July 7, 2010
Fewer routes, staggered school start times and less money to replace buses and pay drivers. A steep drop in state funding for school transportation — up to 50 percent — has school officials in southwest Missouri looking for ways to trim services and save money.<br /> ; "For most school districts, it amounted to a […]
July 7, 2010
While the district has not received a synopsis of the recently passed state budget, officials fear the administrative positions eliminated this year will not be restored. "Time is running out for us to prepare for next year," said Susan Bunting, Indian River district superintendent. "If we get clearance from the (Board of Education) to recreate […]
July 7, 2010
While the Obama administration, with its federal Race to the Top program, is setting up a host of new rules for schools, five large urban school districts have raised achievement and closed achievement gaps using approaches that make such obvious sense, it would amaze parents to know that these aren’t the norm everywhere. The Broad […]
July 7, 2010
The White House is locked in a standoff with Democratic leaders in Congress over funding for school reforms, as deficit concerns and Afghanistan War politics collide with an education priority for the Obama administration. President Obama is threatening to veto the $80 billion war funding bill approved in the House on Thursday if the final […]
July 7, 2010
The Madison School District will receive 12 percent less in state aid next school year over 2009-10, according to new estimates by the state Department of Public Instruction. Ten other Dane County districts also are expected to face declines in funding under the state budget adopted last summer. Madison school Superintendent Dan Nerad said the […]
July 7, 2010
Patrick MacAuley is on his school’s honor roll. The 13-year-old earns 100 percent on many of his assignments. There are few red marks on his homework and hardly any corrections or comments. That’s precisely what concerns his mom. As a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia, Patrick was enrolled in what’s known as […]
July 6, 2010
Two more districts have joined Golf Elementary School District 67 in the process of withdrawing from the Niles Township District for Special Education 807, submitting letters stating their intent to pull out in two years. East Prairie Elementary District 73 in Skokie and Culver Elementary District 71 in Niles both submitted letters in late June. […]
July 6, 2010
San Francisco will shut down one school and overhaul nine others in a bid for millions of dollars in federal funding to help turn around the city’s lowest performing schools, district officials announced Friday. &#x 0A; The 10 sites are among 188 schools ranked academically in the bottom 5 percent statewide. If drastic changes are […]
July 6, 2010
Lancaster County schools will get a 6 percent boost in basic education funding in the 2010-11 state budget approved this week by the Legislature. As of Friday, Gov. Ed Rendell had yet to sign the spending plan because of a dispute over whether a new fiscal oversight office should be included in the budget. But […]
July 6, 2010
Not so fast — that was the reaction of South Redford interim Supt. Brian Galdes to the recent adoption of the school aid bill. “I give them credit for letting us know what the money situation is going to be,” Galdes said. “But let’s be clear, we aren’t getting an increase. Funding is still being […]