May 17, 2010
The Florida Medicaid system will not be reformed this year. The sponsors of a plan to overhaul the system were unsuccessful in a bid to pass the bill before the state’s legislative session ended April 30. The bill would have gradually transitioned most state Medicaid enrollees into managed care plans. House leaders hoped that they […]
May 17, 2010
Orange County’s public schools could avert further massive budget cuts if state and federal lawmakers allow more local control over restricted money for schools, end unnecessary and unfunded mandates and pay their fair share of special education costs, county school leaders said Friday. Twenty superintendents from the county’s 28 districts gathered at the county Department […]
May 17, 2010
School district officials may be bailing water during this budget season, but they can hear a waterfall rushing behind them. Federal stimulus funds, which proponents say saved hundreds of jobs locally, will run out after the 2010-11 school year and, without some major intervention, school districts could be facing some gut-wrenching budget problems next year […]
May 17, 2010
It’s not often in politics that everybody comes out a winner. But once in a while, it happens. Such was the case in the fight over a freeze on Virginia’s Local Composite Index, which determines how much local taxpayers should contribute toward public education and how much should come from the state. The formula, which […]
May 17, 2010
Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Dr. Bill Hazel a nnounced Friday the establishment of a statewide health reform initiative. The intent of the Health Care Reform Initiative, which will be within the Health and Human Resources Secretariat, is to prepare Virginia for the implementation of federal health reform by planning for the expansion […]
May 17, 2010
Tucked in Portland Superintendent Carole Smith’s high school redesign blueprint is a companion plan to give unprecedented help and protection to a handful of high-poverty elementary and middle schools along with the city’s two longest-struggl ing high schools. Among the promises: better principals, a longer school year, more hands on deck and the right to […]
May 17, 2010
About 225 teachers in the Coachella Valley will receive final notices by today that they have been laid off. Among them is third-grade teacher Karen DeNovi, who received her final layoff notice just one day before being honored as a teacher of the year by the Riverside County Office of Education. “I personally will get […]
May 17, 2010
Almost 1,000 Inland teachers received final layoff notices this week, though furloughs or other concessions could b ring an unknown number of those teachers back to the classroom. Under California law, today is the deadline for school officials to notify teachers if they will not have jobs in 2010-11. Despite the deadline, several districts are […]
May 14, 2010
A proposal to use taxpayer money to send some low-income New Jersey students to private schools advanced Thursday through a state Senate committee, pushing the idea a step closer to the desk of Gov. Chris Christie, who sees it as a centerpiece of his education plans. After taking the unusual step of holding a hearing […]
May 14, 2010
A flood of new federal funds may be coming to Waterloo Community Schools, but officials aren’t yet sure if they want all of it. The Board of Education Monday unanimously approved submitting an application for federal school improvement funds to pay for initiatives at two schools designated as persistently lowest achieving. Lincoln Elementary and George […]