June 23, 2010
After months of wrangling over cuts, the Santa Barbara School District Board of Education approved a scaled-back $108 million budget Tuesday. The vote was 4-0 with board member Bob Noel absent. Earlier this year, the district cut about $6 million from its budget and in May had to fill another $3.2 million budget gap, based […]
June 23, 2010
Local school officials here noticed a discrepancy in how special education funds are distributed from the Huron Intermediate School District (HISD) to local districts. They took a few months to review the situation and come up with a sol ution, and the solution was supported by several superintendents, a group of parents and the HISD […]
June 22, 2010
A new public school funding plan that’s basically the same as what’s now implemented gained final legislative approval Monday amid a bit of controversy. The Senate approved the $3.3 billion funding formula in HCR248 with a 39-0 vote after defeating a proposed amendment by Sen. Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa, who handled New Orleans Rep. Austin Badon’s […]
June 22, 2010
Education funding will dominate much of today’s Summit School Board agenda, as the district struggles with declining tax revenues and the specter of November ballot measures that could slash funding even further. The board will review and discuss the results of recent mail and phone surveys in which local voters were asked of their likelihood […]
June 22, 2010
Twenty-nine positions will be eliminated in the school department – 22 through layoffs – to achieve a level-funded budget for fiscal 2011, which starts July 1, Medford Superintendent Roy Belson announced last week. Five additional layoffs could occur for performance reasons, he added in remarks posted to the district website on Friday. The layoffs […]
June 22, 2010
San Bernardino City Unified School District gets much more money per student than most school districts in San Bernardino County, a result, district officials say, of a push to build more schools in the city. The district in 2007 and 2008 received $15,093 per student, compared to $10,000 to $11,000 most districts received, according to […]
June 22, 2010
Charter schools are independent public schools funded by the state and usually proposed by teachers, school leaders and parents. These schools are funded under the same formula as public schools — the state pays the same per pupil. "If the school districts’ funding goes up, the charter schools’ does, too, and if their budgets are […]
June 22, 2010
We could be in the eye of the storm right now, but rougher waters are ahead for the next year or two. That’s the message tucked into revenue projections for the state of Colorado released Monday. They show that Colorado will be able to pay all its bills for the fiscal year ending next week, […]
June 22, 2010
Nearly 18,000 South Dakota children need some form of special education in school to help with everything from very minor problems to severe learning roadblocks. Now, the teachers and administrators who help implement these programs are getting proof that their efforts are paying off. Speci al education programs are in nearly every school district in […]
June 22, 2010
Does the state of Washington provide school districts enough money to educate kids with special needs? That’s the question before the state Supreme Court Tuesday (June 22nd) afternoon. Washington’s constitution says the state has a paramount duty to educate all kids. That includes special needs children. But most school districts say the state is underfunding […]