighter children destined to go on to higher education, according to a damning new report from the thinktank Demos. The report, The Forgotten Half , claims that secondary … Read more on Guardian Unlimited

Charter schools spark emotions, debate at School Board meeting Debate raged inside and outside Chicago School Board chambers Wednesday over charter schools — a pet reform of Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel.Supporters of Penn Elementary accused Kipp Ascend Charter School of inflating its enrollment figures to snatch away space from Penn. The two schools share a building once only occupied by Penn at 1616 S. Avers.The lunchroom manager threw out more than 100 Kipp … Read more on Chicago Sun-Times

ANwSU schools excel on NECAP VERGENNES — The recent release of last fall’s New England Common Assessment Practice (NECAP) test scores brought mixed news to Addison Northwest Supervisory Union, ranging from positive results at Addison Central School that earned statewide notice to stagnant math scores at Vergennes Union High School that disappointed local administrators. Read more on The Addison County Independent

Schools prepare for smaller staffs The Shawano School District is issuing preliminary layoff notices to 19 teachers who would be let go if the state follows through with funding cuts being considered. Read more on The Shawano Leader

G.I. schools looking at results on new tests CREDITSTARTFirst-time test results are available for fourth-graders who took the TerraNova Test, eighth-graders who took the EXPLORE Test and 10th-graders who took the PLAN Test last fall.Assistant Superintendent Robin Dexter shared those results with the Grand Island school board during its regular February meeting on Thursday night. Read more on Grand Island Independent

Black Gold Regional Schools briefs In 2007 Covenant Christian School (CCS) received a $270,000 provincial government grant to implement a three-year One-to-One Project, which saw every student in Grades 5 to 9 given a laptop to use for all of their schoolwork. Read more on Leduc Representative

Cambridge may reduce its middle schools to 4 After 18 months of community soul searching, Superintendent Jeffrey Young will unveil an ambitious plan tonight to reconfigure the district’s middle school education to emphasize academics and consistent standards for all students. Read more on Boston Globe