Island's small schools may close
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Schools on Anglesey with fewer than 50 pupils may face closure as plans are considered to deal with falling numbers.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 4 -- After a spate of bloody schoolhouse attacks in the past month, school districts around the country are reviewing their emergency plans. Some are looking for ways to tighten security even as they acknowledge the limits on their ability to stop a determined killer.
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Climate change is just one of the threats facing some small island developing states, the United Nations says.
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Gwynedd council proposes closing 21 primary schools as part of a major shake-up due to falling pupil numbers.
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Parents of children whose primary school was shut aim to help other schools threatened with closure.
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Officials at Texas' largest school district, which once miscounted nearly 3,000 dropouts, hope that by taking a personal interest in at-risk students and dividing them into smaller classes, they will stay in school.
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Many schools could lose millions of dollars in state subsidies as a result of the unexpected drop in enrollment.
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A tax provision making its way through the House of Representatives would close down IRS audits on hundreds of wealthy Americans who live part of the year in the U.S. Virgin Islands and avoid the higher income taxes paid by mainlanders.
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Seagate Technology's base in Limavady may be about to close with the loss of hundreds of jobs.
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Rock Creek International School in Northwest Washington, an exclusive private school known for its language immersion program and student diversity, is operating with a deficit and could close before the end of the school year, according to parents, school officials and financial documents.
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The Ridings School, once labelled the worst in the country, is to close after a decade of rescue attempts.
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By The Seattle Times  Sep. 14--MERCER ISLAND -- A Mercer Island elementary school was put under  lockdown Wednesday afternoon as police responded to a report of a suicide  threat.   Officers later determined that a man, believed to be in his 60s, had shot  himself in a nearby home.
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A council is set to drop plans to seek a judicial review over its plans to close a four-pupil school.
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Schools for children with special needs should not close unless provision is improving, the government says.
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An expert in child law has warned that Irish schools could be sued by students who have been educated in sub-standard buildings, The Irish Times reported Monday.
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Media & professional: Local government officials have advised parents to be cautious about hiring private tutors.
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By Tiffany Erickson Deseret Morning News  Schools in low-income areas could be getting some extra money that would help make up for fee waivers granted to students coming from poverty-stricken homes.