June 24, 2010
The Neosho School District is planning to cut expenditures by more than $1.15 million and also spend down its reserves by $1 million to weather reductions in state allocations. Members of the Neosho School Board this week approved a preliminary budget of about $34.8 million for the coming school year. Revenues are projected at about […]
June 24, 2010
Class sizes will go up for a second year in a row in the Redwood City School District after trustees approved a budget Wednesday night that includes pink slips for 35 teachers. The $7.1 million in cuts approved 5-0 by the school board to balance the $72.6 million budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year will […]
June 24, 2010
Chicago School Board members Wednesday went on the attack against teacher tenure, agreeing to lay off the worst-rated teachers first — regardless of seniority — amid mo ves to raise class size and shrink a record budget deficit. Chicago Teachers Union President-elect Karen Lewis immediately blasted the action as "very belligerent” and "very confrontational.” Union […]
June 24, 2010
Parents and teachers continue to be concerned about the Saddle Brook Board of Education’s decision to move two special education classes in the fall. Due to budgetary concerns, two special educations classes will move from Washington School to Long Memorial or Helen I. Smith schools and two other classes will combine into one. Furthermore, the […]
June 24, 2010
A bill that would change the way state special education funding is distributed to school districts was approved by the House of Representatives yesterday, giving hope to administrators who say the system shortchanges districts with the most special needs students. "This is a good day," said Ed Maritz, a Sto-Rox school director who has advocated […]
June 24, 2010
There’s an old joke about how we know the toothbrush was invented in Kentucky: Anywhere else, and it would have been called a “teeth” brush. But like a lot of other negative stereotypes, the image of the toothless Kentucky hillbilly is sadly based upon an unfortunate reality. Kentuckians have some of the worth dental health […]
June 23, 2010
New York lawmakers have approved legislation to require health insurance companies to provide coverage for screening, diagnosis and lifetime treatment of autism spectrum disorders. The bill passed in the Senate last week and in the Assembly on Monday night. Citing a federal Centers for Disease Control estimate that one out of 110 children is diagnosed […]
June 23, 2010
Arguments the state Supreme Court heard Tuesday are part of a larger debate about whether the state is spending enough money to educate students. Basic education spending could soon be under the Supreme Court’s microscope, but for now, justices are considering only whether the state is giving schools enough money for special education. A dozen […]
June 23, 2010
Alameda voters were narrowly defeating a school tax Tuesday that both sides said would profoundly change the character of the family-centered island city. Measure E was falling short in preliminary returns. Yes votes totaled 13,789, or 65.3 percent, while no voters were 7,297, or 34.6 percent. The parcel tax, which needs a two-thirds majority to […]
June 23, 2010
Polk County School Board members voted 6-0 on Tuesday to continue a property tax of 25 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation. The tax, which was adopted last year, will raise about $7 million and is essential to maintaining school operations, Polk County School District officials have said. The district faces the loss of $30 […]