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What's News
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Deadly tornado devastates
Alabama high school
Eight students who took shelter in the hallway of an
Alabama high school were killed when a tornado ripped the roof
off the school and trapped the victims in rubble, The Birmingham
News reports. Click here to read
more.
Six people were killed when a bus carrying the baseball team from
Bluffton University in Bluffton, Ohio, plunged
off an
elevated exit ramp on Interstate 75 in Atlanta. Twenty-nine others were
injured,
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says. A federal investigator
says that the driver of the bus did
not intend to exit on Northside Drive off I-75. Left-lane exit designs
are found
on several roadways in metro Atlanta, but they are rare
in the rest of the country.
Click here to read more.
The Detroit school system may keep open about a dozen of the
52 buildings originally slated for closure by summer 2008, The
Detroit News reports.
Click here to
read
more. Meanwhile, the Archdiocese of Detroit may announce this
month
another round of Catholic school closings, The Detroit News
reports. Click
here to read more.
The Houston school district is planning to spend millions of
dollars to boost security and crime prevention on its campuses, The
Houston Chronicle reports. Click here to read
more.
Want more of the latest news in education?
Click here.
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Award-winning Condensing Boiler
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2006 Editors' Choice Top Product Pick, has revolutionized the hydronic
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-- to maximize seasonal efficiency. They offer single-unit installations
an unprecedented level of built-in redundancy
For more information on AERCO high-efficiency boilers call 800-526-0288
or visit www.aerco.com/game6.
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Stats Corner
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Clean
restrooms
92: Percentage of public school principals in 2005 who
said the cleanliness and maintenance of student restrooms were
satisfactory or very satisfactory.
87: Percentage of principals in 2005 at public schools with
75 percent or more students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch
who said the cleanliness and maintenance of student restrooms were
satisfactory or very satisfactory.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, "Public School
Principals Report on Their School Facilities: Fall 2005"
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Have You Entered Your Projects in the 2007 Educational
Interiors Showcase?
There is still time to enter American School & University's 17th annual
competition honoring education interiors excellence. With AS&U's
Educational Interiors Showcase, you gain more national exposure for you
and your project. Don't miss this chance to be featured in the August
2007 issue of American School & University and on AS&U's newly remodeled
SchoolDesigns.com Web site.
Click here to e-mail Molly
Roudebush or call her at (913) 967-1959. Or click
here for more information about the Educational Interiors
Showcase.
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Feedback
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Roomy locker
rooms
Last week, we asked whether students need larger lockers. Here
is some of your feedback:
This week, some lawmakers in Maryland want to require that
elementary schools provide students with 150 minutes a week of physical
education. Would you be in favor of such legislation?
A. Yes. Schools need to do more to
encourage students to exercise and pursue more healthful activities.
B. No. Many schools do not have the
gymnasium space and scheduling flexibility to reach such a goal.
C. Other.
What do you think?
E-mail your answer and any other comments HERE
and we'll publish them in next week's Schoolhouse Beat.
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School of the Future Symposium Featured at TechEd
An in-depth panel discussion of the School of the Future will be a
featured part of TechEd 2007 in Ontario, Southern California. Panelists
include Casey Green, The Campus Computing Project & Roz Chivis,
Philadelphia School District, among others... MORE
Register for TechEd 2007 online at www.TechEdEvents.org/2007
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Construction Corner
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Indiana district plans new
elementary school
The Westfield Washington (Ind.) School District is
building an elementary school that will open in 2009, The Noblesville
Daily Times says. Click
here to read more.
The University of New Mexico has broken ground on a $6.4
million indoor practice facility, The Albuquerque Tribune says.
Click here to read
more.
The Dallastown Area (Pa.) School District is planning to
build an intermediate school for grades 4 to 6, The York Dispatch
says. Click here to
read more.
To view the web's most extensive portfolio
of outstanding education construction projects, visit the new and
improved SchoolDesigns.com.
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Bonds & Levies
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Michigan districts find
voters reluctant to approve bonds
Voters in the Plymouth-Canton (Mich.) school district have
rejected a $62.1 million school bond. The Detroit News says the
money would have enabled the district to build a new middle school,
among other projects. Click here for more details
on this and other bond election results from
Michigan.
The El Paso (Texas) school board has called for a $230
million bond election on May 12, The El Paso Times says. Click here for more
details.
School officials in Durham, N.C., will ask county
commissioners to put a nearly $200 million bond issue on the ballot this
fall, The Raleigh News & Observer says. Click here for more
details.
For more news on school bonds and referendums,
visit American School & University's Daily News Headlines.
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Calendar
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Upcoming
events:
March 6-8: National
Roofing Contractors Association, 120th Annual Convention and
Exhibit,
Las Vegas.
March 15-17: International Technology Education
Association, 69th annual conference, San Antonio
March 20-22: National
Facilities Management & Technology Conference and Expo,
Baltimore
March 25-28: TechEd 2007, 12th Annual
Technology in Education International Conference & Tech Exposition,
Ontario, Calif.
For more upcoming education-related events and
conferences, visit our online
calendar.
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From the Magazine
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Now online
from American School & University:
Many people skeptical about environmentalism may have a stereotyped
view of the typical advocate for green design. But the cartoon image of
a tie-dye-wearing, granola-eating, tree-hugging hippie that is obsessed
with saving whales is as outdated as the idea that a double-loaded
corridor constitutes innovative classroom design....
Click Here to
read the entire article, "Aiming For the Green."
Yes, there is a right way to clean a restroom. If a worker does two
things wrong, repeated in 20 restrooms a day, it is fairly certain that
restroom users will complain. However, what people see or smell is not
the most important issue. The overriding guideline should be to clean
for health first, appearance second....
Click Here
to read the entire article, "Step by Step.".
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