Grade School – Some small-school students say confidence soars as they fit in
Spartanburg Herald-Journal – Tiffany Garner’s self-confidence and grades were low while she attended Sims Junior High in Union . Because the seventh- and eighth-grade school has about 550 students, competition was stiff for athletics and extracurricular activities. Garner tried
Union County trustees vote to consolidate high schools
Spartanburg Herald-Journal – In November 2006, the board approved an Installment Purchase Financing plan for close to $44 million to renovate schools and build two others: a new sixth- through eighth-grade school in Union and a new kindergarten through eighth-grade school in
Flu hits schools in area
Aberdeen News – Fourteen percent of Mobridge’s grade school students were absent Thursday and Friday, said Principal Brian Liedtke. Numbers for Monday were not compiled yet. Webster School reported its peak of illness-related absences occurred in mid- to late January
Grade school boys threaten teacher
Oregonian – Three Mooberry Elementary School second-grade boys caught with pocket knives at school last Thursday morning, apparently also made threats to harm their teacher. A third-grader reported the youth at around 9:15 a.m. Thursday to school officials, who
School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT grade
ThatsRacin.com – School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT gradeI may stand for incomplete, but at Lauderdale Manors Elementary, it means war. After two years of getting Fs from the state based on students’ FCAT scores and cutting all extracurricular activities to
OG moving up in city wrestling ranks
Argus Leader – Both wrestlers have been wrestling since they started grade school. “I was at 103 and Jacob was at 112 in the eighth grade,” Weber said, “but he’s grown a lot since then.” Weber placed eighth at the state Class A meet last year, even though he tore his
Valley Briefing
Beacon News – When not volunteering in the classroom, Davis helps children with literacy at the Big Rock Grade School and assists with activities at her church. Elburn Kaneland to stage 1-act performances Kaneland High School will present An Evening of One Acts