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. […]
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 7, 2010
They don’t vote, they aren’t campaign contributors and when the doors close on final budget negotiations, they tend to drop off the radar. Children dominate almost every speech in the Legislature, but advocates for the programs that sustain them are bracing for one of the worst years in decades as lawmakers wrestle with a $3.2 […]
April 7, 2010
Loudoun County officials approved a $1.4 billion annual budget Tuesday that includes a property tax increase and a 2.5 percent cut in school system funding. The county Board of Supervisors adopted a tax rate of $1.30 per $100 of assessed value, a 4.4 percent increase over this year’s rate. Ben Mays, deputy chief financial officer […]
April 7, 2010
A bill to withhold state funding from school districts with fund balances exceeding 15 percent of their operating budget would penalize those districts that are "hoarding" state funding, said its sponsor, state Rep. Tim Melton, D-Auburn Hills. Livingston County districts would be spared because none have fund balances of that size. But one local superintendent […]
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 […]