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 […]
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 […]
June 29, 2010
Several high-performing charter schools in Boston are pursuing proposals that could yield nearly a dozen additional schools in the city over the next few years, the most robust expansion in more than a decade. The proposals would be among the first filed with the state this summer under a new Massachusetts law that allows the […]
June 28, 2010
So last week, four Kansas City District residents sued state officials over distributing money from the school foundation formula, after lawmakers reduced the total state-aid appropriation because of lower-than-expected state revenues. The suit asks the Cole County Circuit Court to order state officials to give the Kansas City, Mo. School District (KCMSD) the additional $2.933 […]
June 28, 2010
For months, Abington Heights School District Superintendent Michael Mahon, Ph.D., has been occupied with a calculator and pages of financial projections. School board members resisted a tax hike for 2010-11, but balancing the budget any other way proved nearly impossible. Eventually, school district officials presented a budget of $44.1 million that includes a 2-mill tax […]
June 28, 2010
New York lawmakers, unwilling to approve a budget plan proposed by Governor David Paterson, prepared an alternative that cuts less aid to schools and universities and authorizes spending to avoid a government shutdown. The plan drew criticism from the governor’s office. A statement by Paterson’s spokesman, Morgan Hook, said it lacked revenue proposals to close […]
June 28, 2010
Two top Garden City school officials aren’t holding their breath about news that there wi ll be no cuts to school funding next year. In her two years as Garden City Schools superintendent, Michelle Cline said that she has grown wary of talk that doesn’t result in money. “I will believe it when I see […]
June 28, 2010
Budget cuts, refer endums, schools closing and consolidating. It has been the story around the state and many districts say it is because of the revenue caps in the current funding formula. "We’ve adjusted, restructured, eliminated programs and staff," said Greg Maass, Superintendent of Green Bay Area Schools. "Instead of planning ahead with confidence, you […]