April 5, 2010
State lawmakers have said every recipient of tax dollars will have to share in the burden of budget cuts. That is unless they’re a wealthy suburban school district, the Kansas City and St. Louis school systems, or small rural districts exempted from a 2005 formula to increase funding for all other schools, including most in […]
April 5, 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 district s 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, […]
April 5, 2010
Much of the new national health system reform law won’t take effect for a few years, but the act is having an immediate impact in Arizona. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on March 18 signed a fiscal 2011 budget that repealed the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program — which covers 47,000 kids — and eliminated Medicaid […]
April 5, 2010
For the past few months, state lawmakers in charge of setting and passing the education budget have warned educators that some 3,000 teachers may need to be let go because of the slowing economy. However, a recession-year education budget designed to protect a majorit y of teacher jobs in Alabama took its first step Tuesday […]
April 5, 2010
Health experts say the newly enacted federal health care legislation will expand the state’s Medicaid program by 2014, allowing coverage of an additional 375,000 people. Medicaid is a federal and state program available for uninsured individuals and families who cannot afford their health insurance. Although it’s a nationwide program, each state has its own eligibility […]
April 5, 2010
More complaints from parents have prompted the state to aga in scrutinize the Worthington schooldistrict’s treatment of disabled students. The Ohio Department of Education reviewed the district’s special-education practices last schoolyear. After that visit, the state ordered Worthington to make changes and train teachers. This time, the department will examine how often disabled students are […]
April 5, 2010
Public schools in Montclair, N.J., would lay off as many as 70 teachers, including reading and math specialists, and would no longer offer French and Spanish classes in elementary grades. Westfield would not be able to buy library books or replace aging computers, and a popular middle school tradition — the fall play — could […]
April 5, 2010
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s education spending plan for 2011 would increase per-student funding for citywide programs but freeze a key stream of money that goes directly to schools, sharply squeezing their programs, according to documents submitted to the D.C. Council. When he unveiled his budget Thursday, Fenty (D) highlighted a proposed $175 per-student increase in […]
April 5, 2010
After heated debate and backroom dealing, the Senate on Thursday approved a controversial hospital tax proposal expected to bring in $175 million to help fill the state’s budget gap. The vote is expected to preserve a tentative budget deal that relies on the extra revenue. Republicans spent much of Thursday courting Democrats, taking breaks twice […]
April 5, 2010
Suspend or cut back on state and federal testing of students until the budget crisis ends for education, says a Yuba City Unified School District trustee. "I don’t think it would be any loss at all," James Ferreira said Thursday of stopping tests, including the high school exit exam and the state Standardized Testing and […]