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 ...

Backfilling has begun of the former salt mine in Gorleben, Lower Saxony - previously considered a possible site for geological disposal of Germany's high-level radioactive waste. The road milling ...

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 ...

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.

Finnish waste management company Posiva has completed the procedure qualification test on backfill installation at the Onkalo used nuclear fuel repository. During the test, almost 12 metres of tunnel ...

Joburg Water has completed the backfilling process at the 84 Katherine Street excavation site, paving the way for Johannesburg Roads Agency to undertake the final reinstatement work. Photo: Xoliswa ...

For decades, oil and gas companies dug canals through Louisiana's marshes looking for oil and building pipelines. Those canals are one of the big causes of coastal land loss. Now a handful of parishes ...