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Brampton Guardian - Don Mills Middle School, Toronto, Ontario; Grey Owl Junior Public School, Toronto, Ontario; H.J. Alexander Community School, Toronto, Ontario; John Ross Robertson Public School, Toronto, Ontario; Lancaster Public School, Mississauga, Ontario; Maple

School measures likely to pass Some feared district turmoil would hold
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Opponents of the capital bond said the proposed list of construction projects — including renovations at Hamilton Middle School, Nathan Hale High School, Denny Middle School and Sealth High School — didn’t include school buildings that were in far

HISD wants middle schoolers on track for college
Houston Chronicle - Houston ISD middle-school teachers would be armed with reams of test-score data, and retrofitted school buses would bring college information to families’ doorsteps as part of the latest plan for creating “college-bound culture” in city schools. If

Middle Schools Seek Fixes as Scores Lag
Washington Post - One student in three attending a middle school in Maryland lacks proficiency on the Maryland School Assessment, a standard all students are supposed to meet by 2014. School boards across the D.C. suburbs are talking about fixing middle schools. There

School bus hits aide, killing her
Philadelphia Inquirer - Siani Galarza, 11, the Browns’ next-door neighbor and a sixth-grader at Russell Conwell Middle School, said June Brown had been an aide in her class when she was in third grade at the Barton School, Rosehill and C streets. “She was nice,” Galarza said

Area Sports Briefs
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - The Glenwood Springs Middle School seventh-grade girls basketball team pulled off a hard-fought tournament championship at the Eagle seventh- and eighth-grade Invitational on Jan. 27. Glenwood battled through five games, winning the nine-team, double