June 16, 2010
Chicago School Board members Tuesday tackled their worst fiscal crisis since Mayor Daley’s 1995 school takeover by granting school officials the power to raise class sizes to up to 35 students for the next two years. If Schools CEO Ron Huberman acts on that new power, he’s sure to anger hundreds of teachers laid off […]
June 16, 2010
Two school district employees resigned recently, both saying that recent actions by the Board of Education factored significantly in their decisions. Alfred Pullo, the district’s business manager, submitted a letter of resignation on June 3. His resignation is effective on June 30. Rose Forzano, administrative assistant to Superintendent Dr. Judith Palmer, resigned Monday, June 7. […]
June 15, 2010
Gov. Christie acted within his authority when he froze $475 million in state aid to schools to close a $2.2 billion budget deficit, a state appellate court ruled Monday.& lt;br /> The Perth Amboy Board of Education lost more than $15 million as a result of Christie’s order to withhold state funding for the remainder […]
June 15, 2010
Volunteers and businesses are reaching out to south Mississippi schools that are struggling through this budget crisis. On Monday, the non-profit group Hands-On Mississippi hosted a School Funding Forum in Gulfport. Educators learned where to find free programs and grants to help their schools. They heard about programs that allow teachers to earn credits without […]
June 15, 2010
Although Oregon’s 198 school districts have been told exactly how much state aid they stand to lose as a result of a pending $243 million cut, most haven’t decided yet on specific cuts for the next school year. Many of them — such as Salem-Keizer, the second-largest in terms of student enrollment — are awaiting […]
June 15, 2010
School officials say midyear state aid cuts may cause the district to have a $1-million deficit this fiscal year despite getting concessions from all its employees and making massive cuts to many planned expenses. Yet district officials failed to track the tuition costs of 19 special-education students who were taught out of district last year. […]
June 15, 2010
Strong, consistent learning standards will ensure that students get the education they deserve, an official with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation told those attending the National PTA’s annual meeting. Vicki Phillips, director of education for the foundation, said standards can seem "nebulous," but they’re necessary. She spoke Sunday at the final general meeting of […]
June 15, 2010
Property owners in more than two-thirds of the school districts surveyed in the Cambria-Somerset region will be seeing their real estate taxes increase this year to cover 2010-2011 budgets. Of the 16 districts interviewed by The Tribune-Democrat 10 have already passed or are looking at tax increases ranging from a low of just more than […]
June 15, 2010
Four months after Governor Christie cut $5.2 million from an after-school enrichment program for low-income children, most of the non-profits running sites at 16 North Jersey schools have managed to keep them open for the remainder of the school year. But more than 500 of the approximately 1,200 kids attending New Jersey After 3 programs […]
June 15, 2010
State governments generally try to spare schools from budget cuts. But the recession hit tax revenue so hard that K-12 education is seeing sharp cutbacks in state funding. All major sources of state and local-government revenue—sales taxes, income taxes and prope rty taxes—have fallen. Property taxes are the primary source of school funding, and home […]