A parent and school-choice advocacy organization in New York City is calling on the city’s charter schools to fill thousands of empty seats in 3rd through 8th grades. Backfilling, or replacing ...

Switching schools can have negative effects for students and their new schools; districts and charter schools should therefore have equitable approaches to accepting new students and backfilling open ...

CEBU, Philippines - To control backfilling activities which are feared to cause "untoward incidents," the Talisay City council approved Tuesday on first reading a proposed ordinance regulating it.

More than 10,000 miles of canals dredged largely by the oil and gas industry crisscross Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, eating away at the state’s fragile coast, but over the decades only 35 miles have ...

Just under 13 miles of canals running through parts of the 26,000-acre Barataria Preserve, a unit of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, will be backfilled in an attempt to restore ...