The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the 2023 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools, District Sustainability Awardees, and Postsecondary Sustainability Awardees. In Illinois, Prairie Trails School, an early learning center in Mount Prospect, was named a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School. Huntley Unit District 158 in Algonquin was honored as a District Sustainability Awardee.
The University of Southern California (USC) is helping to increase and complete college enrollment for Black students with the USC Leslie and William McMorrow Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI). The NAI annually prepares more than 1,000 6th-12th grade students from low-income households in surrounding neighborhoods, in the south and east Los Angeles areas, for admission and graduation from college. Majority of USC NAI scholars will become first-generation college students.
Seven schools among the seven districts in Garland County earned a B or higher on the 2022 School Report Cards released Friday by the Arkansas Department of Education s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education.
A number of Garland County s public school buildings saw water damage after bitterly cold temperatures left in the wake of an arctic front that swept through the state just before Christmas weekend led to frozen pipes.