School board news

Middle school students won't have to get up earlier than usual for the rest of the school year, but there could be a change next fall. The district was considering starting middle school 10 minutes earlier, at 7:45 a.m., to stop delays in buses getting to elementary schools, but...

Sixty-seven percent of those who responded to a School District 833 survey on how to spend $5 million in excess construction money say new projects should be funded. That's one of the choices being discussed by a school board-appointed task force that is also considering spending...

District 833 Superintendent Tom Nelson's last school board meeting is this week as retires after four years. He and his wife, Margaret, plan to return to Prescott, Ariz., where they were living when he took the job in the district after a stormy and failed superintendent search by...

The downside of an economic depression is that School District 833 had to cut the general fund budget and increase class sizes. The up side is that, due to the decline in construction activity, bid prices for construction of East Ridge High School, classroom additions and improvements...