New School Construction
Sartell High School's new building design places a focus on helping students prepare for a variety of options after they graduate including joining the workforce, following a two-year post-secondary path and attending a four-year college.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/29/19
New School Construction
As classes begin Aug. 28, Portland Public Schools continues construction and renovations on several schools that will be completed in the coming years. In 2017, voters approved a nearly $800 million bond measure to improve and rebuild four schools. Here’s a brief overview of the district’s construction plans.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/28/19
After spending millions of dollars over the years on renovating and repairing a more than half-century old school building, Sussex Technical School District’s school board unanimously voted to build a new Sussex Technical High School in Delaware.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/27/19
Safe and Secure Schools
With the high frequency of mass shootings in the United States, Fruitport School District administrators had campus safety on their mind when designing new sections of Fruitport High School in Michigan.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/26/19
STEM & STEAM
Marist High School, a Chicago-based Catholic school, transformed a former monastery into a high-tech science wing with a planetarium.
- By Yvonne Marquez
- 08/26/19
Technology Solution
A company that makes hardware for managing tech infrastructure has released a new solution for organizing messy cables and wires.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/22/19
STEM & STEAM
Tennessee's Dobyns-Bennett High School has opened a new three-story science and technology center that fronts the high school and adds more than 70,000 square feet.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/22/19
New School Construction
A Texas district recently opened its sixth middle school. Marine Creek Middle School, part of Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District, consists of a two-story, 165,000 square-foot campus, serving students in grades 6-8.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/21/19
Learning Spaces
A new Indianapolis elementary school includes state-of-art learning spaces as well as a huge indoor slide. Walnut Grove Elementary School, which opened earlier this month in the Center Grove Community School Corp., features innovative learning spaces designed to provide flexibility for instruction.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/21/19
STEM & STEAM
A nonprofit that develops STEM education programs has come up with portable learning spaces housed in shipping containers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/13/19
STEM & STEAM
An army of volunteers from local nonprofits and companies showed up to an Oklahoma City elementary school to help set up two new STEM operations.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/12/19
Renovations
Officials recently broke ground on a technical school rebuild in Hudson, NH. The Wilbur H. Palmer Career and Technical Education Center, based in Alvirne High School, offers 17 programs of study. Students bus in from 15 other high schools to take part in programs on computer science, digital media, health science and technology and pre-engineering, among others.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/12/19
HVAC
An Ohio school district tackled its outdated energy systems with the help of an energy service company and regained a functioning atomic clock in the process. Howland Local Schools worked with Plug Smart to implement new air conditioning and LED lighting.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/01/19
Campus Safety
The board of a California school system has approved funding to replace legacy security camera gear. West Sonoma County Union High School District awarded the $602,948 contract to Integrated Security Controls, a regional solution provider.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/01/19
Energy
Hamilton Southeastern Schools will be working with Ameresco to implement two solar arrays, with a total of 4,800 panels and the capacity of generating 2.4 million kWh annually.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/30/19