June 30, 2010
Here are some highlights from two separate studies on charter schools that were released Tuesday: * Public charter schools generally receive less funding than traditional public schools, according to a new report released today, but most or all of these funding differences can be connected to the additional obligations that the traditional schools have. * […]
June 30, 2010
Nearly every Sacramento County school district and some in Placer, El Dorado and Yuba counties are in financial trouble, state officials announced Tuesday. They join a growing number of school districts in California facing large budget deficits. "Schools today are facing a period of unprecedented fiscal crisis," said state schools chief Jack O’Connell. The number […]
June 30, 2010
The budget deficit for Detroit Public Schools has ballooned from $219 million last year to $363 million, according to budget documents released Tuesday by the district. The 66-percent spike in the debt occurred during the first full year of leadership under Robert Bobb, the state-appointed emergency financial manager. Bobb was appointed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm […]
June 30, 2010
The state’s formula for funding its public school districts is broken and Tony Evers wants to fix it. Evers, elected in April 2009 as the state superintendent of public instruction, announced last week a proposal to reform school funding. "I’ve been in public education for 37 years and we’ve been messing with this for so […]
June 30, 2010
Four San Diego County school districts are among 160 statewide to warn the state they may not be able to pay their bills through the next two years, the California Department of Education announced Tuesday. The La Mesa-Spring Valley, Oceanside Unified, Ramona and San Ysidro school districts made the state’s “fiscal early warning list,” a […]
June 30, 2010
The Saratoga Union School District is standing on financially stable ground for now. But the future looks a little less secure as the district expects to use up most of its reserves in the next couple of years. The district’s board of trustees approved a budget of $23.4 million for the 2010-11 school year. The […]
June 30, 2010
School districts around York County have been able to save excess tax revenue — even as they have cited the need to raise taxes to cover deficits on an almost annual basis. The average York County school district has padded its surplus by about $1.5 million since the 2005-06 school year, when property tax reform […]
June 30, 2010
Special education programs in the city’s public schools will be reorganized this summer to address problems that were identified in a recent consultant report, Superintendent Jim Mo rse said Thursday. Morse has hired Bonnie Violette, special services coordinator in neighboring Westbrook, as a consultant to help ensure that special education programs are offered consistently and […]
June 29, 2010
Gov. Mark Sanford has vetoed a bill that would have given spending flexibility to Sumter school districts 2 and 17. "We are sympathetic to the difficulty in which (these) school (districts), and others like (them), find themselves, but we are compelled to do as we have done in the past and veto this legislation," Sanford […]
June 29, 2010
New York spent $17,173 per student for public education in 2007-08, more than any other state and 67 percent higher than the national average, according to Census Bureau statistics released Monday. The $10,259 average nationally was a 6.1 percent increase over 2006-07, the Census Bureau said. New York’s spending went up 7.4 percent over the […]