ARLINGTON — The school district will spend $200,000 replacing wood chips with pea gravel at 35 playgrounds in response to a fire blamed on spontaneous combustion of the wood fiber, the superintendent ...

Phase 1 of the “Everyone Plays!” Lake Antoine Park Playground project is now complete. The Lake Antoine Park Partners ...

Wood chips that had housed mites believed to be the cause of bites and skin irritations on students and staff members at Lake Forest Elementary, were removed from the north campus playground and ...

The wood chips in playgrounds at a Burbank elementary school will be replaced after the chips went through the shoes of some students and staff. Burbank Unified’s school board has agreed to spend ...

After two students and an instructional aide had their feet poked with playground wood chips at Washington Elementary, the Burbank Unified school board has agreed to spend about $80,000 to replace the ...

Test results suggest wood chips at a Grand Traverse County playground contain elevated levels of arsenic that initially were believed to be from the soil. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports the ...

The Mundelein Park & Recreation District is pursuing funding for an all-inclusive playground with an emphasis on accessibility for people with disabilities but designed to promote play among all ...

Catching up on the education blogs: Mike Antonucci thinks that that the NEA may be censoring its own blog (The Mystery of the Missing Link). Scott Elliott addresses the age-old achievement gap ...

Traverse City — Test results suggest wood chips at a Grand Traverse County playground contain elevated levels of arsenic that initially were believed to be from the soil. The Traverse City ...