June 1, 2010
The director of Gov. Chris Gregoire’s Washington, D.C., office hopes a visit home will influence members of Congress to think again about sending more money to public schools to avoid teacher layoffs before the next school year. "We remain to fight another day," Mark Rupp said Friday after Congress failed to take action this week […]
June 1, 2010
New York would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate in the state under sweeping legislation passed Friday after a bitter battle between the teachers unions and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration. Ending weeks of suspense, legislators settled on a plan that lifts the charter-school cap to 460 from 200, bans for-profit […]
June 1, 2010
Facing an $18 million budget deficit for the 2010-2011 school year, representatives from Lewisville ISD are traveling the district to inform residents about a possible referendum to raise the tax rate. School board members Amber Fulton and Tom Ferguson were at The Colony City Hall on Monday night, sharing information on the district’s finances while […]
June 1, 2010
In the wake of Measure A’s defeat at the polls, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District on Thursday slashed $7.1 million from its budget, a step toward closing its $12 million funding shortfall.& #x0D; Measure A, the proposed $198 per parcel tax dubbed an "emergency" school funding initiative, would have raised an estimated $5.7 million […]
June 1, 2010
Detroit Public School parents of severely disabled students are outraged over a plan to reduce summer school programs. The children, many of whom use wheelchairs, are nonverbal and with severe cognitive impairments, have attended summer programming five days a week just like other students, but parents got notice recently that programming for their children will […]
May 28, 2010
The Michigan Department of Education has submitted the state’s second round application for the federal Race to the Top grant, meeting the June 1 deadline. The application outlines the state’s plan to use nearly $400 million in federal funds to help implement critical school reforms to improve instruction and enhance transparency and accountability. "We […]
May 28, 2010
The School District may receive additional funds in the budget if the City Council formally approves a tax cap override, however that amount will likely be nowhere near the $1.2 million the district requested. One potential option mentioned by some city councilors during Wednesday’s budget workshop was to restore $350,000 to the school budget — […]
May 28, 2010
At its May 12 meeting, the Township Council praised school district officials and its Board of Education for how they handled the budget reconciliation process. The council and the board came up with a compromise that resulted in more than $1 million in red uctions from the $71.6 million local school tax levy that voters […]
May 28, 2010
Public charter schools nationwide continue to receive unequal funding from states and districts, according to a study released this week by Ball State University. "This persistent pattern of unequal funding for public charter schools threatens to impede their continued growth," said Nelson Smith, president of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, in a news […]
May 28, 2010
The Dickson County School Board unanimously passed its $56.8 million budget Thursday night without asking for more money from the count y. "If there is a tax increase for Dickson County residents it will not be due to the Dickson County school system," said Schools Director Johnny Chandler. The budget reflects $1.2 million in increases […]