The Coolidge Youth Coalition will be around for another year thanks to a decision made in Washington D.C. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, announced $19.8 million in new Drug-Free Communities Support Program grants to 147 communities and 19 new DFC Mentoring grants across the ...
CYC receives final year of drug-free community funds
Posted On Friday, November 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Coolidge Youth Coalition, DFC Mentoring continuation coalitions, Drug-Free Communities, National Drug Control Policy
The Coolidge Youth Coalition will be around for another year thanks to a decision made in Washington D.C. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, announced $19.8 million in new Drug-Free Communities Support Program grants to 147 communities and 19 new DFC Mentoring grants across the ...
Federal Home Loan Bank Of New York Announces Results Of 2013 Board Of Director Elections
Posted On Friday, November 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Alfred A. DelliBovi, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, FHLBNY's Board of Directors, Larry E. Thompson
NEW YORK, -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York ("FHLBNY") announced today the results of the 2013 election for six positions on the FHLBNY's Board of Directors whose terms will each commence on January 1, 2014. Five of the six terms will run for four years, expiring on ...
V.I. Teachers Unions Prepare for Annual Training Conferences
Posted On Thursday, October 31, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: American Federation of Teachers, Ann Claire Anderson, Elevating the Education Profession, Shirlene Harvey
ST. CROIX - The American Federation of Teachers unions in each district are getting ready for the annual Together Educating America's Children development conference following this year's theme, "Aligning The Curriculum While Elevating the Education Profession."
The full day of professional development training in each district is now in its 34th ...
Bullying tips Parent finds little help in fighting off school bully Markoe principal mum on incidents
Posted On Thursday, October 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Ayanda Daniels, Claude O. Markoe School, V.I. Education Department, Work Force Development Committee
ST. CROIX - For Ayanda Daniels, every day is a struggle as she sends her son to school to face what she claims is continuous bullying and sexual harassment - problems she says the V.I. Education Department has not been addressing with the needed urgency.
Daniels said her son, a fifth-grader ...
Computers, Other Electronics Stolen in Burglary of Main Office at Woodson School on St. Croix
Posted On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Ananta Pancham, John Woodson School, Midland Road, principal Vaughn Hewitt, V.I. Education Department
ST. CROIX - Police and V.I. Education Department officials are continuing to investigate a break-in at John Woodson School that was discovered Wednesday morning.
Education spokeswoman Ananta Pancham said Wednesday that the administrators and staff at the junior high school, located just off Midland Road, reported to the school in the ...
Doubts Over Ministers’ Degrees Raised in Parliament
Posted On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Democratic Action Party, Ewon Ebin, innovation, Minister of Science, Ong Kian Ming, Science, Technology, Technology and Innovation
An altercation between government and opposition MPs ensued in Malaysia’s parliament this week when government officials appeared to brush off questions about the academic credentials of the ministers of human resources and of science, technology and innovation.
Ong Kian Ming, a Democratic Action Party opposition MP, questioned the validity of the ...
Belchertown school board concerned about students trying new state exams
Posted On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Judith Houle, Massachusetts Comprehensive, MCAS, PACC, School Committee, U.S. Virgin Islands
BELCHERTOWN – Members of the School Committee are not happy that Belchertown children are being used to test new standardized exams being developed to replace the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS.
From March until June next year, several grade levels will be administered the in-progress test, know by the acronym ...
St. Croix school bus service reinstated after Education Department, company reach accord
Posted On Sunday, September 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Abramson Enterprises, Ananta Pancham, Donna Frett-Gregory, Rudy Abramson, V.I. Education Department officials
ST. CROIX - Less than 24 hours after V.I. Education Department officials released a statement that school buses would not be running for students in the St. Croix district on Tuesday, the department issued a new statement Saturday saying they had reached a new two-year agreement with the bus company ...
Southern hires new VP Academic and Student Affairs
Posted On Sunday, September 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Guillory-Winfield, Jackson State University, Monique Guillory-Winfield, Southern University
The Southern University System welcomes Monique Guillory-Winfield as the new vice president for academic and student affairs. Guillory-Winfield has more than 15 years of experience in higher education administration including her most recent position as an associate with The Barthwell Group, a boutique management-consulting firm based in Detroit, Michigan, with ...
Senate Finance Committee Completes FY 2014 Budget Hearings
Posted On Saturday, September 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Agriculture Department, Frederiksted Health Care Inc., General Fund, Louis Petersen Jr., V.I. Senate Finance Committee
ST. THOMAS - Last week, the V.I. Senate Finance Committee conducted the last of its hearings about the Fiscal Year 2014 budget.
The Senate now will take the proposed budget into mark-up this week.
Budgets reviewed this week included:
Agriculture Department
The Agriculture Department is requesting a budget of about $3.6 million for FY ...
Guy Benjamin Won’t Have First-Grade Class This Year
Posted On Saturday, August 31, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Guy Benjamin Elementary School, Jane Roskin, Smith-Barry, Sprauve Elementary, St. Thomas-St. John School
ST. JOHN - While Guy Benjamin Elementary School in Coral Bat, St. John, will not have a first grade this year, it may have a kindergarten.
Or, it may not.
Today, St. Thomas-St. John School Superintendent Jeanette Smith-Barry is expected to announce a decision about whether Guy Benjamin Elementary School and Julius ...
Public Services Commission Raises Tourist Rates for Ferry Rides
Posted On Friday, August 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Chairman Thomas Jackson, Maria Tankenson-Hodge, Public Services Commission, Transportation Services, Varlack Ventures
ST. THOMAS - The two companies that run passenger ferries between St. Thomas and St. John will spare local residents from a rate hike and instead charge tourists separately a dollar more per ride.
The V.I. Public Services Commission voted Thursday evening to approve a joint petition for a new rate ...
Governor acts on bills passed by V.I. Legislature
Posted On Friday, August 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Coral Reef Initiative, Governor John de Jongh, Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs, National Historical Park, United States Virgin Islands
Gov. John deJongh Jr. signed a number of bills into law late Friday night - and vetoed a number of others, including a bill that would have granted delinquent property taxpayers a 90-day amnesty from penalties.
The tax bill deJongh struck down would have waived all fees, penalties and interest levied ...
US Virgin Islands Receives Funding For St Croix Marine Research Facility
Posted On Thursday, August 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Coral Reef Initiative, Marine Research and Education Centre, US Department of the Interior’s Office, Virgin Islands Education
The United States Virgin Islands has won a federal grant to support a new marine research facility in St Croix.
The $150,000 grant was awarded by the US Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs, through the department’s Coral Reef Initiative.
The funding will go toward developing a Marine Research and ...
Senate Reintroduces Summer Student Intern Program
Posted On Thursday, August 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: BARRY LEERDAM, DISQUS account, Ivory Carter, Ruby Rouss, Sen. Kenneth Gittens, V.I. Labor Department
ST. THOMAS - Not many students would choose to spend their summer stuck inside studying legislative practices and policies, but, for those who did, their choice may have paid off.
The Senate this year brought back a program that had been in place in the 1970s through the 1990s, but at ...
DPNR’s Tapia Now Accused of Seeking Bribes, Embezzlement, Selling V.I.-Owned Equipment
Posted On Thursday, July 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: criminal conspiracy, Department of Planning and Natural Resources, DPNR contracts, Raymond Brown, Roberto Tapia, V.I. Police Sgt. Angelo Hill
ST. THOMAS - New charging documents in the drug trafficking case against Roberto Tapia, chief of enforcement for the Department of Planning and Natural Resources, and V.I. Police Sgt. Angelo Hill portray long-standing corruption and a much wider pattern of criminal activity.
The case also grew with the arrest of a ...
Education Wants CAHS Diplomas Back
Posted On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VIRGIN ISLAND Tags: Charlotte Amalie High School's, Education Department, Jeanette Smith-Barry, spokeswoman Ananta Pancham, V.I. Department of Education
ST. THOMAS - The V.I. Department of Education has issued a recall on diplomas given to Charlotte Amalie High School's 2013 graduating class at a cost of $1,400.
The diplomas and pocket-diplomas, which are laminated, wallet-sized cards, bear the signature of former Commissioner Laverne Terry, who resigned at the end of ...
