April 20, 2010
Charter school administrators say the state is offering little to no assistance in helping receive money owed to them by local school boards. Ozie Hall, principal at Kinston Charter Academy, say s the Lenoir County Board of Education might owe his school more than $800,000. Simon Johnson, at Quality Education Schools in Winston-Salem, and Don […]
April 20, 2010
TOWANDA – Faced with a $519,093 shortfall in its proposed budget for the 2010-11 school year, the Towanda School District may have to cut back on some of the programs it offers for students. The Towanda Area School Board on Monday directed the school district’s administration to erase some of the shortfall by coming up […]
April 20, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Harvard Medical School professor Donald Berwick on Monday to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, filling a role at the heart of his historic healthcare reform. A health policy expert, Berwick would take over as the agency, the largest U.S. healthcare agency and one of the government’s largest, […]
April 19, 2010
A lot of kids cry in the doctor’s office, especially when he’s poking around, tapping them with strange instruments and asking weird questions, such as "Who’s the president?" Ishaiah Fedor, 5, giggles. And when he’s not laughing, his mouth is set in a happy grin. His parents, however, are not smiling. They wear concerned expressions, […]
April 19, 2010
Dozens of parents filed through City Springs Elementary/Middle School on Friday morning to sign a petition to protest proposed funding cuts to the school’s health center, a resource they say is vital to their children’s well-being. The charter school, which serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, is one of six that might have their […]
April 19, 2010
Toledo-area school district administrators and others across the state refer to it as The Cliff: the point late in the next fiscal year when federal stimulus money dries up and leaves school budgets in deep trouble. A quadruple wallop of sorts is brewing as three pots of stimulus money – $1.75 billion in total for […]
April 19, 2010
The largest-ever federal investment in fixing low-achieving schools is now flowing to states, raising the pressure on district leaders to make tough—and quick—decisions about firing principals, replacing teachers, or shutting down schools entirely. Since last month, the U.S. Department of Education has been sending states their shares of $3.5 billion in Title I School Improvement […]
April 19, 2010
The laughing commenced when Rene Cox exited her cubicle. She had donned a new persona that covered her in green, head to toe: Ms. Broccoli. “It kind of looks like Gumby,” Cox, a program assistant with the University of Tennessee’s Extension Office in Blountville, said while modeling the costume. But Ms. Broccoli and five other […]
April 19, 2010
Like many other sectors of the economy, Texas public school districts are facing severe financial challenges. Many have been brought to the brink of financial insolvency; others have been forced to reduce staff and cut programs that are essential to student success. To quote the Texas Education Agency deputy associate finance commissioner, “I see school […]
April 19, 2010
Slashed state public school funding due to a sagging economy forced Filer School District to join the statewide declaration of financial emergency on Wednesday night. Superintendent John Graham announced the district faces a 7.5 percent reduction in state funding in fiscal year 2011. “Our district typically has a $7 million annual budget and we’re looking […]