August 11, 2010
Congress completed action on a bill Tuesday that is expected to bring Buffalo Public Schools almost $8 million — not nearly enough to cover the district’s $34 million deficit for the coming school year. Fourteen other local school districts are in line to receive at least $1 million from the bill, with others getting lesser […]
August 11, 2010
U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that an additional $1,072,589,804 is now available for Texas under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. To date, Texas has received $7,439,690,398 through the ARRA. The state recently reported that recovery dollars have been used to provide funding for more than 28,000 education […]
August 11, 2010
Twenty-four Title I school districts and 37 Title I schools in Kansas were identified as “on improvement” for the 2010-2011 school year during the Kansas State Board of Education meeting in Topeka today. While those numbers are up from last year, they represent just 8 percent of all school districts in the state, and just […]
August 11, 2010
Missouri will receive $209.3 million in health-care funding and $189 million for education over the next year as part of the $26 billion in aid House lawmakers approved Tuesday. The funding is expected to save 3,300 teaching jobs in Missouri. Illinois is slated to receive nearly $1 billion for Medicaid and education, a spokeswoman for […]
August 11, 2010
Just in time for the new school year, the House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a state-aid package that will bring 16,500 California teachers back to their classrooms. The bill, which was supported almost exclusively by Democrats in a 247-161 vote, provides $26.1 billion to cash-strapped state governments. About 161,000 teachers or educational support professionals […]
August 11, 2010
Pennsylva nia will receive $668 million to help pay for Medicaid and $387.8 million to save K-12 education jobs as a result of a $26 billion bill signed Tuesday night by President Barack Obama. The U.S. House of Representatives approved the bill Tuesday on a 247-161 vote, with most Democrats in favor and most Republicans […]
August 10, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Wyoming will receive $8.6 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 10, 2010
For months now, a group of parents has been challenging the adequacy of services offered to students with autism in Redlands Unified School District. They claim the district is breaking the law by not providing proper services for their children, most of whom have a high-functioning form of autism known as Asperger’s syndrome and are […]
August 10, 2010
West Virginia is set to receive $136 million in federal money if the U.S. House approves a fiscal relief bill Tuesday, according to figures from Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The legislation, which passed the Senate last week, would provide $136 million to West Virginia, including $81 million meant for Medicaid and $55 […]
August 10, 2010
Iowa school districts are likely to get about $96 million in federal money that would be used exclusively for salaries for teachers and other school employees, education officials said Monday. Reaction to the proposed education spending hints at a story line that will most likely play out in Iowa congressional politics throughout the fall: Republicans […]