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 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 7, 2010
Public schools have not only escaped budget cuts the past few years, they have actually received budget increases. That likely will end. Members of the House Education Appropriations Committee initially put a $105 million increase in the school funding formula, enough to keep up with the new formula’s seven-year phase-in. The full House Budget Committee […]
April 7, 2010
Voters in two central Wisconsin school districts will decide today whether to maintain class sizes and keep existing extracurricular activities. The Stevens Point area school distric t is asking its voters to replace an $8 million dollar referendum that expires this summer with a two-year $7.1 million dollar referendum. The referendum would help fund eight […]
April 7, 2010
Olathe School Board members know that a lot of unpleasant budget decisions lie ahead but they also know that teachers are supporting them. Teachers filled the board room Thursday night to listen to Superintendent Pat All tell board members they must fill a projected $12 million deficit in next year’s school budget. <p class="loose" style="margin: […]
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 […]