looking to start the school year a few weeks later in order to get what the school district thinks is going to be 500,000 bucks in attendance-based state funding.

that for the first time in a few years the school district is going to have a budget surplus.

on kindergarten schools in the Carlisle area that may go from from two full days a week to four.

going to score students’ writing portfolios this spring even though state laws are not forcing them to do it.

The Hartford Courant reports on this couple that has donated 130,000 a year since 2005 in order to help minority students go to college who want to become teachers.

is out with a report looking at arts education in schools. The report mainly says that between the school years of 2004-2005 and 2006-2007 for 90% of students looked at the amount of time spent on arts education did not change at all.