June 8, 2010
If all the students who live in the Willow Run school district and attend a traditional public school were enrolled in Willow Run, the district would add nearly $8 million to its budget – currently crumbling under the weight of a $3 million deficit. Willow Run is far from alone in that predicament. With the […]
June 8, 2010
The year ended much as it had begun, with multitudes filling a sun-splashed football stadium to hear speakers offer words of hope and inspiration. One big difference: No one booed this time. It was less than a year ago that Birmingham High School in the San Fernando Valley received approval to pull out of the […]
June 8, 2010
About 100 parents and advocates voiced concerns Saturday that some of New Orleans’ charter schools have rejected students with disabilities, or told parents that they can’t afford to provide special education services. The group spoke at a meeting hosted by the federal education department’s Office of Civil Rights, the first of its kind in years […]
June 8, 2010
Commercial interests have always gotten a share of public education dollars through contracts for school construction, food services, textbooks, and the like. But until the 1990s, the delivery of education content and the accountability for student results were solely government’s preserve. Enter the era of market-based reforms to public education and the advent of charters: […]
June 8, 2010
School districts across the state are facing serious financial shortfalls for the coming school year, according to the Pennsylvania School Funding Campaign. "It doesn’t matter where you are. It doesn’t matt er if you’re urban, suburban, rural, small, big or in between," said Jay Himes, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials. […]
June 8, 2010
Plans are in place for 11 San Bernardino schools to move in a new direction at the beginning of the next school year. But many of those significant changes are contingent on the San Bernardino City Unified School District getting additional funding from competitive federal grants. As of Friday, California’s application for that School Improvement […]
June 8, 2010
Chicago Teachers Union officials vowed to file suit today, charging that plans to raise city class sizes to 35 are unsafe and violate the municipal code. "You’re looking at a very dangerous situation,” CTU President Marilyn Stewart said at a news conference Monday. "We’re asking the Board [of Ed ucation] to prove that you can […]
June 8, 2010
Having counted on Washington for money that may not be delivered, at least 30 states will have to close larger-than-anticipated shortfalls in the coming fiscal year unless Congress passes a six-month extension of increased federal spending on Medicaid. Governors and state lawmakers, already facing some of the toughest budgets since the Great Depression, said the […]
June 8, 2010
Gov. Chris Gregoire sent a letter to the state’s congressional delegation on Monday warning of dire consequences if Washington doesn’t get a federal Medicaid match worth $480 million. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray has said she’ll push this week to get the money included in legislation pending in the Senate. Gregoire warned in her letter that […]
June 4, 2010
The School Committee has given its support for the Southern Maine Special Education Collaborative. The collaborative is intended to save money for the five school districts taking part: Kittery, Wells-Ogunquit, SAD 35 (Eliot and South Berwick), SAD 60 (North Berwick and Lebanon) and York. The agreement, which York agreed to on Wednesday, takes effect July […]