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
With her long list of special-education credentials, Deborah Domes has traveled all over the city teaching some of Chicago’s most heart-wrenching cases –from terminally ill teenagers to "Girl X" of Cabrini-Green, after the youngster emerged from a coma. With her prized national certification in teaching, Erin O’Brien enjoyed helping new teachers in seven schools, offering […]
July 6, 2010
In as dismal a budget year as anyone can remember, with rising costs and steep cuts in state aid, school districts across New Jersey have looked for savings wherever they can find them. School boards have laid off teachers, scrapped sports, pruned full-day kindergarten to a half day and eliminated free busing for some students. […]
July 6, 2010
The state budget deal hammered out in Harrisburg last week increases basic education funding for Northampton County’s eight school districts by $6.6 million. It is $2.1 million less than what Gov. Ed Rendell proposed in February. While the budget increases basic education funding statewide by $250 million — a 4.5 percent increase — it still […]
July 6, 2010
When Gov. Pat Quinn announced last week that Illinois schools aren’t getting cut as deeply as feared in his new budget, the message was clear. "We don’t want school districts lopping off teachers," said Quinn, who also pledged that the schools will get the more than $1 billion owed to them in state back payments […]