May 14, 2010
The 1-cent Kansas sales tax increase won’t solve all the budget woes ahead for area school districts, but administrators hope the Legislature’s action means further cuts won’t be necessary. Olathe’s school superintendent, Pat All, breathed a sigh of relief when lawmakers plugged a $312 million state budget hole Tuesday with a 1-cent increase in the […]
May 14, 2010
Legislators reconvened on Thursday for a special session to take up Gov. Manchin’s education legislation. Legislators introduced 13 bills on behalf of the governor when they reconvened at noon yesterday. Eight of the bills pertain to education, as the state attempts another bid at federal Race to the Top school funding. Each of the items […]
May 14, 2010
Rhode Island lawmakers on Thursday began consideration of three competing bills that would create a state education funding formula. The House Finance Committee heard hours of testimony on the bills. School administrators for years have called for a funding formula, saying the current system doesn’t give them a reliable way to budget. But if the […]
May 14, 2010
When Hawaii ran short on money, it made students and teachers pay by slashing 17 Fridays from the school calendar, resulting in three-day weekends and the nation’s shortest school year. More than 170,000 students in the nation’s only statewide school district spent their so-called "furlough Fridays" playing video games, roaming the mall or studying at […]
May 14, 2010
A meeting between West Milford Board of Education and Township of West Milford Council representatives, described as "very productive" by Councilman Dan Jurkovic, has resulted in a $750,000 school budget cut "compromise" proposal, Jurkovic reported at the May 5 Council workshop. A Republican majority was ready at the meeting to act on a formal recommendation […]
May 13, 2010
U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor today announced that Arkansas will receive $119,807,496 in Recovery Act funds to improve facilities, upgrade technology, fund afterschool programs and support special education for K-12 schools throughout Arkansas. The funds, awarded under the U.S. Department of Education’s State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF) program, will also go toward campus […]
May 13, 2010
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) today announced that the McLaughlin Independent School District will receive a $5,000,000 grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to build a new Junior/High facility. The funding comes from the Department of Education’s Impact Aid Construction Recovery Act Program. "I am pleased that the McLaughlin […]
May 13, 2010
The Broward School Board took stock Wednesday of deep budget cuts that will leave some schools without art, music, physical education and library programs next year. More than three-quarters of the school district’s roughly 140 elementary schools will offer fewer electives next school year, though only some schools eliminated entire programs. More than a third […]
May 13, 2010
“There is no mistaking this situation,” said Holyoke School Supt. Bret Miles when discussing the reduction of state funding’s impact on the budget. “We will not be able to operate on more than six percent less per student without directly affecting the programming we offer in our district,” Miles said at the May 4 work […]
May 13, 2010
A presentation to the Chelsea Schools Board of Education on Monday painted a dismal financial picture for the district by 2011. Teresa Zigman, executive direct or of finance, told the board it is possible that the district could use all of its fund equity and be nearly $700,000 in debt by June 30, 2012. “We’ll […]