July 23, 2010
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 23–>The Santa Rosa County School District has some good items in next year’s $282 million budget despite its per student funding being the lowest in Florida. "For the second year, we are 67th out of 67 districts," said Susan McCole, accounting supervisor, at Thursday’s board meeting. Santa Rosa’s per student funding next […]
July 22, 2010
Portland Public Schools are facing between $13 million and $19 million in budget cuts, depending on federal emergency relief.That relief would give Portland Schools the ability to spare physical education classes from cuts. Special education programs, however, were still on the cut list. That’s frustrating for Southeast Portland’s Holland family. Their 11-year-old son, Daniel, is […]
July 22, 2010
Spending in California classrooms de clined as a percentage of total education spending over a recent five-year period, even as total school funding increased, according to a Pepperdine University study released Wednesday. More of the funding increase went to administrators, clerks and technical staff and less to teachers, textbooks, materials and teacher aides, the study […]
July 22, 2010
Plans to extend the school day in eight city schools, startin g on the first day of school Aug. 9, are up in the air. So is the status of dozens of teachers the school district has decided to displace or whose contracts can’t be signed because there is Reforms the district plans to finance […]
July 22, 2010
Ohio’s education policy makers need to get real. The Ohio Department of Education’s proposed budget for the upcoming two years is ridiculously unrealistic. Everyone in education knows that — unless they’ve been living under a rock. Meanwhile, a new school funding commission, charged with recommending and advising how much schools should get from the state […]
July 22, 2010
West Virginia will allow one of its lowest-performing schools to partner with community groups under one of several education-related measures that emerged from Wednesday’s conclusion to the weeklong special legislative session. Lawmakers also voted to approve a separate pilot program meant to divert and then reach out to disruptive elementary and middle school students. Up […]
July 21, 2010
Changes in the way children with learning disabilities are taught has improved the state’s ranking of the school department’s special education program. Previously classified as a Level 4, which is one of the lowest rankings in the five-level system, the department recently improved to a Level 2 category, said Debra A. Schneeweis, the special education […]
July 21, 2010
Less than two months after the nation’s governors and state school chiefs released their final recommendations for national education standards, 27 states have adopted them and about a dozen more are expected to do so in the next two weeks. Their support has surprised many in education circles, given states’ long tradition of insisting on […]
July 21, 2010
Nurses searching for a job may start looking somewhere besides hospitals, and that could benefit your children. In all of the Calhoun County school districts, there are only two schools with full-time nurses, but that’s about to change. Statewide the school nursing shortage is sobering. “In the State of Michigan we have roughly one nurse […]
July 21, 2010
An agreement announced this week that allows Kansas school districts to be reimbursed for services delivered to special education students won’t cover services related to attendant care. Attendant care services are for basic care, such as hygiene, tube feeding, mobility, administering medications and other services related to allowing spe cial education students function in a […]