April 12, 2010
Dozens of state legislators and school officials from towns all over eastern Connecticut gathered at the Kelly Middle School library Saturday morning to discuss ways for school districts to cut spending in the midst of one of the leanest budget years in recent memory. The discussi on focused on transportation, special education and health insurance […]
April 9, 2010
The Framingham School Committee unanimously voted Thursday night to approve a draft 2011 budget of $91.9 million, a cut of $4 million from the current year’s budget, which will mean eliminating 23 jobs. But work on the budget is not finished since committee members still must consider the recommendation of the town’s chief financial officer […]
April 9, 2010
The Alabama Legislature gave the final OK to a $5.5 billion Education Budget Thursday, a budget local superintendents call adequate. “It is not perfect, but it is the best budget we could get considering the economic conditions today,” said Troy City Schools Superintendent Linda Felton-Smith. Pike County Schools Superintendent Mark Bazzell agreed verbatim — “not […]
April 9, 2010
The Wichita Public School District’s Parents As Teachers program hosted a science fair Thursday at Wichita’s Exploration Place to showcase the work of three-year olds from around the city. The Parents As Teachers program is open to any family with a child from zero to three that thinks they might need extra help getting their […]
April 9, 2010
A whistleblower says a south Georgia school system is violating special education guidelines. The complaints prompted 12 Georgia Department of Education field representatives to conduct a surprise inspection of the Mitchell County School System. They’ve been there the last three days. The Mitchell County Special Education Coordinator said it was her responsibility to alert the […]
April 9, 2010
Michelle Cook, D-65 has introduced new legislation to help streamline the administration of Individualized Education Programs (IEP) for special education students in the state. Special education legislation has been approved on a bi-partisan vote by the Education Committee and moves on to the full House of Representatives for consideration. House Bill 5426 requires the State […]
April 9, 2010
Gov. Ed Rendell was in Erie on Monday to promote increased funding for the state’s public schools despite a projected $800 million state budget deficit. Rendell’s 2010-11 budget would increase basic education subsidies for local school districts by $354.8 million, including an additional $3.3 million for the Erie School District. The increase would bring total […]
April 9, 2010
Facing a budget shortfall of some $2.5 million for 2010-11, the RSU 13 board last week approved reductions that include 31 layoffs, fewer hours for others, transfers of teachers and elimination of some extracurricular activities. A total of 82 positions will be affected by reductions in next year’s school budget, which is proposed at $26,090,701, […]
April 9, 2010
After cutting more than $33 million this year from Johnson County’s three big school districts, Kansas lawmakers snipped an additional $6.5 million last week. Lawmakers said school districts and legislators from outside Johnson County were unhappy with the amount of catastrophic special education funding the three districts qualified for this year. Sixteen years ago, lawmakers […]
April 8, 2010
Several mid-year budget revisions for the 2009-10 fiscal school year were approved at the Tuesday meeting of the St. Landry Parish School Board. Some of the revisions represented decreases to specific programs or allocations; others represented increases. The most dramatic cuts were made to the Ensuring Numeracy for All and Ensuring Literacy for All programs. […]