August 10, 2010
Skokie School District 73.5 officials are hardly surprised that their $15.5 million tentative budget projects the district’s first spending deficit since its successful tax hike referendum in 2004. Factors confronting this school district and many others like it fall under the category of "unprecedented" by many educators’ standards. The district is owed a healthy amount […]
August 10, 2010
Carl Sanders was governor the last time Georgia public school students were in classes less than 180 days a year. But this year, for the first time since the mid-1960s, school systems across Georgia are compressing the school year into fewer days to save money. Systems just have to make sur e they still offer […]
August 9, 2010
“The release of School Grades this year provides a very unbiased view of the undeniable success we have achieved in raising the quality of education we provide our children. The results show that through a five year trend, the performance of our schools remains strong in both our elementary and middle grades and that despite […]
August 9, 2010
School grades for hundreds of elementary schools in Florida dropped this year, adding more fuel to a spat between the state and school superintendents who have cast doubt on the validity of the test scores used to calculate the grades. Statewide, a third of elementary schools dropped at least one letter grade. The percentage of […]
August 9, 2010
If, as expected, Gov. Ed Rendell and legislative leaders start talking next week about scratching almost 1 percent out of Pennsylvania’s $28 billion budget, the billions the state sends to public schools for instruction and operations will be Target No. 1. After all, the K-12 school subsidy got a substantial increase — $250 million, or […]
August 9, 2010
About 1,200 city school workers will receive layoff notices this week, and principals will begin sharing the budget pain via pay freezes and six furlough days, as Chicago Public Schools officials move today to plug their remaining $370 million deficit. With no concessions from teachers due a 4 percent pay raise, schools CEO Ron Huberman […]
August 9, 2010
Six months after they last passed school levies, a half-dozen Puget Sound school districts are back on the ballot, asking for more. They struggled over whether to file the measures, which are a temporary — and controversial — solution offered by the Legislature to offset the cuts in state education spending. But it was either […]
August 9, 2010
Michigan is in line to get more than $600 million in school and Medicaid funding under a bill going to a vote before the U.S. House on Tuesday. The $26.1 billion measure passed the Senate last week before members left Washington for their summer recess. It includes $10 billion for school districts to stave off […]
August 9, 2010
Despite laying off 66 teachers this year, the Glendale Unified School District has been advertising for vacant special education teachers and aide positions. The ads, posted June 28 and renewed last month on Internet job sites, are for an elementary and high school special education teacher with starting salaries of between $42,450 to $76,280, depending […]
August 9, 2010
Since New York spends more per pupil than any state in the nation one would think that its standardized test scores would be tops too. But that is not the case. New York students score in the middle of the pack or below when their state test scores are compared with the 49 other states. […]