April 8, 2010
The Brodhead School District took its second shot at a referendum, but it came up short on Tuesday, which means the district will have to make budget cuts. After a referendum failed in February, the district cut back the amount it was asking for and tried again, but voters still rejected it. The school district […]
April 8, 2010
Protests over the budget cuts and fee hikes at UC Santa Cruz are not the only educational issue causing a stir in the community. The Santa Cruz City School District is also facing difficult decisions due to California’s current financial woes. As a result, the Santa Cruz Teachers Union and Board of Education are trying […]
April 8, 2010
American public school teachers don’t get fired. They just don’t. In New York City, hundreds of teach ers spend all day in “rubber rooms” because they’re deemed too dangerous or stupid to supervise children but can’t be booted because they have union-protected tenure. In crisis-ridden California, the mildest of threats from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to […]
April 8, 2010
ROCKLAND, Maine — 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 […]
April 8, 2010
The Montclair School District’s $110.5 million budget, which includes more than 80 teacher and staff layoffs and across-the-board cuts to school programs and services, is expected to be approved by the Board of School Estimate tonight. Mayor Jerry Fried said the five-member board, which he heads and which includes Township Council members Renee Baskerville and […]
April 7, 2010
Mississippi’s Medicaid program still hasn’t received federal permission to cut payments to doctors, dentists and other providers for the final three months of the budget year, the program’s spokesman said Monday. The chairman of the state Senate Public Health Committee, meanwhile, said the planned cuts for April, May and June are counterproductive. "It just further […]
April 7, 2010
Editor’s note: School districts throughout the area are coping with shortfalls in tax dollars. The Journal focused on five districts to give readers a sense of the effect of declining revenues and the district’s proposed remedies. Faced with the troubled economy, the Ferguson-Florissant School District has cut some planned work on its physical facilities, encouraged […]
April 7, 2010
Madison County schools will have 40 fewer teaching positions next year, and all district personnel – including teachers, administrators, clerical workers and the central office staff – will be furloughed for three days. The reduction in positions, part of a cost-saving package, could lead to a higher student-teacher ratio for some schools.& #x0D; The downsizing […]
April 7, 2010
The feds will say economic recovery is underway, but try and tell that to teachers in Fort Bend ISD who are getting pink slips. The district is $20 million in the hole and it’s eliminating 470 positions. About 100 of those are teachers whose number-one job is to help special needs students. The move shocked […]
April 7, 2010
Florida’s Medicaid system would be drastically revamped with nearly all patients getting managed care provided by private companies under legislation proposed Tuesday in the Florida House. The two proposed committee bills are aimed at reducing the soaring cost of the state-federal health care program for low-income and disabled patients. Legislative staffers are forecasting savings of […]