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 30, 2010
Mississippi’s one of only two states that assumed the worst when making their state budgets for Fiscal Year 2011 that begins July 1 – and cut spending accordingly. For that decision, House Speaker Billy McCoy, Lt. Gov Phil Bryant, Gov. Haley Barbour and the Legislature all deserve some praise. State lawmakers here resisted the temptation […]
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 29, 2010
Public school students will not see teacher furlough days in the com ing school year, but they will feel the pinch of budget cuts in other ways, Board of Education members warned. The board approved an operating budget yesterday for the 2010-11 school year that includes $1.25 billion from the state’s general fund and the […]
June 29, 2010
Iowa will face an unexpected $121 million budget shortfall in the fiscal year that starts Thursday if Congress fails to approve legislation providing extra funding for Medicaid. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, more commonly known as the federal stimulus, temporarily provided states with a 6.2 percent increase in the portion of Medicaid financed by […]