August 17, 2010
Lawrence Education Center and the Springfield School District’s transportation programs face state funding cuts, but the school system also could benefit from as much as $6 million more in its main education fund. Transportation funding from the state of Illinois could be cut as much as 40 percent, officials told the Springfield School Board Monday […]
August 17, 2010
If California’s public schools were a corporation, its stock would be going up. Student academic performance, measured by the Standard Testing and Reporting program through a variety of state standards tests, continues to rise in the face of dwindling state funding and increasing class sizes. Results of the testing, released Monday by the California Department […]
August 17, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Mississippi will receive $47 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. These funds are part of the $3.5 billion that will be made available to states this spring from money set aside in the 2009 budget and […]
August 17, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Idaho will receive $12.6 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. These funds are part of the $3.5 billion that will be made available to states this spring from money set aside in the 2009 budget and […]
August 16, 2010
The Ohio Department of Health’s school-based fluoride mouthrinse program will be reinstated for the upcoming school year. The health department suspended the program last year after state representatives passed a bill that required any prescription medications given to students in school to be administered by health professionals. Gov. Ted Strickland signed legislation in May that […]
August 16, 2010
Emergency federal funding intended to protect New Hampshire teachers’ jobs may never reach school districts if the money is used instead for other state spending, as happened in the past. New Hampshire’s estimated $41 million share of the $10 billion federal stimulus measure for education will flow to Gov. John Lynch’s office, not directly to […]
August 16, 2010
Fearing hard economic times, some Texas school superintendents are cautious about the extra funding heading their way from an education jobs bill President Obama signed into law last week. Some might fill vacancies in the upcoming school year that otherwise would have remained empty. But saving much of the federal money appeals to school officials […]
August 16, 2010
The state aid bill President Obama signed last week is expected to provide $1.2 billion to help California’s cash-strapped schools, but uncertainty over the state budget could delay plans to rehire laid-off teachers o r restore school days. The emergency legislation provides $10 billion to states to save or create estimated 160,000 education jobs, including […]
August 16, 2010
Many of Pennsylvania’s lowest-ranked schools are seeking three-year, multimillion-dollar federal grants to help improve student achievement. The Philadelphia School District, which has 98 schools on the state’s list of lowest performers, has applied for the School Improvement Grants for 50 of them. Also a mong the 19 districts and five charters statewide seeking the money […]
August 16, 2010
The proposed redesign of the Ohio schools for the deaf and blind will be substantially scaled back to save money, and a provision for union-only labor might be jettisoned now that state officials have discovered that it likely added to the price. "I think all options have to be on the table," ; Richard Murray, […]